The Top Ten Things to Catch at Denver Comic Con

The fifth annual Denver Comic Con will invade the Colorado Convention Center over Father’s Day weekend, June 17 through June 19. What started as a humble hometown show (albeit one with big aspirations) wound up breaking attendance records year after year, taking off from just over 25,000 attendees in its…

The Ten Best Summer Arts Festivals in Colorado

Arts festivals are the great cultural equalizers in Colorado: They often feature high-caliber pieces to engage more serious fans while still keeping the atmosphere low-key enough for those who feel intimidated by galleries and more esoteric options. Not an art enthusiast? Most of the festivals also feature great music and…

Rosane O’Conor’s Microbiological Habitat Lands at DIA

You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we look at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery outposts around town. Rosane Volchan O’Conor grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and studied music…

Black Cube Artist Jon P. Geiger Rolls “ROAM” Into Denver

Black Cube’s artist fellows have pushed the boundaries of the typical pop-up show in the past year by creating giant inflatables, using sites that included both Red Rocks and an entire house, and even questioning Denver’s housing displacement. Now artist fellow Jon P. Geiger has created “ROAM,” a 26-foot-high neon sculpture…

The Mayday Experiment: Girl Power and Power Tools

It was 8 a.m. when the doorbell rang, the ordinarily melodic tones turning to scratchy demon fire against my eardrum. Anyone who knows me knows I’m absolutely not a morning person, and typically force myself to go to bed around 4 a.m. — so after a bleary ook at the…

History Colorado Finds New Head Close to Home: Steve Turner

History Colorado made more history today when, after a natural search, its board of directors announced that they’d found the ideal executive director right here at home: interim leader Steve Turner. Turner has worked with History Colorado since 2008, and was head of the State Historical Fund and the Office…