Challenged to create an art show to enhance History Colorado’s companion exhibit to 1968, El Movimiento — a straightforward visual history of the local Chicano rights movement that flourished in the barrio areas of Denver decades ago — Maruca Salazar of the Museo de las Americas came up with a street-smart answer…
Book signings don’t always happen in book stores — this week, for instance, you can follow your literary fancy to a movie screening or a cat cafe. If you prefer the old-fashioned format, though, you can stick to the tried-and-true with the appearance of a pair of local detective-fiction masters…
Westword is under construction. From 10 p.m. Monday, February 9, until mid-morning on Tuesday, February 10, you won’t see any new material on Westword.com — but we’ve got a very good reason. When we return, we’ll do so with a brand-new website and a fresh new look, featuring larger photos,…
History Colorado turned on the wayback machine on February 5 for a festive first look at the new exhibit 1968, a visual overview of a year that rocked the twentieth century with a wave of new style, pop music and political upheaval. Period-appropriate gear was encouraged, as you can see…
1968 was a sociopolitical crossroads at which a war, political schisms, activism, youth culture, style, the arts and the widening gender gap all converged in a fast moment of change. The exhibit 1968: The Year That Rocked History at History Colorado, which officially opens to the public on Saturday, February…
For the U.S., 1968 was a sociopolitical crossroads at which a war, political schisms, activism, youth culture, style, the arts and the widening gender gap all converged in a fast moment of change. The exhibit 1968: The Year That Rocked History, which officially opens to the public on Saturday, February…
#38: Colin Ward Colin Ward lives to create, juggling disciplines with grace at Rhinoceropolis, one of Denver’s most successful DIY arts spaces (it celebrates its tenth anniversary this year). No prima donna, the musician, producer, composer, performer, percussionist, painter, video artist, curator and events designer seeks to bring talented people…
Everyone who’s anyone in the American ski industry converged on the Colorado Convention Center over the weekend for a first look at all the latest gear at the 2015 SIA Snow Show. Photographer Danielle Lirette was there to capture a sneak peek for the rest of us; keep reading for…
According to Banking on Colorado, public banks should “support Main Street, not Wall Street” — by putting people in charge of how their money is used. At tomorrow’s Public Banking Conference, national speakers Ellen Brown, Nomi Prins, Mike Krauss and Gwen Hallsmith will discuss how taking our finances into our…
This weekend’s gallery slate includes transformations of place, fanciful collaborations and an artist-curated pop-up, and wraps up a great month of shows. Keep reading for a look at what’s on the walls…and the floors. See also: 10 Things to Do for $10 in Denver This Weekend (Six Free!), January 30-February…
#39: Lauren A. Wright Though 2015 Biennial of the Americas artistic director Lauren A. Wright is a hometown girl, she spent nearly a decade abroad in the United Kingdom, where she explored international trends in art as a curator for Turner Contemporary and also worked on special projects for Tate…
While the Denver Center Theatre Company premiere of Benediction, the final installment of a Kent Haruf trilogy adapted for the stage by Eric Schmiedl, might be the biggest news on local stages this weekend, regional companies big and small will also be powering up for February with a blend of…
As if Denver hasn’t already gone to the cats — as evidenced by the recent opening of the Denver Cat Company, the city’s first cat cafe — the Denver County Fair just announced its first-ever Kitten Pavilion for the 2015 edition, which opens on July 31 at the National Western…
#40: Cecily Cullen If curation is an art, Cecily Cullen wields it with a broad brush; as creative director at Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Art, she continually creates sophisticated exhibitions that take a global and multicultural look at art or offer comprehensive overviews of mediums and…
Rocky Mountain National Park’s yearlong centennial celebration kicked off in September, but if you’re a stickler for details, today marks the park’s actual anniversary: One hundred years ago today, President Woodrow Wilson signed the bill designating national-park status to the area. In celebration, the park and the nearby towns of…
Beat icon William S. Burroughs (Bull Lee in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road) was a queer raconteur, a heroin addict, a world traveler, and the author of such brutally honest books as Junkie, Queer and, most notably, the game-changing Naked Lunch. He famously shot his common-law wife, Joan Vollmer, in…
From pop art to cutting-edge art to public art and beyond, there’s a little bit of everything to see this weekend, as gallery spaces kick off the new year with looks back…and looks forward. Keep reading for a look at some of the new shows opening this weekend, and one…
Sexpot Comedy founders Andy Juett and Kayvan Khalatbari know first-hand how hard the members of Denver’s close-knit comedy community work throughout the year, building their own careers and helping one another along the way. And the duo thinks that throwing the first annual Denver Comedy Awards is a great way…
#41: Aaron “Ukulele Loki” Johnson Aaron Johnson, aka Ukulele Loki, blithely changes hats every day: A musician, emcee extraordinaire, activist, lapsed public-school teacher, Denver County Fair freak-show host and radio host for Colorado Public Radio’s OpenAir (as well as a co-founder of Boulder’s Radio 1190), Johnson moves and shakes to…
Collage artist Peter Yumi hasn’t exactly been in hiding the last five years, though he’s rarely shown any work in galleries during that time. But he has been busy in the studio and sharing work with other artists on the Internet, and in 2015, he’ll be back on gallery walls,…
In these parts, we don’t just call this a holiday: The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Marade — so named by former Denver First Lady Wilma Webb to mark it as a cross between a political march and a celebratory parade — is known for being one of the…
Things are already shaking for Sexpot Comedy in 2015, with a new video series ready to premiere, a slate of shows both big and small in the works, and a move toward having more of those shows at 3 Kings Tavern. But first, the minds behind Sexpot decided it was…
