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The Mayday Experiment: Maiden Voyage

The tiny house has made its maiden voyage. Invited to collaborate on a project at the Wittemyer Ranch overlooking Boulder by curators Petra Sertic and Alvin Gregorio , Philip Spangler and I decided that, though it was not necessarily an artistic collaboration in the truest sense, using the tiny house...
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Review: Barolo Grill Has the White (Tablecloth) Stuff

Barolo Grill 3030 East Sixth Avenue 303-393-1040 If there was any doubt about the enduring popularity of Barolo Grill, one of Denver's longest-running white-tablecloth establishments, it was erased one night as I stood in front of the hostess stand, waiting for the hostess to finish a phone call before showing...
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Gallery Sketches: Three Shows for the Weekend of August 15-17

New exhibitions include an exploration of Chicano activism in art at the Center for Visual Art and a roomful of art, some of it created on site at Access Gallery, by a disabled artist with powerful messages (see below). The weekend will also see the introduction of a new lowbrow...
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Rubedo Is the Voice of the Music Culture of Today

You might hear Rubedo anywhere. In its four and a half years of existence, the Denver trio has played at bars in San Diego and rallies in Civic Center Park. It has played a dance music festival in the shadow of an NFL stadium and an art festival on the...
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Chris Richter’s post-minimal paintings at Walker Fine Art

While checking out the scene in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this past March, Bobbi Walker, director of Walker Fine Art, realized that her planned June slot had come apart and that she needed to come up with somebody quickly to fill the position. While she was looking, she came across...
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Marijuana: High MMJ Patient Numbers Concern Lawmaker

According to data released by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, there were 115,210 registered medical marijuana patients in Colorado at the end of May -- close to a record high. That has lawmakers concerned, not because it means there are a lot of sick people in Colorado,...
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Latke Love closing May 31, may move

Latke Love apparently wasn't getting a lot of love from its landlords, and the spot on East 28th Avenue will close at the end of May as a result. It had only been open as a brick-and-mortar store for a little over a year, after a test run as a...
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Sixth Murder at Sterling Triggers Investigation of Troubled Prison

The recent murder of an inmate at the Sterling Correctional Facility -- the sixth homicide at the state's largest prison since 2010 -- has prompted Colorado Department of Corrections executive director Rick Raemisch to promise an "intensive" investigation into the circumstances of the death. The killing comes in the wake...
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Now Showing

At the Mirror. Ron Otsuka, who has overseen the Asian-art department at the Denver Art Museum for more than four decades, is set to step down at the end of the year. His swan-song exhibit, on view now in the cozy Martin and McCormack Gallery on level two in the...
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Video: Westword‘s strange-but-true guide to Colorado pot rules

More than six months after limited recreational marijuana sales became legal in Colorado, lots of out-of-towners (and some locals, too) remain confused about the rules. But we at Westword are here to help. Smokin' Smart: A Guide to Colorado's Pot Rules, by director and co-star Bailey Geoghan, takes a 1950s-style...
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In a Pickle at Cook Street School of Culinary Arts

In this week's Chef & Tell, I mentioned that I had taken a pickling and preserving class at the Cook Street School of Culinary Arts, through the school's program for home cooks. Cook Street offers a wide range of instruction for amateurs, ranging from classes in basic knife skills, wine...
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Beer calendar: a burning can, a bat man and a wonder land

Americans are drinking more craft beer, but they're also making more of their own at home. The Boulder-based American Homebrewers Association released the results of its fifth annual Homebrew Supply Shop Survey, which used data from 408 shops in 48 states, and found that gross revenue grew by an average...