Life imitates art and art imitates life. We found proof of this with Denver native, digital designer and part-time haberdasher Brianna Corn, who delivered a contemporary take on Annie Hall at the 303 Fashion Weekend last month. Corn describes her style as “artsy, tomboy, grunge,” and while rands like Burton walked the catwalk, Corn…
Aspen Mountain and Snowmass opened for the season in November, and now its time for their neighbors, Aspen Highlands and Buttermilk to crank up the lifts. At Highlands, you’ll find more than 700 acres of terrain, or about 70 percent of the mountain. At Buttermilk, there will be morning treats…
As 2015 draws to a close, it looks like Walnut Street Galleries are focusing on one of the major themes of this year, when rampant redevelopment has changed the face of the arts-driven RiNo community. And at Leon in Uptown, street writer Jolt also chimes in on gentrification. Get a…
Are you sick of it yet? We are drowning in a tidal wave of promotion pushing Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s everywhere you look, and the premiere set for next Friday, December 18, is the anticipated film opening in history. Things weren’t always this way, though. Creator George Lucas was…
Add December 12 to your calendars as National Ding-a-Ling Day. It’s a day to get weird, cut loose and act a fool. The holiday might be on Saturday, but let’s celebrate it all weekend by sipping good beer, doing art for peace and laughing about drugs. Check out the Westword…
You slept in on Black Friday, skipped the crowds on Small Business Saturday and were still too tired to lift your pinky to shop online on Cyber Monday. Think of it this way: You were just waiting for a better shopping experience. Here’s where to find art and handmade wares…
The weather outside isn’t quite frightful, but don’t let that stop you from coming up with just the right event that will inevitably lead to cozying up with that special someone by the fire. If you need some inspiration to get started, here are five holiday-themed Denver date ideas. 5) Hammond’s…
What is the G-spot, and where is it? How important is foreplay? Is there a difference between sex and gender? Seventy-year-old sex educator/activist Joyce Lisbin, the focus of this week’s cover story, “Sex Marks the Spat,” and business partner Paul Froehlich, a 64-year-old videographer and producer in New York, want…
On the eve of what could be the most-awaited Star Wars film premiere of all time – Star Wars: The Force Awakens officially opens in theaters nationwide on December 18 – the Denver Art Museum just announced an out-of-this-world prize. A showy Smithsonian-curated exhibit, Star Wars™ and the Power of…
It was a generation ago, in the ’70s and ’80s, that the art of the Southwest — New Mexico, specifically — got hot. This led to a reassessment of the historic artists of Taos and Santa Fe and bolstered the careers of several contemporary artists working in that part of…
The latest entry in the Mad Max series offered a lot of great things — flamethrowers, fast cars and, of course, feminism. Yeah, you read that right: feminism. Now you can relive the glorious action-movie explosions and all the feminist subtext at “Feminism in the Time of the Apocalypse: Mad…
It’s hard to believe, considering all the work that goes into building a successful craft and flea market, but Amy Yetman’s picture-perfect seasonal Horseshoe Market only goes live for four days each year. Though she still stands by the one-day-only “get lucky” market model, Yetman began tossing around the idea…
Talk about a sign of the times! Like modern poets, some marquee writers are masters of minimalism, capturing our culture in a few giant, black block letters. Others create the equivalent of urban fortune cookies that we must crack. No matter the motivation, we always enjoy stumbling on clever marquee…
Shane Mauss has had a lively career since winning “Best Standup Comic” at the Comedy Arts Festival in 2007. With five appearances on Conan and a Comedy Central Presents special under his belt, Mauss set about creating thematically sound hours of comedy, first on the Netflix special Mating Season, then on his most…
“Have you heard of Gillette Syndrome?” That’s the question Cortney Stell, Black Cube executive director and chief curator, poses as she begins to describe this Thursday’s The New Denver + New Brutal discussion. “If a city grows really, really fast, a sense of community wanes. Gillette Syndrome is named after a…
A disheartening case of When Auteurs Go Affected, Every Thing Will Be Fine confirms that Wim Wenders — making his first dramatic feature since 2008’s Palermo Shooting — is a filmmaker now light-years removed from his Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire heyday. Egregiously airless and artificial, Wenders’s latest (written…
Less an adaptation of one of the great books about film than a feature-length recommendation, Kent Jones’s documentary take on François Truffaut’s exhaustive career-survey 1966 interview with Alfred Hitchcock is an arresting précis, sharply edited and generous with its film clips. It’s a smashing supplement to Truffaut’s classic study. It’s…
Years after Moby-Dick was a flop, Herman Melville visited an old ship’s captain named George Pollard. Both men had seen better days. In their youth, both had sailed the seas with some success. Melville had written novels about his adventures with island girls, and Pollard had helmed one of Nantucket’s…
The deadline came and went without anyone objecting to the application for a “certificate of non-historic status” at 119 South Broadway, a building that started life as the Webber Show and was most recently home to Kitty’s South, a porn palace. So while staffers with the city’s Landmark Preservation Commission…
Holiday shoppers can’t get enough of Holiday ManCraft, the only artisan fair in town (and the world?) devoted to handmade wares made exclusively by men. This year’s fair, bigger than ever, moved up to the Forney Museum for its fifth edition on Friday night, when it featured more than eighty…
Chilly days are here to stay, so there’s no better time to check out Colorado’s many hot springs, including the ones on our recent list of ten great hot springs. Iron Mountain Hot Springs is the newest spot on that list; though the earthy, warm water source is obviously not fresh on…
While helping my mom move over Thanksgiving, I was looking everywhere for the handcart – when had I used it last? It wasn’t anywhere in the studio…and then I remembered, months ago, removing the half-built stairs from the tiny house when we went through the redesign of the interior, cutting…
