It was another great night for Denver’s Silhouettes on America’s Got Talent, as all three judges seemed to agree that America should vote for our favorite shadow dancers. Beset by technical difficulties, the group was forced to perform last. And we can’t help but agree with judge Piers Morgan, who…
As you may have noticed from the incessant product placement in ads and media, Star Wars: The Complete Saga hits shelves on Blu-Ray this week. The nine-disc set ($139.99) includes both the awesome, genre-changing original three movies and the putrid, hope-demolishing follow-up prequel trilogy. But it also comes with forty…
Simon Zalkind, director of the Singer Gallery at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center, often looks to major local artists as a source for significant solo shows. Typically, these include work done over a broad sweep of time, which allows viewers to gain insight into the artist’s oeuvre. Examples are…
Last month, upon reporting the news that seven of the 28 skaters on the Team USA roster for the first-ever Roller Derby World Cup in Toronto are from Colorado, we wondered aloud if the World Cup was shaping up to be an international incident concluding with a red, white, and…
Mistress Saskia, Denver’s premier dominatrix, is headmistress of Pavlovia Denver, a house of professional domination where she trains apprentice dominants, teaches private lessons for singles and couples, and offers such delightful and demented services as cross-dressing, role-play, spanking, whippings, fetish play and bondage (subjects you can learn much more about…
BDSM-themed movies, and films with hot kink scenes in them provide us with two very important things: mainstream popular-culture acceptance, and something to jerk the gerk/smack the peach to when we’re bored. See also: The best BDSM movies: Five more options for your viewing pleasure…
Launch: Community Through Skateboarding and the proposed Launch Creative Center in Fort Collins are ready to drop in, thanks to money raised at the All Hands On Deck art show and a fully-funded Kickstarter campaign that concluded last week, surpassing its fundraising goal by more than $1,000 for a total…
For people not involved in the BDSM, or kink scene (the subject of this week’s cover story), most forms of sadomasochistic or SM play would be considered edgy, but within the scene there are certain activities that are generally recognized as being high-risk, even for experienced players, and these are…
There is really no way to forget 9/11 on its tenth anniversary, but there are ways to acknowledge it and maybe move on, some small act that we can do. What remains important is people — people communing with other people, shoulder-to-shoulder, possibly in some sort of creative civic project…
When three kegs of Pacifico beer showed up at Delton Demarest’s doorstep, he was excited. But unlike most people, he had hoped they’d be empty. Instead, says the Denver artist, “they were unexpectedly full.” Still, Demarest was able to paint the outsides of the kegs in just a few days…
Did you know that you could build things out of LEGOs for a living? We didn’t either, which is why we caught up with local builder Duane Hess to talk about his unlikely career. It’s probably one of the coolest jobs we’ve ever heard of, and while it certainly takes…
This week we told you about Andy Szekeres, a partner in the political consulting and fundraising firm 3PG, who is indirectly urging the Denver Broncos football organization to make an “It Gets Better” video, much like everyone from the President Obama to Ke$ha to the New York Yankees has already…
Jenn Wohletz is the author of this week’s Westword cover story, “Field Guide to Denver Wild Life.” Here’s her first-person account of how she got involved in the the kink scene. I used to tie up my Barbie dolls. I’d strip them, smother their smiling little mouths with duct tape…
It’s coming close to the end for Denver’s two remaining acts on America’s Got Talent, and tonight will be sure to keep us on the edge of our seat for news of whether one or both of them succeed in continuing to wow audiences nationwide. Dance troupe Silhouettes and operatic…
September exhibition slots are coveted by artists because they’re the first shows of the new season. But there are so many strong shows that have just opened — or are about to — that it’s hard to keep track of them all. In all the excitement, I didn’t want to…
Fall comes on under a curtain of darkness and, conversely, a celebration of the harvest and beautiful angled sunlight; this week’s calls for entry occur somewhere around the place where it all intersects, suggesting Halloween, colorful ofrendas, wine labels and sharp visions from behind the lens…
On Sunday night, R-U Engaged covered Boulder’s eleven B-cycle kiosks in “yarny knitted goodness,” as organizer the Man in Black describes. The group’s mission is to bring greater awareness to good causes via yarn-bombing. They’ve also set up a QR-code scavenger hunt in which participants can win one of five…
Consensus can be a tough thing to find among the disparate factions of the cycling community in Denver — Critical Mass, the Cherry Creek bike trail and the use of gears are some common areas of contention — but it appears there is at least one thing we all can…
One artist in the RiNo Art District helped continue the recent wave of creativity coming out of River North on Friday night. Megafauna, a newish boutique shop that caters to local artists, opened just shy of four months ago at 27th and Larimer streets just above the Meadowlark. On Friday,…
Word’s come down that the annual Hudson Holiday lighting extravaganza, designed by Lonnie Hanzon and bankrolled by the Museum of Outdoor Arts, is no more — and I’m telling you, I am crushed. That’s because I’m not only a holiday light-show junkie, but also a lover of the arts, and…
Though the calendar year starts in January and ends in December, the art calendar starts in September and ends in August. So before the 2011-2012 season gears up, here are a few last gasps of summer — all worth enjoying before they’re gone. At the intimate Sandra Phillips Gallery on…
It was hardly six hours ago that I bitched about “the tragedy-sploitation vortex of product placement and media pandering” the tenth anniversary of 9/11 will inevitably engender, in my commentary on “Cartoonists Remember September 11,” the joint effort of a group of the Sunday paper’s worst comics to commemorate the…
