Mother Mind Studios is turning into a motherlode of creativity. The new digital media company, which promotes and produces feature films, comic books and other artistic endeavors, has developed a strong team including visual artist Daniel Crosier, director/producer Dane Bernhardt, writer Cuyler Mortimer, editor Jose Medina, director Stephen Santa Cruz,…
Vail Resorts and Burton Snowboards yesterday confirmed rumors — first reported earlier this month by the Breckenridge-based Angry Snowboarder blog — that the Burton US Open is moving to Vail after thirty years in Vermont — 27 of them at Stratton Mountain. The 31st annual Burton US Open will be…
Denver’s Month of Photography 2011, a citywide celebration of the art of the camera masterminded by local photographer and arts mover Mark Sink, was a picture-perfect success on all counts. One element, called The Big Picture, was particularly ambitious, adding an international flair and a sense of living, breathing drama…
The construction of the Auraria Higher Education Center four decades ago wiped out much of the earliest part of Denver. But Jonathan Pite, a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder with a masters of fine art in photography, documented much of this changing area in 1977. And today, his…
The fifteenth Mile High Mayhem scooter rally went down in Denver over the weekend, attracting riders from all around. It only took a few minutes to see that many riders and their scooters seemed to share something: A color scheme, attitude or perhaps it was their shape of their body…
In Capitol Hill, proximity is everything. It’s why the King Soopers there might have the tiniest, most frustrating jam of a parking lot in the city but remains a top shopping destination. Just down the block, there’s a video store called Videotique, a similarly cramped but popular spot for Cap…
Deanne Stillman’s richly textured works of nonfiction about life and death in the Mojave Desert involve more than casual research, and consequently take some time in the writing — from eight to ten years each. Her true-crime debut, Twentynine Palms, explored the 1991 murder of two girls by a berserk…
The 2012 Slam Nuba slam poetry team has a big reputation to uphold when it heads to Charlotte on August 7 for this year’s National Slam Poetry Meet: It’s a new and differently configured team that will be defending the group’s 2011 first-place title. See also: – Meet your 2012…
The “original” Sugar House is back for one night only — or so says an advertisement posted on Kasidie.com (tagline “Sexually Social…”), a website for swingers that offers member profiles, chat rooms and swinger party listings. Tomorrow’s Crimson Ball is being promoted as the latter — and the ads make…
The Colorado Dragon Boat Festival will pay tribute to the victims of the Aurora movie theater shootings tomorrow during the opening ceremony…
When Gil Reyes realized that TV news was doing little to cover the passing of beloved musician Elliott Smith, he decided to go out searching on his own. What he discovered through interviews with the artist’s friends, former bandmates and the girlfriend who many blame for his death, is a…
Interplay, the new show opening today at Downtown Aurora Visual Arts , is playful on one level…and very serious on another. Kids ranging in age from three to eighteen created the video games, movable sculptures, miniature gardens and toys in this exhibit that invite visitors to experience art first-hand. Experience…
Down to your last few dollars before rent is due next week? Don’t worry about it. You can still have fun without forking over a lot of cash. From a Dragon Boat Festival to movies in the park, this town will be full of things to do for under $10…
Update: A lot of folks are reporting bumper crops this warm summer. How about you? If you haven’t already entered your prized eggplant or handmade quilt (because, hey, not all of us garden) in the Denver County Fair, you’ve been given a reprieve: The fair has extended its online competition…
Pop culture is important. We spend our time and money on it, litter our speech with quotes from it, and our lives are shaped by it. That’s the premise of These Things Matter, a new podcast created by local comedian Kevin O’Brien and Taylor Gonda. Of course, for all the…
We all know him as the witty hybrid of Johnny Carson and George Carlin; the anti-religion, anti-South, pro-drug, pro-leather suit godfather of televised political satire. But did you know that there was once a whole decade where Bill Maher was as cool and relevant as Tim Allen at a Sleigh…
Copper Mountain’s axe-centric Guitar Town music festival turns five this year when it returns to the resort two weeks from today. It’ll also mark the fourth year for the fest’s Art Guitar Silent Auction, which features twenty cast-away instruments donated by the Guitar Center and brought back to life by…
Mile High Mayhem has rolled into town for the weekend, filling the city with scooter shenanigans. Bree Davies talked with Missi Kroge about the history of the scene, including the founding of the Secret Servix, and it definitely brought back memories…
Kirk Johnson, a paleontologist and fossil hunter who made science and history fun for the masses at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science for the past 22 years, has landed a job with the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Johnson, the head curator and vice president…
Wes Magyar Michael Paglia writes on page 35 of this week’s Westword, and online at “Faces, Places & Spaces,” that even if Faces, Places & Spaces, Collin Parson’s first effort as exhibition manager, isn’t up to the lofty standard of the Robert Mangold retrospective earlier this year — and it…
Crossover was a hallmark of early avant-garde art. Experimental music influenced experimental dance; experimental dance influenced experimental film; experimental film influenced experimental art. Tonight, with “Film/Still: The Short Films of Maya Deren” at Denver FilmCenter, the Denver Film Society and the Clyfford Still Museum will partner to examine a possible…
Auraria has been around for a long time — longer than Colorado has been an actual state — but it’s changed quite a bit since 1858. It started out as Auraria Township, a pioneer settlement that served as a popular destination during the gold rush; the root of the name…
