Show and Tell tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170 /img/atom_logo.png 2012-05-25T21:13:26Z The Denver Westword Culture Blog Movable Type Enterprise 4.21-en Colorado filmmakers to watch for at Mountainfilm in Telluride this weekend tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.608405 2012-05-25 12:11:24 2012-05-25T21:13:26Z Mountainfilm in Telluride is celebrating its 34th anniversary this weekend, through May 28, and we're duly impressed by the the list of Colorado-based filmmakers in the mix. Here's a preview: Tel... Colin Bane Mountainfilm in Telluride is celebrating its 34th anniversary this weekend, through May 28, and we're duly impressed by the the list of Colorado-based filmmakers in the mix. Here's a preview: Tel...

Continue reading "Colorado filmmakers to watch for at Mountainfilm in Telluride this weekend" > ]]> 1 http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/MF12-FILM-Wild_Love.1.jpg What to watch for at Mountainfilm this weekend Ten things to do for $10 this Memorial Day weekend, May 25-28, 2012 tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607699 2012-05-25 08:55:12 2012-05-25T14:21:53Z Three-day weekends rule, and this one is certain to be a hit. The city is bursting with stuff to do, and you don't have to spend an arm and a leg to do it. Watch Footloose, see a Tim and Eric Awes... Robin Edwards Three-day weekends rule, and this one is certain to be a hit. The city is bursting with stuff to do, and you don't have to spend an arm and a leg to do it. Watch Footloose, see a Tim and Eric Awes...

Continue reading "Ten things to do for $10 this Memorial Day weekend, May 25-28, 2012" > ]]> 1 http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/kevin-bacon-footloose.png Ten things to do for $10 this weekend e-Poetry co-curator Aaron Angello makes sense of electronic poetry at Counterpath tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607704 2012-05-25 07:59:37 2012-05-25T11:04:23Z Aaron Angello is co-curator of "e-Poetry: The Past, Present and Future of Electronic Poetry," both a showcase and laboratory for engaging works of digital literature, which comes to Counterpath Ga... Laura Bond Aaron Angello is co-curator of "e-Poetry: The Past, Present and Future of Electronic Poetry," both a showcase and laboratory for engaging works of digital literature, which comes to Counterpath Ga...

Continue reading "e-Poetry co-curator Aaron Angello makes sense of electronic poetry at Counterpath" > ]]> 0 Residue Denver: Artists act out at Edge Gallery tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.608211 2012-05-25 06:58:48 2012-05-25T11:07:10Z We're used to gallery shows that look pretty much the same when they end as when they began. But Residue Denver, opening tonight at Edge Gallery, isn't designed to remain static. Though the juried... Susan Froyd We're used to gallery shows that look pretty much the same when they end as when they began. But Residue Denver, opening tonight at Edge Gallery, isn't designed to remain static. Though the juried...

Continue reading "Residue Denver: Artists act out at Edge Gallery" > ]]> 1 http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/postcard_front-low-res.jpg Reader: Pedestrians need to get off the Cherry Creek Bike Path tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.608302 2012-05-25 06:00:37 2012-05-25T11:32:20Z "Those B cycle riders are almost as dangerous as the spandex warriors," says Yosh, in response to Bree Davie's rant about the Cherry Creek Bike Path. This Memorial Day weekend, Denver's parks and ... Patricia Calhoun "Those B cycle riders are almost as dangerous as the spandex warriors," says Yosh, in response to Bree Davie's rant about the Cherry Creek Bike Path. This Memorial Day weekend, Denver's parks and ...

Continue reading "Reader: Pedestrians need to get off the Cherry Creek Bike Path" > ]]> 0 Five things to do for $5 this Memorial Day tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607810 2012-05-24 14:35:55 2012-05-24T19:32:38Z Memorial Day is about honoring fallen soldiers, but it's also about enjoying good company, getting out of work, and firing up the grill. If you don't have a backyard to go to this year, we've got ... Robin Edwards Memorial Day is about honoring fallen soldiers, but it's also about enjoying good company, getting out of work, and firing up the grill. If you don't have a backyard to go to this year, we've got ...

Continue reading "Five things to do for $5 this Memorial Day" > ]]> 1 http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/burlesque-dancer-.png Five things to do for $5 this Memorial Day Buntport's The Roast Beef Situation blends Commedia dell'arte and satire tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.608016 2012-05-24 13:22:24 2012-05-24T19:33:39Z Tommy Lee Jones Goes to the Opera Alone is a tough act to follow, but Buntport Theater Company is going for it with the last show of the season, The Roast Beef Situation. The play, which opens at... Shaughnessy Speirs Tommy Lee Jones Goes to the Opera Alone is a tough act to follow, but Buntport Theater Company is going for it with the last show of the season, The Roast Beef Situation. The play, which opens at...

Continue reading "Buntport's The Roast Beef Situation blends Commedia dell'arte and satire" > ]]> 0 Refugee women tell their stories with photos in picture.me.here tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607833 2012-05-24 11:56:17 2012-05-24T17:22:13Z The woman in the photo is Pabrita Niroula's mother-in-law. She and Pabrita came to Colorado from Nepal, where they lived in a refugee camp and slept on hard bamboo beds. In January, Pabrita wa... Melanie Asmar The woman in the photo is Pabrita Niroula's mother-in-law. She and Pabrita came to Colorado from Nepal, where they lived in a refugee camp and slept on hard bamboo beds. In January, Pabrita wa...

Continue reading "Refugee women tell their stories with photos in picture.me.here" > ]]> 0 Vibrators: A pop-culture history of this buzzed-about device tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607793 2012-05-24 10:56:16 2012-05-24T18:12:02Z Like gay marriage, marijuana use and tattoos, public perception of female sex toys is not what it used to be. While male sex toys still weigh heavy on the shame scale, a female pleasure device is ... Josiah M. Hesse Like gay marriage, marijuana use and tattoos, public perception of female sex toys is not what it used to be. While male sex toys still weigh heavy on the shame scale, a female pleasure device is ...

Continue reading "Vibrators: A pop-culture history of this buzzed-about device" > ]]> 1 http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/vibrator-blog-featured-post.png Vibrators: A pop-culture history Five hidden Denver art galleries to visit this weekend tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607965 2012-05-24 09:48:36 2012-05-25T04:21:44Z While most art galleries in town do all they can to promote themselves, some of them provide back room spaces, which are not advertised as often and usually feature the work of up-and-coming or ... Tiffany Fitzgerald While most art galleries in town do all they can to promote themselves, some of them provide back room spaces, which are not advertised as often and usually feature the work of up-and-coming or ...

Continue reading "Five hidden Denver art galleries to visit this weekend " > ]]> 0 Vibrators play a starring role in Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607809 2012-05-24 07:55:38 2012-05-24T19:34:21Z Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) is about orgasms -- but it's neither titillating nor smutty. Ruhl has been called one of our most brilliantly imaginative playwrights, and loca... Juliet Wittman Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) is about orgasms -- but it's neither titillating nor smutty. Ruhl has been called one of our most brilliantly imaginative playwrights, and loca...

Continue reading "Vibrators play a starring role in Sarah Ruhl's In the Next Room" > ]]> 0 The laid-back Free School Denver announces its summer schedule tonight tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607778 2012-05-24 06:53:26 2012-05-24T14:20:50Z To call Free School Denver "grassroots" is almost too mild: Like a relic of the '60s, DFS has no hierarchies. Formed in that nascent spirit of community education, the school offers all classes fo... Susan Froyd To call Free School Denver "grassroots" is almost too mild: Like a relic of the '60s, DFS has no hierarchies. Formed in that nascent spirit of community education, the school offers all classes fo...

Continue reading "The laid-back Free School Denver announces its summer schedule tonight" > ]]> 1 http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/freeschooldenver.1.png Free School Denver announces its summer schedule Reader: Chalk up a short life span as one of the charms of chalk art tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607794 2012-05-24 05:57:38 2012-05-24T11:14:44Z On Tuesday, artist Kyle Banister and a crew of Southwest Airlines employees and students from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design spent four hours creating a masterpiece. And just a few m... Patricia Calhoun On Tuesday, artist Kyle Banister and a crew of Southwest Airlines employees and students from the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design spent four hours creating a masterpiece. And just a few m...

Continue reading "Reader: Chalk up a short life span as one of the charms of chalk art" > ]]> 0 Action! Shoot Colorado wants to help set the scene for filmmakers tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607437 2012-05-23 15:23:14 2012-05-23T21:54:40Z Can't you just picture this restaurant as a stop in some epic road-trip movie? Or maybe as the site of an awkwardly tense lunch scene in a Coen brothers film? A new website called Shoot Colorad... Melanie Asmar Can't you just picture this restaurant as a stop in some epic road-trip movie? Or maybe as the site of an awkwardly tense lunch scene in a Coen brothers film? A new website called Shoot Colorad...

Continue reading "Action! Shoot Colorado wants to help set the scene for filmmakers " > ]]> 0 Elitch Gardens' Tube Top water slide resembles Sandworm from Beetlejuice tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607292 2012-05-23 13:32:25 2012-05-23T20:11:50Z Though you can never truly count on the weather in Colorado, it's been consistently warm out there for a while and the forecast calls for it to stay that way. Fortunately, the water park at Elitc... Claire Delahorne Though you can never truly count on the weather in Colorado, it's been consistently warm out there for a while and the forecast calls for it to stay that way. Fortunately, the water park at Elitc...

Continue reading "Elitch Gardens' Tube Top water slide resembles Sandworm from Beetlejuice" > ]]> 1 http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/tube-top-featured-post.png Beetlejuice]]> Guess where I'm biking near the Capitol building and win a B-cycle season pass tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607694 2012-05-23 12:37:28 2012-05-23T18:40:59Z Did you know Denver has more than 850 miles of paved off-road trails available to cyclists? This essentially means you don't need to drive a car, ever. What's better is that within our great city,... Britt Chester Did you know Denver has more than 850 miles of paved off-road trails available to cyclists? This essentially means you don't need to drive a car, ever. What's better is that within our great city,...

Continue reading "Guess where I'm biking near the Capitol building and win a B-cycle season pass" > ]]> 1 http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/guess-where-capitol-bicycle.png Guess where I'm biking near the Capitol building Chuck Dorsey's old-school window painting reanimates South Broadway tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607443 2012-05-23 12:03:37 2012-05-23T20:01:43Z Artist Chuck Dorsey crouches down, cutting a letter out of tape on the wall of Certified Customs, a tattoo, piercing and barber shop on South Broadway. He's wearing an old painter's shirt, splo... Tiffany Fitzgerald Artist Chuck Dorsey crouches down, cutting a letter out of tape on the wall of Certified Customs, a tattoo, piercing and barber shop on South Broadway. He's wearing an old painter's shirt, splo...

Continue reading "Chuck Dorsey's old-school window painting reanimates South Broadway" > ]]> 1 http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/dorsey.1.jpg Chuck Dorsey: Old school window paintiing on Broadway A cyclops Zamboni teaches a lesson about the ephemeral nature of chalk art tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607609 2012-05-23 10:58:18 2012-05-23T17:10:56Z At a preview yesterday for the upcoming Denver Chalk Art Festival, artist Kyle Banister got a reminder of what it means to be a chalk artist. At ten years, the festival may be long-lived -- but ... Tiffany Fitzgerald At a preview yesterday for the upcoming Denver Chalk Art Festival, artist Kyle Banister got a reminder of what it means to be a chalk artist. At ten years, the festival may be long-lived -- but ...

Continue reading "A cyclops Zamboni teaches a lesson about the ephemeral nature of chalk art " > ]]> 1 http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/chalkart-1.jpg A cyclops Zamboni erases street art Celebrate with Sarah and Julie Slater at Gorinto tonight tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607549 2012-05-23 10:02:30 2012-05-23T15:41:08Z Sarah Slater, founder of the Titwrench music festival, is a 2011 MasterMind award winner -- and it looks like smarts run in the family. Because tonight, Sarah and her sister, Julie Slater, will h... Patricia Calhoun Sarah Slater, founder of the Titwrench music festival, is a 2011 MasterMind award winner -- and it looks like smarts run in the family. Because tonight, Sarah and her sister, Julie Slater, will h...

Continue reading "Celebrate with Sarah and Julie Slater at Gorinto tonight" > ]]> 0 Street Style: Crystals, positive energy and a less-is-more mentality tag:blogs.westword.com,2012:/showandtell//170.607288 2012-05-23 09:00:19 2012-05-23T13:40:04Z As the season starts to swelter, street fashion takes a more easy-going, laid-back approach. Yet for these individuals, that doesn't mean compromising on style. Take a gander at this week's subj... Mauricio Rocha As the season starts to swelter, street fashion takes a more easy-going, laid-back approach. Yet for these individuals, that doesn't mean compromising on style. Take a gander at this week's subj...

Continue reading "Street Style: Crystals, positive energy and a less-is-more mentality" > ]]> 1 http://blogs.westword.com/showandtell/keelyn-ross-street-style.png Street Style: A less-is-more mentality