Tracy Weil is a master at the art of breathing life into ideas. He calls it branding, and that’s the business end of his skill, but it’s also about being engaged in the community, which is what makes it so special. An artist, urban agriculturist, designer and Westword MasterMind, Weil…
In the ’60s, art happenings were all the rage. People got together to experience unique cultural gatherings that would never be repeated. Now RedLine is planning to provide Denver with a modern version of these aesthetic landmarks with its Artist’s Studio series, which will feature events designed and facilitated by…
It’s ironic that nearly all the businesses mentioned when we named Tennyson Street the best neighborhood shopping district in 2011 have left the block or closed their doors (see the link below), including some that were strangled by prolonged street construction in the heart of the district. But now that…
Fans of The Crow rejoiced back in 2008, when we heard that it would be up for a remake. (For the two or three of you who didn’t see the movie or read the graphic comic-book series, it’s about a gothy-hot dead man with eyeliner who returns from the grave…
Forty years after it was made, viewers are still split over Lindsay Anderson’s 1973 picaresque O Lucky Man!, the second of three films the British satirist made with Malcolm McDowell, who’d already garnered recognition for handling a difficult role as the sociopathic hooligan Alex in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange…
As members of Burning Man’s Fire Arts Safety Team, DaveX and Eric Smith are combined experts in the fields of pyrotechics and flame effects. Together, Smith, chief inspector for the state of Nevada LP-Gas Board, and DaveX, licensed California pyrotechnic operator, saw a need for safety education in the design…
Ray Tollison and his twin twelve-year-olds, Ben and Sam, are men who make monsters. That’s right: Together, the handy trio created their own monster-making company, A Monster to Love. They stitch together each adorable stuffed creature by hand, and the twin theme carries over into the charitable side of the…
At this point, the zombie genre has seen it all. Fast zombies. Slow zombies. Smart zombies and stupid zombies. Zombie love stories. Animated zombies. Hell, there’s even a zombie musical or two. But just when you think there’s nothing new under the undead sun, someone finds a fresh twist on…
Art critic Michael Paglia visits Plus Gallery and Spark Gallery in this week’s Westword, taking in works by four artists. The large show at Plus focuses on Colin Livingston and his dynamic brand of conceptual art, while Spark features three separate shows by Roland Bernier, Sue Simon and Madeleine Dodge…
Though conceptual art has been kicking around for a hundred years, it really didn’t resonate with more than a handful of artists until the rise of pop art in the second half of the twentieth century. Now, in the twenty-first, conceptual art is one of the main courses in the…
One reason we return to Facebook again and again is to look at the pictures –and to share them, too. But when artists join in that endlessly unfolding online scrapbook, things really start to get interesting. Following are some of our favorite FB portraits of Colorado artists. See also: -…
In 2013, being called a nerd isn’t the insult that it once was. Practically no one uses the term negatively anymore, and there’s no shortage of people who proudly wear the nerd badge as a cultural identity. But if there’s still such a thing as a king of the nerds,…
Yoshi Saito’s sculpture is a little bit wacky, but in the most delightful and natural way. His new show at Ironton Gallery — currently on view through May 18, with a reception on Friday, May 3, from 6 to 9 p.m. — offers new insight into what’s in Saito’s mind…
Futurama has been canceled…again. Fans are keenly aware that the show was nuked back in 2003 by Fox, then brought back by Comedy Central after it bought the rights to the four movies in 2007. But this season will reportedly be the last one, with the series finale airing on…
Theater Esprit Asia, a new company founded by playwright, actor and choreographer Maria Cheng and stage, film and television veteran Tria Xiong, will start its inaugural season on May 30 at Aurora’s Vintage Theater; the lineup will feature plays by Cheng, Rick Foster and Julia Cho. In advance of the…
The appearance of sociopathic dreamboat Anthony Jeselnik at the University of Denver’s Newman Center Saturday was filled with unthinkable rape jokes and reverse-pandering to the backward-hat bros and “Woo!” women who populate the college campus. Despite the fact that nearly half his set was recycled material from his standup special…
It’s been a long wait, but RTD’s spanking new West Rail Line officially opened to passengers this morning. Tomorrow, however, the parties begin, as the transit organization opens all of its rail lines up for free rides, with themed community celebrations, also free, scheduled at most of the new West…
For nearly two years the Nix Brothers and The Grawlix comedy team have been producing mind-burstingly good short films for the web that also screen each month at the Grawlix’s Bug Theatre comedy show. With a trio of hyper-real characters that play off each other with a juvenile cruelty and…
Since it opened two years ago in the former home of the Atrium, the Bar has earned a reputation as not just a community watering hole, but a place with a very broad definition of community. This was a spot where everyone was truly welcome, and the entertainment lineup was…
After the organizers of the Denver Dark Arts Festival decided to close up shop a few years ago, Brent Heinze saw an opportunity. “The team that did it before haven’t put the Denver Dark Arts Festival on in seven years; it got to be just a pain in their ass,”…
Between his standup performances and his Comedy Central show, The Jeselnik Offensive, handsome asshole Anthony Jeselnik has slapped the PC button of just about every sociopolitical demographic the world over. Whether you’re a liberal female with an eating disorder or a conservative Catholic who survived cancer, this sharp-tongued mockster will…
Chuck Sink, who died on April 12, just six weeks shy of his ninetieth birthday, was one of the greatest mid-century modernist architects to have worked in Denver. Born in 1923 in Indiana, he was first exposed to modernism at age ten, when he attended the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair…
