Denver Life

Denver artist Katie Caron is an educator with an eye on the future of art fabrication, a committed member of the studio community at the Temple and now, part of the stable at William Havu Gallery.

Denver Comic Con returns June 30 through July 2, stuffing the halls of the Colorado Convention Center with pop-culture goodness. To keep track of all the awesomeness, we’ve created another handy Denver Comic Con Bingo card.

Denver Public Library will release Denver Comix, a newspaper collection of comics by independent Colorado comic artists, on June 30, 2017, just in time for Denver Comic Con. The project was spearheaded by librarian and comic-book creator Thane Benson.

There’s going to be an embarrassment of nerdy riches at the Colorado Convention Center this weekend, June 30 through July 2, when Denver Comic Con returns for a sixth successful year. Here are ten rules to remember.

Mar Williams is a hacker in a strictly DIY-driven way, following an arc meant to empower ordinary people and remove obstacles from the unending road that is life.

SeriesFest, Westword’s choice this year for Best Film Festival, returns this week for its third stimulating season, complete with a star-studded tribute to the ’90s, a bevy of industry hard hitters and a fresh batch of creative content to watch.

From an unlikely home base of Highlands Ranch, Gerard Aflague, a native of Guam, is bringing a taste of his native land not just to Denver, but to the rest of the world.When he was growing up on the Pacific island, one of five territories of the United States, Aflague was heavily influenced by his Chamorro heritage. He moved to Denver in 2007, and five years later started his own online business, the Gerard Aflague Collection, that designs and sells Guam-themed and -inspired products, catering to the nearly 200,000 Chamorros living in the United States, as well as people who have connections to Guam, sometimes through military service there.

Regan Rosburg could be a poster child for everything current and good about the regional art community: She’s a woman artist who’s been active here for a long while, a maker, a naturalist and an activist, deeply involved with both the artistic process and the state of the world around us.

Slant’d will be a yearly literary magazine that will illuminate what it means to be Asian-American today.

As collaborators in the creative arts incubator Odessa, life partners Corianne Wells and Kristopher Michael Wright work above and beyond the confines of their day jobs to bring creatives together and increase general awareness of Denver artists and art spaces, all while mastering the job of being artists themselves.

Historical enactment “gives you a more visceral view of what life was like on a day to day basis,” says David Allison, who helps manage programming for the Museum. When history is marked by rulers, elections and wars, daily concerns are too often forgotten, he says.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage Denver’s new Ultimate Queen for 2017, Evelyn Evermoore, who came out on top in the Ultimate Queen Challenge.

It’s mid-June, which means it’s time to think about a lot of things: upcoming vacations, the Pride parade and…oh, yeah, I gotta get something for my dad. This used to be a lot easier, back when you could make a ceramic ashtray or a shoe-polishing kit in wood shop. These days, you’re stuck buying a gift…and you have absolutely no idea what your dad wants. We’re here for you.

Pride weekend is here, Denver: Time to bust out your best rainbow gear, celebrate the LGBTQ community, dance, revel and march for equal rights.

Greetings Earthlings. Meet Vivica Galactica, aka Spencer Corey Duncan. She’s a five-star, double-rated astro navigatrix, and she’s come to our planet in peace, to change your perceptions of gender and the art of drag.

“I like to talk about myself a lot,” Jason Wimberly laughs through the phone. The celebrity trainer to names like Jane Lynch, Selma Blair, Alysia Reiner, Leila Goldkuhl and Sonoya Mizuno is currently in Los Angeles, running back and forth from his studio, THE WALL Fitness.

Atlanta transplant R. Alan Brooks has got his genres down. The graphic novelist (and author of the soon-to-be-released The Burning Metronome) and MotherF**Ker in a Cape podcaster gives words to pictures as a writer, and spotlights local nerd- and comics-culture heroes as an interviewer and moderator.

Denver has lived up to its “Queen City of the Plains” nickname, particularly these past few years, as the city’s drag scene has garnered national acclaim. With Pride just days away, there’s no better time to check out who’s hot and where to see them; you can start with these drag winners from the Best of Denver 2017.

Bringing twelve epic weeks of tight tucks, wigging out and death drops to an epic close, the Ultimate Queen Competition grand finale hits Tracks Friday night, June 8.

If you’ve never shopped at Rockmount Ranch Wear, a Colorado institution at 1626 Wazee Street, this is your chance. The Western wear manufacturer/retailer that invented the snap-button shirt is hosting its first-ever sidewalk sale, starting today.

While living in Denver gets more expensive by the month, our fair city’s creative community has your entertainment needs covered.

Improv is Jessica Austgen’s stepping-off point and theatrical bailiwick, but she’s the complete package. As an actor, instructor, director, author and playwright, Denver Renaissance woman Austgen manages the art of telling stories both onstage and on the page, sometimes winging it at an improv fest and at other times, running the whole show.