Think back: What was the first art object you ever owned? For many of us, it may have been the ubiquitous lunchbox, where pop culture, art and design intersected the PB&J. This is the thought behind Paileontology: Vintage Lunchbox Art, which opens tonight at Blue Dot Studio. “Television transformed the…
The LIDA Project will be in typical form, brewing a maelstrom of dark humor, technology and human hopes and dreams in a black-box pot, when the troupe’s latest project, R.U.R./lol, opens tonight in work | space at the Laundry on Lawrence. The new play is based loosely on Czech author…
“They always say after you leave art school to just keep creating work and be in the art scene,” says Jennifer Harrington, who got her degree from the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in 2010. But once real life kicks in and the pressures of day jobs and…
With more than a thousand movies, 35 Oscar nominations and eight Academy Award wins during her illustrious career, Edith Head defined Hollywood stardom. But behind the scenes is where the costume designer worked her magic. Tonight’s stage performance of A Conversation With Edith Head delves into her five-plus decades of…
Love books and contemporary fiction? If you happen to be in the vicinity of Aspen this winter evening, there’s a book lover’s paradise awaiting: The ski town’s annual Winter Words series continues tonight at 6 p.m. with a conversation between the talented novelist Karen Russell, whose Swamplandia! earned her a…
After ten years, award-winning author Kent Haruf has returned to Holt — a fictional town in eastern Colorado, but one filled with simple truths. Haruf, a native of Colorado, grew up in a place like this, “out from Denver, away from the mountains, back onto the high plains: sagebrush and…
The ultimate study in isolated collaboration, tonight’s Audio Kicks brings separately developed elements of photography, music and modern dance together in one performance. At the project’s center is photographer Jennifer Davidson, who was commissioned by Off Center@The Jones to capture people’s stories through their favorite pair of shoes. Next, the…
For the third annual Women + Film Voices Film Festival, documentaries and narratives get equal billing on the screen, but women, as always, are at the forefront. “We cover a broad spectrum of stories, which comes through with the documentaries; but all the films show people doing good things and…
In 1965, a southern Colorado community known as Drop City was born when a collective of artists from Boulder and Lawrence, Kansas, settled on a seven-acre plot just outside of Trinidad. With a desire to establish a non-ideological creative community whose physical structures — modeled on Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic-dome style…
After 35 years as a criminal defense attorney, Jeanne Winer has published her first novel. The Furthest City Light is set in Boulder and draws on her life in the courtroom, but it’s neither a mystery nor a legal procedural. Instead, it’s a wise and often humorous examination of a…
With a blistering 20-degree wind blowing, many Coloradans dress with purpose, for warmth and comfort. The fashion-minded, however, combine comfort, warmth and style into a solid look that retains their personal charm. One of these people is Ana Hernandez. Continue reading to find out where she shops, what celebrity inspires…
For the first time in the thirty-year history of Westword’s Best of Denver, we’ve split the Best of Denver Readers’ Poll into two rounds, giving you the chance to look at the leading vote-getters and then vote again for your favorite shops and services in metro Denver. And the results…
Feminism & Co., the innovative social gathering and lecture series at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, always packs a well-crafted and intellectually aware pop-culture punch. Previous sold-out discussions have brought feminist scientists, sex workers, Tupperware saleswomen and female body builders to the stage for brief talks on their trades,…
On Saturday, Westword celebrated its ninth class of MasterMinds — artistic adventurers who are changing the landscape of Denver. Here’s our third winner: Rebecca Peebles and Danette Montoya were two baristas with art degrees, living the artist’s life, both seeking places to show their work and disappointed by the prospect…
Musician and multi-media artist Adam Stone has worked with Buntport Theater Company on four pieces over the last three years. He composed songs for three musicals, all of them among the company’s most exciting works: Seal. Stamp. Send. Bang, which gave hilarious new meaning to the term going postal; Jugged…
What do Westword MasterMinds do once they’ve been so designated? Sometimes, maybe even often, they find ways to spread it around and pay it forward, by offering opportunities to young artists and designers just coming up. And that’s exactly what the three dedicated MasterMinds who comprise Powerhaüs — fashion designer…
MTV’s hit show Made held a private audition on the Auraria campus Monday. There were around seventy brave souls in the waiting area on the third floor of the Tivoli, outside one of the ballrooms, patiently waiting their turn to spill their hearts out in hopes of being made. We…
Americans love a good con-man story. They love hearing about attractive criminals — the charmingly deceptive leading man or intoxicatingly distracting female — getting away with it, and the loot that provides them with another kind fantasy in the land of the super-rich. After a brief delay because of weather,…
From 1993 to 1996, I carried a lunchbox as a purse. Now as an adult who carries what I call a Mary-Kate bag — a black hole/abyss that holds keys, a liter of water, a wallet, various snacks, a change of clothes, a collection of Nora Ephron essays, a reporter’s…
Interstate comedy tours have typically been the métier of famous names capable of drawing big crowds and veterans of the club circuit. Many obstacles stand in the way of aspiring comedians eager to earn their living on the road, from bookers who are unwilling to take a chance on an…
On Saturday, Westword celebrated its ninth class of MasterMinds — artistic adventurers who are changing the landscape of Denver. Here’s our second winner: Long ago, poet Julie Carr and her partner, Tim Roberts, decided what they wanted to do, and it all fell together in Denver after that. “Way back…
#88: Mark Sink Mark Sink’s pedigree as a fine art photographer and arts mover in Denver goes way back, more than thirty years. And its roots sink even deeper: His great-grandfather James L. Breese founded the Camera Club of NY and before that, Breese’s uncle, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, not…
