What would you wear if you knew you’d be separated from your boss, your peers and land in general for roughly three days? If that three-day absence centered around Holy Ship!!, the second-annual sailing dance party that recently toured to the Bahamas and back, you’d wear something you could move…
Did you know that when we use a Google search engine, scan Twitter feeds or compulsively reach for our smart-phones, we’re actually engaging evolutionary tools that have been with us for tens of thousands of years? And while these tools have aided our species survival, author Nicholas Carr argues that…
A few days ago, a friend asked me via Facebook if I had followed through with my Patrick Nagel tattoo — in November, I had promised myself the reward of getting one of his minimalist pin-ups tattooed on my arm upon successful completion of National Novel Writing Month. I didn’t…
The nominees for Powder Magazine’s 2013 Powder Awards were announced last week, and Colorado film crews — including Denver-based Level 1 Productions, Boulder-based Stept Productions, and Crested Butte-based Matchstick Productions (MSP Films) and Two Plank Productions — are heavy in the mix in just about every category, including Movie of…
In February, Westword will unveil its ninth class of MasterMinds — five local creatives who go above and beyond to contribute to the arts community. But as we look ahead, it’s always gratifying to see where our past MasterMinds have gone. And after eight years a member of the very…
The new year is here, and new menswear is emerging on the Denver streets. This week’s stylish male, Kirkland James, is a local artist and poet who looks optimistically towards the future. Continue reading to discover who inspires his style, what his resolution is for 2013, and how he plans…
With the new year comes a new series of First Friday art experiences — and Westword nightlife photographer Christopher Morgan stopped by 2013’s first art walk to capture these images. Continue reading for a sneak preview, and visit our “first First Friday of 2012” slide show for more photos. See…
In 2012 Westword reported on the award-winning arty adventure films from the Carbondale-based collective of filmmakers known as Forge Motion Pictures nearly a dozen times — they just might be the hardest working film team in Colorado — and the crew is kicking off 2013 with a splash: over the…
Although Show and Tell contributors didn’t quite have the skills (or nerve) to try out ourselves, photographer Brandon Marshall stopped by Fusion Factory’s open auditions for go-go dancers and hula-hoopers over the weekend. The tryouts came just in time to prepare for Fusion’s Mardi Gras celebration, at which those who…
Denver is full of fun — and free — events this week. From long-horned cattle on the downtown streets to art from around the world, there’s plenty to see — and you won’t have to watch your wallet emptying out in order to enjoy the sights. For a full calendar…
Maybe you keep it in the back of a drawer or between the leaves of an old journal, or perhaps in a cardboard box in the garage. You don’t know why you keep it, but you do, and every once in a while, when you come across it, it screws…
Did you resolve to become more expressive in 2013? To indulge all of your artistic fantasies — even if your wildest dream is to sing “Feelings” before a crowd? Inspired by our list of “Denver’s ten best karaoke bars,” one reader visited our number-one pick, the Rear Inn Lounge. And…
Despite its friendly approach to photo-sharing, Instagram has brought out the true photographer in all of us — and might have scared that photographer away with its updated terms of use. As if Twitter and Facebook weren’t enough to keep us entertained between thumb-swiping refresh rates, Instagram gave us one…
The American Council of the Blind of Colorado’s Million Penny Campaign, which kicks off at the first of the year and runs through March 31, is exactly that — a penny collection drive. The non-profit will also take donations in any other amount, but the penny drive seemed like a…
In a year of big ski-town anniversaries — including a 40th bash at Copper Mountain, 50th anniversaries at Vail and Steamboat and Eldora, the 75th anniversary celebration at Loveland, and the upcoming 100th anniversary of Steamboat Springs’ Howelsen Hill — the wildest party of all just might be this week…
It’s the first First Friday of the year, and that means that Denver is teeming with art openings galore. The great thing about art openings? They’re almost always free. And the rest of the weekend is packed full of events, too, from classic film screenings to go-go dancing tryouts, and…
Millinery — real millinery, where hats are made and blocked from scratch — is a dying art, and nobody knows that better than self-taught Denver milliner Susan Dillon, who markets her completely hand-wrought, sculptural work under the name Kitty Mae Millinery. “I am saddened by the number of people who…
Two days after Christmas, victims of the Aurora Century 16 theater shootings and family members of those killed there on July 20 got an e-mail invitation to a special reopening ceremony at the facility later this month. Many didn’t appreciate the invite, labeling it a blatant marketing ploy. In fact,…
Nine years ago, Westword introduced the MasterMind awards. Recognizing that the local arts scene needed a little fertilizer to really get going, and growing, we created a program that every year honors five cultural visionaries — artists and organizations alike, in the very broad areas of multimedia, performing arts, literary…
When TNT Maddox became the first female Harlem Globetrotter since 1993, she wasn’t sure how she’d be received by her fellow players. But the Colorado Springs native says her teammates are now like her brothers, and that she’s had nothing but a positive experience since donning the red, white and…
Even if the year the world was supposed to end is barely out of sight, people still don’t know much about Mesoamerican mythology and the workings of the Mayan calendar, or what that heritage means to us in modern times. But Westsider Tony Shearer did. The late activist, poet and…
Quentin Tarantino’s eight feature, Django Unchained, is earning raves around the country. “The boisterous, outlandish, fiercely intelligent Django Unchained is at once an act of provocation and reparation — not just for slavery, but for Hollywood’s decades of saintly Negroes and sass-talking sidekicks,” writes Scott Foundas in his review. But…
