You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. “I love the naive, intuitive way children draw,” says Phyllis Ripple, founder…
July was a real flash in the pan. Fortunately, the fun never ends in this city — and if you find yourself strapped for cash at the end of the month, there are still plenty of free entertainment options. This week you can catch inspired bike art, get your mind…
The renovated Union Station opened last July, and for the past year it’s been the hottest spot in town. When we dropped by last week, we spotted local stylist and Pac Sun visual merchandiser Violet Kayaga with a hot look that suited her surroundings. “I’m from the UK originally but…
Late on the evening of July 14, someone broke into the office of northside marketing agency DenverMind Media and stole everything they could get their hands on: cameras, hard drives, laptops and, worst of all, a flute owned by DenverMind freelancer Deb Flomberg, who also owns the Equinox Theatre (whose production of Bonnie &…
Art shows and festivals are popping up all over Denver and around the state. But before you sample everything else opening this weekend, you can still catch Vault, the Metropolitan State University alumni exhibition at the Center for Visual Art, which closes July 25. Here’s what Michael Paglia has to…
When you’re pushing art and community, your work is often without profit — and you often don’t have the time or money to deal with filing all the right forms with the IRS to gain tax-exempt status. But Anthony Garcia Sr.’s Birdseed Collective is now an official non-profit. “It’s just…
I’ve interviewed hundreds of people over the course of my career as a reporter. One of those people is Keith Garcia, a person who went from source and media contact to good friend over years of our not-so-secret recorded phone conversations. Now my friend — who in the last year…
The MLS All-Star Game doesn’t kick off until next Wednesday, but soccer fans have plenty to put on their calendars in the days leading up to the match. Headlined by a concert featuring Capital Cities and Aloe Blacc on Sunday, MLS All-Star Week will feature six days of free, soccer-fueled…
Whether you’re headed for the hills or staying in the city, there are plenty of fun activities this weekend — many of them free. You can stake a claim at a new bar, play a little futball and hell, even party for the sake of the moose. You’ll find ten of…
Plenty has been said about the mainstreaming of geek culture — I reference it all the time, myself — and it’s easy to see why. Superhero movies everywhere. Grown men and women in business-casual reading Harry Potter on the bus. Ads for video games during everything from football games to…
The Denver-based Stronghold Society put on its annual One Gathering, a day of competition and community, on July 18 at the Denver Skate Park. The event supported Stronghold’s mission of building skate parks for Native American youth as a way to curb suicide, depression and substance abuse through community and…
Most comedy nerds are already familiar with Marc Maron’s biography, since he’s perhaps the world’s most renowned podcaster. Maron rose to prominence in the alt-comedy scene of the ’90s before floundering through a few TV and radio gigs that never felt like a perfect fit; despite racking up over forty…
Here’s a shocker: In Pixels, his latest, Adam Sandler plays a stunted man-child who turns out to be very, very special. That’s his ecological niche: the Manic Potbellied Dream Dork, or, if you prefer, the fragile Sand-Man. Sandler films have predictable scripts: In two hours or less, he’ll transform from…
“Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow,” declared Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In the case of Jimmy Gralton, she took bites and spat him out a couple times. It’s tempting to say some people never learn, but, as played by…
The 2015 Biennial of the Americas, with exhibits and events running through August, strikes me as being more modest, less public, less local and more expensive than either the original, in 2010, or the last one, in 2013. That last one included two components that should have been fine-tuned and…
This is a great time to be gay in America — and if you’re not, it’s an even greater time to sit back and learn about your queer friends and neighbors. Film is the great equalizer, and tomorrow through Sunday, the Denver Film Society’s annual Cinema Q Film Festival at…
The Dragon Boat Festival returned to Sloan’s Lake this past weekend, celebrating Asian culture with art and food vendors, martial arts and other performances — and boat races, of course. Photographer Danielle Lirette was there to capture all the action: See the complete Dragon Boat slideshow here…
Nativ Hotel has had to repack its business plan a few times since opening its doors at 1612 Wazee Street on May 28. After its landlord expressed concerns, the owners clarified their policy regarding the consumption of cannabis: Officially, it’s prohibited at Nativ, and guests must now sign a waiver…
Edith Weiss is giggling. She’s talking about the July 23 opening of The Odd Couple (Female Version) that she’s directing at the historic Barth Hotel downtown, and the cast’s enthusiasm for slapstick acrobatics. “Leslie O’Carroll is doing things I would have never asked her to do,” says Weiss. “She is fearless. She…
We run down the ten best movies of 2015 (so far) on this week’s episode of the Voice Film Club. Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of the Village Voice, joined by Amy Nicholson at LA Weekly, each share a few of their favorites on this mid-year (well for Hollywood, anyway)…
The pizza joint Shakey’s in Hollywood is packed when transgender actresses Mya Taylor and Kiki Rodriguez slide into a booth with their director Sean Baker, whose shot-on-location-and-on-iPhone comedy Tangerine was the most talked-about surprise of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Taylor, the quieter and more glamorously aloof of the pair…
The main Biennial of the Americas event is at MCA Denver, but there’s another official show, Vis-à-Vis, at the McNichols Building. It includes installations by four selected “ambassadors” – two from Denver, two from Mexico City. The Denver artists, Melissa Furness and Matt Scobey, did a residency in Mexico City, while…
