At their July 17 meeting, Denver City Council members voted unanimously to approve the Safe Occupancy Program, a conditional building occupancy program for unpermitted spaces designed to ensure safety while also limiting displacement; it will be overseen by Denver Community Planning and Development (CPD) and the Denver Fire Department. In the wake…
Truth in advertising: Girls trip hard during their New Orleans getaway in Girls Trip, which maybe doesn’t need that possessive apostrophe after all. Malcolm D. Lee’s comedy, written by Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver — the same creative team behind last year’s uneven Barbershop: The Next Cut — pops with…
Colorado author Colleen Oakes’ Wendy Darling series introduces a Peter Pan that’s a far cry from the impish cartoon you know from Disney.
Life and art are inseparable for the members of Phamaly, the first theater company in the country whose members all have some kind of physical ailment, and they show it in Annie.
In summer, Denver’s calendar is so packed you can’t begin to hit all the festivals, markets, parties and celebrations around town. So this past weekend, we did it all for you. Keep reading for a look at four events in Denver we visited July 14 through July 16, with links…
A new restoration brightens the corners of Mario Bava’s superb gothic 1966 freakout, crisply rendering each open grave, rotting skull, Limeade cobweb and tendril of swirling mist. As always in the films of the Italian horror master, death grooves in Day-Glo moodscapes, with Bava’s restless camera snaking through crypts and…
The nerve-racking war thriller Dunkirk is the movie Christopher Nolan’s entire career has been building up to, in ways that even he may not have realized. He’s taken the British Expeditionary Force’s 1940 evacuation from France, early in World War II — a moment of heroism-in-defeat that has become an…
Insecure returns July 23 on HBO No moment captures the elations of HBO’s Insecure better than the opening scene of the sophomore season’s second episode. The morning after sleeping with her ex-boyfriend, Issa (Issa Rae) recounts her confusion about the abrupt quickie to her snappish best friend, Molly (Yvonne Orji)…
Ozark premieres on Netflix July 21 When Skyler White challenged her husband’s secret fun life of crime on Breaking Bad, the backlash to her drove Anna Gunn to write an op-ed in The New York Times. Gunn revealed that a number of disturbing “hate boards” had often conflated her with…
Denver is a biker’s town. The city’s full of bike lanes and trails, mountain bikers need not drive for hours to tear up single track, and for people looking for a tuneup or a new ride, there are endless shops with competent mechanics – even coffee and gourmet chocolates.
“Every love story is a ghost story,” David Foster Wallace wrote, more than once. That evocative observation is probed in David Lowery’s A Ghost Story, a film that occasionally reaches a similar level of eloquence. Lowery’s fourth feature reunites Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck, the leads of his second, the…
Denver-based business Bold Betties wants to empower and encourage women, not just in the great outdoors but in all aspects of life, through a new speaker series, the Road Less Traveled. On July 20 at 6 p.m., the company’s first speaker, Heather MacKenzie, will share how her experience with sexual harassment at her former high-profile company taught her about resilience and seizing onto hard-sought silver linings.
Sweaty locals refuse to allow the heat to defeat them at this point in the summer. Luckily, for adventurous entertainment seekers, delights abound all around town this week.
Artists and arts groups are being priced out of Denver, and for a while they found hope in Concept, an art-space project that longtime artist/developer Jeanie Nuanes King had planned for eleven empty acres in Commerce City. But now she’s pulled the plug.
Denver Design Week aims to give a platform to speakers from all design disciplines, bringing innovation and design-speak to the public through a series of tours, panel discussions, presentations and parties.
From Game of Thrones to The Handmaid’s Tale, narratives of sexual assault have become particularly common in film and TV lately. But rarely do we think about the filmmakers, actors and crew who make on-screen rapes happen. How do they feel? Are they tired of rape scenes? Or could portraying rape could actually be a positive thing?
After more than seven months of discussion, the city presented its Safe Occupancy Program proposal for DIY spaces and other unpermitted facilities at the Denver City Council meeting on Monday, July 10. And already, amendments have been proposed.
Denver, it is hot. So hot, in fact, that there’s really nothing to do but find ourselves a body of cold water and take a plunge.
What might be most horrific about the horrors exposed in Matthew Heineman’s overwhelming City of Ghosts is their familiarity. The film documents the efforts of citizen journalists to alert the world to ISIS’s ravaging of Raqqa, their Syrian hometown, which Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and his extremist followers seized four years…
Earlier this year, Mystery Science Theater 3000, the popular movie-riffing television series that started nearly three decades ago, was revived on Netflix, thanks in part to $6 million that was raised on Kickstarter in 2015.
As another weekend approaches, many Denverites may find themselves searching for something to do yet despairing over how to fund their fun. Fret not, fellow poor, for Colorado’s creative community has yet again scheduled enough free or cheap entertainment to keep locals giggling and wiggling for the next five days.
The short documentary “Mixed Up” will delve into the experience of being a mixed-race person in the United States.
