Love might be in the air, but free entertainment is what’s really going to get us through this irritating Valentine’s Day week. We have art shows with gifts, side splitting comedy and some of the finest indie rock from back in the day to keep us busy.
Ed Bryant, an award-winning science-fiction and horror writer who’d lived in Denver since 1972, died in his sleep February 10 after a long illness. He was 71. Although fans knew him for his stories, he was a beloved mentor and legendary teacher, too. He was also my neighbor, one of…
Longtime Denver Center for the Performing Arts trustee Jim Steinberg, of the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, resigned from the organization, in protest of CEO Janice Sinden ousting Artistic Director, Kent Thompson.
Like just about everyone else, MUBI has gotten into the distribution business — in a way. The streaming service, a favorite among cinephiles, has been offering a curated selection of arthouse titles for years: 30 movies at a time, each available for 30 days. Its new Discoveries platform, which seeks…
Legion, the much-anticipated new FX series created by Fargo showrunner Noah Hawley, wastes no time plunging us into the murky depths of its lead’s unraveling mind, from blissful youth to harrowing adulthood plagued by a failed suicide attempt. Every scene is a dense visual and sonic cornucopia. Even quiet moments…
George Miller’s sci-fi series began in 1979 with the low-budget, practically DIY gearhead grindhouse flick Mad Max, and it was revived in 2015 with the delirious action masterpiece Mad Max: Fury Road. All along the way, these pictures have captured something about their times that has allowed them to break…
Boundaries are violated repeatedly in Fifty Shades Darker, a film that demands even more submission of its audience than its predecessor, 2015’s Fifty Shades of Grey. No safeword can protect you from the sequel’s depleting incoherence, its punishing pileup of plot and its inability to successfully stage, even once, the…
The National Western Stock Show has corralled the Denver County Fair.
Fashion designer and Westword MasterMind Mona Lucero is a style icon. She knows what she likes and isn’t afraid to share it — or wear it. Her new collection will be presented at the Whiteout fashion show, an annual highlight of Westword’s Artopia, which will be at City Hall on February 25…
February is looking good, with spring fashions on the horizon and events that range from big sales to shows to lovely deals for Valentine’s Day. And if you are single, remember: You deserve some love, too. Here are the ten best fashion events in Denver this February, in chronological order…
Stephanie Shearer, owner of new boutique Trunk Nouveau at Stanley Marketplace in Aurora, says Stanley is like no other retail space in the region.
There’s a ton of fun to be had this weekend, but if you follow this list you’ll have no need to worry about missing out on anything. The beer will flow, the music will blast and romance will blossom. Check out the Westword calendar if you think you can handle more.
Colorado artist Michael J. Dowling, the subject of a striking solo, You Already Know How This Will End at Leon Gallery, has built a solid reputation based on drawings, paintings and now sculptures that have an old-master classicism that he intentionally undermines through additions and subtractions, what he calls “redactions.”
Even Roger Gastman agrees: He’s the foremost authority on graffiti in America. But unlike your usual scholar, who stitches together history through books and research, Gastman knows because he’s lived it, beginning in the street and, later, as an urban anthropologist documenting it in print, through photography and on film…
David Nadelberg found a box full of junk from his childhood, including a love letter. He was mortified. Instead of tossing it, he sought out other hidden embarrassing treasures people had filed away from the angst-riddled youth, and turned it into the Mortified series.
A relative newcomer to the Denver photography community, Kia Neill hasn’t wasted any time making her mark on the region, as an artist, a teacher on several platforms, a curator, a museum resident and even an expert snowboarder.
Denver’s date with actor Cary Elwes and The Princess Bride: An Inconceivable Evening on April 21 was announced just ten days ago, but demand for tickets has been so strong that a second show has been added at the Paramount Theatre on April 20.
Nearly ten years ago, philanthropist Laura Merage created RedLine with the goal of providing studios for artists and exhibition spaces for art. Considering the crunch on artist spaces in Denver right now — the Rhinoceropolis eviction being just the tip of the iceberg — Merage was prescient. At the time…
Most funders do the dirty work of deciding which earnest nonprofits secure funding and which don’t, behind closed doors. Not the Denver Foundation’s Arts Affinity Group, which hosted Art Tank — based on the cut-throat reality TV show Shark Tank — in which six community-minded art groups attempted to wow a panel of formidable arts administrators, Tuesday, February 7.
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman is a tense, visceral drama of wounded masculinity — and therein lies part of its problem. Farhadi, whose About Elly and A Separation are two of the greatest movies of the past decade, can find tension in the most mundane of exchanges, and he…
Cecily Cullen consistently brings beauty to the walls of Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Art, which she directs, and routinely asks the hard questions lurking behind all that gob-smacking gorgeousness. That’s especially true of theCVA’s latest exhibition, Presence: Reflections on the Middle East, a photo-based show that…
Contemporary American horror’s obsession with morality and psychotherapy can really be a downer. In 2002, Gore Verbinski expertly remade the J-horror hit Ringu with a layered story about a single mother (Naomi Watts) who watches a cursed videotape. To stop the curse, she travels through the warped psyche of the…
