Kids today don’t know from circuses; it’s either all Ringling’s bang, pop and elephants or the mystical nonsense of the cirque-style shebang. But the other kind of circus — the mom-and-pop-style extravaganza that’s been in the family since, say, 1842 and travels about from town to town with its tent…
Matt Kowal’s a busy guy. When he’s not occupied with his band, the Reals, he’s working as the Tour de Fat Creative and Sustain Director at New Belgium Brewing Company, aka the Tour de Fat impresario. In that capacity, those big old clown boots he wears oblige him to make…
One of the region’s most solid a cappella choral groups, the Ars Nova Singers prove themselves year in and year out, with a repertoire that spans the ages of choral music, right up to the minute, and a vocal savoir-faire that can’t be beat. This year’s Ars Nova season, which…
Back in August, the funny improv folks who call themselves Monkey’s Uncle found themselves without a zoo to call home: They learned their longtime gig at Jazz @ Jack’s was up. Happily, the silly simians grabbed a vine and swung over to a new island — the Avenue Theater –…
In the world of 20th-century composition, George Crumb stands alone. Known for reimagining the roles of instruments in the modern orchestra and freeing the musical score itself from its rectangular bonds, he’s a Pulitzer Prize winner who’s whimsically written for marbles pinging among piano strings, amplified violins and musicians who…
I always associate Labor Day in Denver with tents: the ones that begin lining up alongside the Sports Authority at 10th Avenue and Broadway at least a week in advance of Sniagrab, the Taste of Colorado tents handling crowds with big mouths all weekend in Civic Center Park, and even…
After risking her neck going undercover in South Korean and Thai brothels and subsequently charting the spread of sex slavery throughout the world, filmmaker Libby Spears knows a thing or two about human trafficking. But none of that prepared her for the revelation she ultimately uncovered — namely, that such…
Back in August, the funny improv folks who call themselves Monkey’s Uncle found themselves without a zoo to call home: Their longtime gig at Jazz @ Jack’s, they learned, was up. Happily, the silly simians grabbed a vine and swung over to a new island – the Avenue Theater –…
In the world of 20th-century composition, George Crumb stands alone. Known for reimagining the roles of instruments in the modern orchestra and freeing the musical score itself from its rectangular bonds, he’s a Pulitzer Prize winner who’s whimsically written for marbles pinging among piano strings, amplified violins and musicians who…
The gift book of the year? Hands down, we predict it’ll be The National Parks: America’s Best Idea (Random House, $50), the coffee-table-worthy companion tome to the latest Ken Burns doc series, which debuts on PBS later this month. That series will tackle the birth of the national park system…
Getting lost on a long holiday weekend is about as American as apple pie, but there’s no better place to do it this Labor Day than at the Chatfield Corn Maze, which opened its labyrinthine paths to the public on September 3, courtesy of the Denver Botanic Gardens. Eight acres…
World traveler, journalist, PR exec: Boulderite John Shors has done it all. But these days, he wears the hat of a novelist because, upon the release of his third work of fiction, Dragon House (NAL Trade, $15), he’s proven himself an author with a big scope — one who writes…
Though Thrill the World dance events circled the globe last October (and in L.A., as our cousins at the L.A. Weekly reported), there’s no doubt that Michael Jackson’s untimely passing this year will spark even more interest among people who want to emulate MJ’s famous Thriller moves in public while…
Bingo takes on a mystical tone in the Mexican version (known as loteria), for which folkloric symbols replace numbers on the cards. And that turns bingo into a whole new beisbol game, mis amigos — one with a tale behind every square on the card, from La Luna, the moon,…
“Monday ain’t a fun day/Tuesday’s a goof day/Wednesdays are frenzy/Thursday’s the worst day/Friday is great/’Cause I can hardly wait until the weekend.” Brit rocker Dave Edmunds surely had the working class pegged when he wrote those words back in the ´70s, and it hasn’t much changed. So pop those rocked-out…
It isn’t everyday a teen, particularly one who’s considered at-risk, gets to create a billboard. But that’s just what’s happened this summer at PlatteForum, where twelve youths enrolled in the gallery’s ArtLab program teamed up with student mentors from Metro State College of Denver’s Communication Design Department to create six…
Though Thrill the World dance events circled the globe last October, there’s no doubt that Michael Jackson’s untimely passing this year will spark even more interest among people who want to emulate MJ’s famous Thriller moves in public while dressed as zombies this Halloween. I mean, like, who wouldn’t want…
“Monday ain’t a fun day/Tuesday’s a goof day/Wednesdays are frenzy/Thursday’s the worst day/Friday is great/’Cause I can hardly wait until the weekend.” Brit rocker Dave Edmunds surely had the working class pegged when he wrote those words back in the ´70s, and it hasn’t much changed. So pop those lyrics…
It isn’t everyday a teen, particularly one who’s considered at-risk, gets to create a billboard. But that’s just what’s happened this summer at PlatteForum, where twelve youths enrolled in the gallery’s ArtLab program teamed up with student mentors from Metro State College of Denver’s Communication Design Department to create six…
The Denver Art Museum will get a head start on Halloween at tonight’s Untitled # 24 event: Subtitled Crossbones, the once-monthly highbrow party where anything goes (in a controlled sort of way) turns its artful focus on spooky stuff this time around, inspired by the DAM’s own little-known ghost stories…
How Stephanie Shearer, the entrepreneur behind Pandora Jewelry and Soul Haus, obtained the storied EZE Mop building has already been detailed in these pages (go to westword.com/2009-04-16/news/the-city-should-clean-up-with-this-plan-for-eze-mop/2 for that saga), but the next page is a whole ’nother story. According to plan, Shearer and her husband, Chris Bacorn, recently opened…
I’d have to assume it’s unanimous – we’re all glad to see DJ Jason Heller’s byline back in these pages — but Westword’s not the only venue to welcome back a conquering hero: In the last couple of months, Hella’s also been back behind the turntables at the hi-dive, again…
