Email AuthorShaughnessy Speirs
Featured Entry
From the Archives: Denver's 16th Street a century ago
October 03, 2012 in Show and Tell
Although 16th Street hasn't always been a pedestrian mall, for at least the last hundred years of the city's history it has been a Denver destination, a favorite for parade...
Featured Entry
From the Archives: The oddity of the Boyer Small Books Collection
September 25, 2012 in Show and Tell
Carol "Connie" Boyer was a genealogical researcher and head of cataloguing at the Denver Public Library until her retirement in 1988. She continued to gather information on her family's ancestry...
Featured Entry
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson reopening early, with sneak preview tomorrow night
September 21, 2012 in Show and Tell
Ben Dicke, director and producer of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at the Aurora Fox, gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "blood, sweat and toil" -- he's invested all...
Featured Entry
From the Archives: 45 rpm record of songs from the Coors Brewery strike and boycott
September 18, 2012 in Show and Tell
In 1977, Coors Brewery workers went on strike over a host of grievances, and today the Auraria Library Special Collections Department contains a small collection of materials from the Coors...
Featured Entry
From the Archives: 1949 KLZ Denver radio segment shows politics as usual
September 11, 2012 in Show and Tell
During this heated election season, the American public is awash in "free enterprise" rhetoric, reassurances about the benevolence of the wealthy and parables about bootstraps. But these aren't new themes...
Featured Entry
Ben Dicke on the emo rock opera Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
September 08, 2012 in Show and Tell
UPDATE: Just hours before Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson was set to open last night, Ben Dicke, who directed the show and was to play Andrew Jackson, fell through an open...
Featured Entry
From the Archives: Experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage rants about bad art
September 04, 2012 in Show and Tell
The late Stan Brakhage, a Denver-born experimental filmmaker, was a pioneer in avant-garde cinema and a notable successor to Maya Deren and the film artists of the 1940s. A professor...
Featured Entry
From the Archives: "Boycott Coors Beer" protest comic book from 1977
August 28, 2012 in Show and Tell
Coors has been a prominent name in Denver since the brewery was founded in the late 1800s, and that history has not been without controversy. A succession of Coors chairmen...
Featured Entry
Today's Jessfest to help CougarPants drummer Jessica Hughes raise money to battle MS
August 23, 2012 in Backbeat
Whitney StephensJessfest kicks off this afternoon at 2 p.m. at the Denver FilmCenter, followed by a show featuring Cougar Pants and more at 6 p.m. See also: Karen Cuda benefits -...
Featured Entry
Help CougarPants' drummer Jessica Hughes battle MS at Jessfest
August 23, 2012 in Show and Tell
T-shirt design by Whitney StephensA small world resides within these city limits: Connections are constantly being revealed, demonstrating how tightly-woven this city's community of artists and musicians really is....
Featured Entry
From the Archives: the prison poetry of Minoru Yasui
August 20, 2012 in Show and Tell
Minoru YasuiIf you live or work downtown, you probably drive by Minoru Yasui every day. Not the man himself -- he died in 1986, after serving more than four decades...
Featured Entry
Mary Ann Williamson on her short film, Packed, about fire evacuees and what they pack
August 15, 2012 in Show and Tell
Photo of the Fourmile Canyon Fire from Packed.The Colorado Independent Women in Film program, an annual three-day event at the Bug Theatre that showcases the work of women in the...
Featured Entry
Band of Toughs moves into the forest with A Midsummer Night's Dream
August 14, 2012 in Show and Tell
Photo by Elise WattBoulder's experimental, "collaboratory" Band of Toughs isn't out of the woods. In fact, the theater troupe's production of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, part of the...
Featured Entry
From the Archives: 1960s-era Denver Beer bottle and case, made in the Tivoli
August 09, 2012 in Show and Tell
Beer is more than just a commodity here in Denver. It's a cultural staple. Tickets for this year's Great American Beer Festival -- an event that holds a Guinness World...
From the Archives: Last letter from a Union soldier to his brother
August 02, 2012 in Show and Tell
Featured Entry
Mondo Guerra's collection for SEE Eyewear will launch in early 2013
August 01, 2012 in Show and Tell
Project Runway: All Stars winner Mondo Guerra has a new collaboration in the works, and it's slightly more utilitarian than the bold, fearless couture we came to expect from him...
Featured Entry
Seven experimental films under seven minutes long
July 26, 2012 in Show and Tell
Crossover was a hallmark of early avant-garde art. Experimental music influenced experimental dance; experimental dance influenced experimental film; experimental film influenced experimental art. Tonight, with "Film/Still: The Short Films of...
Featured Entry
From the Archives: St. Cajetan's Church barely escaped demolition
July 26, 2012 in Show and Tell
Auraria has been around for a long time -- longer than Colorado has been an actual state -- but it's changed quite a bit since 1858. It started out as...
Featured Entry
Calling female fashion designers: Athena Project's theater/design crossover competition
July 19, 2012 in Show and Tell
Athena Project's Plays in Progress series is now in full swing, and while the plays are only getting a workshop treatment, one of them will win a full production at...
Featured Entry
From the Archives: Letter from Alice Toklas on the death of Gertrude Stein
July 17, 2012 in Show and Tell
Photo by Carl Mydans.Gertrude Stein, Alice Toklas and Basket.Among the many avant-garde artists and writers with whom Donald Sutherland was friends were Gertrude Stein and her life partner, Alice B....
Featured Entry
Athena Project Festival's "Plays in Progress" series represents female playwrights
July 13, 2012 in Show and Tell
In any given theatrical season, the likelihood of seeing David Mamet, Christopher Durang, or Neil Labute in the lineup is fair. The likelihood of seeing O'Neill, Miller, Beckett, Chekhov, Moliere,...
Featured Entry
From Auraria's Archives: Hand-bound Eisenstein art homage by Lawrence Jordan
July 11, 2012 in Show and Tell
...
MMJ stash at Auraria could be country's biggest collection of marijuana magazines
July 09, 2012 in The Latest Word
Featured Entry
From the Archives: the periodicals of pot
July 03, 2012 in Show and Tell
There are more medical marijuana dispensaries than Starbucks locations in town -- and any number of publications that focus on the state's booming MMJ business. The Auraria Library has an...
Featured Entry
From Auraria's Archives: Allen Ginsberg's Postcards to Ed White
June 26, 2012 in Show and Tell
Allen Ginsberg and Ed White in front of the Denver Botanic Gardens Conservatory.Before he restored landmarks like the Molly Brown House, Ninth Street Historic Park and Four Mile House Historic...