Iraqi artist Hakim Alkarim, who now lives here, expresses unique experiences shaped by continued strife in his homeland in many forms, from beautiful environmental installations informed by Iraqi history to The Witness Archive, a series of spooky portraits that stretch their photographic roots to reveal the bare ectoplasm behind every…

One thing we share unequivocally with our ancestors: the heavens above. And just like our prehistoric precursors, we continue to be fascinated and inspired by the moon and stars, even if, in this day and age, we’ve gone so far as to set foot on the former and roundly hypothesized…

Jill Warner of Denver’s popular mid-century/modern design emporium Mod Livin’ had no trouble rooting out local designers of furniture and decorative objects when she put out the call for Denver by Design, a competition intended to connect Colorado’s indigenous design community with the forthcoming Denver Modernism Show. Sixty of them…

This year’s Mile High Mayhem scooter rally, celebrating a remarkable twelfth anniversary, will be living in the past: With its “Mile High School Musical” theme and four days of events named after a salvo of high-school movies, it’s all about the joy of youth and the call of the carefree…

It’s been a long, hard ride to this moment, peppered along the way with fundraising concerts and pleas for equipment donations, but Denver’s first Girls Rock Camp, inspired by the original in Portland (and the subsequent documentary) finally got off the ground this week: 25 girls – give or take…

Modern Muse Theatre Company co-director Gabriella Cavallero, an Argentine by birth, fell into a gold mine when her mother, a concert pianist on the East Coast, teamed up with Grammy-winning Uruguayan bandoneón master Raúl Jaurena for a series of tango concerts. It got her thinking about how the singular art…

Why throw a Tu B’Av Jewish Festival of Love? For one thing, American Jews don’t know much about it. It’s primarily an Israeli version of Valentine’s Day in modern times — though in ancient times, white-robed unmarried women were said to dance in the vineyards outside Jerusalem, with young men…

Cherry Creek High School grad Matt Iseman has covered as lot of ground since leaving the Creek behind for Princeton, then med school at Columbia and a residency back home at CU. That’s when he pulled the old switcheroo and quit doctoring altogether to stand up and tell jokes in…

Open your ears for a tasty midsummer double-up tonight at Swallow Hill Music Hall: Slaid Cleaves, an Americana keeper currently touring to promote Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away, will offer up a platter of songs from the new Gurf Morlix-produced album on the homegrown DIY label Music Road…

Denver’s well-run Colorado Dragon Boat Festival, now in its ninth year, is still growing, and that’s good for us and all the thousands of people who flock there each year to taste the quality ethnic food, shop the vendor booths, take in the cultural performances and demonstrations and root for…

When Kirsten Wilson took on the task of molding a multimedia performance around the theme of Boulder’s Sesquicentennial celebration, she clearly chose the hard road, partly by studying the town’s formation in terms of its iniquities. The resulting work, Rocks Karma Arrows, strays in and out of Boulder’s 150-year past,…

Ivar Zeile of Plus Gallery first observed R. Justin Stewart in action in 2007 at the Plus intern gallery, Object + Thought, where the invited artist impressed Zeile with his ability to work quickly and brilliantly, despite time limitations and a lack of familiarity with the site. Now Stewart has…

You already know that the stretch of East Colfax known as the Bluebird District, which runs from York Street to Colorado Boulevard, is one of the hippest zones in town. And you may have already had your margs at Mezcal and your cupcakes at the Shoppe and Lovely Confections. But…