Sweet Songs

For Sweet Tooth, which opens tonight, Buntport Theater is again collaborating with musician Adam Stone — and that’s a very good sign. Two of this company’s weirdest and funniest works were created in collaboration with Stone. In the first, Seal. Stamp. Send. Bang., company members spoofed musicals and sang their…

What’s in your bag? Measuring tape, a sketchbook, and more!

More often than not, people who design fashion or work in clothing stores see the act of getting dressed as an art form, and they dress with passion. We stumbled upon one of those gifted people, Olivia Mclean, this week. Mclean manages the Buffalo Exchange boutique on 13th Avenue while…

Titans of Italian Grand Opera at Boettcher Concert Hall this weekend

Do you love opera, operatic television commercials or even opera-themed cartoons? This weekend’s Titans of Italian Grand Opera, a show tailor-made for theater newbies and aficionados alike, is sure to be scores of fun. Conducted by world-renowned Chilean maestro Maximiano Valdes, the show will have plenty of international flavor, but…

Author Alexia Parks on why women are hardwired to save the world

Women are natural born leaders, according to Alexia Parks; in fact, she says, female leadership could save the world. Parks will talk about this theory and the science behind her book Hardwired: The 10 Major Traits of Women Hardwired by Evolution That Can Save the World tonight at 7 p.m…

Photos: Burlesque and theater meet in Merry Widow’s Artisan Operetta

Led by title performer Merry Widow, Merry Widow’s Artisan Operetta features a rotating cast of local burlesque and theatrical talent that performs a variety of experiments, sketches and song-and-dance numbers at the Voodoo Comedy Playhouse on the third Monday of every month. Photographer Brandon Marshall caught up with the group…

Cleaning house: Goodbye crap, hello freedom!

I know. There are already whole blogs and books and television channels devoted to showing Americans how to organize, store and even get rid of their crap because, let’s face it: We are a culture of crap. We’re obsessed with crap, we watch shows about people bullying other people into…

Take a walk through the shadows and light of tesselate tonight at PlatteForum

Melissa Borrell has been making jewelry for years — stylish, lightweight metal or 3D-printed nylon necklaces and dangling earrings in clean, sculptural shapes. But recently, she’s had a hankering to create something larger and less functional. The result goes on display at PlatteForum when her installation, tessellate, opens tonight with…

Reader: What scares me? Khloe Kardashian and my microwave

What scares you? That’s what we asked in last week’s contest that gave away tickets to Haunted Mansion and 13th Door. Most answers focused on most common fears: spiders, zombies, alien attacks, being chased, the current presidential campaign. One more original answer didn’t win those tickets, but it definitely won…

Arapahoe Basin opening for 2012-2013 ski season on Wednesday

Arapahoe Basin CEO Alan Henceroth announced today that the ski area’s Black Mountain Express lift will start turning at 9 a.m. on Wednesday, October 17 to mark the start of the 2012-2013 ski and snowboard season. See Also: – Level 1 Productions, Stept, MSP clean up at IF3 International Freeski…

Photos: The spooky scenes behind the Mausoleum and Nightmare at Spider Mansion

As the temperature grows colder, Denver’s days are darkening earlier, which can only mean one thing: It’s prime haunted house season. Aaron Thackeray, Westword’s expert on all things horrific, has been patroling the city’s finest (and spookiest) scarestablishments and chronicling the chilling stories behind each one. Continue reading for photos…

Dampie displays 75 years of hemp culture in new show at HoodLab

Denver has become the leading destination for all things related to the marijuana industry, especially now that Colorado sits on the precipice of a decriminalization law with Amendment 64, and a cutting-edge show by Dampie, a progressive artist who specializes in hemp-culture art, just opened at HoodLab, the gallery located…

3 things to do for free this week, October 15-18, 2012

Journey with Jane Fonda this week to a sci-fi world — for free! That’s just one of the artistic trips you can enjoy this week without having to open your wallet.For a full list of events, visit the online Westword calendar, and if you know of any other free events…