Removing tattoos for free is not an ordinary service offered by tattoo shops, but All Sacred is no ordinary tattoo shop. The hybrid tattoo shop meets nonprofit is currently in the market for a tattoo removal laser with the goal to offer the service of free tattoo removal for former gang members, criminal or otherwise, giving priority to those who tattoos have affected their quality of life.
There’s always good reason to catch a Phil Bender solo at Pirate: Contemporary Art, but this current effort, straightforwardly titled Phil Bender, has the added attraction of being thoroughly poignant. Though not Pirate’s last show, it will be Bender’s last at the co-op’s longtime home in northwest Denver, which the group will soon leave.
A host of national comics creators will descend on DINK, Denver’s premier independent comics convention, at the McNichols Building on April 8 and 9. But DINK also prides itself on nurturing the local scene. Listed in alphabetical order, below are just a handful of the notable Denver-based artists and writers…
My first psychic was about six feet tall, with a plume of yellow hair that recalled both Phyllis Diller and Big Bird, a chain smoker who read my future — rather accurately — by flipping through a deck of playing cards. She punctuated important moments in the reading with jabs…
For almost ten years, Jaime Kopke has been devising ways for museums and other cultural organizations in the Denver metro area to engage their audiences, beyond serving as reliquaries presenting art and information behind a symbolic wall of glass.
Stop by the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Denver for a creative pick-me-up at “Sense of Place: Creating Urban Adventure.”
Last year, Charlie and Jeff LaGreca stood in the center of the Sherman Street Event Center with grins on their faces. The two brothers had brought the unlikely to life: The inaugural installment of DINK, the largest independent comics convention in Denver history, was in full swing around them. Artists,…
Mark Sink, organizer of Denver’s Month of Photography, has also curated Between the Medium: Seeing Photographically at RedLine.
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts announced its 39th season, Monday, April 3 for both the DCPA Theatre Company and Off-Center.
The director of operations at Hope Communities, Crossroads’ landlord, recently told Westword that Crossroads is struggling; the theater company in Five Points is behind on rent, leaving Hope, an affordable-housing provider, to cover the mortgage payments. But Crossroads isn’t dying.
The National Endowment for the Arts, which is a pet target of Republicans eager to slash big government, announced this week it is establishing a Creative Forces: Military Healing Arts Network clinical site at Fort Carson, in Colorado Springs.
Daniel Salazar and the whole team at Su Teatro work all year long to pull together a selection of films with Latino themes that also speak to strength in community for the group’s annual XicanIndie Film Fest. Evoking the sociopolitical mud that holds people together has always been a bottom-line…
“Why does Denver need one more theater company right now?” asked Rachel Bouchard, while talking about Benchmark Theatre Company’s inaugural full-scale production, the sci-fi crime-drama, The Nether, which launches Friday, March 31.
Who likes a wedgie? Apparently the brains behind Elitch Gardens Theme & Water Park’s new ride, the, get this, Mega Wedgie.
As new businesses continue to roll out at the Stanley Marketplace in Aurora, the little town of curated retail, restaurants and services under one roof, looks more than promising.
In the heart of Five Points, Denver’s Historic black neighborhood, spaces and faces have been changing rapidly over the past decade. While art galleries have blossomed in nearby RiNo, Welton Street has been slower to develop — at least when it comes to new arts organizations. No longer. Enter Rare…
By now we are well into spring, which means one thing in Colorado: wacky weather. Aside from impacting your wardrobe, this oddball season can seriously mess with your social calendar. But don’t worry: From indoor to outdoor activities, we’ve got you covered in this week’s list of the best events…
The Maven Hotel will open on March 29 with a collection of more than 400 pieces of art by local artists.
Denver Art Museum is on the hunt for a local artist to be its summer Creative-in-Residence. This paid position will have one goal: producing “transformative experiences for visitors.”
A new piece of street-art has bloomed in the Golden Triangle, along with some Spring flowers. The mural states, “Be A Good Person,” a relevant mantra in today’s cold world and also the name of a local brand that promotes positivity via clothing…
The Rule Gallery has decided to participate in Denver’s Month of Photography by mounting Basic Pictures: Joseph Coniff, which oddly enough is not made up of photos but is, instead, a painting show.
Ancient Rome left us mounds of olive-oil pots, says artist Dmitri Obergfell, and now we manufacture hundreds of thousands of aluminum cans that are buried in dumps, waiting to be discovered again as artifacts in some future millennium. Obergfell riffs off this and other ideas, through visual markers from antiquity and the use of symbolically loaded modern materials for Man is a Bubble and Time is a Place, a solo show opening March 23 at Gildar Gallery.
