Half the fun of Frock Out is just getting there: The occasional fashion extravaganza hosted by the Denver Public Library Friends Foundation and Fresh City Life will return on April 19 with a romantic Titanic theme. But before that ship sets sail, you can get onboard…
This week a series of nine “Come to Life” television spots promoting Colorado tourism began airing in target markets across the country, with an emphasis on outdoor summer adventure. To get that vibe just right, the Colorado Tourism Office brought in a team including Denver-based ad agency Karsh/Hagan, photographer/Camp 4…
Boo Boo Radley took the trophy for Best Roller Derby Nickname award in our Best of Denver 2012 — but these athletes have been on a roll while picking their monikers, and Melanie Asmar came up with ten more great roller derby handles in “Denver’s eleven best roller derby nicknames.”…
Editor’s note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and out own Westword Artopia (Make sure you read Noah’s blog for more comics and wonderment, including his…
How the presence of an official Dog the Bounty Hunter merchandise store within 3.5 miles of my home has escaped my knowledge until now, I’m not sure. I’ve always had an affinity for the show, which is unexplainable by any stretch of the trashy imagination. But, man, do I fucking…
There aren’t many actors around who can claim to have met Laurence Olivier, David Frost and Noel Coward — however briefly — or who still refer to Macbeth as Mackers, to ward off the curse associated with the play. But then, there aren’t many who bring to the stage the…
Does a beard make the man? It depends on who you ask. Historically, beards were used for warmth, intimidation of protection from enemies, but in modern times, women find beards only about two-thirds as attractive as a clean-shaven man. In Colorado, beards can be a seasonal look for the October-March…
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” — Sonnet XCVIII References to April — arguably the most literary month, if not the cruelest — abound in the works of Shakespeare. No one’s completely sure about the exact date of his birth, but records indicate he was baptized on…
In advance of his April 1 appearance in Boulder, Bree Davies interviewed Mike Doughty about his life after Soul Coughing, his solo work and his new autobiography, The Book of Drugs. She attended Doughty’s show at the Fox Theatre Sunday night, and wrote about that. And then we received this…
In the annals of the Denver art world, the 2011-2012 season will go down as the year of Clyfford Still. The Clyfford Still Museum opened in November, and many museums and galleries presented shows highlighting the artist’s influence or abstraction in general in order to honor Still’s signature approach. But…
Gary Emrich. Though paintings and sculptures are the stock-in-trade of its Modern and Contemporary department, the Denver Art Museum also puts the spotlight on new media, such as video, in its own dedicated space, called the Fuse Box. That’s where Gary Emrich: Contact is midway through its run. Emrich, whose…
Soft-spoken Harvard poli-sci professor Gene Sharp is an unlikely mentor for the architects of the Arab Spring. But as first-time documentarian Ruaridh Arrow reveals and ultimately belabors, Sharp’s 1993 handbook From Dictatorship to Democracy helped influence the resistance movements in Egypt and Syria and, before that, in Serbia, the Ukraine,…
Suelynn Gustafson was doing goth before it was cool. In fact, Suelynn Gustafson was doing goth about five decades before anyone even thought to call it goth, let alone cool, and furthermore, she doesn’t mind telling you that she doesn’t think much of the teenyboppers doing it today. “I think…
Buntport Theater Company has always had a creative way with music: The ensemble’s choices for openings, accompaniment and intermissions are spot-on, and some of its shows have included fruitful collaborations with local musicians. So when two Buntporters spotted tough-guy movie star Tommy Lee Jones standing in line at the Santa…
The Slater family in Gina Gionfriddo’s Becky Shaw comprises three odd, bitter and unhappy people who nonetheless live in uneasy equilibrium until Becky Shaw enters their lives through the always-dangerous mechanism of a blind date. Suzanna is relatively sane but obsessed with horror movies; as the play opens, she’s mourning…
The West Coast punks are pogoing into town this spring at MCA Denver, Gildar Gallery, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center and other locations, for a series of shows falling under the aegis of Search & Destroy. So-named for the San Francisco ‘zine or the ’70s), the ring of satellite shows…
On Friday, the Denver Art Museum played host to Forever Darling 5 fashion show, in conjunction with its monthly Untitled series and the Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective exhibition. This edition of Forever Darling featured eight designers from Project Runway: Michael Costello, Becky Ross, Danielle Everine, Jason Troisi, Julie Tierney,…
No matter how many ways he said no, Mike Doughty was still bombarded with requests for Soul Coughing songs at the Fox Theatre last night. Currently on tour in support of his autobiography, The Book of Drugs, and the recently released album Yes And Also Yes (one of close to…
Although this past weekend felt like the start of summer, there’s still good riding to be had in Colorado — and this week is also a prime opportunity to catch some of the country’s best amateur snowboarders in action: The 23rd annual United States Snowboard Association’s USASA National Championships got…
Richard Brautigan spent a few years basking in the celebrity sun as the author of such counterculture classics as Trout Fishing in America and In Watermelon Sugar. But it was a short honeymoon, and the writer, who came up from poverty, fell into a trough of depression and alcoholism later…
Mike Doughty, who was in town last night to talk about his life and the autobiographical The Book of Drugs, was once the leader of Soul Coughing, the New York-based art rock band that found MTV-ish success with “Super Bon Bon.” Which is a song he will never, ever play…
Local author Kasi Alexander’s first book, Becoming sage, is an emotive and realistic peek into both the BDSM and polyamorous lifestyles. It takes readers by the hand–gently places a leather cuff on the hand–and leads them through a raw, sensual world of power exchange and many loves that mainstream readers…
