Denver will be teeming with bikes today for New Belgium Brewing’s Urban Assault Ride. The UAR started in Austin, Texas, ten years ago, bringing the bike community together for an adventure/party mash-up, and last year Denver was the first city to sell out. Teams of two enter this race/scavenger hunt/obstacle…
The irony of a late-’80s TV show titled “The Next Generation” being 25 years old is inescapable, but so is its cult fandom. To celebrate the quarter-life of one of the best-loved shows in this galaxy and beyond, National CineMedia will beam two Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes onto…
The magical and the mystical both figure heavily in Crazy Brave: A Memoir, but it’s all part of being Joy Harjo, says the Native American poet, playwright, musician and performer. “My life didn’t make neat short stories,” Harjo explains on her blog. “David Sedaris can do it, make tight, crafted…
For Real Steel, the final installment in the Aspen Grove free family film series, the Alamo Drafthouse decided to get as close as possible to bringing the movie to life. “As far as the Alamo is concerned, we try to incorporate themes into our pre-shows and really enhance the movie…
Michael Burnett, founder of Santa Fe Drive stalwart Space Gallery, completely missed celebrating the venue’s tenth anniversary last year. “We reached a significant milestone — not many galleries hang around for that long,” he says, and yet that milestone came and went without a party. But the upcoming eleventh anniversary?…
Throughout 92-year-old Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani’s long and tumultuous life — losing his citizenship during World War II, then regaining it after the end of the war; being homeless in New York after 9/11 — there has been one constant: art. The Japanese-American artist creates brightly colored drawings that tell his…
Although the Athena Project Festival, a celebration of the work of female artists, won’t debut until next summer, it’s launching its Plays in Progress series, featuring new works by six female playwrights, at 8 p.m. tonight at the Aurora Fox, 9900 East Colfax Avenue, starting with a reading of Clinnesha…
Sex trafficking and gender violence continue to be serious problems around the world, says RedLine director PJ D’Amico, which is why the art gallery and studio is showing Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art, a traveling exhibition that focuses on female empower-ment and awareness. Curated by Randy Rosenberg…
This week, Denver street style is taking cues from New York’s Marc Jacobs, whose high-end fashion and leather goods are a symbol of luxury to people around the world. While the air here is hot and muggy, with sudden showers threatening the afternoons, Denverites keep pushing the style thermometer. Weather…
The Dark Knight Rises officially opens at midnight tomorrow. Buy a ticket to Premiere to Remember, though, and you can see the movie a full four-and-a-half hours earlier, at the United Artists Colorado Center 9 — and then go to an after-party at Dave and Buster’s. And if you win…
Reed Weimer has been integral to the Navajo Street Arts District since its unofficial birth in the early ’80s. He and his wife, Chandler Romeo, have worked side-by-side as both artists and landlords in this now-thriving art scene. Weimer — whose paintings and prints hang in the Denver Art Museum,…
Over the past decade, Denver has shown that it’s a city where independent entrepreneurs can thrive. And in this successful climate, the women behind Colorado-based company eMperfumes smelled opportunity. Tired of the retail grind, FolieM President Kristin Clift and friends Roxanne Maine, Avery-Lynn Osborne and Jessica Stone (a later addition)…
After you do your artistic duty for the Denver Art Museum’s Open for Design project, consider entering the second annual Inventor Art Competition — a graphic precursor for the 2012 DaVinci Inventor Showcase. “We think the convergence of Denver’s new Patent Office and the area’s growing culture of innovation will…
The delivery date for submissions in the Denver Art Museum’s Open for Design community challenge is closing in. Have you been dragging your feet because you just don’t know how to come up with a solution that fits the problem within the framework of the challenge? The DAM isn’t about…
Tattoo-Haiku wants to make its mark on Denver. Joseph Carman, founder of the 555 Collective, which promotes the arts and also raises money for trauma victims, is advertising a haiku contest on fliers posted around town. To enter, you must pay a $5 submission fee — which Carman plans to…
Sitting beside me at the Henrys last night was the woman who makes it all happen: Gloria Shanstrom, general manager of the Colorado Theatre Guild. It is Shanstrom who makes this glittering event — this huge coming together of elegantly dressed, excitedly-gesticulating actors, directors, tech people and their audiences –…
Among the many avant-garde artists and writers with whom Donald Sutherland was friends were Gertrude Stein and her life partner, Alice B. Toklas. Sutherland’s friendship with Stein began when she praised his 1937 book, Child with a Knife. In 1951, he wrote the first text dedicated to a stylistic study…
An abundance of cruisers — which Josiah Hesse derides in his “Cruiser bikes sucks” post — aren’t the only sign that this town has been overtaken by hipsters. There are also all the flip flops…
The Hopeless Pickles of Pizazz was the best band at Girls Rock Denver’s annual summer camp this year. But I would be lying if I didn’t immediately acknowledge my own bias: This band of eight- and nine-year-old girls was coached by me and fellow Westword contributor Robin Edwards. Seriously, though,…
The latest incarnation of the Batman franchise is arguably the best yet: dark and gritty with a star-studded cast of characters. When The Dark Knight Rises opens Thursday night, it’s projected to break all box-office records for the biggest opening weekend of all time. And we’ve got a deal for…
Imagine this on a Tuesday night, when the week is still young: something old-school and just for the hell of it, a place where you can get funky and dance like you’re fifteen again, in another time and century. That’s what Motown Tuesday, the weekly dance night at Beauty Bar,…
Christopher Nolan’s ponderous, pontifical action movies are written less as screenplays than as operator’s manuals, guiding an audience through assembling their important themes while scrupulously making sure you don’t miss a thing. This is as true of Inception as it is of Nolan’s superhero saga, now swollen into a trilogy…
