First there were blogs, wherein people would opine about stupid subjects. Then there were Internet memes, which involved people sharing stupid subjects with web-buddies (think “The Tron Guy” and local hero Leeeeroy Jeeeenkins!) Now there are memeblogs, a perfect union of the two. How do we know such things? As…
In the pale light of dawn yesterday, an odd thing appeared in front of the Westword office: a sculpture, roughly four feet tall, made of wire and duct tape. Crafted to resemble an open hand, the sculpture sported an array of colors and textures, along with a couple of painstakingly…
Dana Cain is the lady with her thumb in a million pies: A local maestra of event-planning throws several well-attended collectors expos, art shows, parties, chocolate fests each year. Her latest – and biggest – project is next summer’s Denver County Fair. But Dana is also an avid art collector…
The season opener at Plus Gallery (2501 Larimer Street, 720-394-8484, www.plusgallery.com) is Kate Petley: One Big Dream, on view in the main space. It’s mostly made up of the Colorado-based artist’s cast-acrylic abstractions but includes other sorts of work as well. For a while, Petley was getting super-experimental, but with…
Alternative art will bloom tonight in unexpected places when the Denver Theatre District hosts Illiterate Gallery at Primebar, 1515 Arapahoe Street, for one of its periodic salons in downtown locations. “They approached us to hang artwork on the wall there for two hours,” says Adam Gildar of Illiterate. “We’ll have…
When I got up Sunday morning, zipped up my skirt, slipped into my lacy stockings and sensible black pumps, did 50 one-armed pushups and ate a raw steak, I had one objective, and one objective only: to win. Sure, Running of the Gays was a jokey charity event to benefit…
Artist, humorist, DJ and man-about-town Bill Amundson has been part of the Denver landscape for more than thirty years, and I’ve known him for most of that time. Far, far away in a another life, I managed the Ogden Theatre, which was then a prehistoric Landmark repertory cinema, and Bill…
Dana Cain is the lady with her thumb in a million pies: The local maestra of event-planning throws several well-attended collectors expos, art shows, parties and chocolate fests each year. Her latest – and biggest – project is next summer’s Denver County Fair. But Dana is also an avid art…
There are many jobs in this world. Some are so bizarre you probably don’t know they exist; some you might have had no idea people actually make a living at. In an effort to highlight some of these jobs, we’ve started a new series detailing the origins of people actually…
The fall art season is just getting under way, with several major shows open or about to open, including a few blockbusters. So this will be my last chance for a while to highlight interesting solos that fall short of that designation. Right now there are three worthwhile ones, all…
Have you heard the Biblical news? Using satellites, supercomputers and what looks like graphics stolen from World of Warcraft, Boulder researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado have digitally recreated how Moses may have parted the Red Sea. This is big news, capable of…
Advertising agencies work tirelessly day and night to come up with new ways to tell us consumers the same thing over and over again: “Hey, buy our shit. Don’t you want to be happy?” Much of this cultural detritus goes unnoticed, but there are always those few ridiculous ads that…
After 34 years spent advocating for and supporting Denver’s GLBT community, The Center has a home of its own. The nonprofit, which sponsors Denver’s annual PrideFest celebration, has moved to fancy new digs on the corner of Colfax and Lafayette — and Westword got a tour of the new building…
There are many jobs in this world. Some are so bizarre you probably don’t know they exist; some you might have had no idea people actually make a living at. In an effort to highlight some of these jobs, we’ve started a new series detailing the origins of people actually…
Around the corner from the bustling Santa Fe Drive art district is a funky two-room operation called Dark Energy Art Space (860 West Eighth Avenue, 303-719-0021, www.darkenergyartspace.com). The brainchild of emerging sculptor Ryan Raudonis, Dark Energy is a co-op of sorts, with a handful of other artists involved. Among that…
Nick Bantock is charming and soft-spoken, hardly and at the same time every bit the superstar that he’s become, all because of the unique little idea he had twenty years ago for a book that’s also a collagist’s romantic assemblage containing pull-out letters and postcards, all loaded neatly between two…
Though it’s your fault alone, you can blame Louisville’s Zeon Corporation, if you want, for your drinking problem. They’re the ones who make those mesmerizing neon beer signs that draw you in to bars and watering holes like flowers draw honeybees. In fact, the company, which has been around since…
Television shows tend to be set on the coasts — in California or New York, usually. Anywhere else, and the show is often about that place as much as the characters: Miami in Miami Vice, Cleveland in The Drew Carey Show, or Cicely, Alaska, in Northern Exposure. So it is…
I go back a long way with Old South Pearl Street, and while it’s no longer as sleepy as it once was (that, by the way, is a good thing), it still exudes a heady mixture of old and new Denver: Brick facades and Victorian houses, shady trees and kids…
Nan Desu Kan — “the premier anime convention of the Rockies” (read Cory Casciato’s excellent write- up here) — was held over the weekend of September 10-12, 2010 in Denver. And by far, the most popular event of the weekend was the cosplay (short for “costume play”) contest. Photographer Kate…
Earlier today, we brought you the results of a study that concluded that hipsters hate hipsters. In that vein, we’re bringing you “Hipster Hitler,” a relatively recent arrival on the web comic scene, which reimagines Der Fuhrer as a somewhat petulant, irony-obsessed fop existentially bored with his own quest for…
While the Suburban Home Records 15th Anniversary Weekend actually gets underway tonight, when Mike Howard and the local label’s Virgil Dickerson spin Suburban Home tunes at Sputnik beginning at 10 p.m., the whole thing really gets rocking across the street at 3 Kings tomorrow. Along with the ongoing loud and…
