One night at the 1up Colfax, we ran into a self-described “professional unicorn”: Texas native Reba Nelson, who likes to visit friends in Colorado several times a year. She caught our eye with her psychedelic, Lisa Frank fashion sense; she describes her style as “joyful, fearless and fun.” We chatted with…
In the opening shot of Only the Brave, a flaming bear — not just a bear that happens to be burning but one that looks as if it had been created entirely from fire — lunges at the camera in the middle of a blazing forest. The image returns a…
Getting a tattoo on Friday the 13th is a ritual in Denver. Here are six shops that not only offer amazing deals on Friday the 13th, but who also have created stunning, unique designs that are well worth the cost to sport for the rest of your lifetime.
Interested in Colorado’s haunted histories? Look no further.
On Sunday, October 15, UCHealth is hosting evre, a day of wellness and fitness classes, lectures and panels targeting every woman in Colorado. The event, held at the Pepsi Center, celebrates women while providing health education related to various life stages.
The Denver Handmade Homemade Market, aka the HaHo, started out loosey-goosey in 2011, as little more than a lemonade stand and good-faith swap for things like cottage-industry handcrafts, backyard produce and home-kitchen goods, as well as an experiment in shopping with alternative currency.
We don’t have to tell you twice: Fall is the perfect time for fun on the farm and pumpkins galore! Here’s a look at some of our favorite ways to enjoy Colorado’s bountiful harvest before the next snow storm hits.
As another weekend approaches, many Denverites find themselves searching for something to do yet despairing over how to fund their fun. Fret not, broke locals, for a bevy of frights and delights await.
Elise VanDyne, who gave up a successful corporate career to become executive director of the Colorado Maker Hub, is a true believer in all creative industries, from independent crafters to adventurers in robotics and under-the-radar techies and Burners blending science and art in humongous desert installations.
Natasha Leggero, who returns to Comedy Works downtown for shows October 12 through October 14, is no stranger to the Mile High City. She recorded her comedy album Coke Money at Comedy Works back in 2011, and has returned several times in the intervening years.
Even if it hadn’t been essentially lost, James Whale’s The Old Dark House (1932) wouldn’t ever have fit, exactly, on the Mount Rushmore of Universal’s horror greats: Frankenstein, that ol’ corpse’s wife, the Wolfman, Dracula and — since actually you can’t see him we can get away with five faces…
Spielberg premieres Oct. 7 on HBO. While the studios accuse critics and Rotten Tomatoes of killing the movie business, Steven Spielberg is happy to look right into the camera and say that Pauline Kael had his number. “She was right,” says the world’s most profitable director deep into Spielberg, Susan…
Oh, the variety: Metro Denver galleries are set to celebrate book artists from across the U.S., honor the Colorado art dynasty of Charles and Collin Parson, throw open houses with affordable merch for the holidays (or not) and host a DIY art session with a community-building fiber artist.
Filmmaking is not a poor man’s game. Even as digital cameras get cheaper, making a film worthy of release still requires dough to get off the ground, which means the folks who tell stories through cinema tend to come from backgrounds of privilege. That breeds movies aimed at middle- to…
Art & Conflict, the Arvada Center’s main exhibit this fall, fills the six galleries on the center’s lower level with pieces in a range of mediums by nearly four dozen artists, most of them from Colorado.
To know Mona Lucero is to love her: The veteran Denver fashion designer not only works wonders molding fabric to form, but she’s also created her own style milieu, an intelligent, perceptive and pampering platform that imbues simple garments with empowering qualities.
Fifty years ago, in 1967, Cool Hand Luke, The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, In the Heat of the Night and The Dirty Dozen rocked American cinemas. And somewhere in a field outside Pittsburgh, George Romero and John Russo were shooting on black-and-white 16mm film a low-budget movie that would found…
The Denver Film Festival has announced its full slate of films, including features, documentaries and shorts. This year’s festival will take a special look at Danish cinema.
“I See What You Mean” has inspired a nickname (the Big Blue Bear), pranks, knock-offs, and a worldwide photographic tour on #denverbluebear.
Sean Baker’s The Florida Project, the follow-up to the breakout indie comic drama Tangerine, sparkles with joy and hope even as it tells a not-so-hopeful story. In the film, little Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) and her mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) reside in Kissimmee, Fla., in a rundown motel that’s as colorful as…
America may be crumbling, but here’s at least one truth that might be cheering: They’ve finally figured out biopics. Ever since Walk Hard kicked its ass, that hokiest, flabbiest, most hilariously reductive of movies genres has become, like horror, the rare genre where the studios allow filmmakers to take risks,…
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) premieres on Netflix Oct. 13 Adam Sandler’s core as a performer has always been his self-loathing. In his best comedies, he weaponizes it with humiliating ruthlessness. (In his worst ones, it wafts pathetically off him like the day-after stink of a drunkard.) Now, he’s…
