Things that intrigue me are my job. If something is problematic or beautiful, it is my job to discover why and write about it,” author Chuck Klosterman told a crowd Tuesday at the Auraria campus, home to three colleges. “Now I get to come and speak at colleges like this,…
A group of Denver kinksters staged a protest at the KinkForAllDenver conference last weekend. The demonstration was planned and executed amid accusations — prior to the event — that two KinkForAllDenver organizers censored presentations to discourage too much BDSM content and actively sought to exclude local kinksters. The event, which…
You cannot escape the groove of African dance. Doesn’t matter if you’re tone deaf, half-dead or were born with two left feet — African dance will pick you up and fill you with joy and never let you go. Which is why you should let the spirit move you to…
Mark Cline was genuinely surprised that we were asking about his chalk art. “That’s not even my best medium,” he laughed. “I just enjoy it a lot.” Cline’s main focus is on murals and painting, but he first decided to try chalk art after he went to the first Denver…
This is the first week Tara Lang of Littleton won’t be applying monster make-up on SyFy’s Face Off. The show, a sort of Project Runway with special effects make-up, has been somewhat of a hit since it started last year, with this season’s premiere hitting the highest ratings for an…
The beautiful South Broadway shop Ironwood, with its plant-strewn, new-Victorianiana steampunk vibe, isn’t very big. But it’s no doubt large enough to hold the musicians of the new, diminutive local Tinyamp Records, or at least some of them — members of Amphibian, Calliope of the Future and Year of the…
With the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum last fall, a number of galleries have mounted shows highlighting abstraction as salutes to the fledgling institution. The CSM has given its blessing to some of these, while others have sprung up spontaneously. I’ve enjoyed seeing most of these shows, but it…
The main virtual hall Most conventions are pants-mandatory kinds of affairs — even those of the adult nature. For the world’s first virtual porn convention, however, I’m not wearing any (relax…I’m in my PJs). This past weekend, XBiz and Red Light Center hosted the Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention, porn’s first…
Interviewing some celebrities can be as excruciating as putting out a campfire with your face, but talking to John Waters is a lot like talking to a friend — that is, if you have friends who have made freaks, gays, drugs, abortions and religion into delightfully irreverent movies that have…
The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave unveiled its new exhibit, Buffalo Bill Superhero, yesterday on Lookout Mountain. The character of Buffalo Bill (born William F. Cody) graced the cover of almost 2,000 dime novels more than a century ago, making him America’s first comic-book hero — and paving the way…
You could say it all started with a pair of shoes — the most minimal of shoes, made of woven straw — in 1991. That’s when Denver-based artist Viviane Le Courtois strapped the first pair on her feet and ventured off on a series of foot-treks around the world, creating…
It’s always a good Friday when Untitled rolls into the Denver Art Museum: The monthly last-Friday series, which makes looking at art fun and proactively unboring, turns your museum visit upside-down from the moment you walk in the front door. Tonight’s session, Untitled #44 (Road Trip), pays homage to the…
Where was the art in Artopia? That was the question one reader asked after looking at a slide show of Westword’s entertainment extravaganza that filled five venues on Broadway with music, fashion, food, drinks…and yes, lots and lots of art. You couldn’t miss it…if you were there…
With his art, Phillip Potter investigations the correlation between interior design, home decoration and fine art. His current show, The DavenPort Collection , which runs through February 26 at Edge, is a subtle nod to the role of fine art in America’s consumer-minded society, a slight satire on how visual…
Ellie Rusinova and Brandan Styles, the art duo Mad Tatters, want you to embrace your darker side. “Too many people are afraid to find their shadow side,” says Styles. “We both want to show ours, in our way, and we want to act upon and play in that dark area.”…
In January, the Denver branch of the national TED think tank staged its first-ever salon (and second-ever event). The evening’s three hours of discussions and performances featured seven area personalities sharing their Ideas Worth Spreading — with a couple even marking return performances with progress updates. The low-key evening, styled…
Agnes Sanchez knew she wanted to be a glassblower from the first time she saw a demonstration. “I kept telling my pops that this was it,” she says. “I talked about it all the time. He was finally like, ‘Stop talking about it and do it.'” Now she has an…
Denver’s share of the country’s slam-poetry scene is already a large one, with two nationally competitive teams and a role as the reigning national champion city. But from March 7 to 10, its role will grow even bigger as Denver hosts its first national slam competition, the five-year-old Women of…
Artist Heather Doyle-Maier is stripping a common ritual to its most basic components. In two current shows in the Navajo Arts District, she explores the meaning of getting dressed and undressed. Doyle-Maier is featured in Lovesick at Zip 37, and she has an installation in the back room of Edge,…
Every picture tells a story, Rod Stewart once said. And he might have been paraphrasing an ancient Chinese proverb, but that’s not the point. The point is, every person who views a work of art will undoubtedly experience something different. And while that experience is linked to the power and…
Artists, it’s always a good idea to sign your work — and in this day and age, when you can include a website on the piece, all the better. Case in point: a square-foot piece of art we found on a busy Denver street this past weekend. It was only…
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…
