Candles lit the back room of EDGE Gallery during Aidan Grey’s most recent show there, and a scrolled message on the door read, “Hoodoo is not Voodoo.” Ingredients for potions were sprawled, loose and in bottles, on a table at the side of the small space: wasps, black pepper, lavender,…
Here are the winners of the 2011 Denver #WebAwards in the category we’re loosely dubbing “arts,” which means Westword scribes report on the happenings in these beats, right here on Show and Tell. (And no, Westword writers were not eligible for these awards.) These are the winners only; for a…
If you live in Colorado and love alpine ski racing, get ready for a season of unprecedented access to the best of the best, thanks to Tuesday’s grand opening of the new U.S. Ski Team Speed Center at Copper Mountain and several key events, including two World Cup races in…
Everyone has a story to tell, including Matthew Taylor. Once one-third of the local comedy trio A.C.E. (shorthand for American, Canadian and Englishman — you do the math), he lost his job when ensemble partners Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein hit it big with their performance piece, Girls Only. Which…
Patti Cramer passed away just over a year ago, shortly after she left the town where she’d lived forty years, collecting hundreds of fans in the process. But her art lives on. And at Westword, where Cramer worked for several years and then continued as a contributor for decades more,…
Denver Art Museum design curator Darrin Alfred relished the opportunity to reinstall the museum’s architecture and design galleries: It represented a changing of the guard for him and a chance to cast a fresh spotlight on all the collection had to offer. The resulting spread, What Is Modern?, currently on…
In 1975, Jaws struck terror into the hearts of beach-going innocents across the country. But more than a century earlier, Louis Agassiz gave a scientific name to a real monster, a shark now believed to have been the biggest ever: Carcharodon megalodon. From fossils, scientists estimate the shark was up…
If you’ve ever wondered what it takes to work with spray paint and stencils like the street artists who paint murals and graffiti — both legally and illegally — then check out Graffiti and Martinis tonight at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Amanda Marie Ploegsma, a Colorado artist whose…
Although Elephant Revival’s multi-instrumentalists all contribute to its Celtic-inspired harmonies, its the beautifully morose vocals of Bonnie Paine that best represents the band’s jammy jazz sound. The group utilizes diverse instrumentation, from the washboard and fiddle to the upright bass to create this folky fusion — coming across solidly as…
With the news that their state funding was cut by 67 percent this year, the nonprofit Denver Options reacted by getting crafty. The result is the Denver Options’ Handmade Market, a benefit that the organization — which supports people with developmentall disabilities — came up with to try to make…
Calling all dames and sirs: AdvocacyDenver not-so-secretly invites you to Speakeasy, its third annual 1920s-era themed fundraiser. Patrons are encouraged to dress up like flappers and gangsters, throw down on faux gambling tables and dance to some old-timey music from Doc Brown’s Blues Band. There will also be a silent…
In 1954, when Jim Henson created the first Muppet, he probably never dreamed that his wide-mouthed, brightly colored brainchildren would go on to host their own television show for five years (much less have a starring role on another for forty years and counting) — and the kids who grew…
“We’re very proud to say our boards are built not just in the USA, but right here in Colorado in our Denver factory, and we’re not the only ones,” says Mike Gagliardi, snow-sales manager for Never Summer Industries. “If you love snowboarding — or any of the snow sports, really…
British food writer Nigel Slater started cooking at a young age as a way of fighting his stepmother tooth and nail for the attention of his father — namely, by conniving in myriad ways to steal her secret recipe for lemon meringue pie. He didn’t much like either one of…
Denver handmade queen Sam Robinson broke many hearts when she put her annual Gifts for Yule holiday market to pasture last year. But in the midst of Denver’s DIY boom, many other marketplaces touting handcrafted work by local artists have stepped in to fill the void. One of this year’s…
Music is often the way we mark out milestones, and it’s no different when it comes to revolutions. In fact, as becomes evident in the documentary Soundtrack for a Revolution, maybe even more so. A poignant history lesson and voyage through the events of the American civil-rights movement, the film,…
It’s not hard to credit Barry Fey with laying the foundation for Colorado’s vibrant music scene. Before his retirement, he brought some of the biggest names in rock to the state, rescued the Denver Symphony and put on Jimi Hendrix’s final performance. In short, he’s not just a Colorado legend,…
Maybe it’s the shorter days, the colder weather or the anticipation of awkward family time, but there’s just something about Thanksgiving that entices people to drink. Tonight, the Corner Office invites you to reminisce about Thanksgivings past — and spend the evening drinking — at its Turkey Time Machine Party…
According to the Department of Defense, members of the American military committed suicide at the rate of one every 36 hours between 2005 and 2010. Ten years into the war in the Middle East, with troops officially set to exit Iraq in January, the problem of service members returning home…
The new heads of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra — returning CEO/President Jim Copenhaver and returning board co-chairs Mary Rossick Kern and Jerome Kern — want to prove that the CSO will be all right. After reducing the symphony’s October and November shows by half to help solve a cash-flow problem…
We never get tired of showering the love on I ♥ Denver, the progressive all-Colorado gift shop run by community-minded entrepreneur Samuel Schimek at the Denver Pavilions…
Steve Jobs says he’s more a hippie than a nerd. He hires computer programmers who, in another life, would make excellent poets, musicians, even zoologists. “The spark of that was that there was something beyond what you see everyday. There’s something beyond a job, a career, a car…That same spirit…
