About
What is it?
This site is all about what’s going on in Denver. What’s coming up, and what’s happened, sometimes with photos. Art openings, rock/indie/fashion shows, parties, events and other fun stuff happening in the Broadway, Downtown, Capitol Hill, Highlands, and Platte areas of Denver.
How does this work?
We write about stuff that’s coming up and that’s happened in the Denver art, music and social worlds. If you have an event coming up, please let us know. There are three ways to do that:
- contact us – and we’ll add an Upcoming entry
- add it to the DenCx forum – just register and post it
- become a DenCx writer – just register, contact us, and you’ll have an account in 24 hours or less
The first is the easiest. The second is also simple… register and post on the forum.
The third way is – here it comes – also a snap, but is much more powerful for you. If you want to promote your site, show, party or service, create an account, then contact us with your user name and we’ll give you home page writing privileges. You’ll get to call yourself a Denver Connects writer, and hand out fancy DC cards with your name on them. Ooh la la. Tres chic.
Who you are
Want to promote your event or show? Are you a musician or who wants to get in touch with other musicians? Are you a jewelry designer who’s looking for retailers? Are you a retailer looking for new fashion designers? Do you have a product that needs buyers? Are you a painter who needs a wealthy patron? Wealthy patron looking for the next Dali?
Background
When I lived in Denver, 1993-1999, things were slow. Not businesses, or bars, or shopping or any of that. The underground was slow.
Yes there were bands and artists and the like. There were a few ghetto art shows and edgy bands, and I had fun hanging out in the music scene, and kept busy for a short time helping to publish the Invisible Sun “zine” circa 1995.
Then in ‘99 I moved to Seattle where I was happy, Seattle being home to a pretty amazing music scene. But then I began visiting Denver regularly in 2006, lucky enough to have Brandi Shigley show me around, and saw firsthand some of the fashion and art happenings. I was pleasantly surprised at what Denver was up to.
I went to a no-permit fashion show on a Colfax sidewalk, complete with lights, models, and a dj. Then I went to a kickball game, and several kickball parties where I met business owners, musicians and visual artists like Anna Newell who were out there not only making waves but doing really good work.
The Rock Bar, the Mescal, the Highland Tavern are also some fresh new faces on the bar front. Sputnik? Fun.
So I moved back 8 weeks ago. Not all because of sidewalk fashion shows — Brandi and Cameron Preston and I are going into business — but this cool Denver fashion/music/art renaissance was certainly a big draw to me.
So what does all this mean? Casting about and talking to you who are part of this newfound scene showed there’s no single place that people can look to for events and news, so here’s dencx.com to fill that need.
If you have suggestions or just want to comment/vent, drop me a line.
Matt Herrebout
December, 2007
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