Westword - The continuing appeal of various forms of realism is remarkable when you consider that its would-be replacements, abstraction and conceptual art, have been around for a hundred years already. And the depiction...
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Westword - Banjo virtuoso B la Fleck is a musical rarity: a humble, but gifted phenom who makes his craft look easy without making a big deal of it. And that's never been more evident than in Throw Down Your Heart ,...
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Westword - Quick: How many of you have ever discussed Abraham Lincoln's diet? What, no takers? In one of the more unusual foodie events, personal chef, storyteller, researcher and self-described passionate locavore...
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Westword - The members of the Buntport Theater troupe have always been interested in the creative process. They've imagined Alexandre Dumas creating his three musketeers after reading a novel borrowed from the...
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Westword - The music of Congorock sounds like the bastard child of hard house and a coked-up, hard-partying Nintendo Game Boy. The Italian DJ/producer is quickly garnering a reputation for party-starting tracks and mixes...
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Westword - Here's the thing about doing an art show that celebrates potatoes: Inevitably, a handful of creatives will try to involve McDonald's french fries in their pieces. Which is great, except that...
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Westword - Like many Denverites, artist Mark Penner Howell wanted to do something to help the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. At first I thought about doing some paintings in response to the earthquake,...
Posted 6 days ago - Comment - Vote - ShareWestword - Allen True's West. Allen Tupper True was Denver's premier muralist during the first third of the twentieth century. Sadly, many of his commissions...
Posted 6 days ago - Comment - Vote - ShareWestword - Musician Brian Rocheleau (aka Rosh) discovered blind cafes, a restaurant-type setup in which meals are consumed in the dark, in Reykjav k, Iceland, when he...
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Westword - Beat icon Neal Cassady, who once wandered Denver's skid row as a kid, would have been 84 tomorrow. It's hard to imagine the motor-mouthed, free-living inspiration for Jack Kerouac's Dean...
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Westword - It all started six years ago when Robbie Bowman, a server at Vesta Dipping Grill, challenged his co-workers to grow mustaches - the quirkier the better, he thought. And while he was at it, why not turn the...
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Westword - In the '90s, Conrad Kehn stretched boundaries as the vocalist for the dark, progressive Denver rock group Skull Flux. He's still chipping away at the walls today - only now he does so as the director...
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Westword - In a parallel universe, the ukulele - not the electric guitar - is the preeminent instrument of popular culture. It's not a stretch to say that Swallow Hill Music Association's Michael Schenkelberg...
Posted 6 days ago - Comment - Vote - ShareWestword - For boutique entrepreneur Stephanie Shearer, community played a big part in her decision to take a chance on renovating the EZE Mop Complex at 17th Avenue and...
Posted 6 days ago - Comment - Vote - ShareWestword - While Chris Daniels has a 25-year history in these parts of horn-based, good-time blues rock/R&B, he gets over to Holland occasionally to team up with the...
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