West Elm Local will launch on Friday, June 13, celebrating a partnership between the home-decor store and Denver artists. Bringing a Mile High flair to high-end furniture, the gathering is also an opportunity to meet the artists behind local goods. “We’ll show a lot of unique, handmade art and it…
#75: Valerie Santerli After dynamic gallerist Robin Rule passed away late last year, longtime assistant Valerie Santerli picked up the pieces to carry on Rule Gallery’s business, handle artworks from the estate and continue providing representation for a hand-picked and loyal stable of high-profile artists. And although that’s what absorbs…
In the hours before my coveted appointment with Rebecca Rosen, a local medium and author with a years-long waiting list, I was in full-fledged panic-turned-tantrum mode. Though I had gleefully picked up the chance to get a once-in-a-lifetime reading with Rosen weeks earlier, that excitement had worn off by the…
So, you’ve got a kid, huh? Whether it’s your own rambunctious preschooler or the bratty nephew you’ve been charged with keeping alive for the next five hours, the most important thing is leaving your house where valuables are liable to be destroyed and seeking refuge on somebody else’s property. In…
On Saturday night, Denver’s free gaming experience OhHeckYeah opened in the Denver Theatre District under cloudy skies. But weather couldn’t dampen the participatory spirit of the immersive street arcade, and the crowd pitched right in to direct the play on downtown Denver’s giant LED screens, and photographer Brandon Marshall was…
Arts Street has implemented the dream plan of generations of public school students: getting paid to go to class. Thanks to the Adolph Coors Foundation, NOFA and Xcel Energy, the educational nonprofit has received new funding to not just offer local teenagers classe instruction in real-life skills, but a stipend…
Sometimes you just need to escape the heat. And luckily, those pointed peaks off in the west are the perfect place to cool down and enjoy some natural beauty and some killer festivals this summer. Colorado’s colorful mountain towns are the host to tons of quirky extravaganzas that are centered…
Going strong for eleven years in its home location in Baltimore, the Natural Hair Care Expo comes to Denver for the first time this Sunday, June 8,at Cleo Parker Robin Dance. This vendor market also acts as an interactive and educational day focusing on natural hair care and whole body…
California’s first openly gay elected politician, Harvey Milk, was a feisty camera-shop owner turned political activist. He fought homophobia, commanded LGBTQ people to “come out,” and struggled to build coalitions between oppressed communities. When fellow San Francisco city supervisor Dan White gunned him down in 1978, Milk became a martyr…
Known in the Denver music scene as a former guitarist of The Czars and record producer for Joe Sampson and Esme Patterson, Metro State University of Denver professor Roger Green will be teaching “Psychedelic Aesthetics, Literature, and the Crisis in Liberalism,” a donation-based, seven-week course at Deer Pile beginning Sunday,…
There’s a reason why tourists crowd Denver’s city streets each summer: It’s a happening town and sports valhalla, with pro teams, adventurous and ethnic eateries, a downtown mall, urban neighborhoods, a gallery scene, great museums, miles of greenway trails and all the promise of that blue mountainscape on the horizon…
Always willing to push fashion to the next level, Patrick and Mike Liberty created their 2014 summer collection look book using the Native Roots legal grow operation and the 4/20 rally as a backdrop. See also: Westword Whiteout: Patrick and Mike Liberty, founders of Akomplice Clothing…
There are better films than Army of Darkness. Hell, there are better Evil Dead films than Army of Darkness (ahem, Evil Dead II is clearly the best in the franchise). There are more important films than Army of Darkness (just ask any film school professor). There are probably even more…
For supreme crafter Becky Hensley, the best thing about doing work by hand is not knowing everything about a chosen artform. “A big part of Share Denver’s philosophy is that you probably know how to do something and that thing you know how to do is probably something I want…
#76: Laleh Mehran Laleh Mehran represents the new wave of tech-savvy artists, jumping between mediums and testing new ground internationally in the widening digital-art arena. Her video work can be seen on downtown LED screens and as part of the recently departed Monkey Town’s programming, while a new interactive and…
For this year’s edition of Fantasia 2014, Colin Ward says he was moved to action by the urban environment he experiences every day. “For years I’ve been diehard passionate about the world kind of waking up — I believe that there are so many bad decisions being made with the…
The last time I saw a laser show at the the Gates Planetarium, it was during a time when everything I did centered around where I could smoke cigarettes. That time was the early ’90s and I was fourteen or fifteen. I wasn’t old enough to drive, meaning I ended…
When Jeremy Barber was a young kid growing up in Milwaukee, tattoo shops were illegal in the city. That didn’t deter him from pursuing his passion for art and becoming a tattoo artist. He’s been tattooing for almost 20 years and has been living in Denver for the past five…
#77: Kim Olson Dancer/choreographer Kim Olson founded SWEET EDGE ten years ago in Boulder as an interdisciplinary vision built on a foundation of collaboration and trust. “The name derives from a state of being — where change is constant and movement fundamental. We shift, merge, adapt, step out of the…
So, you’ve got a kid, huh? Whether it’s your own rambunctious preschooler or the bratty nephew you’ve been charged with keeping alive for the next five hours, the most important thing is leaving your house where valuables are liable to be destroyed and seeking refuge on somebody else’s property. In…
As the fashion community in Denver continues to grow, a large community of designers is emerging. One of the most impressive Denver designers is Elizabeth Kay, founder of The Seventh Guilt and her own namesake couture. Kay recently shared with us the inspiration behind her designs and her thoughts on…
Zak Hennessey stood on a dusty stage that would not look out of place at an underground punk show. A collection of multipurpose spotlights illuminated his excitement as he ran through the story of Denver Entertainment Art and Design Academy — for at least the third time that day. This…
