Once a year, Colorado Ballet gives its dancers an opportunity to choreograph their own works. This Friday, March 10, performances will be held at the Armstrong Center for Dance. Audience members will be treated to works in an intimate setting in the Black Box Theater, right next to where the…
Shirley MacLaine has been described by press and co-stars over the years as “rude,” “nasty,” “difficult” and “selfish.” Hell, she’s called herself impatient, caustic and much worse. None of that has stopped her from being a fiery mainstay in American screwball comedies and dramas. Her signature pixie cut came to…
The ACLU may be dismayed at the new president’s war on the media and his campaign to deport undocumented immigrants, but from a fundraising standpoint, Donald Trump has been a boon for the organization. The civil-rights campaigners have raked in record donations this year, raising in one weekend five times what they would normally raise in a year.
This week, we celebrate International Women’s Day on Wednesday, explain our nicknames, tinker with history and play blocks for justice. Check out the Westword calendar for even more fun. Raconteur Denver — Nicknames Spangalang Brewery 7 p.m. Tuesday, free You get a nickname from the ones you love, but you…
Science fiction has gotten so high and mighty on TV that it now can be easy to admire but hard to love. Westworld and Mr. Robot may win Emmys and prompt think-pieces, but their self-reflective chill keeps the audience at arm’s length — few things are as annoying as getting…
How could this not work? Table 19 boasts the right premise and a top-shelf cast: Anna Kendrick, Stephen Merchant, June Squibb, Craig Robinson and the great Lisa Kudrow as the randos consigned to a wedding reception’s least choice table, the one way in the back by the bathrooms. Mostly strangers…
The Denver Art Museum’s Star Wars and the Power of Costume has brought thousands into the venerable institution who might otherwise never have walked through its doors. Because of public demand, the nationally recognized exhibit that has been compared to Donald Trump —”Both are mega-entertaining, show-biz fluffs that have puffed…
It’s March! Time to celebrate spring by staying inside and watching more TV! National Treasure (Hulu), March 1Originally a UK Channel 4 miniseries, this is a four-hour deep-dive into rape and sexual assault allegations against a beloved celebrity comedian. Sound familiar? I have some apprehension that it’ll try too hard…
They say March comes in like a lion, and Denver comedy has enough treats in store to keep you roaring with laughter all month long. From home-brewed showcases on local stages to top-notch headliners performing all over the Front Range, this month’s calendar is replete with shows to tickle your…
The average age of the model-train enthusiast is typically over fifty. He’s part of a legion, mainly male, of WWII-era kids and early boomers whose childhood dream it was to unwrap a Lionel train set on Christmas morning. Some of them never abandoned that dream, and even after realizing it,…
The 2017 edition of Denver’s biennial Month of Photography is a lot to swallow in a month — a good reason why MoP show openings are usually spread out over several weeks. But don’t be daunted. There’s so much worth seeing in this community-wide effort, which this year loosely circles…
It’s the first weekend of a new month, and Denver is overflowing with bargain entertainment opportunities. There are First Friday celebrations aplenty, the live music and comedy are abundant, and a river of free beer should run through it all.
Aurora is one of several Colorado cities talking with Artspace, a nationally renowned nonprofit developer, about creating live-work space for artists. On March 1, the discussion came to the Vintage Theatre, where Artspace discussed the possibility of putting a live-work space for artists in the Aurora Cultural Arts District. At…
On the internet, where space is vast and seemingly never-ending, there’s beauty in the brevity of Sommer Browning’s work. The local poet, author, comic artist and librarian has just released two new works, Want Me to Tell You About This Dream I Had?, a collection of her dreams transcribed, and…
#28: Ken Hamel A tech worker by day, Ken Hamel is best known around Denver as one of our art community’s biggest fans and documentarians. Online, his singlehanded arts resource, denverarts.org, keeps readers apprised weekly of gallery openings, calls for entry and other art-related events, while out in the field,…
Westword’s Artopia 2017 celebrated street art and street style. One of the most stylist of Artopia’s artists: Ava Van Deursen, who grew up in a family of artists in Golden, and has always created art. We stopped to chat with Van Deursen about what inspires her art and her fashion, and what it’s like being a working artist in Denver.
The Denver Film Festival has announced it will be returning to the Mile High City from November 1 through November 12 this year, and is now accepting submissions. Programmers plan on screening more than 200 new films and bringing in more than 175 international filmmakers, actors and artists from around…
Logan is a punch in the gut in all the right ways. Onscreen, the X-Men series has always found ways to morph and expand, from time-traveling fantasy to social allegory to political thriller. And it’s done so as other comic-book franchises have ossified, with the DC movies (foolishly) doubling down…
There’s a reason Zoey Deutch is often “the girl” in comedies. Her face expresses multitudes, and the funny guys need a woman with priceless reactions to sell their punch lines. She’s endured dick jokes for Robert De Niro and Zac Efron in Dirty Grandpa, played oblivious straight woman to the…
Agnieszka Smoczynska’s The Lure is a cautionary tale of sisterhood, sexuality, and the sometimes self-destructive things people do for love. The film, which won the award for best debut at the Gdynia Film Festival, is also a diabolically wicked Polish-language musical about two beautiful mermaids who climb ashore in Warsaw…
Movie actors intend no less than to live forever, a goal that seems likely for the ever-likable, endlessly surprising Bill Paxton, who died last weekend at age 61 from complications following heart surgery. (Too damn soon.) No softie, Paxton created memorable movie villains, including the loves-his-work vampire in Near Dark…
The Oscars have come and gone in a surprisingly dizzying fashion, and now that awards season is finished, we can settle in for pure movie watching. Thankfully, Denver’s cinema houses are hitting the ground running. Our best movies list offers up the cream of the crop for the month —…
