In many pockets of Denver, there are visible connections to our city’s past that are, with each passing year, slowly being erased in favor of a more modern aesthetic. This concerns Black Eye Coffee co-owner Gregory Ferrari, who is promoting a Kickstarter campaign to install a large, early twentieth-century-style mural…
Westword art critic Michael Paglia visited Robischon Gallery for this this week’s review, which takes on four different shows at the gallery. The largest of them focuses on New York-based collaborators Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick and their fantastical artwork, while the other three exhibits are also rooted in the…
Are the Asylum’s mockbuster movies made in tribute to the films they mock or just to make campy fun of them? Either way, these flicks — Snakes on a Train, Transmorphers, The 18-Year-Old Virgin and more — have inspired cult followings, and it’s no surprise that the posters hyping them…
Entering the Robischon Gallery right now is like walking through the looking glass, so to speak. Inside are four shows, each of which posits the existence of a fantastic faux reality expressing individual parallel worlds. Creepy and weird — not to mention accomplished and elegant — are just some of…
Not everyone can relate to the idea of defining yourself through popular culture, but anyone who gets it, really gets it. And for the last year Denver has been blessed with a sonic sanctuary for these poor souls: the These Things Matter podcast. This week TTM hosts Taylor Gonda and…
A galvanizing figure of the new craft movement, Ohio fabric and pattern designer Amy Butler is in Colorado for a Makerie Sewing Retreat at Chautauqua in Boulder. But she’s kicking off her visit with a meet-and-greet tonight at Fancy Tiger Crafts, the craft palace on Broadway run by Jaime Jennings…
Maria Sharapova, the number two-ranked World Tennis Association player and former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, just launched a line of boutique candies — including little lemon-lime tennis balls. This seems a little weird, considering Sharapova’s athleticism and the nation’s current examination of sugary sweets — but then, this country has…
“I was so excited! I just got out of Spanish class and ran down the hallway to meet her. It’s like meeting a rock star,” says Stella Brown, an eighth-grader at Boulder’s Horizon’s K-8 School. Brown was racing down the hall to meet Teddy Namuyiga — not Taylor Swift. Namuyiga…
Since the beginning of time — or at least the beginning of cinema — there have been chick flicks: three-hanky tear-jerkers and, conversely, romantic comedies. In honor of the Sie FilmCenter’s new Hey Girl chick-flick series, debuting April 24 with Dirty Dancing — which might just be the greatest chick…
Dressed in a slinky black cocktail dress and spunky Beatle boots, Natasha Leggero strutted with sarcasm and sass during the first show in her four-night run at Comedy Works last night. Delivering her characteristic bitter commentary on politics and lowbrow culture (sweetened by an Audrey Hepburn forgive-me wink), Leggero caustically…
Sara Century is everywhere: running her monthly freeform open mic, Baby Hair, with co-conspirator Erica Adams; playing solo and with various bands all over the city; and hawking tape rentals behind the counter at Video One. This Saturday, April 13, Century wears yet another hat, an artist’s, as Hooked On…
Along with their love of sleeping late and attempting nothing ambitious during daylight hours, millennials seem to have an unending appetite for nostalgia. Comedians have been capitalizing on this for some time, making jokes about vintage Nintendo games and comic books. So it only makes sense that someone finally came…
We gave the Broadway/Baker retail strip the award for Denver’s Best Neighborhood Shopping District two years in a row — in 2012 and 2013 — for so many good reasons: The area is spilling over with hip, modern creative ventures. But some of that contemporary spark flares further south, too,…
The William Havu Gallery is chock-full of interesting things to look at. On the main floor are three solos that have been interwoven into a coherent theme show on contemporary abstraction, and up on the mezzanine is a salute to the Month of Photography, which straddles March and April. On…
In what U.S. state is it illegal for a man to have sex with a fish? If you want to know the answer — and are looking for something both fun and educational to do Thursday night — Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains has you covered. It’s hosting a…
While it’s true that a venue can make or break the show regardless of the talent on stage, this is doubly true with comedy. Location, comfort level, atmosphere, drink prices and, yes, quality of performers all play a large role in whether a comedy fan will Google your location when…
Truth or Dare: A Play Date with Kidrobot, an eye-catching and puckishly irreverent exhibition, continues through April 14 at Next Gallery. Curated by local artists as well as Veronica and Dan Ma, Truth or Dare gleefully eschews the false dichotomy between fine art and toys while celebrating the ingenuity of…
Lucas Richards, creator of the Horndribbles, a line of plush toys based on his monster designs, is ready to take his project to the next level. Where before, the Horndribbles were labor-intensive and functioned like uniquely soft sculptures, Richards hopes to introduce his labor of love to a new generation.
Westword caught up with Richards in the days leading up to the “Return of the Horndribbles” Children’s museum exhibit, where Richards and his partner Devon Braun of Explorer’s Playground will debut a story book and a line of Horndribbles manufactured for sale as toys.
The days of Internet dating being the domain of basement dwellers, antisocial misanthropes, virgins and folks who are unlucky in the looks department (mix and match any and all of these) are effectively over, and today it seems like everyone is meeting and dating — and venting about meeting and…
A bitter pill wrapped in a sweet cherry coating, comic Natasha Leggero is a double threat of intoxicating charm and tabloid cruelty. With her Audrey Hepburn style and merciless observational humor, she’s known to raise the I-can’t-believe-she-just-said-that bar during her regular appearances on Chelsea Lately, while still maintaining an authenticity…
What makes a city great? Bolstering the arts and culture is a good place to start, and many of the nation’s best cities rely on a civic cultural plan to figure how to best do that. Denver’s last attempt at such a plan came back in 1989 when Federico Peña…
Before I Die, an art installation that encourages people to create a communal bucket list, has been standing in the northwest corner of Civic Center Park since January — and yesterday, Candy Chang, its creator, came for a visit. The New Orleans artist first conceived of Before I Die after…
