Find your rhythm at DanceAfrica Denver this weekend

Dr. Charles “Baba Chuck” Davis founded DanceAfrica almost four decades ago as a unique celebration of Africa and its diaspora. For the next two weekends, DanceAfrica will partner for the third time with the forty-year-old Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble on DanceAfrica Denver, which will feature not just performances of…

Tracy Weil takes the wheel at the Aurora Cultural Arts District

Tracy Weil is a master at the art of breathing life into ideas. He calls it branding, and that’s the business end of his skill, but it’s also about being engaged in the community, which is what makes it so special. An artist, urban agriculturist, designer and Westword MasterMind, Weil…

RedLine’s Artist’s Studio series celebrates resident artists

In the ’60s, art happenings were all the rage. People got together to experience unique cultural gatherings that would never be repeated. Now RedLine is planning to provide Denver with a modern version of these aesthetic landmarks with its Artist’s Studio series, which will feature events designed and facilitated by…

The ten best stores on Tennyson Street

It’s ironic that nearly all the businesses mentioned when we named Tennyson Street the best neighborhood shopping district in 2011 have left the block or closed their doors (see the link below), including some that were strangled by prolonged street construction in the heart of the district. But now that…

Repertory Cinema Wishlist: O Lucky Man!

Forty years after it was made, viewers are still split over Lindsay Anderson’s 1973 picaresque O Lucky Man!, the second of three films the British satirist made with Malcolm McDowell, who’d already garnered recognition for handling a difficult role as the sociopathic hooligan Alex in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange…

Facebook portraits of artists: A local gallery

One reason we return to Facebook again and again is to look at the pictures –and to share them, too. But when artists join in that endlessly unfolding online scrapbook, things really start to get interesting. Following are some of our favorite FB portraits of Colorado artists. See also: -…

Five TV shows that were canceled much too soon

Futurama has been canceled…again. Fans are keenly aware that the show was nuked back in 2003 by Fox, then brought back by Comedy Central after it bought the rights to the four movies in 2007. But this season will reportedly be the last one, with the series finale airing on…

The Grawlix’s five best comedy shorts

For nearly two years the Nix Brothers and The Grawlix comedy team have been producing mind-burstingly good short films for the web that also screen each month at the Grawlix’s Bug Theatre comedy show. With a trio of hyper-real characters that play off each other with a juvenile cruelty and…