Black Cube is known for really breaking out of the box. With the launch of its Gold Hill Art Project, the nomadic museum is taking art out of the galleries and into log cabins with the help of its first curator-in-residence, Laurie Britton Newell. Originally from England, Britton Newell brings an…
#72: Eleanor Perry-Smith Born and raised in Colorado, Eleanor Perry-Smith is a writer from the inside out, a natural poet with an eye for the interdisciplinary. She mixes words with graphic imagery, sing-songs poems in performance, writes and edits fiction and prose, and recently made a splash as a TEDx…
I’ll Eat You Last is subtitled “A Chat With Sue Mengers,” who was the top-tier agent to some of Hollywood’s starriest stars — or, as she calls them here, “my twinklies”; those twinklies included Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Gore Vidal, Nick Nolte, Michael Caine and, most important, Barbra Streisand. And…
25 years ago, Annie Leibovitz stunned America with her infamous portrait of Demi Moore — nude, bronzed, seven months pregnant — on the cover of Vanity Fair. The image of Moore’s proud, bare body, heavy with child and unmistakably erotic, meant that in some states the magazine had to be…
Hula-hoopers, giant puppets, jugglers, brass bands? You name it: If there’s a street performer doing it in the world, they were probably at Denver’s Union Station on July 16 and 17 for the revival of BuskerFest, a family-friendly street party that’s back after a break of several years. All photos…
Painter Jeffrey Harrison’s latest solo exhibition, Vital Visions: The Expressionistic Realism of Jeffrey Harrison, opened last Friday at Georgia Amar’s Habitat Gallery. In the show, Harrison breaks through the boundaries of realism with pieces that take on traditional figurative subjects: portraits and the nude. A Colorado native, Harrison grew up in…
Every year, Colorado Inside Out — the weekly public affairs roundtable discussion on CPT12 — takes a break from the usual business for the July 4 weekend. But that doesn’t mean the hard-working crew is taking it easy. In fact, sound engineer/producer Larry Patchett and the rest of the staff…
Colorado is an active state, no doubt about it. Every year we either have the lowest rate of obesity, or we’re bitter about losing out to those skinny bitches in Massachusetts. And we’re by and large environmentally conscious, too. Put those two factors together, and you have the reason why…
The events in this town are as hot as the temperature. This week you can take in some flash fiction, check out a new game show or meet a rising comic — all for free. See the Westword calendar for even more entertainment options, and let us know if we…
The renovated Union Station is celebrating its second anniversary all weekend with a resurrected buskerfest, developer Dana Crawford’s gift to the city. But the celebration really started the day Union Station reopened in July 2014, bringing new life to this part of downtown — and a new flashpoint for discussion…
For the past week, people have been walking around Denver, phones held high as they searched for tiny monsters popping up on Pokémon Go, the virtual-reality game based on those characters that first came to America on Pokémon cards two decades ago. But that fad didn’t explode as fast as this…
The local art scene is full of great exhibits and events right now. Here are Michael Paglia’s takes on a trio of ongoing shows in Denver and beyond. Audacious. Last summer, Rebecca Hart took the rudder of the Denver Art Museum’s Modern and Contemporary department, and Audacious: Contemporary Artists Speak…
The set for Thaddeus Phillips’s the ARCHIVIST is perhaps the most important character in this experimental, brain-dizzying work-in-progress at Buntport. Towering white columns of file boxes divide the playing area, boxing in — almost literally — the Archivist in all his magnificent and delusional loneliness. Beyond the columns, the darkened…
What did you want to be when you grew up? Many people focus on just one thing, but Roseanne Barr had many goals — and she worked hard to achieve them all. From standup comedy to creating one of the most iconic network television shows ever — Roseanne, which ran from…
Don’t worry if you didn’t get tickets to Adele: There’s still plenty of fun to be had in and around Denver — and it won’t close nearly as much. Below we’ve pulled together our ten favorite events this weekend, everything from a mac and cheese festival to a chance to…
Yogi D has a solution to the nation’s “stress epidemic”: a weed-and-yoga retreat in Aspen from September 30 through October 2 called the 420 Yoga Retreat. A yoga veteran of 25 years who was dubbed “America’s relaxation expert” by CNN, Yogi D has just recently come out of the dark as a cannabis…
Broadly speaking, there are two types of science fiction: You have your book-based science fiction and your film-based science fiction. Though exceptions are legion, the best book-based science fiction tends to be based on ideas — thoughtful, nuanced explorations of “what if?” that riff on as-yet-unrealized scientific discoveries or technologies…
The Historic Hynds Building in downtown Cheyenne sat vacant for decades. but in recent years the 1919 structure, now slated for a major renovation, has shown signs of life: The Wyoming nonprofit LightsOn! has been hosting concerts and artist residencies in its formerly empty spaces. Denver artists and 2016 Hynds…
The Colorado Black Arts Festival celebrated thirty years of shared culture and community solidarity over the weekend of July 8-10 in City Park, with a spread of original art, African imports, music, drumming and dance. Photographer Ken Hamblin caught all the good vibes at the fest in the following images…
In the world of Difficult People, the cutting comedy returning this week to Hulu, the game is rigged against Julie (Julie Klausner) and Billy (Billy Eichner), but perhaps only because they rigged it against themselves. As their friends find success, the two struggling comedians feign interest in jobs that pay…
First it was the Pot Pavilion. Then when pot got too hot, the Denver County Fair introduced the Kitten Pavilion. Now organizers of the sixth annual fair, which runs July 29 through July 31, are jumping on a brand-new fad: Pokémon Go. “We’re changing up the county-fair model as usual,”…
Here’s a story you might have missed a few weeks back, what with the country collapsing. In late June, at Dallas’ Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, 30 aspirational souls received burn treatment after walking over hot coals at a Tony Robbins seminar. Robbins, a seize-your-life salesman of granite physique and…
