Colorado native artist and photographer Sara Ford started painting in college because she didn’t want to take the color theory class everyone hated. Needless to say, she got really good at it. Through photography, she has worked with clients such as 303 Magazine, Denver Magazine and DVLP clothing, among others,…
It’s been a long, ongoing, dirty process of restoring the First Avenue Hotel at 101 Broadway — for the last year and a half or so, owner Jesse Morreale (of Rockbar, La Rumba and Mezcal, among others) has been slowly but surely pecking away at restoring the long-vacant landmark, restoring…
The internetz are all about the law of unintended consequences: Once you put it out there, there’s no telling where it’ll go or in what form it will return. Of course, there were no internetz back in the day of Joseph Decreux, but it’s perhaps reasonable to speculate that the…
Stupidity abounds in our daily lives, and the internetz have only exacerbated its abundance. Commercials hold a rather large market share of the overall world stupidity index, and since beer commercials own a significant amount of broadband real estate, by extension they also are responsible for much of the stupidity…
Diminutive and soft-spoken, with black owl-eye glasses and long, wavy dark hair, Viviane Le Courtois is one of those “still waters run deep” types, whose mind, you just know, is working overtime, all the time. Viviane is a thinker and an observer: There’s a bit of a scientist in this…
The game of football has a long, storied tradition of homoerotica: the spandex pants, the frequent bending over, the sweaty, man-on-man grappling — it’s a classic case of Sparta syndrome: athletic, highly ritualized body-worship. And though uncomfortable fruit-salad shots and gratuitous ass-slapping are by no means unusual in a televised…
The Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Arts (1311 Pearl Street, 303-832-8576, www.kirklandmuseum.org) is a collecting institution with three areas of focus: the work of Colorado’s premier modernist, Vance Kirkland, the work of other Colorado artists, and international design. It’s this third category that’s on view now in The Furniture…
The challenges of independent filmmaking are many, from scriptwriting to planning around multiple people’s schedules to finding funding and finding distribution, the list of hurtles to jump goes on and on. In fact, it’s rather amazing when a film is actually made. The Bug Theatre, a venue for local indie…
Finding the mayor of Shotgun Willie’s wasn’t easy. In spite of the fact that Foursquare enables oversharing (I’m at the grocery store! I’m at the gynecologist! I’m at the grocery store, and so is my gynecologist!), the program does a fairly good job of protecting users’ identities. Users go solely…
It’s the day we’ve all been patiently waiting and preparing for the entire year. The one day when we can come together as a people, not just as Americans, but also as human beings, and celebrate the magnificent beauty and potential of the human imagination. Yes, today is Guinness World…
Michael Mulhern would like you to know that he is “not a crack whore.” Apparently, that’s the first thing people assume when you’re the mayor of the 15 Bus via East Colfax. “Yeah, I got a lot of weird comments when I posted that I got that mayorship on Facebook…
Bashing someone’s face in, locking their arms down, kicking them in the stomach — it’s all in a day’s work for a mixed martial artist. Of course, every fighter has to have a teacher to learn technique from, which is where Billy Hendricks, a former MMA fighter, comes in. As…
If conservative politics are a circus, then the Palin family is everyone’s favorite sideshow. The teen pregnancy, the strange babydaddy drama, the truncated term as governor — shoot, that was the Palins just getting warmed up, evidently, because just when you thought shit couldn’t get any weirder for the Addams…
Fashion Denver’s in-house French fashion designer and artist Raphael Lobello grew up in a fort built in the 1200s. After studying screen printing in Grenoble for two years, Lobello moved near Toulouse and studied fashion design for three more before coming to Denver, where he is learning English and making…
Dana Cain is the lady with her thumb in a million pies: The local maestra of event-planning throws several well-attended collectors expos, art shows, parties, chocolate fests each year. Her latest — and biggest — project is next summer’s Denver County Fair. But Dana is also an avid art collector…
What do you get when a popular game company swallows its pride and asks the anonymous users of 4chan’s video game forum why they didn’t like the new Call of Duty? You certainly don’t get a courteous discussion of the merits of the game along with some constructive criticism. No,…
Westword art critic and exhibit jurist Michael Paglia has already cast his votes and chosen the works for the upcoming Art District Best of 2010 exhibition at eventgallery 910Arts, and the results will be unveiled Friday night at the opening gala. But you still have time to weigh in, too,…
Walking along Santa Fe Drive the other day, I gazed at the van Straaten Gallery and thought about a shift that has taken place recently on the street. As usual, the gallery was closed, though a few spotlights were on so you could tell there was art on display inside…
Living in Denver — especially if you live in Capitol Hill, as I do — it can be easy to forget that, despite our fancy skyscrapers and hoity-toity public art, we still living in the wild American West, if a slightly more urbane one in within the blue insulation of…
Advertising is all around us — and thanks to the Internet, we can see all the weird stuff other countries are doing — telling us what to value and how to act, offering us insight on how to be better human beings (wink), or just making us laugh at ourselves…
Judge me if you will: I love The Jersey Shore. I love the uber-clever film editing designed to highlight the characters’ duplicity and incompetence, I love the fact that it’s inexplicably in Miami instead of New Jersey this season, hell, I even, in a weird way, love the Guido gang…
Vern Nieto knows his way around some Zuni fetishes — and no, you pervert, it’s not at all what you think. In the Zuni tradition, a “fetish” is a spiritually significant art object, a small, intricate charm carved from precious or semi-precious stone to reflect an animal of symbolic import;…
