THE GREAT GREEN helicopters in to the Boulder Fringe Festival

The show must go on, and for Laura Ann Samuelson and Joanna Rotkin, a helicopter rescue was the only way to keep their production THE GREAT GREEN on track for the Boulder International Fringe Festival, which starts today. Rotkin, creator and star of THE GREAT GREEN, resides in Jamestown, which…

Celebrate culture with these Mexican Independence Day events

Mexican Independence Day might take a lower profile than Cinco de Mayo here in Denver, but that doesn’t mean our Latino community — and the rest of the town — doesn’t kick up its heels for El Grito de la Independencia: Mexico’s real independence day (as opposed to Cinco), which…

Second Saturday: A bright spot of art when you least expect it

Denver has a Second Saturday, and though it often seems to take a back seat to First Friday, the alternative art-night has its advantages. You won’t have to elbow your way through crowds of sidewalk revelers, hawkers and buskers to get to the art, and you’ve also had a day’s…

Updated: Friday the 13th screening moves indoors

This just in: Due to the unpredictable forecast we are cancelling the ‘outdoor’ portion of the FRIDAY THE 13TH event, here’s what we’re doing so you can still watch this chiller classic on the day it was intended to be seen: >Alamo Drafthouse Littleton will be screening FRIDAY THE 13TH…

Local author and journalist Jason Heller on winning a Hugo Award

Longtime Westword readers will recognize the name Jason Heller. For years, Heller was one of the paper’s premier music writers, covering the local and national music scene with insight, wit and sharp writing. These days, he’s expanded his portfolio to include national outlets such as The A.V. Club and Pitchfork…

Ice Cube hosts a pair of good-looking member solos

One of the handsomest and best exhibition spaces in town is in an artist cooperative, of all places: the main space at Ice Cube Gallery. Upon entry, visitors are confronted by a large room, cut up by moveable walls and topped with a high ceiling, that’s ideal for displaying art…

Mid-Century and Modern in Wheat Ridge Home Tour celebrates unique architecture

Celebrating the often-overlooked segment of beautiful architecture in Wheat Ridge, this weekend’s Mid-Century and Modern Home Tour highlights some of the area’s best preserved and painstakingly remodeled homes. Organized by non-profit Wheat Ridge 2020, this one-day only tour runs Saturday, September 7 from 1 to 5 p.m., when doors of…

Photos: 2013 Denver Biennial of Americas comes to a close

This week, art critic Michael Paglia ventures around town — visiting the McNichols Building and other sites that were part of the 2013 Denver Biennial of Americas — for this week’s review. The first show, Draft Urbanism, is mainly comprised of outdoor installations around Denver, while First Draft is a…

Aurora Cultural Arts District wants you for Poetry@Play in September

Know any poets? Got a thing yourself for putting words together in beautiful collages? There’s a place for every poet at the Aurora Cultural Arts District’s first-ever Poetry@Play weekend, where verses by featured poets and all comers will ring out both indoors and out in downtown Aurora on September 20…

This year’s Biennial fizzled rather than sizzled

Although the middle of July marked the apex of activities related to the 2013 Denver Biennial of the Americas, the official exhibits connected to the event are still going through this weekend. The first rendition of the Biennial, which took place three years ago (meaning this incarnation was one year…

Let SAN sooth your soul tonight at Hinterland

Even the hardest-willed Type A sometimes needs to slow down. And naturally, so do the rest of us. Tonight in the garden behind Hinterland, everyone’s welcome to sample three loosely interrelated mind-loosening disciplines designed to slow down your pulse and amp up your chakras during SAN, an evening of “music,…

RTD art: Emmett Culligan’s “Plow” at the County Line station

“Let’s make a gigantic agricultural plowshare,” is the thought that inspired artist Emmett Culligan to create “Plow,” the large sculpture that resides at the County Line light-rail station. Culligan answered a few questions about this piece in our latest installment of our RTD art series and discussed the purpose he…

You don’t have to be mid-century to love the Denver Modernism Show

In the new millennium, modernism is something of a conundrum. As immediate as it is retro, the mid-century ethos of streamlined design and space-age concerns is enjoying something of a style renaissance. Blame Mad Men if you must, but mid-century is cool again. That explains why Dana Cain’s Denver Modernism…