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The Arvada Center (6901 Wadsworth) is featuring an exciting and creative new exhibit called “Spokes” that features artwork inspired by bicycles! The pieces range from paintings to installation art to jewelry created using the various pieces of bike! The fabulous Denver artist Justin Beard has an installation piece in the show: Examining the [ READ MORE ]
This weekend, Capitol Hill will be overrun with art and craft booths, displays at which to take a gander, bands to which to dance, and plenty of food and activities. I do loves me an outdoor fair, especially a free one. Located in Denver’s Civic Center, there will be over 200 local artists/crafters [ READ MORE ]
I need to look forward to the weekend: This work week is just moving far too slow. But what a weekend it will be! On Saturday, the Denver Art Museum will be free to the viewing public. It feels delicious to see all those priceless treasures without paying a price. A special exhibition [ READ MORE ]
So we all know that the environment is taking a serious beating because of the pollution we’re all heaping on to it. While we often think of huge power plants billowing smoke into the sky when we think of pollution, our everyday habits are the little things that build up to the one of [ READ MORE ]
Today kicks off the The Volunteer Open Space Clean Up drive for 2008. Volunteers will be meeting up at Van Bibber Park/Open Space – located on 52nd and Ward headed south, to tidy up the area and ensure that it’s ship shape for the warm season, from 11am to 3pm on Saturday (TODAY!). A [ READ MORE ]
Publishing is an incresasingly tricky venture. Being a writer, publisher, layout artist, or pretty much anything involved in main stream print media is a tough gig, what with the print magazines and newspapers of yore quickly shuttering their shops or conducting massive buyouts to minimize staffing, as the pressure from the digitial medium increasingly makes them [ READ MORE ]
Here’s a nice little flier for the update on the FM party et. al occuring tonight at the Denver Art Museum. Museum after-hours? Sounds swanky. [ READ MORE ]
So not Denver or social or anything, but WHOA. Scientists in North Carolina conducted an expierment where a monkey controlled a robot in Japan through its thoughts. This is a big moment in monkey/robot synergy. I foresee some tragic “statue of liberty on the beach” style scene. Awesome. (You can catch the [ READ MORE ]
After a difficult week of work, I find it helpful for my sanity to take the time to sit and meditate. Getting some time to be in the moment seems an essential aspect to functioning. While I’ve sat with a variety of meditative and Buddhist groups, I’ve been pleased with the openess and easy [ READ MORE ]
Memorial Day ushers in the time of the year in which we can all break out our favorite white shoes and pants (I’m going to look like a polyester-decked retiree come this summer… All eggshell pantsuits and cream loafers….) but also marks the start of the outdoor art festival season. This weekend saw [ READ MORE ]
Congratulations to Ben Sikora! He made it through all these grueling years of college at the School of Mines, only to be on to MORE college at Northwestern in Chicago! Well boy howdy. Celebrating in the style of the roaring 20s, guests threw on their best flapper gear or gangster style suits and [ READ MORE ]
Oh prom. The highlight of so many high school careers. I didn’t live up my high school prom night like so many others- I drove my crappy car there with a date to whom I hardly spoke, I made spaghetti in my kitchen, and I wore I dress I made myself. Yeh, I [ READ MORE ]
Ahoy! This Friday, May 23rd, Pirate, the contemporary art gallery over at 3655 Navajo St is featuring local artist Terry Campbell, a Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design grad, along with Tsogo Mijid. A reception starting at 6 pm marks the start of the show, which will run through June 8th. Getting a [ READ MORE ]
When your eventual goal in life is to have tried every hair color of the rainbow, you can’t get much better than a place like Moxie Hair Company (200 E 13th Ave). Stopping in on a weekend in desperate need of a cut and color (and I do mean color), it was easy to get [ READ MORE ]
Fond memories of childhood: Eating cereal with a too-big spoon, munching on those birthday cupcakes someone would bring to class in celebration, and watching good old fashioned cartoons on a Saturday morning (Oh, Thunder Cats! They still warm my heart.) For reliving those childhood days of glory, but in a much more grown-up sort [ READ MORE ]
Hike up those high water trousers and dust off your best TI-82, it’s time to nerd out at the Oriental Theatre this Thursday. Delivering their first album this week, Denver’s own Bluebird Equation brings their high-voltage rock to the stage. Known for their catchy, science-tinged tunes and their theme parties (did you catch this year’s [ READ MORE ]
