The Cat Care Society’s Tails of the Painted Cats fundraiser has proven so popular that it’s become an annual event: Each year, the fanciful fiberglass felines decorated by local artists make the rounds to different galleries and art districts before winding up at a gala auction at the end of…
The Black Forest fire, which started June 11 northeast of Colorado Springs, has been deemed the costliest in state history. “Surely, the loss of every house represents a tragedy for the people who lived there,” writes Westword art critic Michael Paglia in this week’s Artbeat column. “But in one case,…
Editor’s note: Artist Charlie Boots, represents the inaugural pair of PAIR residents at Denver’s Powerhaüs Studio. As part of his residency, he and his fashion-designing counterpart will be reporting from the real world via Show and Tell, as they learn the ropes from studio mentors Mona Lucero, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy…
The Black Forest fire, which started June 11 northeast of Colorado Springs, has been deemed the costliest in state history, taking out more than 500 homes and many other buildings. Surely, the loss of every house represents a tragedy for the people who lived there. But in one case, the…
Rockmount Ranch Wear clothing has been sighted on celebrities around the globe. And now, in honor of Spun, its textile exhibition, the Denver Art Museum has stocked an entire corner of its gift shop with items from Rockmount. We grabbed a few minutes with Steve Weil, president of Rockmount, to…
Editor’s note: Longtime Denver fashion designer Francis Roces, whose brand name is KimonoDragons, is half of the inaugural pair of PAIR residents at Denver’s Powerhaüs Studio. As part of his three-month residency, he and his fine-art counterpart, Charlie Boots, will be reporting from the real world via Show and Tell,…
Randy and Jason Sklar make a living off of their “twinning” jokes. The Sklar Brothers will be at the Comedy Works for a three-day run that starts June 27; in honor of their appearance in Denver, here’s our list of the ten best sets of twins in pop culture. See…
Kenn Amdahl is an author, an entrepreneur, and something of a homespun polymath based in Broomfield Colorado. Frustrated by difficulties getting his book, an educational manual leavened by bits of whimsy, Amdahl founded Clearwater Publishing in 1990. Since then, Clearwater has released 11 books from their humble press. Westword sat down with Amdahl to talk about math and science, self-publishing, his favorite books and being part of a community of writers.
On July 22, The Colorado Theatre Guild will present the Colorado equivalent of the Tonys: the eighth annual Henry Awards, celebrating outstanding achievements during the past season. The event not only celebrates local work, it’s also an annual fundraiser for the CTG. The nominees were released last week; tickets go…
Art collector and Green Box Arts Festival founder Christian Keesee was so intrigued when he first saw the work of Tomás Saraceno at the Venice Biennale that he later purchased the artist’s giant installation “Cloud City.” He has since loaned that piece to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (for a…
Laura Phelps Rogers needs viewers to interact with her latest work, 1100 Pieces. Beginning with 1,100 individual four-inch-by-four-inch canvases adorned with letters, the artist is asking her audience to share a word, one that will be displayed on a massive billboard inside Edge Gallery, starting tonight with her show’s opening…
Thousands of professionals in the fields of architecture, planning, design and related occupations, along with many vendors, are meeting in Denver June 20-22 for the American Institute of Architects’ annual convention, this year titled “Building Leaders.” In honor of the event, Westword art critic Michael Paglia gave over his column…
These days, there’s no shortage of loud, obnoxious jerks on TV getting paid to basically yell at you, but it wasn’t always this way. Until Morton Downey Jr. helped pioneer the new age of television hate in the late ’80s, the TV landscape was a much more civil place (with…
We can’t get enough of the imaginative social-media mugs from local artists. So we’ve compiled yet another collection of their photos, as shared on Facebook with all their FB friends — and now, you. Enjoy. See also: – Facebook portraits of artists: A local gallery – More Facebook portraits of…
Although there are similar spaces across the country, Civic Center Park is a cherished urban treasure for Denver and, by extension, the entire time zone. The park and the structures within it, as well as the State Capitol, Lincoln Park, the Denver City and County Building and several outlying buildings,…
Calling all unicorns, jackalopes, mermaids, basilisks, abominable snowmen and New Jersey Devils! Grab a few s’mores, and settle in for a fun-filled night of theatrical mayhem as the Theater Company of Lafayette (TCL) weaves seven campfire-esque shorts all crafted to challenge preconceived notions, shatter misconceptions and keep you guessing long…
Deacon Gray, an Oklahoman transplant who honed his comedic expertise through years of taking thankless road dog gigs. Westword sat down with Deacon recently to discuss comedy, comic books and how the book The Artist’s Way has shaped his career. In addition to functioning as Comedy Work’s benevolent new-talent gatekeeper, Gray is the creator of Text-A-Saurus, a monthly comedy show wherein Denver’s finest comedians along with selected traveling crackerjacks improvise sets based on text messages submitted by the audience. Text-A-Saurus is held the last saturday of each month: the next performance is June 29th at the Bug Theater.
Editor’s note: Longtime Denver fashion designer Francis Roces, whose brand name is KimonoDragons, represents the inaugural pair of PAIR residents at Denver’s Powerhaüs Studio. As part of his three-month residency, he and his fine-art counterpart Charlie Boots will be reporting from the real world via Show and Tell, as they…
Pacha Play began when the clothing line’s local mastermind, Edica Pacha, wanted to expand her work as a photographer and installation and performance artist. “I started sewing as a way to get a little more creative and interactive with some of the work I was doing. I just started making…
For this week’s art review, critic Michael Paglia visited the Denver Art Museum, where he took in two different shows with fairly similar themes. First he visited Cover Story, which is a part of the larger Spun: Adventures in Textiles exhibit. He also took in the Red, White and Bold:…
Editor’s note: Artist Charlie Boots, represents the inaugural pair of PAIR residents at Denver’s Powerhaüs Studio. As part of his residency, he and his fashion-designing counterpart will be reporting from the real world via Show and Tell, as they learn the ropes from studio mentors Mona Lucero, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy…
Ever since a glammed-up JonBenet Ramsey graced the cover of People magazine, there’s been an uncomfortable, voyeuristic fascination with child-beauty pageants and the moms who push their daughters into underage sexualized stardom. We’re also a culture obsessed with weight, particularly with those classified as obese. Social worker and author Karen…
