Mainly, Ryan Foo is a human, living and breathing on Planet Earth. But he’s the kind of human who draws other people together as an event producer, emcee, teacher, comedian and Illfoominati podcaster http://www.wearedenver.org/podcasts/illfoominati/, who, in his own words, is also a “guy who helped paint some trees blue downtown.”
Calling all weekend warriors and “rugged maniacs” — it’s time to get down and dirty. For the sixth time in the event’s seven-year history, the Rugged Maniac 5K Obstacle Course is returning to the Denver metro area. More than 25 obstacles will be set up along a brand new course in Lakewood this Saturday, August 12. Unlike similar obstacle course races, however, the Rugged Maniac is designed so that everybody —runners and spectators — have a comfortable and participatory experience.
It’s hard to write about a play that’s so secret that even the actors haven’t seen the script until the lights go up onstage, but we thought we’d give a try, because Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour’s White Rabbit Red Rabbit seems to be worth the trouble. Censored and unable to leave his native country, Soleimanpour managed to send the script of his one-actor play out into the free world beyond Iran’s borders, where it’s graced numerous international stages since 2011, including a nine-month run last year in New York at the Westside Theatre,
Were you planning on spending the weekend at Fitgeek’s Muddy Mortal, a 5K obstacle course and fantasy-driven outdoor festival at the Colorado Off Road Extreme course in Agate? Well, you can scratch that. The event disappeared in a poof of smoke on August 8,
First Friday is over and the crowds have left the streets, but the art must go on — and it will, at these six openings and events.
Taking advantage of the gallery’s floor plan, Michael Warren Contemporary is currently presenting solos by Kelton Osborn and Andrew Roberts-Gray that bookend a group show.
At least four hundred poets have descended on Denver, heads full of memorized verses, for the National Poetry Slam.For those who can’t distinguish a slam poem from a verbal fistfight or the recitation of iambic pentameter, or simply readers curious about what to expect, Westword got on the phone with Executive Director Suzi Q. Smith and her right-hand woman in planning the event, local poetry and art advocate Danielle Brooks, to demystify slam poetry.
Taylor Sheridan isn’t afraid to embrace genre. His Wind River plays more like an unusually well-made episode of CSI: Wyoming than the highly anticipated directorial effort from the screenwriter of Hell or High Water (which may well have been last year’s best-written film). Set in the desolate, snow-covered Wind River…
Australian artist Craig Walsh, whose eerie and inspiring projections of human faces on trees are already an internet sensation, will bring his large-scale, site-specific installations to Colorado for the Breckenridge International Festival of the Arts.
The dictates of Hollywood screenwriting can’t quite constrain the wildness of Jeannette Walls’ family and her best-selling memoir. Despite a tidy resolution, too many scenes whose shapes are immediately familiar from other movies, and an absurd climax that dramatizes the conflict between a daughter and her father through the wheezy…
Rick and Morty airs on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim Here’s a great joke. An unhappy married couple get the chance to view, through the goggles of a dimension-hopping mad scientist, how their lives have played out in an alternate reality. The husband, an insecure drip, goes first. Turns out in…
The best things to do in Denver this week.
Some theater companies preach, some educate, some exist simply to provide entertainment, whether big, brassy musicals or dated comedies with gentle jokes that go down easy. But the Edge Theater in Lakewood has a vibe all its own, so it’s shocking to hear it’s taking a break.
So much to do, so little time. But even if you missed some of the big events of this past weekend, including fashion shows fake-sex shows, here are photos of the sights you could have seen.
From massive arts institutions to high-end commercial galleries and DIY spaces, Denver boasts an array of venues to check out first-rate art.
A working single mother, published writer on the move and candidate in Regis University’s low-residency Mile High Creative Writing MFA program, Hillary Leftwich gives back to her immediate literary community equally as much as she is a part of it: A frequent participant in local reading events,
The arrival of a new week means a fresh crop of entertainments even the thriftiest Denverite can enjoy. On August 7, entrance to all Colorado state parks is free — a bonus left over from the August 1 Colorado Day. After that, whether you fancy outdoor screenings of classic movies, dance lessons, or craft beer and comedy, there’s plenty more to do all week, and all for free.
Colorado is one of the most prone U.S. locations for lightning fatalities. Here’s why, and how you can stay safe this summer.
No one at the nineteenth International Aerial Dance Festival seems to be afraid of heights. At Frequent Flyers, the Boulder studio where dancers dangle from an arm wrapped in swathes of fabric or hang upside-down, practicing a swift unfurling movement that will drop them onto the thick blue mats below, everyone is committed to an art form you may not have known existed. Aerial dance, says festival founder Nancy Smith, is “anything anything that gets you off the ground dancing.” Imagine a cross between the soaring acrobatics of Cirque du Soleil, the Peter Pan flying on Broadway and the storytelling of modern dance, all requiring immense core and upper body strength. People don’t realize, Smith says, “how hard it actually is, since the aesthetic is effortlessness.”
The summer group show at Space Gallery, with the provocative title Alternative Facts, is a clutch of four solos that unfold in the enormous gallery.
Cool air is starting to roll in, bringing with it thoughts — and fashions — for fall. This month Denver is full of fashion shows, trunk shows, grand openings and casting calls; here are the twelve best events in August.
At the beginning of every month, Denver’s creative community front loads the calendar with an abundance of appealing events.
