We think Westword’s own Jay Vollmar is pretty slick: Our hardworking art director has a keen eye for what’s visceral and street, especially when it comes to his own fly images, made famous through the years on local concert posters and Westword covers alike. And now it’s Vollmar’s time to…
Gilbert and Sullivan are corny, I know, but as a child I was sung to sleep with songs from their operetta H.M.S. Pinafore. My family owned a songbook and a recording by the D’Oyly Carte opera company, and at a tender age I learned all about the romantic (and not)…
Curious Theatre Company artistic director Chip Walton stole the idea, but give him a break: The Curious fundraiser Denver Stories is based on a similar event mounted at an independent theater in Atlanta, but the results are purely Denver-centric and amount to another well-deserved feather in Walton’s already heavily plumed…
It’s time all you cultural slackers learned a thing or two about Clyfford Still. He’s not as well-known as some of his flashier abstract-expressionist contemporaries, but the reclusive twentieth-century painter’s legacy is poised to become a local treasure with the news that the City of Denver — which already cut…
Red Delicious is a printing press, and it’s also a place: The printmaking facility and co-op named after its centerpiece — the candy-apple-red enameled press that gives the space life — offers opportunities and classes for artists, as well as an exhibit area. Even the venue itself, housed in the…
It’s not easy being a local playwright. David McClinton and Karl Kopp (the well-known minister of Denver’s First Divine Science Church, who died in October), both veterans of the 2004 Playwrights Showcase of the Western Region, reached this dire conclusion when they noticed that last year’s showcase replay featured only…
The fifth edition of the local literary magazine, Copper Nickel, contains a real body of work: The new release, subtitled Hot Metal, rides on bodily themes, from the human kind to the divine sort, featuring works by an award-winning batch of local literati, including poets Aaron Abeyta, Aaron Anstett, Sheila…
The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art has a visionary new batch of friends in The Collection, a support organization dedicated to bringing up-and-coming artists to BMoCA audiences on a monthly basis. The group’s first event of the year kicks off tonight at 6 p.m. with the sounds of local electronica…
Ever since Chicken Lips entrepreneurs Bob Wells and Dave Johnson took over the Avenue Theater, 417 East 17th Avenue, the lights have often been turned up on the funny goings-on, even during odd times when your typical independent theater would be stone dark. Those times would include the Avenue’s toddling…
Ever since Chicken Lips entrepreneurs Bob Wells and Dave Johnson took over the Avenue Theater, 417 East 17th Avenue, the lights have often been turned up on the funny goings-on, even during odd times when your typical independent theater would be stone dark. Those times would include the Avenue’s toddling…
Thursday, Novmeber 24 No one truly intends to end up looking like that borbous turkey gracing the Thanksgiving table, but, hey, fat happens. It’s only once a year, though, so pack it in: Pile on the buttery mashers and say yes to the extra piece of pumpkin pie, especially if…
Motorcycle exhibits are all the rage at local museums and galleries, but Mario’s Double Daughter’s Salotto is doing something a little different. All this month it’s hanging custom lowrider bicycles built by Tyler Stans. “About a decade ago, a friend pulled three antique bikes out of the trash, then proceeded…
In the Upper 15th Street shopping district, centered around 15th and Platte streets, low-key commerce thrives to the distant tune of freeway traffic and an unmistakably downtown beat. The shops here are all about marching to your own drummer, whether that’s expressed by what you wear, what you feed your…
SAT, 11/5 Finding a great bottle of wine can be an adventure or a crapshoot. You can spend years educating yourself about grapes, vintages and vineyards, or you can simply trust the little info tags (“A facetious little wine, with hints of birch and guava”) that punctuate the shelves of…
SUN, 10/30 Walking the line between sanity and madness — or pretending to do so — helps give Halloween its juice. Stripping that path down to classic literature heightens the experience in ways that slasher movies can’t, because written words conjure up images unique to each individual’s cranium. The scare…
MON, 10/24 Though most everyone who cares knows perfectly well that Daniel Handler is Lemony Snicket, the prolific author of the popular A Series of Unfortunate Events books for kids, he still tries to pretend that he and Snicket aren’t one and the same. But no matter how bad a…
FRI, 10/14 Heeeeeeey, girlfriend. Trying to land a man in Denver but don’t seem to be having any luck? Well, don’t waste your time squeezing into clothing three times too small for you. And forget about trying to cook that hombre a delicious meal. The way to a guy’s heart…
SAT, 10/8 Artists and the Hells Angels have a long and storied history. In 1965, freelance journalist Hunter S. Thompson introduced Ken Kesey to a few of the Angels he was writing about at the time. The grizzly road soldiers were smitten with the wide-eyed piper and accepted his invitation…
Mistress Raven’s been around the block, but this time she’s hoping to stay put. The driving force behind Rave’s Oh My Goth! has moved her emporium — originally an Uptown antique- and vintage-clothing store favored by drag queens — three times, but this latest location looks like the perfect spot…
FRI, 9/30 “Some of my greatest friends from college were people that I considered comedy hippies,” says Boulder-based writer and comedian Dave Burdick. “They got into worshiping Del Close and the Upright Citizens Brigade and the spirit of improv. Lately, I’ve been realizing I’m a comedy hippie, too. I just…
WED, 10/5 Last May, at the Rapids’ Hispanic Heritage Night — while mariachis trumpeted and girls danced and swirled in traditional costumes — brothers Carlos and Juan Morales patrolled the parking lot of Invesco Field. One was clad in a Rapids soccer jersey; the other sported the colors of that…
SAT, 9/24 There’s a fine art to selecting your fighting name. It’s got to be something aggressive, but a potential pugilist can’t fly off half-cocked and just hurl out a bunch of words. For instance, the novice brawler can’t pick something like Tom “Once Ripped Out a Guy’s Eyeball in…
