Photographer Mark Sink says his current show, Mark Sink Photographs 1975-2010: Encounters With the Past, at the Byers-Evans House Gallery, isn’t so much a retrospective as it is a survey of techniques he’s used over the years, from lo-fi toy and Diana cameras to the colloidion wet-plate process he works…
Local artist Amy Yetman, seasoned by time spent living in big cities like Chicago and Boston, has always loved outdoor markets, with their funky mix of art, craft and antiques. “It was a little dream of mine,” she says. “But I was always waiting for someone else to do it.”…
It almost seems like a no-brainer: Take the avant Cirque du Soleil fancy circus shtick and plant it on the back of a magnificent Arabian steed. Or two, or three, or fifty. Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Horse and Man, the invention of Cirque founder Normand Latourelle, is what might…
Samuel Schimek is one of the enterprising Denver designers behind YesPleaseMore, a Create Denver-sponsored temporary retail store that boosts local products. From those wicked-cute Horndribbles plushies to Rick Griffin’s Matterial letterpress stationery, the reasonably priced merchandise in the recurring shop is 100 percent created by Colorado artists and designers. There’s…
Dana Cain is the lady with her thumb in a million pies: A 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…
Alternative art will bloom tonight in unexpected places when the Denver Theatre District hosts Illiterate Gallery at Primebar, 1515 Arapahoe Street, for one of its periodic salons in downtown locations. “They approached us to hang artwork on the wall there for two hours,” says Adam Gildar of Illiterate. “We’ll have…
The Aspen Filmfest kicks off tomorrow night with a sneak-preview screening of the John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy and a concert by Lennon’s pre-Beatle cohorts in the Quarrymen. But, hey, if your pocketbook is just not tony enough for Aspen, you can get the same package tonight at the Boulder…
Kelly Shortandqueer is small in stature but big on words, especially when it comes to the Denver Zine Library, which he co-founded with Jamez Terry in 2003. Over the past seven years, the library, a herculean underground effort to cataloue a variety of zines, from independent music chatter and literary…
Why people love to disappear, like Shoeless Joe in Field of Dreams or Harry Potter in Goblet of Fire, into the depths of a cornfield is hard to ascertain. One supposes it has to do with our overall love of fresh air and mystery, especially when accompanied by the crispy…
Artist, humorist, DJ and man-about-town Bill Amundson has been part of the Denver landscape for more than thirty years, and I’ve known him for most of that time. Far, far away in a another life, I managed the Ogden Theatre, which was then a prehistoric Landmark repertory cinema, and Bill…
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 and chocolate fests each year. Her latest – and biggest – project is next summer’s Denver County Fair. But Dana is also an avid art…
Catherine O’Neill Thorn, the Westword Mastermind behind Art From Ashes, a local poetry program for at-risk youth, couldn’t believe that Denver wasn’t the first city to host a Running of the Gays. Turns out there have been similar events in settings as far away as Australia and as close (and…
Denver Urban Gardens, a literal grassroots organization, was founded 25 years ago to help start and support community gardens in diverse neighborhoods across the city. The quarter-century anniversary of this group is reason enough to celebrate — but today, DUG will also break ground on its hundredth community garden at…
Kate Feinsod’s South Gaylord Street boutique Pome is at once the product of her whim and of her sense of community-building and public service: She hand-picks every item in the store, according to her own unique tastes, and is such a fierce proponent of the buy local movement that she’ll…
Denver’s premier Chicano theater troupe for nearly forty years, Su Teatro is emerging from a few years of flux and tension, finally at home in its permanent new barrio venue, the Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center @ the Denver Civic Theatre. After months of fundraising, Su Teatro will…
It’s the real rite of autumn for any kid (and many a grown-up, too): You really know fall is here when you go out into the fields to pick your pumpkin. And it can’t be just any pumpkin. There’s always going to be one pumpkin that speaks your language, who…
Bad-mouth peace? Who could? There is no solid argument against it. In our heart of hearts, we all want to work together, coexist quietly and get on with what’s really important in life. And even in a world as cynical as this one we live in, peace is something worth…
Like cooking, the art of yoga is bound by that stolid type of sociological stereotype claiming that although more women on the planet earth cook — and in the modern world, practice traditional yoga — it’s the men who are always considered the greatest chefs… and yogis. But Neal Pollack,…
Dance is a hard sell. A lot of people don’t really understand it, nor do they desire to, and many of those who say they do like to stick to the basics: Tap Dogs, So You Think You Can Dance, once a year, The Nutcracker. But, really, that is just…
Inspired by the grand opening earlier this year of Denver Justice Center, the folks at the University of Colorado at Denver College of Arts and Media saw the new jail as the tie-in for a fall program that aims to expand on the nature of justice through the eyes of…
Just in time to pick up your must-have skinny black jeans, bamboo-fiber sweater coats and silvery-black peekaboo tanks, Stella B’s boutique, 7504 Grandview Avenue in Olde Town Arvada, has put up an offer you can’t refuse, through Groupon: Put up $40 and you’ll get $80 worth of merchandise at the…
The Museo de las Américas, already dedicated to a pan-cultural view of the New World, figures importantly in the unfolding Biennial of the Americas, which kicks off in a week with events and art exhibits throughout the city. So, for Liberadores/Liberators, a new show opening today at the Museo in…
