Blow off all other obligations and hit the streets for the eleventh annual Go Skateboarding Day. Skateboarding is for everyone, age, gender and skill level notwithstanding, and today’s unofficial holiday will celebrate the sport. Expect huge crowds at the Denver and Arvada skate parks, where local skate companies will be…
Your new favorite band is from Denver — you just have to find it! No small task in a city with thousands of artists and hundreds of venues, we know — but you can start this weekend at the Westword Music Showcase. More than 140 of our favorite local artists…
Last winter, Sara Martinelli, owner of Three Leaf Farm, decided to host an art show in her barn. “It was a huge success; we had tons of people,” she remembers. “So I thought I’d do it for the summer solstice, too.” The big draw of Art on the Farm is…
Thirty million surveillance cameras operate in the United States, shooting four billion hours of footage each week, say Nothing to See Here curators Christina Battle and Adán De La Garza. “Let’s just stop and think about that for a second — the average person (with a life expectancy of 75…
When Denver hosted its first PrideFest 39 years ago, being gay was illegal in most states and the idea of gay marriage was inconceivable, says Rex Fuller of the Colorado Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Center. “Our theme for this year is Same World Same Love. We’re talking about the…
Learning is always more fun when you have a beer in hand. That’s the basic idea behind Nerd Nite Denver, a lecture (and drinking) series that encourages people to share the knowledge they’re passionate about. With topics ranging from the evolution of Wesley Crusher’s sweaters on Star Trek: The Next…
Director Jeremy Seifert struck gold with his first film, DIVE!, a prize-winning low-budget doc about the wisdom of putting waste to use in a second life. To make his second movie, GMO OMG, Seifert took his family with him on a journey to explore the proliferation of GMOs in the…
Punk style is not just for guys. We spotted Denver native Malaya Harris back home during a break from her classes in Chicago. She creates her own unique look by crafting accessories and personalizing her clothing; keep reading to discover what inspires her look and her style icons. See also:Vivan…
To anyone who grew up watching too much basic cable in the ’80s and ’90s, the sight of Paul Reiser cracking wise is comfortingly familiar. Whether on contemporary classics like Aliens and Diner or the long-running and widely syndicated sitcom Mad About You, chances are good that Reiser’s face is on a television somewhere at this exact moment. Not one to rest on his considerable laurels, however, Reiser is currently in the midst of a mid-career renaissance, appearing in several upcoming movies and honing his standup act in clubs across the country. In town this weekend to headline Comedy Works’ South club, Westword caught up with Reiser to discuss his role in the Sundance film festival smash Whiplash, the lasting influence of Aliens, as well as his experience returning to the stage after a 20 year hiatus from comedy.
Ratha Sok had never taken on a project quite like this one. But now approximately 1,500 square feet of space — a pillar outside CEC Middle College that used to be just gray brick — is covered in an eclectic mural painted by Sok, fellow artist friends Denzel Samaniego, Jin…
More than a decade ago, Starz art director Suzanne Heintz decided there was a way to have a family and her freedom, too: She acquired a set of mannequins, including make-believe husband Chauncey and daughter Mary Margaret, and began photographing herself in vignettes with them for a project she calls…
We leave the movie theater on this week’s Voice Film Club podcast in favor of a longform interview with Village Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek, who’s been at the New York paper for about a year. Before that she wrote for Salon, Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone and the Boston Phoenix,…
#73: Quintin Gonzalez Texas-born with an MFA from Yale, Quintin Gonzalez makes visually fluid work, regardless of the medium, as he moves between painting, drawing, printmaking, video and new media. Within that repertoire, Gonzalez creates intuitively, drawing from pop-cultural imagery — and something a little deeper. Recently, his work has…
A Doctor Who chats with the Queen of Dragons while Finn from Adventure Time peruses the art on the table behind them. This is Denver Comic Con 2014. This ever growing convention just keeps getting better. So what made this year so great? Here are the five best things about…
We’ve known for a while that we have some amazingly talented burlesque performers in this city. But now, the rest of the planet has been put on notice: Earlier this month, Denver burlesque cutie Midnite Martini (aka Kim Townsend) was crowned Miss Exotic World in Las Vegas at the annual…
I don’t read books. Really. I used to be ashamed of this, but then I realized that I read thousands of words every day — they just come in the form of online articles and, when I’m lucky, physical copies of magazines. I’ve been a voracious magazine reader since I…
A beach party in the middle of the city? Why not? O.penVAPE’s Ink Monstr Poolside Summer Series offers fun in and out of the pool, a giant Slip ‘N Slide and an imported sand beach for dancing the day away when it’s time to dry off. Photographer Ken Hamblin brought…
Paint the town read! As LitFest 2014 continues at Lighthouse Writer’s Workshop, we caught up with award-winning author Antonya Nelson, who’ll be teaching two classes this week and participate in a free reading on Thursday, June 19. Nelson teaches creative writing at the University of Houston and is the author…
More than 85,000 people walked through the aisles of the Denver Comic Con over the weekend, according to the folks behind the rapidly growing convention, and a lot of them were in costume. Con cosplay, after all, is an art unto itself, featuring hand-built costumery that can sometimes take months…
History can build and destroy nations, create and end wars and help society wrangle with ethical obligations and failures. But when teachers reduce it to an endless scroll of names and dates that have been stripped of context, history loses its power. The Smithsonian Institution’s Richard Kurin is on a…
There were plenty of Spider Men, and Women, at Denver Comic Con this year, but there was only one Spider, a machine that allows users to create digital sculptures with ZBrush, industry-standard animation software. The Digital Animation Center (DAC) from the University of Colorado Denver has set up the Spider…
Though it has been a few years since filmmaker Scout Wise produced her silent film Stan Needs a Maid, the Denver native is proudly part of a group of once-student filmmakers who will be showcasing their work tonight on CPT 12. Now working in the Bay Area as an associate…
