Writer/director Angela Robinson’s Professor Marston and the Wonder Women is achingly normal, in a good way. Robinson has proven herself capable of melding her sincere and often endearingly campy sensibilities to any cinematic style — spy spoofs (D.E.B.S.), Disney family flicks (Herbie: Fully Loaded), comic-dramas (The L Word), sexy vampire…
The spooky season is upon us, with Halloween parties and Day of the Dead celebrations crowding the calendar. But Mother Nature has already shown us a few tricks, and benefits for victims of earthquakes and hurricanes are flooding the town, too. Here are the 21 best events in Denver for October 10 through October 16, 2017.
We’ve all hosted an unexpected guest, someone who, as Coleridge said of old age, lingers after he “hath outstayed his welcome while/And tells the jest without the smile.” But in Edward Albee’s A Delicate Balance, now at Edge Theater Company, two unanticipated guests create chaos.
It’s October, which means it’s time to retire from outdoor life and fully settle into the fall premiere schedule. And because it’s 2017, that means there are about a bazillion new and returning shows, so I sorted through the deluge to bring you the most intriguing ones. I swear, writing…
Some of the best films I saw at Fantastic Fest were nearly unclassifiable, ranging from allegorical religious retellings in the streets of Budapest to paeans of pride for a profession that possibly should have gone by the wayside. What they all have in common is a sympathy for the outsider…
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science boasts 2,000 titles. Archivist Rene O’Connell describes the collection.
The Chicano art community runs deep in Denver, and Arlette Lucero has been on the front line for decades, quietly educating children in the arts and illustrating storybooks, while also painting powerful women, using imagery rooted in mestizo culture with modernized focal points.
The work week of October 9 through October 13, 2017, is so full of fun free events in Denver, it’s downright scary.
What became of Chaesdegango, an artist who exhibited at the funky Muddy Waters coffeehouse on Platte Street?
Lonely Planet just named RiNo a hot hood, and tempers are really hot there this weekend.
The Denver Art Museum’s Ponti Building will get a $150 million facelift starting in November 2017.
In Denver, new murals go up faster than most people can keep track of; here are five new artworks to check out this weekend.
The Denver Theatre District has turned a 700-square-foot, unrentable space in the Colorado Convention Center into an experimental arts incubator called Understudy.
Lawrence Argent, one of Colorado’s most successful and well-established artists, died suddenly in Denver on October 4, 2017. Argent’s most famous local commission is “I See What You Mean,” on the 14th Street side of the Colorado Convention Center. The piece, which was done in 2005, immediately earned an endearing…
The weekend is nigh, which is generally cause for jubilation – unless a person is too broke to have fun. Happily, the Mile High City’s creative community hustles to produce a litany of fantastic ways to experience Denver’s cultural scene while still pinching every possible penny.
The crown jewel of Denver’s podcast scene, Changing Denver is a living chronicle of a city in flux. Host Paul Karolyi consults local artists, historians and other experts to trace the evolution of the Queen City’s character, one neighborhood, landmark or personage at a time.
The way Lynne Collins, artistic director for the Arvada Center’s Black Box Theater, has transformed the venue’s second stage is genius: Flying in the face of theatrical cutbacks at a time when even the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company no longer supports an in-house repertory company, she’s done just that — brought back the idea of the old-school ensemble, using local talent and a collaborative ethic.
Looking to get scared in Denver? Here’s your guide to the scariest haunted houses in town.
Pop art or political art? Pick your poison: The October 2017 First Friday in Denver is rife with big art, identity politics, fun and games, and a whole lot of eye candy. Here are six places to wander, near and far, through art shows of all sizes.
Lonely Planet recently released its roundup of the ten coolest neighborhoods in the world. Now the travel media company is drilling down with “Hot ’hoods in the US: 10 neighborhoods you need to visit.” Two of them — Sunset Park in New York and Frelard, Seattle — are repeats from the…
William Stockman became a star in Denver’s art scene in the 1990s via ambitious solos filled with beautifully crafted, nominally representational works with enigmatic subject matter. And he’s still at it, as seen in the marvelous William Stockman: After Thought, now at Gildar Gallery. The paintings here represent a straightforward…
To dress up in costume or not to dress up in costume: That’s the Halloween question. On the plus side, dressing up can be a lot of fun. On the not-so-plus, it can be a lot of pressure. You can’t just go to Target or one of those pop-up stores…
