Are you one of the half-billion locals who didn’t nab a ticket to Wicked? Oh, stop crying in your witch’s brew! Here’s a chance to watch the Wicked cast work in a different light and a cozier venue than the Buell: Wicked Rocks!, a one-night-only, cast-produced Project Angel Heart benefit…

The mission at Jonathan Kaplan’s Plinth Gallery is as simple and stylish as its purpose: to exhibit the sculptural vessel with an emphasis on the art form of ceramics. And to accomplish that, he’s shown works by ceramic artists from around the area and across the country. But he considers…

It ain’t easy being a pit bull in these parts, but if you were one, at least you’d have the Colorado Pit Bull Rescue on your side. The nonprofit focuses primarily on homeless shelter pits — who are taken in, rehabilitated and placed in loving homes — and its overall…

Recession-bound? Money’s tight? Need cheering up? Dana Cain of the annual Athena Festival, a bubbling cauldron of all things mystical, metaphysical and psychic in our world and other planes, says nothing will make you feel more fantastic than a day of having your cards read, getting a Reiki massage, shopping…

As poet Chris Ransick comes to the end of his second (and last) term as Denver Poet Laureate, he’s looking forward to focusing on doing his own thing. But though Ransick says he’s enjoyed being the face of poetry promotion in town, he’s already taken a step in that direction…

Adam Gildar, who happens to be a former Westword intern, and his cohorts Sander Lindeke and Joseph Wall of Illiterate, a local magazine, website and indie social network, have been at work changing the face of the local arts publication by inviting audience participation in a new and different way…

What red-blooded woman with an ounce of fashion sense doesn’t love shoes? It turns out that ceramic artists have that proclivity, too, including the guys (it’s okay, men, I’ve observed more than a few of you staring longingly at a pair of lizard cowboy boots in my lifetime), as evidenced…

Contrary to what you and the rest of the general public might have thought, the Denver Pavilions has never gone anywhere, says Gart Properties spokeswoman Wendy Manning. Behind all the yellow tape, she notes, it’s been business as usual for Pavilions merchants, while improvements, including street-entry escalators, LED screens and…

Jen “Hurricane” Nordhem, Denver Bicycle Film Festival producer and former bike messenger and street racer, can easily find her way around what’s generally thought of as a man’s world. But when she entered her first criterium race, she realized that she’d never raced against women. So in an attempt to…

This year’s sixteen-day JAAMM Festival (that’s short for Jewish Arts, Authors, Movies and Music) at the Mizel Center for Arts and Culture is just as JAAMM-packed as it sounds. The extraordinary cultural cornucopia will take off from its early origins as a festival of books and authors by not only…

There’s no place more spooky on Halloween than a graveyard, particularly one like Denver’s historic Riverside Cemetery, which is one of the area’s oldest (and, let’s face it, slightly unkempt) boneyards and is full of famous dead people. But that’s especially true when some of those renowned residents — such…

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has more than its share of creative thinkers working behind the scenes, and astrobiologist David Grinspoon is most certainly one of them. An author, music lover, expansive scientist and all-around nice guy, Grinspoon is one of those folks who can plaster a big…

Election day is right around the corner, and that’s downright spooky. That message will be taken to the hilt tonight when New Era Colorado and Deproduction/Denver Open Media host a volunteer Trick or Vote canvassing event, followed by a blowout Media Monster Halloween Bash at DOM Studios, 700 Kalamath Street…

Denver’s large Latino population ensures plenty of Day of the Dead activities in these parts, but there are few as perfectly distilled as tonight’s Día de los Muertos Procession on Santa Fe Drive, which goes straight back to the root of the holiday that honors the dead in an upbeat…

Halloween’s over, and you know what that means: The holiday shopping season is on. It’s time to start hitting the craft sales and markets, and one of the nicest around — the enormous Handweavers Guild of Boulder Fiber Art Show and Sale — can be found this week at the…

Since his death in 2001, many of those who loved author Douglas Adams — and I mean adored him with all their hearts — would never, ever accept a sixth installment of his beloved Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, discourteously dashed off by a substitute author, as authentic, no…

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” That’s how Miss Maudie Atkinson explained Atticus…

Strobe lights? Check. Fog machines? Check. Zombies? Well, duh! City of the Dead, a new haunt in town, is all about the undead, from start to finish. Comprising 14,000 square feet under a giant tent at the Mile High Marketplace, I-76 and 88th Avenue, the fledgling spook house is a…

When fine artist Jenny Morgan last showed work in these parts, the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design grad was all the buzz — young, promising and lauded for her striking self-portraits and multiple canvases spread with cropped nudes. Now she’s back, after a grad-school hiatus at the School…

The idea of Jews as political radicals is an easy reach for me: My Jewish leftist folks, after all, stumped for Henry Wallace and the Progressive Party in the ’40s, and my father, an accountant who did books for the Mine Mill Union, among others, cast votes for the Socialist…

Like many deserving cultural side products, the literary journal hasn’t fared well during the recession. Even the really good ones, like the University of Colorado Denver-sponsored Copper Nickel, have trouble attracting attention — let alone putting out a quality book — in these hard times. So what do you do?…

In terms of permeating the public mindspace, Halloween is huge. I mean HUGE. Throughout October, we’re all busy building awesome costumes, seeing Halloween plays, visiting pumpkin patches and corn mazes, buying witch cookies and, these days, even decorating our homes for Halloween. I have no complaints: Halloween is the kind…