Lonnie Hanzon Stirs Up an “Equality Cake” for PrideFest

In her hit cover of “MacArthur Park,” gay icon and disco-music diva Donna Summer famously sang, “Someone left the cake out in the rain/I don’t think that I can take it, because it took so long to bake it/And I’ll never have that recipe again.” Now a local artist is…

The Ten Best 21st-Century Buildings in Downtown Denver

From its beginnings in the mid-1800s, Denver has been a city of booms and busts, but there’s no doubt that the Mile High City is on one hell of a tear right now. The current economic explosion actually began in the late twentieth century, making the recession of a few…

The Mayday Experiment: Water Finds Its Way

Water always finds a way. In planning the tiny house, there have been so many conversations about water. Not only rainwater as a force of good – providing showers and drinking water – but rainwater as a destructive force, winnowing through every narrow channel and path. This is why there…

The Ten Best New Street Murals of Spring — Paint the Town!

Denver street art never sleeps, but it does hibernate during the winter. Now that spring is here, you can see new murals all over town — just in time for the International Art Materials Association convention at the Colorado Convention Center that opens today and runs through April 17. Some…

The Mayday Experiment: Ready, Set, Go!

After a long winter’s wait, it’s finally warm enough to put on the roof! The adhesives used to hold down the EPDM roofing require a period of 48 hours above 50 degrees, and we’re getting there, slowly. Of course, the winter was tough on the exposed plywood, and due to…

Ken Arkind Creates a Poem Run at the State of Downtown 2015

At the State of Downtown 2015 breakfast briefing last month, the Denver Partnership rolled out a roster of impressive statistics, including the fact that Denver has seen the country’s “largest increase in residents with college degrees,” according to 2014 U.S. Census stats and has the “best commercial real estate market…

Four Neo-Modern Abstract Solos Dazzle the Eye at the Havu Gallery

The William Havu Gallery has staked out a wide swath of aesthetic territory for its exhibitions. For example, while it highlighted neo-traditional landscapes last month, this month’s focus is on a set of solos featuring neo-modern abstracts. The array begins with Monroe Hodder: Smoke and Mirrors, which comprises very recent…

From Casino to New Jack City, Five Mafia Movies You Must See!

The International Film Series at the University of Colorado in Boulder is screening two films this weekend: Another Corleone: Another Sicily and The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer, one a documentary and the other a comedic take on the world so vividly captured by Mario Puzo’s The Godfather and Francis…