On Thursday, April 27, Westword reported on why the Museum of Nature and Science opted not to have a presence at the Denver March for Science, part of a national challenge to the Republican administration’s attempts to undo environmental protections.
The best meal Matt Wright ever ate was in the Amazon jungle, and it lasted him about four days. The main course was a ninety-pound jungle pig that Wright, a Lakewood resident, hunted with his handmade bow and arrow on the Discovery Channel’s reality show Naked and Afraid XL, the spin-off of Naked and Afraid, which premiered in 2013. He was the first contestant to successfully hunt big game on either series.
Roseanna Frechette, a poet and spoken-word artist, has lived in Denver since 1976, most of that time considering the city a choice, affordable place to work. In recent years, the city’s art scene has exploded, a phenomenon she says she welcomes. Alongside the creative communities’ recent boom development has also exploded, cranes litter the skyline and Denver is growing. Now, says Frechette, artists – who have long depended on the city’s affordability – and their homes and studios are endangered.
Since the Denver Architectural Foundation took over the task of fine-tuning Doors Open Denver from the city in 2014, the massive event celebrating Denver’s great architecture has blossomed.
Monet. Degas. Renoir. Manet. Toulouse-Lautrec. They’re some of the best known impressionists. They’re also all men. Women artists in nineteenth century Paris faced an uphill battle in pursuing their craft.
Denver is positively bustling with activity all weekend long, which means thrifty locals have plenty of opportunities to enjoy everything our city arts scene has to offer without breaking the bank.
Mira Nair’s Queen of Katwe is a true-life tale transformed into an inspirational fable. That’s not novel for the movies, but in this director’s hands, the results are mostly enchanting. The film follows Phiona Mutesi (Madina Nalwanga), an impoverished Ugandan girl who became a chess champion at the age of…
Denver letterpress printer Tom Parson has been practicing his hands-on and decidedly analog trade as Now It’s Up To You Publications since the early ’80s, after becoming interested in printing, as a poet and booster of small-press publications in Seattle.
When thousands of protesters, including prominent scientists and politicians, hit the streets of Denver as part of the national March for Science on April 22, some demonstrators took note of which groups were there and which were missing. One institution that was notably absent: the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
Stuart Sanks, known professionally as Shirley Delta Blow, is a schoolteacher by day and a drag queen by night, but as far as his performance style goes, he does a lot more than strut around in women’s clothing.
There’s nary a dull moment at the Stanley Hotel, the iconic lodging in Estes Park that was the inspiration for Stephen King’s The Shining. Under owner John Cullen, the Stanley is trying to become the epicenter of the worldwide horror-film industry by constructing a $24 million film center — even if there…
The Leftovers airs Sundays on HBO If you don’t have religion, you should at least have The Leftovers. HBO’s rapturous drama hasn’t found much of an audience during its brief time on Earth, but those who listen to its sermon long enough tend to convert — nothing else on television…
At the April 4 meeting of the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs, commissioners received a Request for Deaccession report from Denver International Airport that proposed removing three of DIA’s original pieces, part of a $15 million-plus art collection made possible by Denver’s policy that sets 1 percent of every major construction budget aside for art. “SkyDance” never really worked, and the floor in the Great Hall is apparently doomed by big expansion plans. But why get rid of Michael Singer’s “Hidden Garden”?
Twice I’ve described Kitty Green’s curious, alienating docu-whatzit Casting JonBenet to friends, and twice I’ve been asked, with surprising heat, “Why?” and “What’s the point?” So, this time, before we get into the specifics of what this documentary actually documents, let’s take a moment to consider what the film isn’t…
“These are the images that have marked me and leave me wondering still.” That’s how Kirsten Johnson prefaces Cameraperson, made up of footage she has collected over 25 years of working as a camera operator, cinematographer and director on dozens of different documentaries — films like Laura Poitras’ The Oath…
It’s April 1992, and ABC commentator Judith Miller’s voice has an exasperated tinge as she reports to her audience that not one of the officers who beat Rodney King on that infamous videotape has been found guilty of any charges. Soon, riots break out in Los Angeles. Thousands of stores…
The Robischon Gallery has a talent for assembling separate shows that seamlessly interact with one another, and that’s definitely the case with a trio of exhibits on display now. They’re connected by both a goth mood and the enigmatic quality of the included works.
To Eric Shumake, art and activism are one and the same, especially when it comes to the plight of Denver’s homeless population.
Don’t resist the temptation to take off your 3D glasses while watching the Nick Cave concert doc One More Time With Feeling. Without them, as you watch the images projected atop each other, you can see Cave as something like he envisions himself in this film made after the death…
The Colorado Classic bike race is just over the horizon. Today, event organizers announced the teams that will be participating in the Women’s Colorado Classic.
This week, we’re all about celebrating Denver, from historic homes at Doors Open Denver to Tennyson Street to this city’s immigrants. Check out our best events of the week for an opportunity to pay homage to the Mile High City. Tuesday, April 25 The nonprofit PlatteForum has built a reputation…
Geoffrey Kent’s Waiting for Godot at the Arvada Center is one of the best versions of this play we’ve seen: funny, lively, sad and moving, seeming simultaneously to take forever and to move rapidly along. Most important, it’s well cast.
