Even if the year the world was supposed to end is barely out of sight, people still don’t know much about Mesoamerican mythology and the workings of the Mayan calendar, or what that heritage means to us in modern times. But Westsider Tony Shearer did. The late activist, poet and…
The Denver Art Museum was on a roll in 2012 and it isn’t slowing down in the new year, with exhibits showcasing Georgia O’Keeffe and Nick Cave’s Soundsuits on their way. At MCA Denver, the Ladies Fancywork Society will soon have its day in the sun its own exhibition. The…
It’s snowing in the mountains — finally — which means we might actually have a ski season after all. In honor of the fluffy stuff (not to mention early-morning I-70 traffic, overpriced tickets and sub-zero temperatures), we present some of our favorite memes of Thumper, the super cool ski instructor…
Art-museum shows reigned in 2012, from a couple of demographic-busting blockbusters at the Denver Art Museum to a visual constellation of exhibits at the Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, the Colorado Photographic Arts Center and other satellites that paid tribute to a West Coast punk moment in time. But 2012…
After years of performing her soul-folk songs around the Denver music scene, Chella Negro hooked up with this town’s blossoming comedy community when she joined the all-female sketch group LadyFace. Proudly public about her affection for ganja, Negro was the ideal candidate for our Getting Stoned With series, in which…
As if South Park, Colorado, doesn’t have enough problems (Canadians, Gingers and the fearsome Jewpacabra among them), Cartman, Stan, Kyle, Kenny and the whole South Park gang will soon lay waste to the hapless burg in the upcoming video game South Park: The Stick of Truth. See also: – 10…
This past year has been tough for many people, and we’re eager to kiss 2012 goodbye. In hopes that 2013 will turn out to be much luckier for many, we invited some of the town’s cultural tastemakers — entrepreneurs and entertainers we’re lucky to have in Denver — to answer…
I can vouch for Rawlitix because I was a guest last month, and I had the time of my life. The Denver-centric live talk show conceived and hosted by local funny man and comedy promoter Onus Spears is still finding its legs, but it’s a grand idea. Spears focuses on…
As the year draws to an end, the Narrators is growing into its cozy home at the Deer Pile. The thoroughly modern storytelling session, co-hosted by Andrew Orvedahl and Robert Rutherford, brings a chorus line of local creatives with a certain verbal panache — comics, writers, musicians and the uncategorizable…
Denver artist Susanne Mitchell has taken over both of the front spaces at Edge Gallery for her solo, Crossing Into, a visual exploration of the cross-cultural currents represented by her marriage to an African immigrant. That union has since dissolved, but while they were together, the couple had a child,…
Hasbro’s Easy-Bake Ovens are getting a masculine makeover fifty years after the toy was introduced, thanks to a market-savvy thirteen-year-old girl in New Jersey who wanted to buy her little brother one as a gift — and found only purple and pink ovens. Her campaign got a media-smooch after a…
Gorinto, the Mercury Cafe’s occasional music, food and whatever Wednesday evening get-together, continues to reinvent itself. This week, it will transform into a showcase of homemade and found-object musical instruments featuring a revolving parade of local folks who toy — sometimes literally — with the definition of what we use…
This past year has been tough for many people, and we’re eager to kiss 2012 goodbye. In hopes that 2013 will turn out to be much luckier for many, we invited some of the town’s cultural tastemakers — entrepreneurs and entertainers we’re lucky to have in Denver — to answer…
It seems that nearly everyone who’s seen internationally known installation artist Judy Pfaff’s latest solo show at Robischon Gallery has come away feeling revitalized — so much so that the exhibit was held over until the end of December. That created the opportunity for Pfaff to drop by the gallery…
“I wear green velvet knickers, a forest green velvet smock, and a perky little hat decorated with spangles. This is my work uniform,” David Sedaris said for the first time on NPR’s Morning Edition twenty years ago this Christmas. Chronicling his stint as an elf in the madcap Santa Land…
The Ice Cube Gallery fronts the Dry Ice Factory, a beautiful, light-strewn maze of studio spaces in, yes, a converted dry-ice factory. It’s a formidable venue for the display of art, and once-a year Ice Cube cooperative members join together for a wide-open group show. See also: – Feminism is…
This past year has been tough for many people, and we’re eager to kiss 2012 goodbye. In hopes that 2013 will turn out to be much luckier for many, we invited some of the town’s cultural tastemakers — entrepreneurs and entertainers we’re lucky to have in Denver — to answer…
Founded by Laura Merage, a wealthy philanthropist and an accomplished artist, RedLine opened in 2008 in a smartly rehabbed warehouse at the northeast edge of downtown. RedLine is an unusual art institution in that it’s partly a studio complex, partly a stunning exhibition venue, and partly an agent for social…
Michael Paglia visited RedLine for this week’s review, taking in a group show from artists who also use studio space at the gallery. The show features many different types of work, ranging from paintings to installations, from about two dozen artists. Continue reading for photos from the exhibit…
When Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver’s graphic novel The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln was released this past September, he wasn’t sure what its critical reception would be. His prior work was almost entirely comedic, and here he was tackling a complex, biographical-historical novel about one of the nation’s greatest…
When Melissa Wollenberg of Highlands Ranch snapped a cute/surreal photo of her son in a gas mask, standing before the orange haze of this past last summer’s out-of-control fires, she had no idea that it would eventually be chosen by film legend Ron Howard and LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy for…
Denver-based backpack company Mile High Mountaineering (MHM Gear) won the top prize at the local Something Independent Awards in October; in July, MHM’s “Snake-Loader” Salute 34 pack made the cover of the 2013 Backpacker Magazine Gear Guide and also won an Editor’s Choice Award. And this week the local brand…
