Comedian Roy Wood Jr. Tackles Politics and Trump, but Also Blue Cheese
2017 is turning out to be a breakout year for Roy Wood Jr.
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100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Regan Rosburg
Regan Rosburg could be a poster child for everything current and good about the regional art community: She’s a woman artist who’s been active here for a long while, a maker, a naturalist and an activist, deeply involved with both the artistic process and the state of the world around us.
Ten Awesome Summer Art and Craft Markets in Denver
The world moves outside in summer, and so does great art, along with all the accoutrements of food, drink and surprises that make outdoor fairs a picnic for hundreds. Whether they line city streets or poke up like wildflowers in parks or up in the hills, focus on fine art or handmades or both, these markets all have one thing in common: They bring you eye-to-eye with the artists.
Here’s What the New Transformers Movie Is Like
In the opening scene of Transformers: The Last Knight, we are presented with the spectacle of King Arthur and his knights locked in an existential battle for the survival of human civilization, even though we’re not really told who they’re fighting or why. No matter, because this after all is…
Your Queen to Be: RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Final Four Face-off
The season finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race airs Friday on VH1 The world might feel like a schizophrenic hellscape where everyday you find yourself asking “Is this real life?” At least there is some comfort in knowing we still have RuPaul’s Drag Race. The Emmy award-winning drag queen reality competition…
Review: Arvada Center Makes a Substantial Showing With Paper.Works
While paper may seem a flimsy theme around which to organize art, it adds up to three solid shows at the Arvada Center.
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Asian-American Mag Slant’d Launches After the Slants Win SCOTUS Case
Slant’d will be a yearly literary magazine that will illuminate what it means to be Asian-American today.
Six Free Gallery Openings in Denver
The heat is on, but Denver galleries are settling in for the long, hot summer with seasonally correct exhibits that focus on busy bees and sunny thoughts and nature and flowers and…Christmas? Read on, and it will all begin to make sense.
Bwoy‘s Elliptical Study of Sex, Race and Grief Online
“Sexy, aggressive daddy looking for sub bottom boy who knows how to fuck,” types pale, meek-looking Brad (Anthony Rapp) into his online hookup profile in the opening scene of Bwoy, not long after lowering his age and upping his dick size. Then he changes his location from Schenectady, New York,…
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The Reviews Are Bullshit: All Eyez on Me Is an Incredible Achievement
Everything you know about Tupac is likely wrong. Casual fans think of him as a loyal left coast soldier in hip-hop’s East Coast/West Coast war, but he actually had tremendous love and admiration for New York, where he was born and largely raised. Others cite his 1994 Manhattan shooting as…
In All Eyez on Me, the Most Compelling Rapper Gets the Least Compelling Movie
The 2Pac biopic All Eyez on Me completes an unofficial trilogy of what we could call the Bad Boy/Death Row cinematic universe. It began with 2009’s Biggie Smalls bio Notorious and continued with NWA’s Straight Outta Compton in 2015. Too bad that, like a lot of trilogies, the third movie…
The 21 Best Events in Denver This Week
This is the first full week of summer, and the living is easy. So is entertaining yourself: Colorado’s calendar is overflowing with festivals, shows and sales. Here are the 21 best events in and around Denver from June 20 through June 26, 2017.
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Denver’s Newest Creative Space, Druther Gallery, Pairs Edgy Art and Furniture
We’ve seen artist-run galleries come and go in Denver, but at a time when such venues seem to be in flux, the collaborative artist duo Hollis + Lana aka muralists/sculptors/fabricators Conor Hollis and Amorette Lana) are making their stand at Druther, a new gallery space on South Downing Street that will showcase interesting artists, as well as the busy couple’s new furniture line.
Review: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Is Looking Good at BDT Stage
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at BDT Stage is a must-see show, a great production of the musical warhorse.
Denver Unveils Safe Occupancy Program for Unpermitted Spaces
Over six months after the disastrous fire at Ghost Ship in Oakland and Denver’s subsequent closure of two DIY spaces for safety issues, Denver Community Planning and Development and the Denver Fire Department today are announcing their proposal for a Safe Occupancy Program, a “voluntary path to compliance for existing spaces.”
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100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Corianne Wells and Kristopher Michael Wright
As collaborators in the creative arts incubator Odessa, life partners Corianne Wells and Kristopher Michael Wright work above and beyond the confines of their day jobs to bring creatives together and increase general awareness of Denver artists and art spaces, all while mastering the job of being artists themselves.
Even Vikings Battled Sexism: These Actors Bring Troubling Histories to Kids
Historical enactment “gives you a more visceral view of what life was like on a day to day basis,” says David Allison, who helps manage programming for the Museum. When history is marked by rulers, elections and wars, daily concerns are too often forgotten, he says.
Now’s the Time to Catch Up on Queen Sugar, the Soap Grappling With America’s Past and Present
Queen Sugar airs on OWN In her Netflix documentary The 13th, director Ava DuVernay traces the criminalization of blackness – enacted by a white power structure that ascribed violence and villainy to African-Americans – back to the Emancipation Proclamation. Motivated by political expediency and obvious projection, former slaveowners – with…
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Diva Watch: Evelyn Evermoore Wins Ultimate Queen Competition Forevermore
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage Denver’s new Ultimate Queen for 2017, Evelyn Evermoore, who came out on top in the Ultimate Queen Challenge.
Free for all: Five Free Events in Denver This Week
The first day of summer brings a surfeit of big-fun festivals around Colorado. But from June 19-24, you can find yourself at a number of free, mind-improving events around Denver.
Ana Lily Amirpour’s Bad Batch Offers a Timely, Inventive Apocalypse
Ana Lily Amirpour’s comic post-apocalyptic action-drama offers little explanation of what exactly its “bad batch” is, or how the members of its motley, unfortunate tribe of humans wound up banished to a desert wasteland. Instead, Amirpour lets her camera linger on a sign warning that everything beyond a 10-foot-high metal…
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Denver in June is Fun, and These Photos Prove It
Summer’s not even here yet, but it might as well be. June’s weather’s been hot, the parties have been lit, and the swimming pools have been at capacity. So before you set out for another June weekend, check out some of our favorite photos from some of the funnest events around town.