What is Smash Putt? Oh lord, what is it not? To begin with, it’s a wicked art installation: a gigantic pinball machine, a Rube Goldberg-esque robotic creation on a major scale, Mad Max at the Putt Putt, with cocktail swilling included in the fun. And lucky you: Smash Putt!, a…
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…
How do you get kickstarted when you’re a young artist, right out of art school with nothing lining your pockets but a smudge of paint and a fierce desire to put your talent on the map? For some lucky emerging artists in Denver, it all starts with a good studio…
Born in Sweden, the transitional early-twentieth-century painter Birger Sandzén came to the United States expecting to be here only a few years. But instead, he settled in Lindsborg, Kansas, a small town with a reputation for being a “Little Sweden,” where he taught and later ran the art department at…
“There’s no better programming for the holidays than a little Japanese ghost story,” says Denver FilmCenter programmer Keith Garcia. So anyone who’s looking for a break from Christmas overkill will feel right at home viewing the Japanese horror flick Kuroneko, made in 1968 by Kaneto Shindo, during its one-week holiday…
Boulder artist Rebecca DiDomenico calls herself a maker. “I was just born like that; I can’t help it,” she says. “I’m a maker: I like to make things with my hands. I once tried to meditate, and I was a miserable failure at it. My meditation teacher said to me,…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning December 1, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve…
Quietly, very quietly, over the last year since the venue opened, Illiterate Gallery director Adam Gildar instigated a resident artist program, wherein Illiterate offers artists who go through an application process a chance to stage a solo show at the gallery and, for a small monthly fee, prepare for it…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning December 1, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning December 1, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve…
Oh, we’re only kids now, but someday we’re gonna be the guys that make ya laugh and cry and think that there’s a little stardust left on life’s dirty old pan. – Mickey Moran in Babes in Arms. Among young and emerging artists these days, the loudest complaint is against…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning December 1, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve…
Artist Teddy O’Connor goes both ways: He works in three dimensions, creating mixed media assemblage works, but for the last couple of years, he’s also been hard at work making comic books infused with a funny, personal Teddy vision, about the lives of pyramids and other rarefied nonsense. “As an…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning December 1, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve…
Denver fashion maven Brandi Shigley is all bounce and determination; even when she cries (yes, even the most cheerful people lose it once in awhile amid the trials of entrepreneurship: After vandals broke a window at Shigley’s Fashion Denver boutique and headquarters last week, Brandi admits that there were tears),…
Ravi Zupa is an unschooled artist. Yet he’s bright and searching and far from uneducated, and he surely channels an old soul; Ravi credits his mother, an art teacher, with providing him with artist tools and the freedom to do with them as he pleased while he was growing up…
The members of the saucy, all-female acoustic trio Gristle Gals usually refer to their music — a blending of gypsy jazz, Americana and rock — as “gypsy grass.” But soon you can change that to “steamphunk,” which describes music that’s modern and edgy, but with an old-timey feel. That’s because…
If you follow Talking Shop on Westword’s Show and Tell blog, you already know about the 24 Days of Christmas at Talulah Jones, the well-grounded, half-children’s, half-girly boutique at 1122 East 17th Avenue, where Robin Lohre has been hosting trunk shows featuring local artisans every single night since December 1…
Lonnie Hanzon, Wizard in Residence at the Museum of Outdoor Arts, will be making magic again at Hudson Holiday, the annual festival that MOA sponsors at Hudson Gardens. Spread throughout the grounds, this is a light show for the ages: lavish and excessive, psychedelic, funny as hell, beautiful, whimsical and…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning December 1, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning December 1, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve…
You haven’t really experienced the holidays until you’ve seen the historic and elegant Grant-Humphreys mansion on Quality Hill in seasonal dress, with poinsettias lining the grand staircase and light streaming into the first-floor sunroom. That was the setting last Sunday for Fashion Denver’s quarterly shopping spree, Vixen, a festive holiday…
