Denver Startup Week, the amazing annual entrepreneurial event that got its start in 2012, received 1,039 suggestions for sessions at its sixth edition, set for September 25 through 29. And the organizers could use your help deciding what to present: You can vote for your favorites at denverstartupweek.org through Sunday, May 28.
If nothing else, Alien: Covenant is the most ambitious Alien film ever made. It’s almost as if Ridley Scott, foiled in his recent attempts at biblical epics, metaphysical dramas and thorny psychosexual thrillers, decided to revisit those genres under cover of a prized franchise sequel. That’s not to suggest that…
A light and cheery appraisal of a somber subject, Vanessa Gould’s documentary Obit focuses on the writers and editors assigned to the necrology desk of The New York Times. Like other chronicles of dead-tree media made in the past decade — The September Issue, R.J. Cutler’s Vogue ode (2009); Andrew…
Don’t expect Amir Bar-Lev’s Long Strange Trip, a sweeping if not very penetrating look at the 30-year career of the Grateful Dead, to offer major revelations. For any Deadhead — and it’s hard to imagine any other kind of viewer settling in for the four-hour running time — the basic…
Denver residents rightfully complain that our city is pricing out artists. Even so, the local creative scene is thriving – for the time being. While cash-strapped Denverites have less and less disposable income to devote toward leisure, adventurous and thrifty locals are in luck. With art-gallery openings, stoner-friendly comedy shows and even a city-wide festival going on this weekend, everyone from bookish nerds to active families have affordable entertainment options to suit their tastes.
Denver’s all about the outdoors: jaunts to the mountains, Red Rocks shows, brewery patios, urban festivals and gallery walks.But there is no shame in staying home or cozying up in a coffee shop and surfing online.
Bobbi Walker, gallery director of Walker Fine Art, which just celebrated its fifteenth anniversary, has traditionally dedicated the front of her space to two solo shows; a painter would take over the walls and a sculptor would fill the floors.
Artist Teresa Booth Brown doesn’t only make art, though she does that very well, arranging shapes and textures on wood panels in collage and oils, creating brilliant drawings in graphite and reinterpreting her familiar geometrics in printmaking media.
Meow Wolf is notifying the Denver recipients for a total of $54,000 in arts grants for DIY venues and organizations: $20,000 from the City of Denver, and $34,000 from Meow Wolf’s own fund.
Although Memorial Day had its origins in the somber days after the Civil War, it’s become a three-day holiday when people celebrate American pastimes — like baseball and skiing in late May! Here are six ways to spend Memorial Day weekend in Colorado.
In presenting Mi Tierra at this time, the Denver Art Museum is not only promoting tolerance and acceptance of a community currently being stigmatized by some, but also demonstrating that Mexican-American art is one of the strongest cultural forces in our region right now.
Yes, May is officially National Masturbation Month — although, seriously, people: Isn’t every month Masturbation Month? Here are ten moments in which masturbation took the spotlight in the mainstream media, both here in Denver and across the country, and for better or for worse. And not to worry, our list does not include that time your parents walked into your bedroom at the exactly wrong moment…
Thomas Vinterberg’s The Commune is partly autobiographical: The Danish director of The Celebration and The Hunt lived in a commune between the ages of 7 and 19, at a time when collective living had become popular in Scandinavia. (The phenomenon also inspired Swedish director Lukas Moodysson’s 2000 masterpiece, Together.) Maybe…
Denver, good news: We can finally cheer for the Rockies and actually mean it! The winning team squares up against the Seattle Mariners on Monday. If baseball isn’t your thing, Ballet5280 is performing its inaugural piece on Friday, and goth kids can bust out the black for Goth Prom. Keep…
At Buntport Theater, The Crud is Waiting for Godot as written by Edward Lear: a world of color, strangeness, mystery and nonsense that you most definitely want to enter.
Get ready to bust out those library cards. Last night, the winners of the Colorado Book Awards were announced. Among the selection are a biography of Theodore Roosevelt, a primer in counting via the weird world of octopuses (and their three hearts and nine brains), and a history of Colorado.
Last year, HBO announced it would be recording a special with T.J. Miller, at the Paramount Theater. The broadcaster just announced it will be releasing the special on Saturday, June 17 at 10 p.m. It’s title: T.J. Miller: Meticulously Ridiculous.
Yes, dead men tell no tales — but neither, really, do the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Rather than stories, the series, of which this 2017 entry is the fifth, offers an unpalatable mix of mincing slapstick, rote derring-do, ponderous CGI, whiskery sea-chanty mysticism, and dutiful action sequences whose only…
Cirque du Soleil puts on a good show. Performers plummet from fifty feet up in the air. Flowers blossom from elaborate costumes. Even the show’s technical director Mike Newnum says he loses his breathe when he watches what the team does.
In Robin Swicord’s Wakefield, an adaptation of the late E.L. Doctorow’s short story of the same name, disillusioned lawyer Howard Wakefield (Bryan Cranston) chases a raccoon from his decrepit backhouse and … never returns. The story’s not science fiction; Howard doesn’t get swallowed by a black hole. He’s still among…
Both the poet’s body and soul are made ineradicable in Davies’ lovely film.
Yes, there’s spoilers below for this unspoilable show. “Don’t let yourself be hurt this time,” sings Julee Cruise on “Falling,” the plushly minimalist 1989 synth ballad that, a year later, stripped of its vocal and lyrics, would become the opening theme for Twin Peaks. David Lynch himself wrote that lyric,…
