Tomorrow, May 6, would have been film auteur Orson Welles’s one hundredth birthday, and we can only imagine that the notoriously egotistical, but nonetheless genius, filmmaker probably wouldn’t have had many good things to say about the last thirty years of cinema that have rolled on without him. In honor…
When I walked into the Wagon Wheel Skate Center in Brighton last weekend for a music-video shoot, I expected to be hit with an intense wave of nostalgia. Growing up half-time in Brighton, I spent many a Friday night at the skating rink, eating microwaved pretzels and wishing I wasn’t…
I have to confess: I’ve not yet been on the roof of my own tiny house. It feels like a travesty. An even bigger confession: I’m a little terrified of heights. I’ve gotten over this fear to some degree over the years – anyone who hangs work in a gallery will…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Aside from an art class at Front Range Community College in 1998,…
Colorado owes a large part of it’s heritage in the arts, culture, and landscape of our city to Hispanic tradition. Influenced in what we eat, drink, and the paintings and artistic endeavors we celebrate, Cinco de Mayo is the epitome of all that we hold dear. Here are the 5…
Spring weather and fresh ideas mark First Friday explorations on May 1, with art opportunities both rare and thought-provoking. Here are a few lucky trails to follow as you meander through Denver’s art districts tonight. Bill Stockman: Someone Called Me By My Name Gildar Gallery, 82 South Broadway May 1…
Comic books are no longer guilty pleasures: This Saturday, May 2, marks the thirteenth annual Free Comic Book Day, an event now celebrated worldwide. The unofficial holiday is a great time to get acquainted with the region’s finest comic-book shops — and to pick up free reading material. Fifty-one different titles,…
With springtime comes the blooming of flowers and usually the blossoming of allergies. So what better way to stay out of nature’s way than by planning some indoor activities, relaxing in front of a big movie screen that’s showing the latest cinema curios and classic hits or, if your allergies…
The Clyfford Still Museum and Denver Art Museum just announced their collaborative effort to bring River of Fundament, a six-hour, rarely screened, star-studded spectacle by artist/filmmaker Matthew Barney and composer Jonathan Bepler to Denver this summer for the opening week of the 2015 Biennial of Americas. “We’re delighted to collaborate with…
After consulting for History Colorado on the “Movimiento Chicano” section of its 1968 exhibit, Museo de las Americas director Maruca Salazar started thinking about presenting her own show on the subject of Chicanos. Salazar, who is from Mexico, explains that Chicanos are not Mexican-Americans; rather, they are the descendants of…
The 9,000 square-foot warehouse at 445 South Broadway was empty for years, but that’s all about to change. The building is now the home of IGNITRR, a collaborative work space and incubator that is in the midst of getting a colorful graffiti makeover from seven of Denver’s talented graffiti artists. The…
When Philip Spangler and I first started making plans for the tiny house, we searched everywhere to find examples of an on-board rainwater plumbing system. Many viral tiny-house builders are selling plans, often made in Sketch-Up. But even though we looked at all of them, we found very few details…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Although Laura Feehs was born in North Carolina, she almost qualifies for…
If a single soul bridged the transition of Denver’s spoken-word poetry scene from its Beat roots to the thriving slam arena of the present, it was Lenny Chernila, the “Professor,” whose presence over the years as both a participant and mentor at readings at the Mercury Cafe and other spots…
Bob Topp figured he’d save up for graduate school after buying All Books for a dirt-cheap cost in the early ’70s. Renaming the store The Hermitage Bookshop, he thought he’d sell it at a profit after a few years. But instead, he’s now been running the place for more than…
In Denver galleries and art museums, this will be a weekend for goodbyes both low-key and loud (including a final Mothersbaugh marathon at MCA Denver). And as the town’s extended Month of Photography begins to wind down, novices and experts alike are invited to get their hands on primitive cameras…
There’s more to Denver’s cityscape than its brick-and-mortar exterior. The annual Doors Open Denver tour peels back that layer, offering insider looks at what’s behind some of the Mile High City’s most famous facades. Sponsored by the Denver Architectural Foundation, this year’s theme is “Denver Classics Then & Now,” and…
This year, the Month of Photography has expanded so that it not only fills March, but runs all the way through April. In fact, the last of the shows, including the contemplative Far Between at Robischon Gallery, will be on view into May. Typically, Robischon presents sets of related solos,…
The Humane Society of Boulder Valley’s Puttin’ on the Leash gala Saturday should be heaven for cat people. Jackson Galaxy, the feline whisperer who stars in Animal Planet’s My Cat From Hell, will be returning to where he got his start as the co-host of the event. Back in 1993,…
In her hit cover of “MacArthur Park,” gay icon and disco-music diva Donna Summer famously sang, “Someone left the cake out in the rain/I don’t think that I can take it, because it took so long to bake it/And I’ll never have that recipe again.” Now a local artist is…
From its beginnings in the mid-1800s, Denver has been a city of booms and busts, but there’s no doubt that the Mile High City is on one hell of a tear right now. The current economic explosion actually began in the late twentieth century, making the recession of a few…
Water always finds a way. In planning the tiny house, there have been so many conversations about water. Not only rainwater as a force of good – providing showers and drinking water – but rainwater as a destructive force, winnowing through every narrow channel and path. This is why there…
