In 1998, near Española, New Mexico, someone severed the foot from a bronze statue of Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate with a saw. The statue honored the man who had served as New Mexico’s first Spanish colonial governor, from 1598 to 1608. Española, about 150 miles from Acoma, was…
Photos by Norman Dillon. Elegant is back again, ladies. That’s the look-at-me aesthetic Denver milliner Susan Dillon cultivates at her new Kitty Mae Millinery & Accessories boutique in RiNo/Curtis Park. And she’s eagerly waiting for you to stop by, so that she can dress you up. “I want people to…
Sometimes it’s the simplest things that tug on our play-strings. Kenta Cho’s SIN CAR does just that by providing an incredibly simple but impossible-to-resist premise that makes it incredibly difficult to walk away from the mouse for even just a few minutes. The basics are easy to grasp: you control…
Thinking about taking a snow day and heading for the hills this morning? Crank up the Black Flag and point towards the Continental Divide, because the first snow of the season here in Denver hit ski country even harder, with Loveland reporting over 10 inches this morning at 5 a.m…
An outpost of Maurices is set to open on Friday, October 28, at Southwest Plaza, complete with an old-fashioned ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9:30 a.m. But it’s the ribbons and other women’s apparel items inside the store that will attract all the attention…
Good thing the city didn’t schedule tonight’s Mayor’s Design Awards on the rooftop deck of one of its award winners: Ale House at Amato’s, where the view of downtown offers a stunning look of where the city is going…and how its growing. Instead, tonight’s ceremony announcing a record-breaking seventeen winners…
“This conversation rules!” That’s the word from Hilarious, and the latest comment posted in the ongoing discussion of artist James Lorca Garcia Velazquez , who thinks Denver’s art market is too “commercialized” and so is moving to New York. His parting words in his Show and Tell interview with Tiffany…
Here’s your chance to make some history. History Colorado — or the Colorado Historical Society, as it was known back when it started in 1879 — will begin a new chapter next spring, when the Colorado History Center opens on Broadway. And in the meantime, it’s collecting photos of Coloradans…
Photographer John Bonath’s spectacular three-level show, A Strange Beauty, which opened at the end of September at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, encourages visitors to explore a massive, hidden-away portion of the museum collection in an unusual and contemporary way. The hand-chosen objects that Bonath re-examined through an…
Maia Stone, executive director of Colorado Creative and founder of the Giving T.A.B.L.E. (Teen Arts & Business Leadership Experience) program, wants to see new opportunities for young artists in Five Points and decided to start as close to home as possible: Tonight at 5 p.m. she’s unveiling a new mural…
With too many solid book releases to count this week, picking just a few was difficult. But with a biography on the recently deceased Steve Jobs, a new novel from Haruki Murakami, and a special re-release of a children’s classic, there should be something for everyone. We also have a…
If you’re looking to get your fix of cinematic terror but are facing a frightening shortage of cash, the current Fresh City Life film series at the Central Denver Public Library, “The Kids Are Not Alright,” is a real treat. The Tuesday night films, all scary movies featuring evil children,…
The Lion King is about to roar into the Denver Performing Arts Complex, followed by a revival of West Side Story. Such shows are not just popular with audiences, but with bogus ticket sellers, too. “We just want to make people aware that we’re really the only authorized ticket sellers,”…
One thing promoters often struggle with is trying to figure out how many T-shirts they’ll need for their event. Whether it’s a fun run, a marathon or a block party, tallying up the numbers can be a difficult process. Troy’s Custom Tees’ Troy De Baca hopes to solve that problem…
Are zombies done? Yes, we know it’s not that easy to get rid of the undead…but the commercialization of the undead? That’s something else entirely. Yesterday, thinking longingly of the days when slutty nurse costumes ruled, Jef Otte declared enough with the zombies already — and offered up “The ten…
In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Colorado photographer Robert Adams used his camera to record rapid development on the Front Range. In creating photos that were both traditionally beautiful and conceptually disturbing, he managed to turn the entire tradition of the Western landscape on its head and garnered international…
Bayer & Chisman. From the 1940s to the 1970s, Aspen’s Herbert Bayer was one of the premier artists in Colorado, and from the ’80s to the first decade of the 21st century, Denver’s Dale Chisman played a similar role. But beyond that, their work has little in common, with Bayer…
American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose. Written by Richard Montoya, of the San Francisco performance group Culture Clash, American Night: The Ballad of Juan Josetells the story of immigrants in America through a crazed mix of skits, historical references, inspired parody and moments of pathos and insight. But the…
Riffing on how outlaw Butch Cassidy’s life might have gone had he survived in South America, this modest oater should tickle Western fans. (I assume there are a few of us left.) Blackthorn finds Cassidy (Sam Shepard) still in Bolivia, breeding horses, bedding his Indian housekeeper (Magaly Solier) and making…
Written and directed by Bruce Robinson, The Rum Diary is what the Brits might call a rum movie — an oddly inoffensive piece and a personal project for its disconcertingly unengaged star Johnny Depp. The movie adapts a novel Hunter S. Thompson began in the early ’60s and published, under…
There’s something about the work of Athol Fugard — or at least about this particular work, The Road to Mecca — that reminds me of the plays of August Wilson. It has the same rich sense of place and culture, the same emotional complexity and the same kind of humanism,…
It’s been close to a decade since the gore-spattered snowball of the zombie fad started rolling — check, for example, George Romero’s filmography, which boasts zero Whatever of the Dead flicks between 1990 and 2004 and five in the time since — and as this Halloween approaches, it’s once again…
