Chess comes with almost as many stereotypes (the nerd, the genius, the poorly adjusted savant) and cliches (the pawn, checkmate, knights and chivalry) as it does pieces. But director Rod Lansberry isn’t interested in any of them. Tomorrow, he and the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities will launch…
A group of local theater owners, actors and the newly-minted president of the Colorado Theatre Guild met at Denver’s Dangerous Theatre Sunday night to share ideas on how to work together to share resources and information. This wasn’t an official Colorado Theatre Guild meeting, but rather a gathering inspired by…
Will Mondo get robbed again, or will he finally triumph? That’s still the big question on the minds of loyal fashionistas across the very universe. But either way, we already know that Mondo Guerra has a bright future ahead of him…
In 1919 rancher J. Frank Norfleet got swindled twice by a roving group of slick con artists, who cleaned him out of $45,000 with a fake stock-exchange scam similar to the “Big Con” operation in The Sting. But rather than embrace defeat, Norfleet became the “boomerang sucker.” He spent the…
UPDATE: Mondo won, as you know. Read all about it here: “It’s a celebration, bitches! Mondo Guerra wins Project Runway All Stars”Denver designer Mondo Guerra is about to emerge from the Project Runway vortex after a two-year stay, and he’ll be the latest personality to try and prove that there…
For this spring’s Logan Lecture series at the Denver Art Museum, Modern & Contemporary curator Gwen Chanzit chose to focus on five artists whose primary concern is for the materials they work with. Postminimalist artist Richard Tuttle, whose sculptural works weave in and out of various mediums and techniques while…
Artist Kym Bloom takes playing with her food to the next level by making art out of Peeps, Chicklets, candy hearts and Jolly Ranchers (among other candies). Bloom melts the candies with a butane torch, molds the melted forms together on a surface and finally coats the piece in resin…
If social media is the communication tool of the future, the Denver Public Library doesn’t want to be left in the dust, and that’s why the library will launch its ambitious Creating Your Community (CYC) social archive — a participatory opportunity for people to share stories of their Colorado heritage…
There are usually interesting shows on view near the corner of 37th Avenue and Navajo Street, but rarely as interesting as those on view at two galleries right now. Nate Baldwin: Commanding Comprehension, on display at Pirate (3655 Navajo Street, 303-458-6058, www.pirateartonline.com), is made up a single painting — a…
Artists and arts lovers alike turned out for Friday night’s Start the Art benefit concert — to talk, listen to performances by local musicians Terry Sandoval of the Hunger Artist, ScaTTer GaTHer and headliner Joshua Novak, and promote the cause of arts education for kids, with the goal of raising…
This poster by Nakatomi caused the kid behind me to say: “Dad, I want the giant squid poster. Now.” Flatstock is a dangerous place to be with a credit card. This year, Flatstock 33 (presented by the American Poster Institute) featured over 100 artists with enough completely badass concert posters…
I will not say that Ghost Adventures host Zak Bagans (referred to in the Urban Dictionary as “Douche Bagans”) is the douchiest guy to ever host his own TV show, that he’s a certifiable uber-chad, that he looks like Ryan Seacrest and Ty Pennington’s love child, or that the way…
A ticket to tonight’s Start the Art benefit concert buys more than just a night of good food, a cold beer and music by Westword Music Showcase nominee Josh Novak — it buys a chance to support a brand-new initiative to ensure kids’ access to arts education. Event organizers Chris…
Today doesn’t just mark the start of that festive, lush, and green holiday: St. Patrick’s Day. It also kicks off that upcoming festive, lush and green season: spring…
Luckily, they aren’t the running zombies. The “Run for your Lives” zombie 5K obstacle course is coming to Colorado this summer, where fitness freaks bored by the running routine will have to dodge “zombies” — volunteers complete with fake blood and lumbering steps — as part of the race. It’s…
Sarah Haney takes pictures of Barbies in compromising positions. Her art could be construed as a feminist discourse, commenting on the pressures of womanhood, and some of that is true. But for the most part, Haney’s just being hilarious. Currently, she’s spending most of her time experimenting with different forms,…
The University of Colorado Denver is firing up its College of Arts & Media this week by bringing in iron sculptor and performance artist Matt Toole for a lecture tonight and live pour tomorrow…
Sandra Fettingis has been creating art for over a decade. In her new series of sketches and 3-D wall sculptures, which debuts tonight at City, O’ City, Fettingis says she “explores confusion in conversation and in life’s agendas — specifically, through the patterning and layering of the art.” The title…
Several nationally renowned artists and musicians are Denver natives: Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind and Fire graduated from East Denver High School; The Fray’s Isaac Slade and Joe King were schoolmates at Faith Christian Academy. Now Denver’s First Lady Mary Louise Lee wants to promote Denver’s notable cultural legacy with…
To make a sweeping generalization, all art has to do with nature, because it is, at its core, an extension of the human hand, eye or brain. But some artists go further in expressing this underpinning by either literally or figuratively referring to natural processes or settings. This is what…
Amanda Willshire is busy. Really busy. She works as a graphic designer and website developer and she’s currently getting ready to help one of her clients promote herself during the upcoming season of Dancing With the Stars (she’s keeping her lips sealed about who her client is). Willshire is also…
On Saturday night, March 10, Wazee Union was filled with comics, art, artists, music, open studios, beer from Breckenridge Brewery and music from Little Fyodore and Black Out Beat. Photographer Javid Rezvani brings back photos from the free event at the RiNo space. More photos are below…
