The world needs more of what Amy Schumer has to offer: fresh, bold comedy that casually confronts sexuality and race in a way that makes you laugh now — and think about it later. Whether she’s discussing HPV, traveling to the Jewish homeland (Miami), or finally sleeping with her high…
If you haven’t already seen it, the exhibit Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection at the Denver Art Museum is so worth a look-see. That’s because it’s not just a collection of interesting antique and costume jewelry. Albright chose each brooch — mostly collected over time at flea markets,…
Michael Paglia loves the new History Colorado building — but the exhibits inside it, not so much. And yesterday, as a followup to his original review of the place, he suggested “Ten shows the History Colorado Center should have opened with.” Says Dana: These are brilliant ideas!!!! Love ’em!!! Hopefully,…
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Earlier this week, a creative art bomber added a bit of bathroom humor to the iconic Big Blue Bear sculpture that stands outside the Colorado Convention Center. And like most unsanctioned art — remember the ball and chain? — it was quickly removed. But not forgotten. “We still have it,…
Hiking the 500-mile Colorado Trail from Denver to Durango is one of the most epic — and scenic — adventures in the state, and it’s a more accessible bucket-list goal than you might think: Last year the Colorado Trail Foundation added three kids under the age of twelve to its…
Prax(us) is a Denver-based nonprofit that works with homeless youth who are currently involved in or vulnerable to human trafficking. As such, director Stephanie Bell says, “There’s so much pressure for us to be constantly telling their stories.” Art is a way for the youth to tell their stories themselves…
Marie Losier spent seven years of her life quietly watching two people become three by becoming one. Even today, she is subdued as she describes what that means. When Genesis P-Orridge, industrial-rock revolutionary and founder of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV, moved to New York in the 1990s, he fell…
The brand new History Colorado Center opens on Saturday. Last week, in my column about the wonderfully-designed museum, I pointed out how poor the two debut shows, Colorado Stories and Destination Colorado, are. Rather than trying to elevate the discussion, the museum and History Colorado chief operating officer Kathryn Hill,…
Artists, by virtue of being trained in aesthetic representation, usually have interesting jobs. Russ Beardsley, for example, takes his skills as a sculptor and applies them to his job as a stone worker. Beardsley, who is also a co-owner of Ironton Studios, took some time from lifting rock to talk…
If Denver four-year-olds make small talk about literature, surely Maybe a Bear Ate It! would come up. The picture book has been selected as the book in the state’s One Book 4 Colorado preschool reading campaign. In theory, every kid in the sandbox will be reading it. The story by Robie E…
Bike culture rolls strong in Colorado, where every sort of cyclist thrives — from leg-shaving, spandex-wearing road racers to evening pleasure cruisers. Whether reliving our childhoods or taking it a little bit too seriously, we seem to love everything on two wheels in these parts, so it follows that we…
Does a bear shit outside the woods? That question was answered by the pranksters who placed a pile of blue poo under “I See What You Mean,” better known as the Big Blue Bear, which stands outside the Colorado Convention Center. That prank inspired another former Westword art critic Renna…
Last year it was a wine tasting, but this year, in conjunction with the Denver Art Museum’s Yves Saint Laurent extravaganza, the Museo de las Americas is hoping to lure a younger demographic into the galleries with Fashion of the Americas, a fashion show fundraiser featuring a diverse quintet of…
It’s a sad day, but not as sad as it could have been for the fanatical keepers of the O scale Colorado Midland Railroad and the smaller HO scale Platte Valley & Western Model Railroad, who’ve been tending to their train setups in the basement of Union Station for almost…
Among its many interests, the Royal Bank of Canada operates RBC Wealth Management, which has established an art collection made up of some 400 works. The organizing theme is the depiction of the figure, which makes the collection unusual in the corporate world: Big companies tend to prefer abstraction in…
When Ietef Vita, aka DJ Cavem Moetavation, recently turned up on Ugandan national television, he introduced the African nation to Denver’s most dedicated “OG” — an organic gardener — on a mission to green the block. Visiting as a Bold Food fellow, the northeast-Denver-reared hip-hop artist spoke about the issues…
What was once a gaping hole in the ground has become a handsome building, at least on the outside, and that bodes well for the new History Colorado Center, which opens to the public today. Once inside, the history museum’s long-waiting constituents will also find handsome innards, along with updated…
Hailing from the same tough country that birthed the Stooges and the MC5, Michigan’s Nervous But Excited specializes in hard-edged folk music that carries melody, harmony and a social consciousness. But Nervous bandmates Kate Peterson and Sarah Cleaver never take themselves too seriously, even when their live show gets intense…
When a dance troupe like Control Group — an independent organization known for its avant-garde movement and theater — takes on classical romanticism, don’t expect whatever you were expecting. That’s because Control Group mastermind Patrick Mueller has a habit of turning things evocative in ways one can’t anticipate. And Salon…
The organizers of Totally Tennyson have gone out of their way to ensure that everybody will have a good time at the blocks-long party showcasing Tennyson Street’s restaurants and boutiques. Event co-chair Kristen Speth says the idea for the party came from a group of parents who wanted to put…
Emily K. Harrison of Square Product Theatre can hardly stop laughing long enough to talk about 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, a comedy she says is “ridiculous, but still completely believable in a way that makes you think this could actually be happening.” Though it was originally developed by Chicago’s…
