Shit Girls in Denver Say is funny and shows the trend won’t die

The latest local version of the Shit Girls Say viral video trend is “Shit Girls in Denver Say,” starring Erin Streets, a 25-year-old fashion designer and stylist who utters cliches and catch phrases for a good three minutes. It’s funny. Watch the video below and read Street’s reaction to its…

Icebreaker 3 presents a mix of little-known and established artists

This year’s juried annual at Ice Cube Gallery, Icebreaker3, includes works selected by Denver Art Museum curator Gwen Chanzit, who also designed the installation. Though Chanzit took an inclusive approach, she laid out the show coherently by grouping together works with stylistic affinities. Owing, no doubt, to Chanzit’s position, a…

Video: Suzi Q. Smith performs her most popular piece

Suzi Q. Smith — profiled in this week’s cover story “Slam, Bam, Thank you, Ma’am” — has performed poetry for more than a decade, and slammed competitively since 2006. Onstage, the Denver artist augments both her voice and her physical stature, increasing both her volume and her height as her…

Noah Van Sciver at Artopia 2012, a comic’s eye-view

Editor’s note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. (Make sure you read Noah’s blog for more comics and wonderment.) On Saturday night, we sent him…

Photos: The Faculty Triennial at the University of Denver

In this week’s art column — “The Faculty Triennial documents Colorado’s art history as it races by” — Michael Paglia writes of the Faculty Triennial at the University of Denver: The current exhibition, the Faculty Triennial, is part of his continuing program to “document and to stimulate Colorado’s art history,”…

John Severin, comics giant, enters another dimension

Legendary illustrator John Powers Severin, whose 60-year career in the comics world stretched from the dawning of MAD magazine to the Silver Age at Marvel to a gay revival of the Rawhide Kid and beyond, died over the weekend at his southeast Denver home. He was 90 years old. “Truly…

Venture Snowboards ventures into skinnier snow boards

In January we reported on a handful of homegrown Colorado ski companies making handcrafted and custom skis that stand up to or surpass anything else on the market. If we’d waited a few weeks, we could have added another local brand to the mix: Silverton-based Venture Snowboards. For the last…

Q&A: Bunky Echo-Hawk on sharing art and ideas with the people

Indian artist Bunky Echo-Hawk is an old soul in a cutting-edge suit — his bright paintings, slabbed with blocks of blinding color, mix traditional and pop imagery and ideas, resulting in a body of work that’s funny, sad, stridently satirical and very smart. He’s therefore an excellent choice as a…

Amish romance author Beverly Lewis’s PG take on love

Stroll through the romance shelves at any Barnes & Noble, and one subgenre stands out like Harrison Ford in Witness. In a territory marked by heaving chests and flexing muscles, Colorado Springs Christian writer Beverly Lewis keeps sex under her bonnets. But while her Amish romances feature more hand-holding than…

Nothing like a heartache: LoveSick opens at Zip 37 Gallery

Love was in the air on Friday night at Zip 37 in the Navajo Street Art District, where the show LoveSick opened to the public. The exhibit, which features nine artists contemplating the meaning of being lovesick, was curated by artist Katie Hoffman, who unveiled her own piece, Heloise and…