As Denver officials prepare to turn a portion of City Park Golf Course into a stormwater drainage reservoir, a project that will involve cutting down roughly 260 trees, arts activists are staging a last-minute intervention, hoping to save 80 percent of the trees that are slated to be removed to make…
The podcast Denver Orbit showcases musicians, comedians, storytellers, and other artsy types from Denver’s thriving arts community.
If it’s all about words and how to use them to make a point, Denver slam poet Hakeem Furious, aka Andre Carbonell, is on it, speed-reading his messages live at the mic.
This weekend’s art events get down to the nitty-gritty of the gallery world, with fundraisers, Halloween themes, new ideas and solid exhibits, not to mention an opportunity to poke your toe into the water and be an artist yourself. Here are eight ways to kneel at the altar of art.
It’s time to get hyped for the upcoming Hallo-weekend. While there are plenty of spooky spectacles and ghoulish gatherings awaiting Denverites, many venues are dispiritingly aware that they can price-gouge partiers. Luckily, others are offering tricks, treats, frights and delights that anyone can attend for less than ten American dollars.
All the Places, an adventure film series about immersive travel that examines the relationship between food, culture, sport and environment, screens at REI in Denver on Thursday, October 26.
Maybe it’s encouraging, in a way, that an America in crisis struggles so mightily to make crowd-pleasing war movies. Whatever their politics, no studio exec today would let a wide-release desert-war drama come right out and say what even the GOP increasingly admits: that Iraq was a mistake, that Afghanistan has…
Survey is a great name for a display of landscape paintings, and the William Havu Gallery has paired that three-artist show with a sculpture solo, Nancy Lovendahl: The Reclamation Suite.
If you’re looking to get into the spirit of the season, here are thirteen terror-filled films – including creature features, slashers, ghost stories, musicals and even a documentary – screening around Denver this week.
From the perspective of a certain kind of rarefied, globalized movie nerd, we’re living in the era of Hou, even if most culture consumers don’t know it. Hou Hsiao-hsien has become something of the art-house-film gold standard worldwide in the last few decades, building one of the world’s most rigorous…
This fall, mainstream films are subverting expectations all over the place. Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! proved too much for some audiences looking for a moody drama who were then shocked by gory, allegorical narrative. Blade Runner 2049 sloughed off most of its predecessor’s lower-brow populist action for a somber tone and…
For the past ten years, Curtis Craddock has been living in a fantasy world. During the day, he works at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility, teaching incarcerated felons how to use computers. At night he dreams of a place called Caelum, celebrated in his book An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors.
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold premieres Oct. 27 on Netflix Joan Didion has set an impossible standard for any documentarian who would want to cover her life. She’s essentially already done it herself, brilliantly, in her essays, novels and films. Still, Didion’s nephew, actor/director Griffin Dunne, takes a…
The withing hour is upon us! Just ask organizers of one of the dozens of Halloween-related events going on around Denver this week, including a witches’ ball, an oddities expo, and a Gatsby-inspired zombie ball. All that and more is in this week’s 21 best events in Denver list. Tuesday,…
South Park airs on Comedy Central Last year, just days after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone told a reporter that the next season of their show wouldn’t take aim at Trump, because “satire has become reality.” After 20 years of…
Smart People, Lydia R. Diamond’s play about race that’s now at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, is directed by Nataki Garrett, associate artistic director for the DCPA Theatre Company. Garrett was hired by then-artistic director Kent Thompson, who left in March, two months after she started there; Garrett…
This Halloween, trick-or-treat at these community events around the Denver metro area.
Steven Frost crosses disciplines as an artist, often mining pop culture and archives to tell modern stories. Installation, performance, objects and fiber art all play parts in those changing narratives, but the needle and thread driving Frost’s personal warp and weft goes a bit farther in telling his own story.
The numbers in the title of 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene refer to the number of setups and shots that were required to create the shocking cinematic savagery that occurs less than an hour into the director’s 1960 masterpiece, Psycho. You know the scene: It killed off star Janet Leigh’s character…
Imagine a remake of Cape Fear shot like Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, with Max Cady recast as a child, and you’ll have some idea of the strangeness of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer. It was one of the most divisive titles at this year’s Cannes festival, thanks…
As we head into Halloween, the entertainment calendar is so packed, it’s scary. Here are five free events for the workweek of October 23 through October 27.
Part-time model Alicia Myers is stylish both on and off the runway.
