Every ski area bids the season adieu with a big, sloppy snowball of slushy hoopla, but Vail can confidently declare its ginormous Spring Back to Vail one of the biggest spring bashes in Colorado’s high country, not to mention the entire nation – it’s so chock-full of stuff to do…
We’re all in the same boat here, ladies: The Spa Week website is off the hook! Hotter than Kilauea when it blows its top! Just be prepared to stand by for information, because the glorious week in spring when spas across the nation, including several here in Denver, offer introductory…
It ain’t easy being a poet, no matter where you live — a fact of life that L.A. poet Sarah Suzor and her creative cohorts, Lizzy Epstein and Polly Geller, had to find out the hard way once the protective arms of college life gave way to the real world…
Quick: “Pretty Flamingo.” Manfred Mann. “Over, Under, Sideways, Down?” Yardbirds, dude. “Cucumber Castle.” The Bee Gees, before they were, you know, the Bee Gees. “As Tears Go By.” Marianne Faithfull, before she became strung out and bitter. And, yes, the Stones, who wrote it, did it, too. Which one did…
Everything is going to the dogs these days, but in some cases, that’s not a bad thing, especially when those dogs are suffering, whether they be homeless, mistreated or stricken with cancer. The Bow Wow Buddies Foundation, a non-profit arm of the Camp Bow Wow doggie daycare chain, is dedicated…
At its best, April means perfect bike-riding weather: neither too hot nor too cold, with budding trees, singing birds and sprouting bulbs all around. The bikeways green up, and everyone’s wearing a smile under their helmets. This month’s Second Saturday Block Party on the 3100 block of East Colfax will…
This is stuff I couldn’t possibly make up. Of the black comedy Fido, from director Andrew Currie, indie film production company Anagram Pictures says: “Timmy Robinson’s best friend in the whole wide world is a six-foot tall rotting zombie named Fido. But when Fido eats the next-door neighbor, Mom and…
Suppose a guy from L.A. grew up pinko in a time when that was dangerous — but he longed to make movies and had an inside track until his leftist leanings got him blacklisted. So he hooked up with mobsters, began churning out pulpy porno and made some money. He…
For 32 years, the Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute offered opportunities unique to the region. It provided female literary, performing and visual artists a breather from the real world to pursue creative ends, by offering one-year stipends and, in earlier times, studio space to a handful of lucky applicants annually. Each…
As Earth Day approaches and everyone and their ninety-year-old grandmothers seem to be getting into the chip-in-and-be-green act, the time is ripe for WeeCycle, a local nonprofit started by attorneys, friends and fellow moms Jayme Ritchie and Sunny Heydorn to collect gently used and new baby gear for the children…
Here at Westword, we have a soft spot in our hearts for all local demonstrations of community between struggling cultural organizations. But when one of our designated Masterminds, Jason Bosch of ArgusFest, reaches out a helping hand to another, the Denver Voice, well, we just have to feel a little…
It won’t be masked lucha libre dudes or extreme fighters duking it out before the public tonight at RedLine Gallery. Nope, instead imagine four local artists brushing away, live and simultaneously, for three solid hours, with a cool, funky barrage of Miles Davis tunes swirling in their heads for inspiration…
Talk about Nero fiddling while Rome burns: When the Denver Auto Show opens to the public tomorrow at the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th Street, GM will be touting new Corvettes and Cadillac station wagons for 2010, while Chrysler pushes out its all-electric Town & Country EV wagon. In addition,…
Have you ever wondered where those flashy images on your snowboard come from? Just check out the annual Design the Modern Board Competition, sponsored by the Design Within Reach furniture studio in Cherry Creek North, and you’ll have at least one good answer. Competing artists near and far have already…
CORE New Art Space member Mark Penner-Howell will celebrate his second show in the CORE fold with the debut today of Too Big to Fail: Handsome Paintings for Ugly Times, a sophomore display of his big, bright paintings satirizing popular culture (we wrote about his freshman show last year). Reminiscent…
As Earth Day approaches and everyone and their ninety-year-old grandmothers seem to be getting into the chip-in-and-be-green act, the time is ripe for WeeCycle, a local nonprofit started by attorneys, friends and fellow moms Jayme Ritchie and Sunny Heydorn to collect gently used and new baby gear for the children…
Think you don’t know how to make things? Once you’ve met Wiley Sherer, the resident jack-of-all-trades at the TACtile Textile Art Center, that outlook will change forever. Every Friday from 5 to 7 p.m., Sherer hosts DYIFri, a free, drop-in workshop series with changing projects created from ordinary materials. Sherer…
When Simon Zalkind first met Paul Gillis in the ’80s, he was immediately enamored of the unpretentious artist’s work, with its dreamlike take on our times, its Zap Comix imagery, robotic figures and surreal symbolism. “I was taken with how smart and funny he was, while working through a set…
CORE New Art Space member Mark Penner-Howell will celebrate his second show in the CORE fold with the March 26 debut of Too Big to Fail: Handsome Paintings for Ugly Times, a sophomore display of his big, bright paintings satirizing popular culture. Reminiscent of some new painting coming out of…
Michael Chavez curates shows at Foothills Art Center in Golden, where he must cater to a specific suburban constituency; Christoph Heinrich, new modern-art curator at the Denver Art Museum, came to Denver over a year ago with a continental sensibility and the high-heeled shoes of the departing Dianne Vanderlip to…
These days, everybody’s got a class. Everyday people are knitting and making books. They’re learning to make felted wool gewgaws. DIY’s the back-to-nature movement of the decade, and that’s not a bad thing. So, here’s another class: Mod Livin’ continues its take on the concept tomorrow night at 6:30 p.m…
Before LoDo was club central and all cleaned up — in fact, before LoDo was LoDo — the visionary couple Mickey Zeppelin and Susan Wick opened The City Spirit Café, at 14th and Blake. A serendipitous art-cave and basement bookstore lined with mosaic and bright colors, City Spirit was a…
