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…
Lynda Hilburn, a local author and psychotherapist based in the Boulder area, specializes in paranormal tales of romance with titles like Diary of Narcissistic Bloodsucker. Blending genre elements before such literary mash-ups were in vogue, Hilburn believes that escaping into literature is a vital coping mechanism. This week, Westword met up with Hilburn to discuss her love of disappearing into paranormal narratives, vampires and the erotic fiction business.
When former director Lewis Sharp piloted the effort to expand the Denver Art Museum, the goal was to mount more temporary exhibits. This led to the construction of the daring Daniel Libeskind-designed Hamilton Building, which joined the landmark Gio Ponti tower in 2006. Two years later, Christoph Heinrich was hired…
Denver PrideFest 2013 is this weekend, and there will be music, food, drink, live entertainment and a big-ass parade on Sunday morning. the people-watching opportunities alone are worth the trip downtown and the parking hassles. But every PrideFest has its perils and pitfalls, and in order not to be named…
ShaNae Ross doesn’t tell dirty jokes. She doesn’t get political, unless you count poking fun at racial differences as she does in a bit where she asks the audience to guess an imaginary person’s race based on their name. She also doesn’t approach religion, despite having a religious background. Ross…
Local filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe has a passion for pop culture. His work has tackled pop cultural phenomena as big as Star Wars and as small as the strange case of the octopus that correctly predicted Germany’s World Cup games a few years back. He’s also hard at work on…
Pop-art icon Andy Warhol famously came to Fort Collins in 1981 when collectors John and Kimiko Powers mounted an exhibition of his work at Colorado State University. It was a memorable visit for many, and was even celebrated all over again a couple of years ago with an exhibit at…
