Counterpath was founded in 2006 as a small press publisher, but since then it has expanded into much more. The nonprofit now not only publishes experimental work, but is also a physical space that sells other small press books and hosts art installations, readings, and film screenings. Tonight at 7…
This is part of a series of posts in honor of Denver Arts Week, saluting some of our favorite people and places on the arts scene. A few weeks ago, I got a text from a friend excitedly telling me that she had come across a zine I made when…
Author Gregory Maguire will be in town tonight at the Tattered Cover LoDo to celebrate, sign and talk about his newest book, Out of Oz, the final installment in his series of Wizard of Oz-based novels. The series, which debuted with Wicked sixteen years ago and spawned a hit Broadway…
Poet, humorist and writer Jack Collom has been an integral part of the Boulder poet community for a long while, and his work has ranged from traditional books of poetry to CDs of yodeling. Tonight, at The Laughing Goat in Boulder, Jack will be celebrating his 80th birthday with a…
There’s a lot more to Carré Otis’s new book than her famous ex-husband, Mickey Rourke. But he is a big part of her story. The Colorado resident and supermodel will be signing her new memoir, Beauty, Disrupted, Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Boulder Book Store. The book details everything…
There’s poetry. And there’s a trapeze. Do you really need to know more about PoeTreze? An occasional cultural offering from the National Theatre Conservatory class of 2012 (its last, incidentally), PoeTreze swings in a way that regular poetry readings never do: in the spoken meter of high-grade performance poetry –…
Colorado plein-air painter Joellyn Duesberry has a national reputation and an independent streak, to boot. She recently hung a retrospective show at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (it’s now closed) and now has a beautiful monograph to remember it by: Elevated Perspectives: The Paintings of Joellyn Duesberry. Duesberry will…
Boulder author H. Elizabeth Owen just published a book about Princess Diana surviving her paparazzi-induced car wreck and escaping to Egypt, where she became intertwined with another long-lost queen. So let’s get this out of the way right now: Does Owen actually believe Princess Diana is alive in Egypt? “No,…
The Big Year, based on a 2004 book by former Denver Post writer Mark Obmascik and starring Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Rashida Jones, Anjelica Huston and Rashida Jones, among others, debuts in theaters nationwide today. But before The Big Year got the big Hollywood treatment, it was an…
Hiking twenty miles. Driving 300 miles. Taking 1,000 photos. Those were just some of the challenges the Pikes Peak Guy had to take on in order to capture the perfect picture of the mountain. Starting on June 1, 2010, and ending 365 days later, photography enthusiast and Woodland Park resident…
Boulder author Dan Baum is a gun owner, and his most recent work, a companion piece to his upcoming book Guns Gone Wild that was released as a Kindle Single, makes an argument that most gun owners would seemingly support: that the AR-15 rifle is fun, a beacon of hope…
Neal Stephenson will be at Tattered Cover LoDo tomorrow, and in advance of his appearance we talked with him about his new novel, Reamde, a thriller based on a virus that steals your information and requires payment via gold in a MMO game. Before you click through to the interview,…
In the 1880s, English explorers Teresa and St. George Littledale — with their fox terrier, Tanny, in tow — mounted expeditions in the Rocky Mountains and across North America. And then they headed even further afield, to the Caucasus, the Pamirs, Russian Central Asia, Mongolia and eventually Tibet, in an…
Though it’s easy to over-drink and nearly impossible to over-read, books and beer go hand in hand. And a glass or two of the right beer with the right book can rightly relax the mind and stimulate the senses, thus drawing you deeper into both crafts. As is the case…
Back in the early part of the twentieth century, physicist George Gamow had a hand in some of science’s most fascinating breakthroughs: the Big Bang theory, DNA and RNA, radioactivity. The physics department building at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he taught until the end of his career,…
As counterintuitive as it might initially seem, if you own a Kindle or a device with the Kindle app (iOS, Android, PC, etc), you can now check out books from the Denver Public Library via its eMedia site. Yes, students, that includes CliffsNotes, if you’ve managed to seriously drop the…
Steve Cogil opened the first Tattered Cover on the corner of East Second Avenue and Detroit Street in Cherry Creek in 1971. It was small — less than a thousand square feet. Three years later, Joyce Meskis took the reins of the space. In the decades since, the Cherry Creek…
Ridgway-based journalist and MacArthur “genius” grant-winner Peter Hessler has written stories that focus on everything from China to small towns in southwestern Colorado to Nepal. (Latest Word has more on the $500,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation, as well as a Q&A with Hessler.) The 42-year-old has amassed a sizable…
Author Benjamin Runkle will be at the Tattered Cover in Highlands Ranch tonight to talk about his new book, Wanted Dead or Alive: Manhunts from Geronimo to Bin Laden. In preparation for his appearance, we caught up with Runkle to talk about his book, the importance of manhunts and the…
Joe Hill ain’t dead,” he says to me, Joe Hill ain’t never died. Where working men are out on strike Joe Hill is at their side, Joe Hill is at their side. –Joan Baez At first glance, it might seem that nearly 100 years after songwriter and Industrial Workers of…
Isis Books and Gifts is one of the best metaphysical stores we’ve ever seen: Between the walls and walls (and walls!) of books, the singing bowls, the dozens of essential oils and comprehensive collection of herbs for all your spellworking needs, it’s deservedly popular among the metaphysical community. And owner…
In the world of slam poetry, there’s no higher distinction than a win at the annual National Poetry Slam — and over this past weekend, that distinction went to the poets of Denver’s Slam Nuba, upstart arrival to the Denver slam scene (and 2011 Westword MasterMind) — if, having won…
