It isn’t every day that you see stormtroopers and superheroes sauntering around Boettcher Concert Hall. But that’s what happened last weekend, when the Colorado Symphony Orchestra hosted a cosplay-friendly “Symphonic Tribute to Comic Con,” featuring theme music from Star Wars, Dr. Who and other pop-culture, cult-fare favorites. All photos by…
Washington Park went to the dogs on Saturday, May 7, for the 23rd annual Furry Scurry, a two-mile walk and fun run for pups and their people that benefits the Denver Dumb Friends League. All photos by Brandon Marshall. Were you there? Find your pup in the full 2016 Furry…
The Grammy award-winning Okee Dokee Brothers, a family folk duo with Colorado roots, release their debut picture book through Sterling Publishing on May 17. Can You Canoe? is named for the acoustic adventure album that launched the Okee Dokee Brothers’ career in 2012; the book takes readers on a cross-country…
I like robots. That’s probably no surprise, if you’ve read this column once or twice. I like art, too. That might be a surprise, I suppose. But even if you were a little surprised at that, I bet your surprise would quickly evaporate when I told you the art I…
In the back of his store, at the trestle tables set up for visiting artists, Wayne Winsett considers what it takes to make it for 32 years in the comics business. “It consumes you,” says the owner of Boulder’s Time Warp Comics & Cards. “You have to be wholly devoted…
#81: Louise Martorano When original RedLine director P.J. D’Amico stepped down, veteran deputy Louise Martorano was there to take the reins, assuring that the art center’s mission of supporting artists while engaging all sectors of the community would continue to evolve and grow. Mission accomplished: All systems are go as…
Breastfeeding, stretch marks, stitches – gulp – down there: “People are very freaked out about mothers’ bodies,” says Michelle Baldwin, aka Vivienne VaVoom, the mother of burlesque in Denver. At 8 p.m. Sunday, May 8, Baldwin will host the Hot Mamas! Mother’s Day Burlesque peepshow at Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox, where…
Imagination and a lot of fancy folding, fitting and old-fashioned cut-and-paste make the annual Art Directors Club of Denver’s Paper Fashion Show a true art experience, and this year’s event, which raised funds for Downtown Aurora Visual Arts, was nothing less than fabulous. Here’s a peek down the runway from…
“Not to see Elitch’s is not to see Denver.” This slogan, coined a century ago, was true: For decades, Elitch Gardens was Denver’s family entertainment center, a bright, noisy oasis where kids from toddlers to teens could have fun all day, in safety. In 1890, Mary and John Elitch created the…
Caution, gratuitous motor bike-porn lies ahead! Threepence is revving up motorcycle culture in the Mile High City. Owners Alex Krill and Wesley Case are Denver natives who’ve been running Threepence for nearly five years. They started the business in a private shop that was closed to the public, and in February finally…
To call Colorado Springs artist Sean O’Meallie’s work playful is an understatement — his brightly colored wooden sculptures are toys wittily transformed into fine art and dimensional cartoons. O’Meallie’s affinity for toys led to an early career as a toy inventor in New York; now he’s a full-time artist, channeling…
Call it coincidence or kismet, but sometimes life gives you what you need. Sometimes what you need is a job repossessing cars to break you out of your teenaged ennui, and sometimes what you need is a mysterious Chevy Malibu with a trunk full of god knows what. More likely,…
At the start of the year, we named the thirteen freshest faces of drag in Denver, choosing from the latest lineup of drag stars giving their all on Denver’s stages. Now that list will come to life with a special show starring all thirteen queens at Charlie’s on Saturday night…
If you peak into Peak Thrift in northwest’s Denver Chaffee Park neighborhood, you may be rewarded with a cool, unexpected find: a hip vest, some DIY crafting tools, Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl. But what’s perhaps coolest about this store is its social mission. All proceeds support Peak Thrift’s parent…
Blue Ruby, a boutique located at 1428 Larimer Street, has carried the Swedish-based fashion brand Odd Molly for eight years, and now Odd Molly has an official shop within the shop. “I look for different stuff that is not being sold in other places,” explains Blue Ruby owner Julie Watson. “I hunt for smaller…
“An ornate and decorated building on the outside says the people who walk by matter, that the public space matters, right?” That’s what history professor Bryant Simon said during “Going for Broke: Atlantic City Falls On Hard Times,” a conversation broadcast on Fresh Air a few months ago. Though the piece revolved…
#83: Roseanna Frechette Roseanna Frechette dons more hats than she has fingers to count them on: Writer, poet, publisher, dancer, creative youth programs director and yoga instructor are just a few of the titles she wears with aplomb. Then there are her efforts on behalf of bohemian Denver — as…
The return of everyone’s favorite gritty, blood-soaked fantasy series is imminent, and boy, am I eager to see where things are going on Game of Thrones. This season is particularly intriguing for pre-TV fans of the series, because it’s the first season that covers chronology past what’s found in the…
Westword’s Best of Denver celebrates everything to love in the Mile High City, from old venues to new, hair to food, and art both private and public. There’s so much going on in Denver’s art scene, we had trouble narrowing down the new public art contenders — created between the 2015…
Denver overdosed on muscles, facial hair and fortitude last Saturday at the city’s inaugural Man Challenge, where super-dudes went head-to-head in tests of strength, agility, cunning and quick thinking. Photographer Miles Chrisinger caught all the action at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Now see men at work in the full Man Challenge…
#85: Corrina Espinosa “I came up from a hard-knock North Denver life, but I’ve never had a shortage on dreams or haikus!” That’s the long and the short of how artist Corrina Espinosa, an expansive lover of life, introduces herself. Now working toward fulfilling those dreams as an MFA candidate…
Not all superheroes wear capes. Leotards, spandex and tech-powered armor are also not necessary. No, in one of the very best superhero movies ever made, the hero wore what’s colloquially known as a “wife beater” and drove a big rig, and even though you’ve probably seen it, you might not…
