For some, it was a depressing example of how debased humanitarian causes had become in the age of social media; for others, it was a sincere call to arms against a foreign tyrant. Either way, the Kony 2012 movement will be remembered as the most successful online campaign in the…
Bessie Coleman may not be a household name like Amelia Earhart — but she should be. As the first black woman to get her pilot’s license — in 1921, before Earhart was in the air — Coleman is the subject of the new zine series Mocha Chocolata Mamma, by Marya…
This weekend is all about the green. Whether you’re into partying with the sort-of legal kind at the countless 4/20 events on Friday or celebrating the less controversial plants at Earth Day parties on Sunday, we’ve got it all in one place for less than $10. And beyond the things…
The 35th annual StarFest is coming to Denver this morning, taking over three hotels in the Denver Tech Center. The three-day convention covers everything under the sci-fi umbrella: robots, comics, video games, and even sci-fi in the digital world. Each sub category has its own mini convention during StarFest, as…
Amateur Night at the Big Heart, a comedy/drama by Denver playwright and director Terry Dodd, first saw the light of day as a staged reading at the Denver Center Theatre Company 25 years ago.The following year, the play received its world premiere at the Arvada Center, directed by David Ogden…
Britt Chester thought he’d take Denver for a ride with his first bicycle quiz, but dozens of people came up with answers to “guess where I’m biking near this pond.” Some were wrong, some were right, but none were as complete as this:…
Saturday night at the Mercury Cafe, second- and third-graders from SOAR Charter School in Green Valley Ranch will bring their drumming skills to the big stage for the first time. Performing under the moniker Night Oblivion, the elementary-school band of percussionists will be part of a fundraiser to send the…
Did you miss Chess at the Arvada Center? Now you have a second chance to see the production, which has moved to the Lone Tree Arts Center’s Main Stage Theater, where it opens tonight. In the meantime, here’s a reprise of Juliet Wittman’s review: The semi-operatic Chess doesn’t have a…
The name for Vertigo’s new show, The Cowboy Is on the Left, seems like a commentary on the stratification of rural culture, but it’s not. “The designer who put together the card advertisement put the photo of the cowboy on the left, and she thought that was the perfect name…
The American Alpine Club announced this week that Boulder-based photographer Cory Richards has won its 2012 Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure. The $15,000 award, which will be officially presented next month during Mountainfilm in Telluride, is named for photographers Galen and Barbara Rowell, who died in a plane…
There are a lot of marijuana-related goings-on tomorrow, what with it being 4/20 and all, but this event looks like a definite hit. Burlycute, the burlesque production company run by Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett), happens to be booked on the third Friday of every month at Bar Standard,…
We all know that Big Brother’s been watching us for some time, but that doesn’t make the amazing recent paintings of William Betts any less intriguing or, well, creepy. Accurately replicating video imagery taken by surveillance cameras, the acrylic-on-canvas renderings are pointed in their message and sharply detailed in their…
It’s been a big month for Metro State — or Metro State University of Denver, according to the law signed by Governor John Hickenlooper yesterday. Not only does the school get a new name, but its theater department recently won accreditation from the National Association of Schools of Theatre. And…
Last time out, the Denver Public Library’s Frock Out fashion fete went a little wacky, with a side-show theme that rocked the Denver Central Library’s Schlessman Hall with drag queens, freaks and roller derby girls. But this year, which also happens to mark the hundredth anniversary of the sinking of…
Street-style artists Jolt and Quentin “Omni” Rice will show off a series of large-scale “abstract-expressionist-meets-graffiti-futurism” pieces created on seven twenty-by-twenty-foot walls at the GuerillaGarden warehouse. “This is going to be the biggest show we’ve had in three years, and I mean that literally,” says Jolt, a 2010 Westword MasterMind. “We’re…
Kate Armstrong grew up on a farm in upstate New York, where, if her family didn’t grow it, they didn’t need it. “We may not have had much money, but we had great food,” she says. More important, they had healthy food, which has become less common in the half-century…
How far can you go in fairy wings and a tutu? Once Upon a Race, a fairy tale-themed dash, could provide the answer. In this urban scavenger hunt, which begins at Stoney’s Bar & Grill at 11 a.m., teams of costumed Rapunzels and Rumpelstiltskins will have roughly four hours to…
Self-publishing gives authors the means to tell stories that often get left out of the mainstream, corporately published narrative. Albuquerque performance artist Marya Errin Jones will add to that DIY archive with her newest zine series, Mocha Chocolata Mamma, which focuses on influential black women. “I was getting really sad…
When T. S. Eliot famously wrote that “April is the cruellest month,” he wasn’t referring to tax day, but to the hopeful but fleeting beauty of spring. At today’s Denver Digs Trees Earth Day Sale, you can purchase trees to help capture some of that beauty for many seasons to…
Since 1973, the organization Moving to End Sexual Assault (MESA) has lived up to its name by offering a hotline, services for survivors of assault, prevention education and much more. And for twelve years now, MESA has hosted the Canine Classic 5K run/walk, a Bolder Boulder qualifier at the Boulder…
There will be no red carpets at the XicanIndie Filmfest XIV, but there will be a lot of films that slipped quietly under the radar of mainstream cinema, representing a range of insights into contemporary Latino life. “The festival continues to provide a perspective that you will not find anywhere,”…
After hearing Nick Apollo Forte’s “Scungilli Song” on the jukebox of a Bronx bar, Woody Allen considered him for a part in his film Broadway Danny Rose. Forte later got a call from someone at Allen’s studio asking if he could send a resume, and he says he took out…
