The Denver Zine Library has declared February the month of online fundraising, to help “sustain and grow the zine community in the Denver area,” says DLZ co-founder and longtime caretaker Kelly Shortandqueer. At the start of February, the group launched a month of events and awareness-raising campaigns, but instead of…
Corey Elbin has been the driving force behind Gorinto, the Mercury Cafe’s Wednesday-night food and music gathering, since its inception almost two years ago. For tomorrow night’s edition, Gorinto will team up with the people behind Communikey — the Boulder electronic arts festival set for April 25-29 — to showcase…
Nearly a year ago, designers Tricia Hoke, Deb Henriksen, Jose Duran and Lisa Elstun put their heads together and created Red Drinks, a monthly get-together when local folks in the fashion/design field could mingle, network and share ideas. It’s been going strong ever since, and after a holiday hiatus, Red…
In Internet time, the “shit people say” videos really peaked last month — but we never came across one that really captured the phrases and idioms of Denver. So we made one. But apparently we missed some of the shit people say:…
No doubt about it, the biggest art news this season has been the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum. Located near the Denver Art Museum, the CSM houses more than 90 percent of the abstract-expressionist pioneer’s oeuvre — a gift from Still’s estate, and that of his wife, to the…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist. Clyfford Still: Inaugural Exhibition starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with…
9 Circles. On March 12, 2006, five soldiers stationed at a dangerous traffic checkpoint in an area of Iraq that the military called the Triangle of Death entered the nearby home of a fourteen-year-old girl named Abeer Qasim Hamza. Steven Green, a private, took her parents and six-year-old sister into…
Loosies has a bevy of colorful character actors — from Michael Madsen and William Forsythe to Vincent Gallo and Joe Pantoliano — but little character. The story of a pickpocket named Bobby (Peter Facinelli, also credited with the ungainly script) whose criminal career is complicated by the reappearance of former…
This year’s Academy Award-nominated shorts offer a little something for every viewing temperament — though some categories require sitting through a lot of mediocre to get to the good. Of the five documentaries, Saving Face and God Is the Bigger Elvis were sadly not made available for critics, but the…
What is it that makes us find Victorian murders so juicy, fascinating and macabre? And also so irresistibly funny? Is it the formal outfits, the contrast between butchery and Victorian prudery, the era’s fascination with death and the supernatural, or just the passage of time? With The Three Faces of…
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. — Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest has been such a staple for so many years, multiply staged and filmed with a host of legendary acting talents, that anyone mounting it now faces a dilemma: How do you make…
There’s huge buzz around Smash, a television show premiering at 9 p.m. tonight on NBC. A procedural drama depicting the creation of a musical about Marilyn Monroe, Smash features such big-name acting talent as Anjelica Huston and Debra Messing, as well as American Idol Katherine McPhee; Uma Thurman appears in…
The Denver-based company F3 Designs, has stumbled upon success in that much-coveted of technology niches: Apple product accessories. Its flagship product, the “F3 Folio,” has become a local hit and has begun to gain momentum online and even internationally, with publications from Italy and France singing its praises…
Fred Beckey, author of more than a dozen mountaineering guides, has made more first ascents than any other North American climber — and possibly more than any climber anywhere. And that’s not just because he’s been at it the longest, though the fact that he just turned 89 and is…
The Ladies Fancywork Society strikes again. The group known for yarn-bombing Denver — with everything from a ball and chain on the big blue bear outside of the Colorado Convention Center to a crocheted garden outside Union Station just unveiled a new piece. And unlike the Ladies’s street bombings, this…
Slam Nuba is still on a roll: After winning one of Westword’s coveted MasterMind awards last year and sending a team to the nationals last summer that snagged first place, the spoken-word collective (which will also perform February 18 at Artopia ) is hard at work finding fresh ways to…
In Internet time, the “shit people say” videos really peaked about mid-January, but maybe like you, we seem to watch every one that comes across our browser. And since there have been a few Colorado-related videos that have come out, there hasn’t been one about the phrases and idioms of…
Calender-wise, every year starts at the beginning of January. But when it comes to pop-culture, the year “kicks off” (hey-o!) with the advertising blitz (so many football puns!) that is the Super Bowl, when advertisers collectively spend brajillions of dollars to tell us how to think and feel during the…
When Heather Donahue couldn’t get acting work after starring in iconic horror flick The Blair Witch Project, she decided to start growing marijuana. But the story is more involved than that, as she details in her new book, Growgirl, about moving to the California (and a town she refers to…
All the snow that fell across the Front Range Friday had fishing enthusiasts thinking about just what will happen when all that white stuff melts — pouring water into this state’s streams, rivers and lakes. To get a taste of the country’s liquid assets, they should head to Anthology Fine…
Every time we get more than two feet of snow, my household has a ritual: We build a snow cave in our back yard. After all, if you’re already snowed in, you might as well make use of that pile of white to entertain yourself — and admit it, you…
The mounds of snow aside, there’s plenty to do this weekend, whether or not you care about beefy dudes throwing a ball around. Yes, the Super Bowl is happening. But so are a bunch of equally exciting events that will happen despite the blizzard. We’ve got: A drunken spelling bee,…
