On Saturday, when a collision of cultural celebrations — the Kentucky Derby and Cinco de Mayo — had people sporting big hats and sombreros all over town, one person’s style statement definitely topped all others. Every witch way. Here’s a look at this week’s Denver street style…
Scott Russell expected to find stories, and he did. On bike rides between Denver’s alleys and street corners, he found twenty of them, eleven of which will be on display this weekend at Wazee Union at Cardboard & Concrete, the project that resulted. But there were a few surprising turns…
Update, 5/18/12: We’re a little late in announcing our winner this week, but we did select one. Check your e-mail to see if you’re the lucky rider! “At one point, over 2,000 miles of narrow-gauge track probed the mountains of Colorado,” claims the Colorado Railroad Museum. Granted, this ol’ fixed…
It’s one of those eternal questions: Which was better, the movie or the book? You may find the answer tonight, when Cinema in the Stacks, a monthly literary film series hosted by the Aurora Central Library, kicks off for the summer. For the most part, perhaps because the library is…
Is Colorado the Suburu state? That’s what Bree Davies suggests in “An Ode to Subaru, the unofficial car of Colorado”. While Wooderson, her beloved Outback, is the focus of the piece, there are plenty of other Subarus out there. An entire fleet of them. And their drivers are all fans…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist. Clyfford Still: Inaugural Exhibition starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with…
Date. Some years ago, writer-actor Luciann Lajoie found herself alone and at loose ends, so she decided to try Internet dating. In Date, seated in what looks like a pretty bare apartment, empty chip bags on the table beside her laptop along with a fortifying bottle of wine, she takes…
Twenty-something Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets to follow the teachings of the enigmatic Maggie (Brit Marling). A glowing blonde dressed in white shrouds with a respirator as an accessory, Maggie claims to have been born in…
A good portion of Tim Burton’s output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the “Burton treatment” to susceptible texts: Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland — and now, Dark Shadows. A supernaturally themed soap, Dark Shadows…
The bar where Amateur Night at the Big Heart takes place is what sociologists call a “third place” — the first being home, for most people, and the second the workplace. A third place can be a pub, diner, coffee shop, library, post office or anywhere that people congregate and…
Jonny Copp’s credo for the Adventure Film Festival he founded in Boulder was “Make Your Own Legends,” and while the climber/artist/musician/writer/adventurer made many legends of his own before his death in 2009, one of his greatest legacies may turn out to be posthumous, thanks to the Jonny Copp Foundation that…
After a winter hibernation, new retail merchandising vendors are wheeling out their wares on the 16th Street Mall. And not only have the offerings grown, but so have the hours: The Downtown Denver Partnership now requires vendors to be on-site between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and…
When I was in my early twenties, I carried an aluminum baseball bat in the back of my car. It was initially gear for summer seasons of Chilihead softball: I worked at Chili’s for a few years — and, like many corporate chain restaurants, Chili’s really wishes it were a…
It seems counterintuitive for a business book to tout the virtues of unpopularity, but author Erika Napoletano has thoroughly embraced the concept of unpopularity — which is not a pejorative term, as she explains in the Q&A that follows. Basically, unpopularity means you don’t have mass appeal for everyone, which…
There are a few places where women without hats would seem dangerously close to naked: a Baptist church, the Kentucky Derby and Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee celebration. And for a hat to appear in conjunction with the latter — the Queen, in her sixtieth year of Queendom, is known for…
After months and months in the shadows of construction trucks, Tennyson Street has finally emerged, newly paved and curbed. And last Friday, Kevin Curry’s “Face the Sun” a new piece of public art paid for (like the construction project) by the 2007 Better Bond Project was unveiled at 41st and…
There are a lot of great exhibition spaces around town, but I’m always struck by how good shows look at Ice Cube Gallery, even though it’s the humblest of venues: a co-op. In a typical arrangement, the handsome space with the big windows and high ceilings is currently divided roughly…
On the calendar of nerd holidays, May 4 is certainly below Comic Con but at least a few pegs above the pirate convention that takes place each year near the airport. Yes, “May the 4th be with you,” is a day every Star Wars fan can get behind obnoxiously –…
On Friday a new piece of public art, Kevin Curry’s “Face the Sun,” was installed at Tennyson Street and 41st Avenue. The piece was part of the 2007 Better Bond Project that paid for the finally-finished street improvements along Tennyson. The piece is embossed with the words “Face the sun…
If you haven’t been down to Santa Fe in a while for First Friday, you can see what you’ve been missing through these photos shot by Laura Easley for Westword. This month’s art walk included more than a few nods to Star Wars (“May the 4th be with you” and…
There was great fashion, loud music and heavy-pours, and probably some hooking-up and broken hearts: Yes, it was Derby day again in Denver! Apparently, there was also a horse race in Kentucky or something, but those people are all backwoods rednecks, anyway. There were giant hats to be worn, people!…
Do spirits haunt Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret? Magician Aiden Sinclair seems to have all the answers, and he’ll be conjuring up the afterlife all this month on Tuesday evenings at Lannie’s…
