Denver cultural mover and shaker Deborah Jordy has known Henry Lowenstein since she was a kid, enamored even then of his many quality children’s productions at the city’s fêted Bonfils Theatre on East Colfax Avenue. And she grew up a true believer in the magic Lowenstein, who was the creative…
This morning’s Martin Luther King Day march took to the streets with an historic edge: Denver celebrated one African American who helped make it possible for another to become president all these years later. The elated nation that elected Obama Commander-in-Chief will be bumping the clouds tomorrow, from coast to…
I clearly remember what kinds of pictures we drew when I was a kid: battles with tiny bullets and daggers flying everywhere, helicopters, horses (me), fairies, juvenile political cartoons and everyone’s reckoning of what a superhero, usualy caped, should be and look like, beyond that he or she should be…
You might think he’s just another Internet wonder, but teen comedian/musician Bo Burnham is determined to prove he’s for real… and he’s doing it in the flesh. The fresh-faced and openly gay performer, who first garnered mass attention (to the tune of two-million hits) for his YouTube video “My Whole…
Denver cultural mover and shaker Deborah Jordy has known Henry Lowenstein since she was a kid, enamored even then of his many quality children’s productions at the city’s fêted Bonfils Theatre on East Colfax Avenue. And she grew up a true believer in the magic Lowenstein, who was the creative…
You might think he’s just another Internet wonder, but teen comedian/musician Bo Burnham is determined to prove he’s for real… and he’s doing it in the flesh. The fresh-faced performer, who first garnered mass attention (to the tune of two-million hits) for his YouTube video “My Whole Family Thinks I’m…
Oh, you young folks, with your Ocean’s Eleven and all that. There’s nothing to compare to the original Rat Pack, who collectively starred in the original movie. And anyway, who today could be as suave, classy, footloose and, okay, a little bit sleazy, as Frank Sinatra, one of the redoubtable…
Did you ever stop to wonder exactly when it was that folks began to wrap themselves in animal skins? My guess is that it first happened when some hairless missing link got cold. After that, clothes became a cornerstone of civilization: cover-ups for the modest, gilding for lilies and just…
Boy, those folks at the Arvada Center’s annual Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering really know how to end a run. This year’s fest, which each year assembles rural bards from across the country (and, occasionally, from around the world) for an intensive five-day celebration of poetry and music inspired by ranching…
David Shneer is a one-man dynamo when it’s come to bringing into focus the divergent cultural wings of the Jewish diaspora locally, in the past as a professor and director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver and currently in a similar role at CU-Boulder. And he’s…
It’s hard to know why a horror novelist whose work has been compared favorably to everyone from his role model, Steven King, to creepy filmmaker David Cronenberg would have a hard time breaking into print. But Internet innovator Scott Sigler took it in stride and never looked back: Instead, he…
Comic books aren’t just for kids. That’s really been true for a long, long time, from the day they started zipping comics up in plastic bags and calling them collectors’ items. But the rise in the last few decades of the graphic novel, an inventive form that covers endless miles of literary…
These queens are most certainly not the “let them eat cake” variety: I can’t count the number of times Denver’s favorite dragster Nuclia Waste, aka mild-mannered humanitarian David Westman, and his/her ravishing Demented Divas have put it all on — feathers, frills and mustaches, too — to go all out for charity, tongues…
Because the Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities has such a great track record for tying all the loose ends together thematically, a trio of West-inspired photography shows open in the galleries today — just in time for the regional influx of National Western Stock Show visitors and next week’s returning Colorado Cowboy Poetry Gathering,…
Comic books aren’t just for kids anymore. That’s really been true for a long, long time, from the day they started zipping comics up in plastic bags and calling them collectors’ items. But the rise in the last few decades of the graphic novel, an inventive form that covers endless…
Because the Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities has such a great track record for tying all the loose ends together thematically, a trio of West-inspired photography shows in the galleries today — just in time for the regional influx of National Western Stock Show visitors and next week’s returning…
If you ask me, a person would have to be nuts to willingly get on the back of a red-eyed, one-ton boy bovine with smoke coming out of its ears and go for an eight-second joy ride. But that shows how much I know. For one thing, there’s a saddlebag…
Westword art critic Michael Paglia is one of Denver’s go-to guys on the subject of regional modern art: He not only flat-out loves it more than almost anything, but he’s also a walking reliquary of regional art history and an up-to-date encyclopedia of who’s who in the present. There aren’t…
Perhaps you spent too damn much money this holiday season. Or maybe you didn’t, and it’s driving your shopaholic soul crazy. It could just be that you’re already committed to the newfangled concept of renewable shopping and plan to start the new year off by doing it more conscientiously than…
David Shneer is a one-man dynamo when it’s come to bringing into focus the divergent cultural wings of the Jewish diaspora locally, in the past as a professor and director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Denver and currently in a similar role at CU-Boulder. And…
Sure, ladies, there is a downside to skiing: You have to take care of the darned gear if you want to schuss the slopes smoothly and without mishaps. But Colorado’s twin women’s gear shacks, outdoor Divas, understands your consternation about this lowly task, which especially plagues those of you who don’t have…
We already love that the Denver Public Library’s changing, themed, free Fresh City Life programs always include a cooking series from season to season, offering culinary tips, demonstrations and samples for every local closet gourmet worth a dash of salt. Fittingly, in a fledgling new year marked by the need to tighten our…
