The Mayday Experiment: Move Along to Where?

Every year we endlessly debate the “meaning of Christmas.” Fox News stages its traditional “War on Christmas” show, commentators lament the crass commercialization, and decorations inch up in store stocks until they compete with pumpkins for space. And on Christmas Eve, families everywhere gather around a traditional nativity, with baby…

Meet the First Six Artists Announced for Artopia 2016

It’s cold outside, but plans are heating up for Artopia 2016 on Saturday, February 20 — a night of art, culture and fashion at City Hall. And cocktails, of course, which you can enjoy as you move through seven rooms of art installations and exhibits, curated by Jolt from Guerilla…

Gallery Sketches: Four New Shows in Denver This Weekend

Local galleries and co-ops are in the holiday swing, offering year-end group showcases and lots of affordable art. Take a break from the malls and the non-stop Christmas music and feed your soul by looking at something awesome — and then take it home with you. Kanon Tenth Anniversary Show…

Ten Cool Things About La Alma/Lincoln Park and West Central Denver

Warm Cookies of the Revolution, the local community-fostering group that founder Evan Weissman calls a “civic health club,” continues its yearlong Stompin’ Grounds Games series this month by focusing on Denver’s rapidly changing La Alma/Lincoln Park neighborhood and surrounding districts, from the city’s poorest — Sun Valley — to the urbane…

Gallery Sketches: Five New Shows in Denver for December 11-13

As 2015 draws to a close, it looks like Walnut Street Galleries are focusing on one of the major themes of this year, when rampant redevelopment has changed the face of the arts-driven RiNo community. And at Leon in Uptown, street writer Jolt also chimes in on gentrification. Get a…

Ten Vendors to Check Out at Holiday ManCraft Tonight

The smell of beard oil and beef jerky is hanging in the air; if you listen closely, you can hear the sounds of woodcarving and someone choking on hot sauce. This can only mean one thing: The men are here. Today more than eighty male vendors (and some co-ed teams)…

The Mayday Experiment: Made by Mom

There have been many things keeping me from working on the tiny house lately — from typical seasonal sickness to a gigantic commissioned project with an insane deadline that ate up all my time for six weeks, and now with the holidays approaching I despair of getting anything done. But…

Art Review: Mark Brasuell and Homare Ikeda Set the Pace in Denver

Denver’s vibrant art culture has started to generate national attention, even getting mentioned as one of the town’s key attributes on all of those “best city” lists on the Internet. Although the Mile High City still has a ways to go in comparison to international art centers, it is nonetheless…