R.I.P., Charlie Murphy: “I Wake Up Every Morning and I Am Ecstatic.”
Comedian Charlie Murphy, who performed frequently in Denver, passed away on April 12 in New York City.
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A Look at the Kirkland Museum, a True Landmark in the Making
The new Kirkland Museum, honoring Denver’s premier artist of the mid-twentieth century, won’t open for visitors until mid-2018, but a tour of the project shows it’s a true landmark in the making.
Youth Runs Free in Michal Marczak’s Wild, Wheeling All These Sleepless Nights
Too propulsively aimless to be anything other than life, but too fluid in its photography and precise in its compositions to be documentary, Michal Marczak’s pulsing youth-right-now dazzler whirls with two real-life friends (Krzysztof Baginski and Michal Huszcza, playing themselves) and their occasional lovers through a year and a half…
Wonderbound and Flobots Join Forces for Hip-Hop Ballet Divisions
Divisions, Wonderbound’s latest performance, runs three consecutive weekends and is the launch of Denver’s Flobots tour supporting the hip-hop act’s third album, No Enemies.
Hydrate IV Bar Will Bring IV Drips and Quality Control to Highland
The cure to a hangover is simple: It’s attached to an IV bag and comes with a $99 price tag. Hydrate IV Bar opened its doors in the Bonnie Brae neighborhood last April; it was the metro area’s first full-service, walk-in boutique IV therapy clinic. Now owners Blake Whealy and Katie Wafer plan to expand to a second location in Highlands Square.
After the Storm, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Latest Masterwork, Is Indispensable
If civilization were to end tomorrow — and who the hell knows, it just might — we could learn a lot about building the next one from the films of Hirokazu Kore-eda. Back in 1998, the Japanese director had his U.S. breakthrough with the wildly acclaimed After Life. Since then,…
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The Fate of the Furious Is Like Mario Kart on Speed
Holy motors! How will they top this one? This is perhaps the fastest and, if not, certainly the most furious of the Fast & Furious movies. The beauty of the Fast & Furious movies is that no car stunt is ever too nonsensical.
The 21 Best Events in Denver, April 11-17
Spring events are busting out all over, with events this week ranging from an attempt to break a Guinness Book of World Records kickball award to the debut of Divisions, which juggles the hip-hop of The Flobots with Wonderbound’s choreography. There are a lot of balls in the air in Denver; here are 21 events you should catch from April 11 through April 17, 2017.
Myhren Gallery’s Storm Warning Heats Up the Debate Over Climate Change
Jeffrey Keith doesn’t want to bullshit people. And in the case of Storm Warning: Artists on Climate Change, a show Keith curated for the University of Denver’s Vicki Myhren Gallery, that mission felt all the more compelling because of the urgency of its subject matter. “So much art in this…
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Review: Robert Schenkkan’s Building the Wall Is a Wake-Up Call at Curious
Robert Schenkkan composed Building the Wall during the run-up to the election last fall, horrified by what he was hearing and seeing — “a fundamental assault on American values,” he calls it. This Curious Theatre Company production is part of a five-city rolling world premiere.
Weird Events Inspired Librarian Sean Eads’s Latest Book, Trigger Point
Local author Sean Eads writes genre novels and short stories. His latest, Trigger Point, is the tale of a massage therapist who tries to find a murderer. In advance of Eads’s reading of Trigger Point, on April 18, at the Tattered Cover, we asked him to share some insight into his new book and the inspiration behind it.
100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Jeffrey Keith
A longtime member of the Denver art community, Jeffrey Keith is a painter with an astute ability to assimilate free brushstrokes into tightly constructed, color-conscious compositions. A teacher at the University of Denver, he’s curated the Storm Warning, which is the focus of an April 13 symposium.
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Nacho Vigalondo on Balancing Human Life and Kaiju Rampages in Colossal
Over four features and countless shorts, Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo has cemented his status as a director who mixes genre elements with surprisingly personal stories and playful narrative trickery. His mind-bending first feature Timecrimes (2007) starts off as a horror movie, then turns into a time-travel tale and finally the…
Colossal Has a Big Idea, but It Quickly Shrinks
Two seemingly incongruous categories — the small-scale romantic doodle and the rampaging-creature feature — are brought together in Nacho Vigalondo’s Colossal, a film that never really fulfills the potential of its adventurous premise. This monster mash-up argues the opposite of what Humphrey Bogart declared in Casablanca: The problems of two…
Three Things to Do for Free in Denver, April 10-13
Don’t forget to celebrate Grilled Cheese Day this week! That’s just the start of the fun around town. You can also enjoy a gathering with two artists, listen to superhero journalists and have a laugh or two — all for free. As always, check the Westword calendar for even more to…
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Reader: I Call LoHi Gentrification Station, or Hipsterville for Short
As the Colorado Rockies start their season at Coors Field, streets and bars fill up in LoDo, RiNo and LoHi, all relatively new nicknames for old parts of town that are rapidly changing. And in the case of LoHi, changing too much, readers say.
Netflix’s Teen-Suicide Drama 13 Reasons Why Offers Many Reasons to Watch It
In Netflix’s new teen-suicide drama series 13 Reasons Why, pretty-boy Marcus (Steven Silver) tells good-guy Clay (Dylan Minnette) that whatever the kids did to Hannah Baker (Katherine Langford) to make her kill herself was no different than what happens to any other girl in any other high school everywhere. And…
Better Call Saul Finds Its Hero Striving to Break Free of Breaking Bad
It’s a good thing Jonathan Banks has such an interesting face. At the beginning of the third season of Better Call Saul, we spend a lot of quiet time with Banks’ surly, crooked-nosed cop-turned-criminal Mike Ehrmantraut of Breaking Bad fame, watching as he dismantles his own car and works out…
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Graphic Designer Eve Erdenebat Spotted at Denver Fashion Weekend
Some stereotypes deserve to be turned on their heads. On opening night of 303 Magazine’s Denver Fashion Weekend, March 30 at Exdo Event Center, we ran into graphic designer Eve Erdenebat, who proved that a woman can can rock a classic men’s suit just as well, if not better, than a man. We stopped to chat with her about where she shops and where she finds inspiration.
Artist Ravi Zupa Wants to Remind Us: Cops Still Kill Unarmed Black People
Artist and Westword MasterMind Ravi Zupa doesn’t want the public to forget that police continue to kill unarmed black people – even as the actions of President Donald Trump’s administration have jerked attention away from criminal-justice reform and the demands of the Black Lives Matter movement.
All Sacred Tattoo Shop Wants to Remove Your Gang Tattoos for Free
Removing tattoos for free is not an ordinary service offered by tattoo shops, but All Sacred is no ordinary tattoo shop. The hybrid tattoo shop meets nonprofit is currently in the market for a tattoo removal laser with the goal to offer the service of free tattoo removal for former gang members, criminal or otherwise, giving priority to those who tattoos have affected their quality of life.
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Ten Things to Do in Denver for Under $10 (Five Free), April 7-9
Catch a bit of spring fever at one of our favorite events this weekend. Spend the next few days at the movies, in the comedy basement, or doing some light construction.