For Colorado artists weighed down by a shortage of studios, ever-rising rent and increased government scrutiny of DIY spaces, Concept was going to be “a space to dream, create, inspire,” promised founder Jeanie Nuanes King on the con.cept colorado Facebook page. But on July 5, Nuanes King announced that the dream is over.
You had a blast on the Fourth of July, but the fun doesn’t have to stop. The next seven days are packed with worthwhile events, from the return of Mixed Taste to another chance to revision the 16th Street Mall to a celebration with DJ Shadow. Here are the 21 best events in Denver this week.
Denver Comic Con is over for 2017, but the opportunity to geek out with other nerds over virtual reality, gaming and cosplay is just beginning. Player 2, a Denver startup, has been putting on events at bars around the city since January, giving people places where they can gather over beers to play board and video games.
Catch up on a veteran installationist, creative comic artists, the future of still life and a couple of rising stars — or just go to a swinging party — with these six picks.
Baby Boomer Baby, a one-man show written and now performed by Tommy Koenig at the Dairy Arts Center, is a musical trip from the ’60s to today. But it strikes some sour notes.
Denver, it’s nearly time, once again, to celebrate our country’s independence. Here’s how.
As Cole Porter once sang, “It’s too darn hot.” The only institution guaranteed to be a haven from the heat and a hub of cold, fizzy drinks is the cinema, and this July there’s a slew of movies for you to watch and chill out with.
Artist Jonathan Saiz’s mystical aesthetic has already been put to use successfully in a tarot deck called The Fountain Tarot and seen in Juxtapoz, Vogue and Elle Decor; in the present it’s morphing almost daily as Saiz works his way through So Wrong It’s So Right, a gallery experiment for which he’s creating new works daily in the confines of Leon Gallery.
The Fourth of July is such a definitively American holiday that its festivities cannot be contained to one calendar day. Aside from Independence Day celebrations,Denver has plenty of free and cheap events for its residents to attend.
For the sixth year in a row, downtown Denver is experiencing a pop-culture invasion. Here are the ten biggest surprises from the first day of Denver Comic Con.
I hate July. It’s hot and there’s less TV. Nevertheless, she sweated through her bra and wrote this guide to what’s worth watching. Snowfall (FX), July 5. Justified’s Dave Andron teams up with director John Singleton for a drama about the start of the crack-cocaine epidemic in LA. Andron describes…
Now that the dog days of summer are here, it’s time to roll out the ten best comedy events in Denver in July
Maudie is hit-or-miss, but you’ll probably bawl anyway. Its creators have elected to dramatize nothing but the things that traditional narrative features usually botch. The film, directed by Aisling Walsh, surveys the life of a beloved artist, Nova Scotia’s self-taught folk painter Maud Lewis, who produced scores of cheerily primitive…
What will become of Zion? No, not the loosely defined term for a Jewish homeland in the Middle East, but a mild-mannered and fundamentally righteous shopkeeper living in Jerusalem and pulled between conservative religious forces and modernity. (Oh, so maybe I do mean the Jewish homeland in the Middle East.)…
On July 1, the second-floor living room of Paul Keefe’s Corona Street house will become the art gallery Grand Opening. Its inaugural, one-night-only exhibit, The Fridge Show, aims to bring together art by Denverites and out-of-state artists alike.
It’s showtime: On Saturday, June 24, the 23rd annual Westword Music Showcase filled the Golden Triangle with sights and sounds. As we studied the most striking festival styles, we ran into Midnight Rambler boutique owner Ashley McCredie. Originally from South Florida, McCredie has lived in Denver for six years and…
Motocross, a sport better known for revving engines and adrenaline than reflective documentaries, gets personal in Spectrum, a web series whose first episode, featuring Colorado Springs native Andrew Short, makes its screening premiere Friday at SeriesFest.
“I’d rather go to jail than to die without Medicaid,” chanted Wheelchair Sports Camp M.C. Kalyn Heffernan, as she live-streamed footage of police arresting her fellow disability activists in the group ADAPT who had been staging a three-day sit-in at Republican Senator Cory Gardner’s office. Her own arrest was inevitable.
Venture out, sweaty Denverites. All you need is a crisp Hamilton and an open mind to see all the best Colorado has to offer.
Most hero stories dating back to Achilles are fantasies of power, of the world made right through violence. What sets Spider-Man apart, outside his joyous bouncing through New York City, is that his stories are also fantasies of responsibility. Rather than just kick bad-guy ass, Spider-Man must forever fight to…
Denver artist Katie Caron is an educator with an eye on the future of art fabrication, a committed member of the studio community at the Temple and now, part of the stable at William Havu Gallery.
Walk toward the Sloan’s Lake Alamo Drafthouse from the parking structure on Conejos Place, and you can’t miss the angular sculpture built with intersecting planks of steel, beckoning moviegoers toward the sidewalk that leads them toward the theater.
