The director of operations at Hope Communities, Crossroads’ landlord, recently told Westword that Crossroads is struggling; the theater company in Five Points is behind on rent, leaving Hope, an affordable-housing provider, to cover the mortgage payments. But Crossroads isn’t dying.
The National Endowment for the Arts, which is a pet target of Republicans eager to slash big government, announced this week it is establishing a Creative Forces: Military Healing Arts Network clinical site at Fort Carson, in Colorado Springs.
Daniel Salazar and the whole team at Su Teatro work all year long to pull together a selection of films with Latino themes that also speak to strength in community for the group’s annual XicanIndie Film Fest. Evoking the sociopolitical mud that holds people together has always been a bottom-line…
“Why does Denver need one more theater company right now?” asked Rachel Bouchard, while talking about Benchmark Theatre Company’s inaugural full-scale production, the sci-fi crime-drama, The Nether, which launches Friday, March 31.
Who likes a wedgie? Apparently the brains behind Elitch Gardens Theme & Water Park’s new ride, the, get this, Mega Wedgie.
As new businesses continue to roll out at the Stanley Marketplace in Aurora, the little town of curated retail, restaurants and services under one roof, looks more than promising.
In the heart of Five Points, Denver’s Historic black neighborhood, spaces and faces have been changing rapidly over the past decade. While art galleries have blossomed in nearby RiNo, Welton Street has been slower to develop — at least when it comes to new arts organizations. No longer. Enter Rare…
By now we are well into spring, which means one thing in Colorado: wacky weather. Aside from impacting your wardrobe, this oddball season can seriously mess with your social calendar. But don’t worry: From indoor to outdoor activities, we’ve got you covered in this week’s list of the best events…
The Maven Hotel will open on March 29 with a collection of more than 400 pieces of art by local artists.
Denver Art Museum is on the hunt for a local artist to be its summer Creative-in-Residence. This paid position will have one goal: producing “transformative experiences for visitors.”
A new piece of street-art has bloomed in the Golden Triangle, along with some Spring flowers. The mural states, “Be A Good Person,” a relevant mantra in today’s cold world and also the name of a local brand that promotes positivity via clothing…
The Rule Gallery has decided to participate in Denver’s Month of Photography by mounting Basic Pictures: Joseph Coniff, which oddly enough is not made up of photos but is, instead, a painting show.
Ancient Rome left us mounds of olive-oil pots, says artist Dmitri Obergfell, and now we manufacture hundreds of thousands of aluminum cans that are buried in dumps, waiting to be discovered again as artifacts in some future millennium. Obergfell riffs off this and other ideas, through visual markers from antiquity and the use of symbolically loaded modern materials for Man is a Bubble and Time is a Place, a solo show opening March 23 at Gildar Gallery.
The Crossroads Theater is at another crossroads in its troubled ten-year history. According to Dennis Malone, director of operations at Hope Communities, which handles the building, the theater is behind on rent and may have to close.
Wall Writers, Basquiat Before Basquiat and Ryan McGinley, three exhibits focusing on twenty-somethings from the recent past, should be eye-opening for the twenty-somethings who frequent the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
The emerald ash borer is Denver bound, and Denver arts and culture organizations are bracing for a fight.
Comedy Central has announced its 2017 Stand-Up Presents lineup, and at the top of list of comedians who will be given a half-hour special is Denver’s own Adam Cayton-Holland, reports Sidesplitter. This is one hometown boy who’s made very, very good. Cayton-Holland, a former staff writer at Westword, has toured…
Photographer Larry Hulst has been shooting concerts since the mid-’60s. Over the decades, he has watched photography transition from film to digital.
The Curtis hotel has commissioned an amazing new art collection. Even if you’re not checking into the downtown Denver hotel, you should check it out.
Backstory: Western American Art in Context, a collaboration between History Colorado and the Denver Art Museum, not only tries to fill in our understanding of the West, but marks the start of a new chapter for History Colorado.
In case anybody’s wondering after the recent Saturday Night Live skit about a Denver Zoo animal pornographer…no… photographer, the actual Denver Zoo does not support animal porn.
Millions of people carry portable filmmaking devices in their pockets; with a smart phone, they can shoot, edit, color-correct and distribute a film with a few finger taps. Thinking about the old days — when people shot on film, sent their footage by mail to be developed, and cut-and-spliced their…
