Though most of the weekend’s snow has disappeared from metro Denver, Santa had no problem parking his sleigh here. There’s still plenty of time for kids to have their photos taken with Mr. Claus; here are eight great spots where kids can share their wish list and get a selfie…
In a half-dozen years, Justin Nordine has gone from art teacher to tattoo artist to television star. Now working at The Raw Canvas Tattoo Studio, he’s also part of a team of artists and therapists on Spike TV’s new television show, Ink Shrinks. The pilot episode will air on Tuesday,…
If shopping bags have been weighing down your arms and emptying your wallet, it’s time to relax. Listen to some distinctive music, learn about small business or figure out the tricks to social change — they’re all free and described below. For more events around town, visit our online Westword…
When Ice Cube Gallery director Sarah Rockett had some extra space at Ingrained, the co-op’s December group show, she decided that it should take a village to fill it. Inspired by her longing to build a community in Denver as tight as the one she’d left behind in New Orleans,…
Recent events have sparked the long-smouldering conversation about racism in America. While the Civil Rights movement peaked in this nation fifty years ago, some countries took a longer time to reach “equality.” Associated Press correspondent Donna Bryson was stationed in South Africa from 1993-1996 and then again in 2008-2012; she…
December brings group shows, big and small, to Denver galleries — as well as one epic, plein air painting journey. Boughs of holly aren’t the only thing decking the halls around town. Despite the holiday hustle, there’s plenty of art to see this weekend — here are a few places…
A new documentary called Jingle Bell Rocks! hopes to tear away the wrapping on a unique underground scene: alternative Christmas music junkies. This is a label not to be worn with the shame of an ugly holiday sweater, as discovering or even producing an alternative to the well-worn jingles of…
Geeks love to toke, too. That was the premise behind Chromic Con, the only-in-Colorado gathering that brought together stoners, fans and geeky guests in Colorado Springs and Denver on November 22 and 23. Billed as the world’s first-ever weed-friendly comic and fantasy convention, the event included a cosplay contest, exhibits…
Christmas will be here very soon. In between shopping for everyone on your list, don’t forget to treat yourself with these affordable events around town. Whether you like getting a buzz from beer or high on sugar we’ve got you covered with brewery birthday parties and candy cane tours. We’re…
Fans of Japanese animation had their hearts broken last February when director Hayao Miyazaki announced that his film The Wind Rises would be his last and that Studio Ghibli, the animation house that has yet to produce a film that didn’t resonate with or steal the hearts of millions of…
Blurred Lines Sandra Phillips Gallery 420 West 12th Avenue Blurred Lines. The Sandra Phillips Gallery is a cozy space, making it a challenge to put on a group show, especially one made up of artists who work in large formats. But that’s exactly what’s on tap there now with Blurred…
With a grant from the city of Denver, Birdseed Collective is beautifying RTD bus benches in its own Globeville/Elyria/Swansea neighborhood. With two benches already finished and four more on the way, the art and community service collective is working with LiveWell Colorado on the P.S. You Are Here Grant to…
It’s never too late to find everything from local fashion to goat-cheese pastries, so don’t lose hope if you haven’t finished your shopping. Read on for a list of the best places to do it in style. See also: Photos: Old World Treasures and Warm Treats at the Christkindl Market…
Like it or not, Christmas is creeping up, and in the consumer paradise we call the USA, that means you better be buying stuff for the people you love if you want them to keep loving you back. Toys for the little ones are the easy part of it –…
Director Travis La and the crew behind the latest 303 Boards skateboard team video, Landrace, liked the sound of 12/13/14 for a premiere date. While we’re counting, this marks the thirteenth team video from the little Colfax shop that could (tagline: “Holding down the Colorado skate scene since 1997”) and…
Anything Goes. Anything Goes premiered in 1934, after a hasty rewrite: The original plot concerned a shipwreck, and shortly before the scheduled opening night, a fire broke out on a cruise liner and 137 passengers were killed. By then the writing team, which included P. G. Wodehouse, had moved on,…
Ann Hamilton and Jae Ko et al. For Ann Hamilton: Selected Works, the initial enfilade of spaces at Robischon Gallery is taken over by works on paper by this noted conceptualist. The first group is from her “visite” series, the name of which is taken from the term “carte de…
The heavens dance. From the bottom of the world, where your eyes might freeze in your face, we see stars pulse against seams of luminous dust, all in slow and dizzying rotation. Then come the lights: Ribbons of green unspool and shimmer and whip across the sky, suggesting angels and…
For reasons that are perhaps understandable, stories about women finding themselves — or their voices, or their inner courage, or any number of things that are apparently very easy to mislay — are big business. But even if Cheryl Strayed’s hugely successful 2012 memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on…
Flip open your Bibles to Numbers 12:3 to find the first inaccuracy in Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings. “Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth,” sayeth the Good Book of our hero, played by Christian Bale, an…
Despite its sumptuous displays of feudal opulence — cavalries, silk gowns, all the naked female extras money can buy — Netflix’s Marco Polo feels distinctly like scraps. Turgid, fatuous, and humorless, the streaming site’s newest series is a grave miscalculation of what has made Game of Thrones, its obvious model,…
The biggest laugh I heard from the audience at my screening of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies came from seven words in the end credits: “Based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien.” Just picture that tweedy Oxford philologist nodding in pleased approval at this adaptation of his…
