Niki Caro has the rare ability to elevate what could be emotionally manipulative schlock to earnest art. To judge by the trailer, her low-budget breakthrough feature Whale Rider (2003) seemed a straightforward children’s drama about a girl overcoming the odds — tame, commercial Disney fare. But the film itself proved…
The Boss Baby might look, at first, like any other major studio animation release. Directed by DreamWorks vet Tom McGrath (Madagascar, Megamind), the movie hits all the expected notes: the enduring importance of family, the persistence of untrustworthy/clueless adults, and the inherent hilarity of shoehorning David Mamet dialogue into a…
The Maven Hotel will open on March 29 with a collection of more than 400 pieces of art by local artists.
March is on its way out, and we have plenty of great ways to wrap it up. Find out why pictures lie, learn two new languages and have a tasty laugh to fill up your week.
Denver native Christian Filus designs and sells accessories; he describes his style as “evolving, inconsistent, and aggressive.” We spotted Filus and his stylish buddy Toure Armon at Artopia 2017, and stopped to chat with Filus about what inspires his personal style. Westword: Who or what inspires your personal style and…
Denver Art Museum is on the hunt for a local artist to be its summer Creative-in-Residence. This paid position will have one goal: producing “transformative experiences for visitors.”
Partners in life and in their business Extra Vitamins, artists Julia Belamarich and Kyle Warfield met while working at analog-design master Rick Griffith’s Matter Studio, learning the ropes and taking some cues from Griffith’s graphics-cool marketing model.
A new piece of street-art has bloomed in the Golden Triangle, along with some Spring flowers. The mural states, “Be A Good Person,” a relevant mantra in today’s cold world and also the name of a local brand that promotes positivity via clothing…
Put that extra spring in your step by going to Denver’s best events this weekend. There’s something for everyone, whether you want to see dogs in costumes, have a laugh or watch sports.
Witherspoon is a marvel, hilarious and exasperating.
The Rule Gallery has decided to participate in Denver’s Month of Photography by mounting Basic Pictures: Joseph Coniff, which oddly enough is not made up of photos but is, instead, a painting show.
To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters airs March 26, PBS Some of us can never have too much of the Brontës. But I understand if your response to another dose of costume drama on the moors is “Shoot me now.” Reader, be strong! If you were dead, you’d be deprived…
With the arrival of spring, fashion events are blooming all over town. You can catch shows by major designers and Colorado State University students; the month will end with the big Denver Fashion Weekend. Here are ten stylish shindigs over the next ten days.
One of the sly jokes underpinning this striking indie apocalypse: If everyone on Earth vanished while you were vacationing in Iceland, how long before you would notice? Geoffrey Orthwein and Andrew Sullivan’s subtly comic drama, shot with a gliding camera and a pleasing minimalist style, proceeds from that premise, stranding…
Assetou Xango’s poetic voice is queer, black and female, and almost by requirement, a clarion for activism.
The beginning marks the beginning of the end: A middle-aged man rouses from sleep, about to face another day of accosting and insulting strangers. He hates people but needs them, too. His voice-over kicks in, a peroration that opens with a bid for camaraderie (“Remember when we were kids and…
Ancient Rome left us mounds of olive-oil pots, says artist Dmitri Obergfell, and now we manufacture hundreds of thousands of aluminum cans that are buried in dumps, waiting to be discovered again as artifacts in some future millennium. Obergfell riffs off this and other ideas, through visual markers from antiquity and the use of symbolically loaded modern materials for Man is a Bubble and Time is a Place, a solo show opening March 23 at Gildar Gallery.
Comedian Dave Chappelle, who just released two Netflix specials, Deep in The Heart of Texas and The Age of Spin, will be hosting the biggest show of his career, this summer, in Colorado.
The Crossroads Theater is at another crossroads in its troubled ten-year history. According to Dennis Malone, director of operations at Hope Communities, which handles the building, the theater is behind on rent and may have to close.
Don’t let the 70-degree weather fool you: winter isn’t over. Oh, enjoy your shorts-and-tank-top days while you can, for sure. Take the dog for a walk, check out all the shades of browns in the parks, put those boots away and break out the sneakers. But chances are good that there will come a night or a weekend when winter reminds us here in Denver that it’s not dead yet. And there will come a reckoning.Fortunately, all you need to do to survive that reckoning is to fire up the Netflix queue, and check out some of the stuff—all currently available to stream—that you’ve been missing while you were outside gallivanting in the weird Winter (and early Spring!) warmth.
Wall Writers, Basquiat Before Basquiat and Ryan McGinley, three exhibits focusing on twenty-somethings from the recent past, should be eye-opening for the twenty-somethings who frequent the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
The emerald ash borer is Denver bound, and Denver arts and culture organizations are bracing for a fight.
