Success is a flexible concept. When we set out to put together the first Titwrench fest back in 2009, it definitely wasn’t about success in terms of money. In fact, that’s what I see as the biggest problem with the DIY culture in which I’m involved — none of us…
Under the Certified Creative Districts program enacted in 2011, areas all over the state of Colorado have a chance to apply for financial and organizational aid to help grow their artistic communities and creative economies. The Pueblo Creative Corridor was one of the fifteen chosen for initial funding and development…
Cities on both U.S. coasts have had graffiti jams for years, but local street artist and muralist Dread wanted something bigger for Denver’s writers and crews. So he helped create Colorado Crush, a celebration of the often unheralded artistic style; the daylong block party, which includes music, painters and merchants,…
Celebrating the often-overlooked segment of beautiful architecture in Wheat Ridge, this weekend’s Mid-Century and Modern Home Tour highlights some of the area’s best preserved and painstakingly remodeled homes. Organized by non-profit Wheat Ridge 2020, this one-day only tour runs Saturday, September 7 from 1 to 5 p.m., when doors of…
Go Green Warehouse works with two different missions in mind: to help the environment by providing upcycled and reusable building materials and appliances for home improvement projects, while raising funds to aid veterans in making a positive impact in their own communities. “To explain it quickly and easily to customers,…
Tackling what it means to be a small-business owner in Colorado in 2013, Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Innovation will host the first “Own It” Community Festival today, a celebration focused on defining entrepreneurship. From local bands to fashion designers and dance troupes, all of the participants in…
“Color can be kind of a tyrant,” says Scott Ogden. But for master horticulturists Ogden and his wife, Lauren Springer Ogden, a beautiful garden is about more than just visual presentation. In tonight’s 50 Shades of Green: Gardening for Sensuality, the pair will discuss the smells, textures and sounds that…
For Scott Ogden and Lauren Springer Ogden, gardening is about much more than a pretty-looking plot. Having designed public and private gardens across the country, the horticulture experts look to engage all of the senses when bringing plant life together. This Thursday, August 29 at the Denver Botanic Gardens, the…
“I’m at Colorado and I-25, and it should only be a ten-minute drive to Cinderella City.” An unnamed narrator shares the above thought in a video I recently found on YouTube, a seven-minute account of one man’s quest to sell caricatures to Christmas shoppers at Cinderella City Mall, already long…
Not the average self-help guru, rock-and-roller Kerry Pastine found that after tapping into her own best self, she was able to show others how to do the same. A life coach for close to two decades and lead singer of The Informants, Pastine recently penned and self-published Know Thyself, a…
“The theme of my story is about walking the Phoenix fire — sometimes you have to die to get free,” says LadySpeech Sankofa. “I’m really going to be speaking to my struggles as woman and a black woman and a lot of the things that I’ve survived.” As part of…
Eight years in, the 2013 edition of Absolute! Fabulous! Gorgeous! is set to be bigger and more marvelous than ever. An annual fundraiser put on by Atlas, the service-learning arm of the Boulder County AIDS Project, Absolute! Fabulous! Gorgeous! utilizes the skills of its talented volunteer base to put on…
When thinking about alternative forms of transportation, Stapleton Transportation Management Association Director Angie Malpiede saw an opportunity to talk about walking. “I went to CDOT and said, you know, transportation-demand management has always been about taking transit — carpooling, van-pooling and even biking — but I want to add walking…
For the filmmakers behind 2012’s Punk Jews, talking about modern Jewish outsider art wasn’t just about sharing the story of Hasidic hardcore punks Moshiach Oi! That band is the focus of just one of the six segments in this hourlong documentary, which also profiles Orthodox rapper Y-Love, the Amazing Amy…
When Mike Berglund started throwing his annual Stripper-Palooza mini-festival over a half-decade ago, it wasn’t called Stripper-Palooza. If fact, it wasn’t about strippers at all — it was about getting friends together to share a meal and support local bands. But after a conversation at his local watering hole between…
Friends and filmmakers Jesse Zook Mann and Evan Kleinman decided to go deeper into Judaism, in search of the more edgy side of contemporary Jewish life, and the result was the documentary Punk Jews. It’s a sixty-minute, multi-faceted portrait of a global community, told in six stories, including that of…
My reasons for a trip to Shotgun Willie’s were two-fold: I had read our recent cover story on the thirty-year-old institution’s revamp and I wanted to get a glimpse of the original location before it was torn down, and my sister was moving to Seattle and the girl loves strip…
Alley Cats: An All Women Art Show, which opens Friday, August 16, was the result of two friends desiring to see more gallery access in the art community. “I’ve not been super-pleased with how things are run in the Denver art scene,” says Taylor Boylston, artist and co-curator of the…
Madonna, already famous as a pop star, found a new level of fame with her breakout film Desperately Seeking Susan, in which she played a character similar to her music persona. In the classic ’80s romp, Madonna’s quirky New York party girl is accidentally snatched by Roberta, a bored housewife…
It takes a lot of work to be creative. It takes even more to become a Certified Creative District in Colorado. But for the areas that are successful, it’s worth the effort. Born out of a 2011 state law, the Certified Creative Districts program allows areas all over Colorado to…
When Desperately Seeking Susan arrived in theaters in 1985, Madonna was already a star. In the movie, she played Susan — who unknowingly trades places with co-star Rosanna Arquette’s Roberta, a bored housewife — and that character seemed uncannily similar to the real-life Madonna, only in widescreen format. Over the…
I’ve been obsessed with fitness ever since I can remember. Maybe it was because I grew up in the ’80s, and activities for girls revolved around a pink-haired dog that pimped nail accessories and showing the world what we could do through the fine art of ribbon dancing. I took…
