Art of Storytelling Creates Space for People of Color in Denver’s Literary Scene
Art of Storytelling brings cross-cultural voices to the mic at Prodigy Coffeehouse in Denver.
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100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Sean Faling
Sean Faling’s crosses lines between fine art and experimental music by recyling outdated electronics into noise-making art installations.
Christo’s “Over the River” Project Dries Up — After 25 Years
After 25 years, Christo has abandoned the “Over the River” project on the Arkansas. Is Trump to blame? That’s what the New York Times thinks.
Review: At Robischon, Eight Solos Add Up to a Major Look at Contemporary Abstraction
Robischon Gallery is currently showing eight solos, some small and most fairly large. But these solos resolve into a single coherent visual experience because all of the artists are dealing with the same issue: how to do something different with contemporary abstraction, arguably the style of our time. And they all succeed in their own distinctive ways.
Whatever a Dog’s Purpose Is, It Isn’t to Be in Movies Like A Dog’s Purpose
A Dog’s Purpose, based on the novel by W. Bruce Cameron, combines the philosophical belief that living beings are reborn into a different physical body after biological death with the voiceover narrative technique of Look Who’s Talking. The main character, Dog, dies in multiple wrenching scenes and is subsequently reborn;…
Don’t Expect Gold to Set a New Standard for Crime Capers
Gold’s value lies chiefly in the hearts and minds of those who seek it. The noble metal has driven humans to perpetrate ignoble acts on their quests to unearth it since at least 5000 B.C.E., when slaves divined for golden veins to lavish their Pharaohs with jewelry. The Incas even…
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Pablo Larraín’s Neruda Fractures the Biopic
“Art is a lie that tells a truth,” Pablo Picasso once said. The aphorism animates Pablo Larraín’s canny and vigorous Neruda, a sidelong biopic of the preeminent Chilean poet and politician, featuring a brilliant Luis Gnecco in the title role, that’s equal parts fact and fiction. (Conversely, Larraín’s film also…
Review: Brilliant Traces, Now at Vintage Theatre, Is Not a Brilliant Play
The beginning of Brilliant Traces, now playing at Vintage Theatre, is wonderfully evocative: A young woman in a wedding dress stumbles into a remote and dilapidated Alaska cabin. Her car broke down some time ago, and she’s been wandering in a blinding whiteout — the kind that disorients and kills…
Can an Experimental Dance Movie Save the Doomed Gunnison Sage Grouse?
The maligned Gunnison sage grouse is about to become a star. The bird, which has long been ridiculed for its bizarre appearance and its quirky mating rituals, has also been at the center of a fight between conservationists and oil-and-gas companies over the future of Bureau of Land Management-owned land in western Colorado. While it may be headed toward extinction, the puffy creature is making its debut as the subject of a movie, Last Chance to Dance.
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Kathy Griffin on Trump and Her Neighbors Kanye West and Kim Kardashian
Kathy Griffin is a writer, actor, television mainstay and astoundingly prolific standup comedian who has achieved a record-breaking number of career milestones since getting her start in the venerated Groundlings improv troupe during their mid-80s salad days.
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Offers Scholarships to, Ahem, Failures
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Offers Scholarships to Student “Failures”
The CW’s Meta-Noir Reboot Can’t Save Archie Andrews From His Vacuous Origins
Quick, name an Archie Andrews personality trait. Yes, he’s red-headed and red-blooded, a horndog naïf with hashtag sideburns who is forever battled over by beauties he can’t be bothered to get anywhere with. But beyond that — who is he? Sometimes he’s in a sugar-sweet pop combo. Sometimes he tools…
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Geek Alert: Denver Independent Comic and Art Expo Tickets Go on Sale Today
Tickets go on sale for the annual Denver Independent Comic and Art Expo, DINK, today, January 24, at noon. Founded by the team that started Denver ComicCon, the event spotlights the most innovate artists working on the fringes of the graphic novel and comic-book universe.
Exploding Art-World Boundaries With Black Cube’s New Fellows
As a nomadic contemporary art museum, Black Cube and its executive director and chief curator Cortney Stell have already proven that they’re here to “turn the idea of a museum on its head,” pushing limits in the contemporary art world. With the announcement of the 2017 artist fellows, Stell is…
Ten Free Deals on Colorado’s Slopes This Season
Skiing isn’t a cheap sport, but you can find deals. Here are ten on Colorado slopes this season.
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The 21 Best Events in Denver, January 24-30
This week: A new documentary explores the dangers of the beauty industry, gentrification is a hot topic at Regis University, and musicians tackle inclusivity.
Review: Brush Up Your Shakespeare at the Denver Center’s The Book of Will
Lauren Gunderson’s The Book of Will just premiered at the Denver Center, and the play is a delight.
Sleepless Makes Michelle Monaghan and Jamie Foxx Work All Night Against a Tired Script
Say this for Sleepless: It gives Michelle Monaghan more to do than almost anything else you’ve seen her in lately, whether it beTrue Detective or Patriots Day, and confirms once again that she should be in the lead far more often than Hollywood would have you believe. The positives don’t…
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Pagnol’s Marseille Trilogy Packs in More Life Than Math Allows
Gentle, humane, embracing a full range from slapstick to tragedy, Marcel Pagnol’s trilogy about the people of the Marseille waterfront has bewitched audiences for decades. Multiple remakes, including a Broadway musical, Hollywood condensations by James Whale in 1938 and Joshua Logan in 1961 and a recent “reboot” from French actor…
100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Dylan Gebbia-Richards
Dylan Gebbia-Richards’s skill as a freestyle skier and a yearning to be on the slopes brought him to Colorado from the East Coast, landing him at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he switched gears from other interests to pursue art.
Geoffrey LeClaire Ready to Blast Off With the Afterburners
Baseball is a lifestyle — and it also teaches you a lot, says Geoffrey LeClaire, who’s eager to get the Afterburners on the diamond this spring.
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Three Things to Do for Free in Denver, January 23-26
Looking for free things to do this week? Here’s your guide for January 23-26.