Captain America made me the patriot I am today. I’m sure there were some other influences. Probably a little Red Dawn, a splash of GI Joe and perhaps even some stuff that didn’t come from comic books, movies or after-school cartoons. But it was Captain America, specifically a two-year story…
You get a lot for your buck at Gorinto, the occasional Wednesday-night, outside-the-box performance series at the Mercury Cafe. And tonight’s edition, the first Gorinto in 2013, will be pouring it on and turning your ears and eyes inside-out with a program called Piano Mutations Live! See also: – Best…
Six college students are pedaling for a purpose for 3,200 miles for Bicycles Against Poverty, and on Wednesday the team will make a pit stop at the Denver Bicycle Cafe. Bicycles against Poverty (BAP) is a non-profit organization that distributes bicycles to low-income entrepreneurs in Africa who pay for the…
Last Friday night, a breathless crowd of lucky ticketholders, mostly Denver Art Museum members, took their seats in the DAM’s Ponti Hall for one of the museum’s most anticipated events of the year: an exclusive performance featuring the famed Chicago artist’s Soundsuit creations, wearable art pieces that move to their…
If fireworks and baseball games aren’t your thing, July has plenty of geek entertainment on tap — whether you’re looking to flex your gaming muscles, get the latest book in the classic Shannara series signed by the author or just sit in the blessedly cool air-conditioned embrace of a movie…
Most identical twins will go to great lengths to convince you that while they may look the same, inside they are very different. But while the Sklar Brothers actually looked quite different at Comedy Works on Friday night — with Randy in plaid shirt and beard, and Jason in black…
Furthering its commitment to supporting local artists, GroundSwell Cannabis Boutique and Gallery recently commissioned a mural on the shop’s heavily trafficked block of Colfax Avenue. With help from the gallery’s DJ Mario Zoots, curators Rebecca Peebles and Danette Montoya connected with artist and sign painter Kevin Hennessy, who (along with…
The Cat Care Society’s Tails of the Painted Cats fundraiser has proven so popular that it’s become an annual event: Each year, the fanciful fiberglass felines decorated by local artists make the rounds to different galleries and art districts before winding up at a gala auction at the end of…
The Black Forest fire, which started June 11 northeast of Colorado Springs, has been deemed the costliest in state history. “Surely, the loss of every house represents a tragedy for the people who lived there,” writes Westword art critic Michael Paglia in this week’s Artbeat column. “But in one case,…
Editor’s note: Artist Charlie Boots, represents the inaugural pair of PAIR residents at Denver’s Powerhaüs Studio. As part of his residency, he and his fashion-designing counterpart will be reporting from the real world via Show and Tell, as they learn the ropes from studio mentors Mona Lucero, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy…
The Black Forest fire, which started June 11 northeast of Colorado Springs, has been deemed the costliest in state history, taking out more than 500 homes and many other buildings. Surely, the loss of every house represents a tragedy for the people who lived there. But in one case, the…
Rockmount Ranch Wear clothing has been sighted on celebrities around the globe. And now, in honor of Spun, its textile exhibition, the Denver Art Museum has stocked an entire corner of its gift shop with items from Rockmount. We grabbed a few minutes with Steve Weil, president of Rockmount, to…
Editor’s note: Longtime Denver fashion designer Francis Roces, whose brand name is KimonoDragons, is half of the inaugural pair of PAIR residents at Denver’s Powerhaüs Studio. As part of his three-month residency, he and his fine-art counterpart, Charlie Boots, will be reporting from the real world via Show and Tell,…
Randy and Jason Sklar make a living off of their “twinning” jokes. The Sklar Brothers will be at the Comedy Works for a three-day run that starts June 27; in honor of their appearance in Denver, here’s our list of the ten best sets of twins in pop culture. See…
Kenn Amdahl is an author, an entrepreneur, and something of a homespun polymath based in Broomfield Colorado. Frustrated by difficulties getting his book, an educational manual leavened by bits of whimsy, Amdahl founded Clearwater Publishing in 1990. Since then, Clearwater has released 11 books from their humble press. Westword sat down with Amdahl to talk about math and science, self-publishing, his favorite books and being part of a community of writers.
On July 22, The Colorado Theatre Guild will present the Colorado equivalent of the Tonys: the eighth annual Henry Awards, celebrating outstanding achievements during the past season. The event not only celebrates local work, it’s also an annual fundraiser for the CTG. The nominees were released last week; tickets go…
Art collector and Green Box Arts Festival founder Christian Keesee was so intrigued when he first saw the work of Tomás Saraceno at the Venice Biennale that he later purchased the artist’s giant installation “Cloud City.” He has since loaned that piece to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (for a…
Laura Phelps Rogers needs viewers to interact with her latest work, 1100 Pieces. Beginning with 1,100 individual four-inch-by-four-inch canvases adorned with letters, the artist is asking her audience to share a word, one that will be displayed on a massive billboard inside Edge Gallery, starting tonight with her show’s opening…
Thousands of professionals in the fields of architecture, planning, design and related occupations, along with many vendors, are meeting in Denver June 20-22 for the American Institute of Architects’ annual convention, this year titled “Building Leaders.” In honor of the event, Westword art critic Michael Paglia gave over his column…
These days, there’s no shortage of loud, obnoxious jerks on TV getting paid to basically yell at you, but it wasn’t always this way. Until Morton Downey Jr. helped pioneer the new age of television hate in the late ’80s, the TV landscape was a much more civil place (with…
We can’t get enough of the imaginative social-media mugs from local artists. So we’ve compiled yet another collection of their photos, as shared on Facebook with all their FB friends — and now, you. Enjoy. See also: – Facebook portraits of artists: A local gallery – More Facebook portraits of…
Although there are similar spaces across the country, Civic Center Park is a cherished urban treasure for Denver and, by extension, the entire time zone. The park and the structures within it, as well as the State Capitol, Lincoln Park, the Denver City and County Building and several outlying buildings,…
