If you’re in the audience for Gay Fantasia, you have two choices: experience it as a viewer or as part of the show. Either way, the original, interactive theater experience will take you through Harvey Milk’s last days and on through the start of the HIV/AIDS crisis. “It’s late-night theater,…
Smiley’s Laundromat has been hung out to dry, taking with it yet another (sketchy) Colfax institution. So what’s next for this spot? The building was purchased from Triton Properties by Slipstream Properties last year, and the owner is now giving the structure a floor-to-ceiling makeover and maintenance update. When it’s…
If you grew up in Lakewood, Aurora, Wheat Ridge or Denver proper like me, chances are good that there’s a slice of Colfax Avenue that holds a special, if not dangerous and possibly regrettable, meaning to you. Last week I passed by Smiley’s Laundromat on East Colfax and noticed that…
In Maya Gurantz’s latest piece, The Whore’s Dialogue, she presents a collection of stories about women — but she also offers commentary on the role of women in the history of the pornographic tale in a very upfront and captivating way. Gurantz will be leading a discussion on the exploration…
This Saturday, April 6, Hooked on Colfax will donate its wall space to Local Goes Global, an evening devoted to raising money through art for a global health-focused nonprofit, Comunidades Unidas Peru. A student-run organization, CU Peru comprises volunteers from various schools at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus…
Since Feminism & Co.’s inception, Melinda Barlow has a been a favored speaker at the MCA Denver’s engaging spring series. An associate professor of film studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Barlow is also a well-versed film and video historian and curator who focuses on contemporary women filmmakers…
Throw on a fancy suit and fedora or a beaded flapper dress and get ready to taste some legal booze at the first annual Prohibition Party & Brew Fest. Today’s Roaring ’20s-themed soiree is more than a celebration of the eightieth anniversary of the end of the booze ban; it’s…
When Denver-based fine-art photographer Eric Schwartz set out to photograph people with tattoos, he didn’t expect to find a detailed history underneath the artwork. After a chance meeting with California tattoo legend Edward “Chuco” Caballero at a national tattoo show, the story for Schwartz’s first film, Tattoo Nation, began to…
I drove by Smiley’s Laundromat last night and felt one of those annoying sighs cross my chest — a chest pain caused by the sight of possible improvement to a place that I used to enjoy for its utter sketchiness. Smiley’s is closed right now for “remodeling,” its windows papered…
The drag scene in Denver is bigger and better than ever — in 2013, Miss Queen of Aces showed the city what it took to put on a successful and community-driven beauty-pageant fundraiser. Tracks’ Drag Nation also took a turn in the spotlight for its Best Ongoing Drag Event. Inspired…
The Trestle Bike Skills Park at Barnum Park will host a grand reopening tomorrow, March 30, with riders of all levels invited to come out and get some air on its expertly designed jumps and berms. Though the park is always free, the day’s festivities include the added bonus of…
When Chuck Roy first began working on his new comedy night, Altered Schtick, he had inclusion in mind. Seeing several up-and-coming comics — Mona Lott, Jordan Wieleba and Penny from Heaven — around town, working on their material while also trying to find a place in the Denver scene, Roy…
Measured aesthetics meet childhood fun tonight at NEXT Gallery’s latest collaborative event, A Playdate With Kidrobot. More than just a typical art show, the evening will combine the unveiling of a new toy from Kidrobot with Truth or Dare: Folklore and Mythologies, an exhibit of new work from Tammi Brazee,…
“It’s the question of the decade: What is a feminist?” So says Los Angeles-based artist Ellina Kevorkian, who is guest-blogging for the MCA Denver this spring and will be one of several speakers at “Feminist Bloggers,” tonight’s edition of the museum’s Feminism & Co series. As always, the presentation will…
The members of the Bra Brigade will march on Denver tonight, and they want your undergarments, ladies. The event, a sale and bra drive hosted by Birds and Belles Boutique, benefits Free the Girls, a nonprofit working to help victims of human trafficking in Africa. The store is collecting anything…
With her blog Violet Against Women, Los Angeles-based artist Ellina Kevorkian explores how she informs and presents her own identity through online curation. Kevorkian, who was commissioned by MCA Denver to expound upon Violet Against Women: Confronting Notions of the Feminine, a collection of live performances that she presented in…
Before I explain why last weekend’s Treefort Music Fest was amazing, I have to say that I hate big/corporate/non-DIY music festivals. Most of those events are just a bloated excuse for bloggers, record-label people and other industry assholes like myself to get drunk in public for days on end, while…
The idea behind the Concoctory Creativity Shoppe was simple: to give people a place to tinker and create without being intimidated by the world of electronics. The venture will debut this Saturday, March 23 in a joint South Broadway Grand Opening Block Party with a new coffee shop, Cafe Crescendo,…
The first-ever North American summit on anime — an invite-only event — will be held in Colorado on Saturday. Working in partnership with the Consulate-General of Japan, the Rocky Mountain Anime Association (parent company of Nan Desu Kan, Colorado’s massively successful yearly anime convention) will host SANA, a day of…
#82: Elissa Auther As co-curator of the MCA Denver’s annual Feminism & Co. (there’s another installment tonight), Elissa Auther has been responsible for bringing untold stories and untrue stereotypes to the forefront.Through the creation of panels on polyamory, feminist science and women’s roles in the workforce, Auther has helped start…
The women of the Denver Roller Dolls suit up tonight for the opening bout of roller derby season, a Saturday-night double-header pitting the Electrocuties against Bruising Altitude and the Orange Crushers against the Shotgun Betties. Once a drama-driven, choreographed show, roller derby has transformed into a full-fledged sport, and year…
Battling the “softer sex” stereotype is the name of the game at “Full Contact,” tonight’s opening slot of the 2013 Feminism & Co. lecture series. The gathering will pair the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls with sports scholar Sarah Fields, aikido practitioner Harmony Hammond, and L.A. Jennings, an MMA fighter and trainer…
