A friend of mine recently posted a video on Instagram of downtown Denver with the caption “I’m going to want to remember this Denver.” While his ten-second panel of images was more of a humorous jab at things like the grossness of the 16th Street Mall, he also had some…
Anonymous avengers who started their quest in 1985, Guerrilla Girls spotlight institutionalized sexism and racism in the art world through radical acts of exposure. Simultaneously infiltrating the gallery world and educating the public on the lack of representation for women and people of color in art history and the contemporary…
Serving more than 3,000 amateur and professional athletes a year, Colorado’s National Sports Center for the Disabled has been working with people with disabilities since 1970. Starting as a place for children with amputations to take ski lessons, the NSCD has grown into a training facility for some of the…
“We decided that since none of the cool vendors ever participate in cheesy bridal expos, we would just put all of the cool kids together in one room,” says Tom Wright, whose company, Lovesick Inc., is behind today’s Lovesick: Denver 2014. A traveling collaboration with the world’s largest alternative wedding…
The hairiest, most slobbery and goofiest-looking canines will strut their stuff today at Worst in Show, a fundraiser for Freedom Service Dogs. Inspired by the cinematic wackiness of the 2000 movie Best in Show, this first edition of the local nonprofit’s beastly dog challenge is a gathering of only the…
The book trailer for author Gary Shteyngart’s newest release, Little Failure, is dececeptive: The four-minute short stars James Franco — a former student of Shteyngart’s at Columbia University — as his fictional lover, one who writes a book that outshines the real author’s upcoming release. In reality, the married father…
I used to have this recurring dream where I was walking along a strip mall in my grandparents’ neighborhood of Mayfair/Hale. I was always heading to La Bola, a Mexican restaurant we used to go to when I was a kid. I would walk up to the door in broad…
Tonight RedLine Gallery and the Art Students League of Denver will present “Towing the Line?,” a panel discussion highlighting prominent women in the arts as part of RedLine’s year-long series titled “She Crossed the Line.” The panelists will discuss their own experiences in the world of art and business, and…
“It’s part broadway show, part rock show, part freestyle motorcross — it’s like taking freestyle motocross and putting it into a storyline,” says Jayme Dalsing, show director for Nuclear Cowboyz, which makes its Colorado debut today at the Pepsi Center. Combining gravity-defying choreography with pyrotechnics and a killer soundtrack, this…
Has love taken your breath away? Feel even fainter today at 12,000 feet, when Loveland Ski Area invites people to participate in the 23rd annual Mountaintop Matrimony. The mass wedding and vow-renewal ceremony takes place at noon on the top of Chair #2 at Loveland Basin, overlooking the valley just…
I don’t even remember what I was doing on Valentine’s Day 2013. That’s because I’m the kind of person who lets the individual feeling of each holiday be dictated by my own current selfish standing in the world. Last year, I was so far from being in love that Valentine’s…
If you grew up in Denver, you’ve probably shopped at or at least heard of Kazoo Toys — or remember the interactive toy store by its original name, Kazoo & Company. After taking on a new space in Cherry Creek North for less than a year, Kazoo Toys is closing…
A photography exhibit opens today inside the State Capitol’s Rotunda that challenges viewers to examine their perceptions of those affected by injection drug use. It was created by photographer Matt Slaby and the nonprofit Harm Reduction Action Center. Slaby, who started out documenting this stigmatized population, eventually became a board…
Chad Aman, like many musicians in Denver, has been playing at El Chapultepec for years. Celebrating its eightieth birthday last August was no small feat for the jazz club that has survived the changing face of its Lower Downtown neighborhood, and now Aman is spearheading an effort to bring the…
Valentine’s Day wouldn’t be complete without at least one showing of Casablanca, one of the greatest love stories of all time. But Bogart and Bergman will meet up several times over the next week on screens across the city, at evenings featuring everything from the movie and a martini to…
Marika Bournaki was a vivacious piano player at five and an old pro at twelve when documentary filmmaker Bobbi Jo Hart began following the Montreal-born musician around with a camera. For eight years, Hart captured every part of Bournaki’s life, as she balanced studying at Juilliard and traveling the globe…
“I kind of think of myself as maybe an in-activist — I’m not a rebel. I don’t create art,” explains Lindsey Housel, guest speaker at “Rebel,” the February edition of CreativeMornings, a lecture and discussion program that has been described as “TED for design wonks.” Taking place in more than…
Independent businesses unite in the name of love tonight with a benefit soiree for Denver CASA, a nonprofit supporting abused and neglected children. Hosted by The Scout Guide and mid-century-modern home-furnishings store Mod Livin’, Modern Love is an affection-themed showcase of special-edition prints from local artists Josh Wills, Michael Lindau,…
Though Aurora is a relatively new city in the West, it still has a rich history to share. This Thursday, February 6, at the Aurora Fox Arts Center, architectural historian Adam Thomas will take a look at the city’s story through a mid-century modern lens. The lecture is part of…
When A.J. Machete and Lianna K. were thinking of moving their custom tailor and dressmaking ventures out of New York City, Denver called. In 2009, Denver Dressmakers and Denver Bespoke — Lianna and AJ’s own handmade brands of intricately sewn women’s apparel and custom-tailored suits — took up residence in…
In the years before her death in 1999, Altina Schinasi Miranda was best-known for her sculptures and paintings. But the daughter of a poor Turkish immigrant-turned-tobacco-tycoon was more than just an artist — she was an Oscar-winning filmmaker, an activist and the inventor of the Harlequin glasses frames, which became…
For weeks after Heath Ledger’s body was found in an apartment in New York City in 2008, curious folks would come into the store in SoHo where I worked and ask, “Do you know where Heath’s building is?” Of course I knew where it was; everyone who worked or lived…
