I have to admit I wasn’t quite in sync with Friday night’s Untitled theme at the Denver Art Museum: Pledge. Pledge? It had something to do, they told me, with artists making creative pledges to accomplish certain things and how to keep museum installations well dusted; people, they said, could…
The 2011 version of the Geeks Who Drink Geek Bowl, the fifth annual granddaddy of useless trivia, went down on Saturday night at the Fillmore Auditorium. The tournament kicked off with a rowdy musical theater performance, where the performers bellowed “Fuck Philly” through motifs of hip-hop, chorus line and gospel,…
This just in, from our friend and favorite Santero, Jerry Vigil: A saint for these times…
Once upon a time, cartoons were silly. Consider the original Batman series of the 1960s, a show so jokey it had villains named both The Laugher and The Giggler and starred a not-exactly-ripped-but-still-wearing-spandex Adam West playing the world’s most block-headed straight man — even Tim Burton’s late-’80s reboot of the…
Lord knows how many times I’ve walked past this garage (attached to a semi-dilapidated abandoned house near the Westword office) and not given it a second glance, but for whatever reason, it happened to catch my eye the other day — probably because I happened to be carrying a camera;…
Metropolitan State College has a special place in Denver’s art world. Not only does it have the biggest set of visual-arts departments in the state, but it has its own mini-museum, the Center for Visual Art, long a fixture in LoDo and now the jewel of the Santa Fe art…
Close to twenty years after the slang was first coined in those primitive internets forums of yore, at least one Fox News affiliate out of Los Angeles is on the case, intrepidly investigating just what it is that the kids are saying nowadays. Last week, the station dedicated fully three…
In Superior yesterday, a “suspicious package” left in a Costco parking lot triggered alarm bells, causing the store to go on lockdown, with shoppers held inside while the Boulder County Bomb Squad investigated. Why a terrorist would be targeting a Costco parking lot in Superior was unclear. In any case,…
When you are introducing a new product to the populace, it is important that your ad campaign make a strong first impression. You might try associating this new item with an A-list celebrity, or you might open with a clever joke. You might also go on a serious hallucinogen bender…
She’s not the first long-lost celebrity relative to come randomly out of the woodwork, but where most of them are deadbeat dads or biological mothers seeking a coattail-riding boost to gaudy tabloid fame, Oprah’s newly found sister seems, like everything in Oprah’s crazy, made-for-TV life story, to be legit. And…
Antonín Dvořák had strong misgivings about making the long journey from his native Bohemia to the United States. “America is full of Indians and wild animals,” the Czech composer declared in 1892, after the prestigious National Conservatory of Music offered him a teaching post in New York City. Despite his…
If you read Westword with any regularity, you will know that we’ve got a boner for compiling “best of” lists. It’s a win-win situation. It’s our job to keep up on this stuff, so they’re easy for us to put together; you have a real job and not enough time…
Keeping in line with Camel’s historically “urbane” branding strategy, the tobacco company has for the last few months been pushing a series of specially branded cigarette packs commemorating select cities known for their cool: Austin and Seattle, for example, have been highlighted. And while those cities have well known reputations…
When the exhibit Warhol in Colorado opens for public viewing today at DU’s Myhren Gallery, one of the show’s major components will include photos taken of Warhol by Colorado photographers in the early ’80s, when the pop artist visited Fort Collins amid much hoopla for a major exhibition of his…
Cathy Cruz Marrero, the Pennsylvania woman now famous for starring in a viral video — wherein she falls into a fountain at the Berkshire Mall while texting — appeared on Good Morning America with her attorney, James Polyak, yesterday. Marrero and pal Polyak are currently pursuing a possible lawsuit against,…
Using the works of Stephen Batura as inspiration, perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz will combine sight and scent for a live audience tonight at Sense BMoCA, where she will mix up new perfumes on the spot toward the end of answering one of life’s most persistent questions: What does this art…
When you sit down to play a game of Monopoly or Scrabble or whatever, you probably don’t think much about how the game is a system of rules and balances initially figured out by one or two people. Those rules, combined with the social experience, are what Nate Hayden is…
We’ve taken admiring notice before of the local knitting fiends, such as the Ladies Fancywork Society, who are brightening up our cityscape with tags of public art and that burst of wildflowers along the tedious fencing of the Union Station project. Now the mayhem has extended to sculptor George Carlson’s…
Dana Cain makes no secret of her blossoming identity as a collector of works by local artists, and is always looking for ways to share her fervor: Her latest, the Art Collectors Summit series, debuts this evening during the Art District in Santa Fe’s Third Friday event, offering gallery-goers a…
When the exhibit Warhol in Colorado debuts tonight at DU’s Myhren Gallery, one of the show’s major components will include photos taken of Warhol by Colorado photographers in the early ’80s, when the pop artist visited Fort Collins amid much hoopla for a major exhibition of his works, assembled by…
Fresh from the movie news wire comes the announcement that Anne Hathaway will play Catwoman in the third entry to Chris Nolan’s gritty Batman series, inexplicably titled The Dark Knight Rises (probably because these movies make everyone involved a lot of dough). The character was introduced in the first official…
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if that’s the case, everyone involved in coming up with the cover image for Westword’s recent feature on local type and design maestro Rick Griffith — and the list includes photographer Eric Magnussen, Westword Art Director Jay Vollmar and Griffith…
