Mestre Acordeon brought capoeria, an Afro-Brazilion form of martial arts, to America from Brazil decades ago. Starting in September, three days after his seventieth birthday, he’ll undertake a journey to spread capoeria around the world, on a year-long, 14,000-mile bike ride from Berkeley, California to Bahia, Brazil that’s been dubbed…
Brad Wilson had exactly one week to finish his custom-design guitar for a commissioned birthday present and, at that moment, he was thinking about starting over. The guitar still needed a camouflage paint job, a Colorado design for the pick guard, a painted neck and all the wiring — basically,…
Sarah Kate Baie has seen Mixed Taste — the recurring lecture series kicking off tomorrow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver — grow exponentially over the last nine years, from its early days at Belmar to its current, summer-season mainstay status at the MCA. Programming curator Baie and her…
Fans of HBO’s Game of Thrones could use some levity right now: The latest episode, “The Rains of Castamere,” was rough in the way that a bunch of beloved characters were completely and utterly slaughtered in such a shockingly revolting manner that fans who haven’t read the books are still…
For Westword’s first ever Comics issue, on stands now, we invited artists across the city to submit comics channeling Denver in some way — and the results tackled a diverse range of what we love (and laugh about) in our town. Although only eight could fit in the print issue,…
Civic Center Park played home to the 2013 People’s Fair over the weekend for two days of food, entertainment and art. Keep reading for a few highlights from photographer Kyle Huninghake, and visit our People’s Fair slide show for more photos. See also: – Fifty best costumes of Comic Con…
Best known for his hit Comedy Central show Insomniac, Dave Attell is an all-around beloved character in standup comedy. While often edgy and at times arrogantly confrontational, his razor-sharp wit gives him an everyman-at-the-bar diplomacy. During nearly three decades in the business, Attell has seen the ebb and flow of…
When the small bump appeared on artist Julia Watkins’s hand, she dismissed it as a pimple. But after a couple of itchy weeks, her hand swelled, sending her to the emergency room — where she discovered the bump was a symptom of Methicillin-Resistant Staph Aureus, which could result in amputation…
June is jam-packed with a lineup of comedy events so eclectic, you’re sure to find something to tickle your funny bone. There are podcasters and Pride festers, twins and Too Much Fun, He-Man and transgenders…so many giggle-worthy performances that your calendar will be bursting with snickers. Keep reading for the…
Noah Eli Gordon’s newest book is hard to pin down. And why would you want to? The Year of the Rooster, out now on Ahsahta Press, is best understood through experience rather than painstaking analysis. It’s wild and flowing, playing with gender pronouns, musical imagery, and poetic forms to create…
Dylan Scholinski has spent his days as an adult coming to terms with the wrong turns in his life, which he began as a girl named Daphne. Dylan — Daphne — was committed to a mental hospital at the age of fifteen and underwent a kind of sanctioned reconditioning: learning…
When Pesha Rudnick’s Casey Middle School class learned that CBS had named Boulder the happiest city in America, the students were very surprised. So with the guidance of playwright-in-residence Rudnick and language arts teacher Val Wheeler, the eighth-graders used Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town, as well as the CBS statistic,…
In just its second year, Denver Comic Con is poised to take the pole position among the region’s many fandom conventions. Sporting a stellar lineup of geek-culture icons, including Wil Wheaton, George Takei, Colin Baker, Chris Ware and last-minute guest William Shatner, as well as hundreds of panels, cosplay, an…
Michael Paglia visits the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Arts and Goodwin Fine Art in this week’s review, taking in work by two different artists. The show at the Kirkland Museum contains works by Phyllis Hutchinson Montrose while the exhibit at Goodwin Fine Art focuses on pieces from Monique…
Despite the many stylistic revolutions of the last century, the old hidebound pursuit of the depiction of external reality has persisted. In some cases, the rendering of external reality is conservative, as in neo-traditionalism, which occupies its own world. In others, it’s employed in what used to be called vanguard…
Calling all local artists, crafters, quilters and crocheters: The Denver Art Museum will be taking submissions for its Spun Community Quilt next Monday, June 3. The massive quilt — which will be built in panels along the four-story wall inside the museum — is part of the current exhibition, Spun:…
It’s a common behavior of Star Wars fans: canonize the original trilogy, and get all hater-y on the screw-ups in Episodes I-III. But if the mistakes made in the second trilogy weren’t so completely soul-crushing and legacy-altering, then people wouldn’t be bitching about them to this day — and keeping…
The 16th Street Mall filled with music and people during the 2013 Denver Day of Rock on Saturday, May 25, 2013. More than twenty bands performed throughout the day, and Westword photographer Philip Poston was there to capture the action. For more photos, visit our full Denver Day of Rock…
For many artists, fashion can be an extension of their personal vision. Others dress minimally, so that their art can speak volumes. Local painter Marc Huebert falls into this latter category. Read on to learn how his street art plays a role in his street fashion, and to peep some…
Before the advent of online dating, people used to meet their dating partners in real life, making it slightly easier to get a feel for personalities, lifestyles, families, personal assets and compatibilities. Internet-based dating admittedly is a more convenient way to meet people, but it’s got its inherent pitfalls as…
J.A. Kazimer is a Denver-based writer and fascinating human being with a wide spectrum of skills and interests. The author of books with such disparate titles as SHANK, Holy Socks and Dirtier Demons, and Froggy Style: A Fucked-Up Fairy Tale,Kazimer’s life and work have been uniquely influenced by the books she’s read. This week, Westword sat down with Kazimer to discuss books as well as her interesting work history.
Artists really grok the culture of Facebook better than anyone else: Like a blank canvas waiting for paint and inspiration, the social media outlet is just another empty slate — and it’s up to each artist to fill it with pictures. A lot of those pictures end up being images…
