What the World Lost When Rapper Eyedea Died in His Sleep
When Michael “Eyedea” Larsen passed away in his sleep, on October 16, 2010, the world lost one of its great musical talents.
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Why Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art Skipped the Anti-Trump Art Strike
Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art announced Wednesday it would not to join dozens of art institutions and hundreds of artists who went on strike, on inauguration day, attempting to shut down the art world in protest of Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Tensions High as Artists and City Brass Hash Out Safety in Denver’s DIY Scene
DIY stands for “do it yourself” — not “pay a pro to do it for you.” Yet that sums up a Denver planner’s advice to DIY artists, many broke, all wanting to avoid a fire like the one that burned down Oakland’s Ghost Ship warehouse, killing 36 young people, in December.
Kelsey Montague’s New Mural in RiNo Aims to Unite a Divided America
Kelsey Montague is an uplifting Colorado artist whose murals can be found sprinkled around the Denver metro area. She just completed her first street-art piece of 2017, in the RiNo Art District: wings made of red, black, white and patterned hearts that she hopes will unite the city and country during cultural turmoil. #WhatUnitesUs is on the east-facing wall of Il Posto, at 26th and Larimer streets.
Sundance Kicks Off with Al Gore’s Oddly Optimistic An Inconvenient Sequel
I’m still trying to decide if Sundance’s decision to kick off its 2017 festival with An Inconvenient Sequel, Al Gore’s follow-up to his influential (and terrifying) climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, is an act of political confrontation or a sign of helplessness. (Or both?) What kind of message does…
“Free Is Real, and Real Is a Motherfucker”: Michael Mann on Ali, 15 Years Later
Last June, after the death of Muhammad Ali, Michael Mann’s Will Smith–starring 2001 film Ali was briefly re-released in theaters. This allowed many of us to see it with fresh eyes. What felt like an ambitious but underwhelming biopic 15 years ago now seems more and more like a masterpiece…
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RedLine’s Resident Show Nice Work If You Can Get It Exposes Artists’ Struggles
As a curator, Daisy McGowan is interested in going beneath the surface of every work she places in a group exhibition.
Donald Fodness’s Duets Is Double the Fun at David B. Smith Gallery
Donald Fodness has been seeing double in the studio, from the looks of Duets, a series of drawings and bronze sculptures comprising his inaugural solo exhibition at David B. Smith Gallery in LoDo.
Ten Things to Do in Denver for Under $10 (Four Free), January 20-22
We’ve got anything and everything to do in this city this weekend, all on the cheap. We’re making music, pushing our bodies’ limits and getting plain old drunk, with a theatrical twist.
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Meow Wolf Gives Rhinoceropolis and Glob $20,000 to Rebuild
While Meow Wolf has yet to announce whether it will create a Denver space all its own, the Santa Fe-based DIY venue and art collective announced today that it is donating $20,000 to Rhinoceropolis and Glob to help the venues pay for immediate needs, such as meeting code compliance, as well as for rent, utilities and building costs.
Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta Is a Vital and Heartbreaking Return to Form
Both a film noir and a candy-colored confection, Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta is one of the most absorbing films he’s made in years. It’s also, perhaps, one of the saddest: Its bright hues and vivid textures offset a deep, unshakable melancholy. Based on a trio of Alice Munro short stories, Julieta…
Woman Power Serves a Boy in Mike Mills’s Late-’70s Remembrance
One of the quasi-bohemians in Mike Mills’ gauzy 20th Century Women loves to document ephemera, taking photos of everything she owns. A similar instinct — archiving as art — guides Mills’ movie itself, a trip back in time in which era-specific talismans substitute for genuine thought. Though big feels glut…
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The Ardennes Offers a Familiar Crime Story, but You Can Still Get Lost in It
The Belgian crime drama The Ardennes is predictably tense and violent, but its aesthetic pleasures are also considerable. Director Robin Pront plays a lot of familiar notes, but with just enough verve and variation to keep things interesting. The film opens in the immediate aftermath of a botched robbery, as…
M. Night Shyamalan’s Latest Is Neither Mess Nor Triumph
Despite his reputation, M. Night Shyamalan has never lived and died by the twist. His best films, like Unbreakable or even last year’s cheerily nasty wicked-grandparents thriller The Visit, work first as accomplished, emotionally engaging suspense. What’s most memorable about them isn’t the final-act revelations or even the quietly impressive…
The Founder Finds America (and Its Food) Turning Nasty
Like its subject, the man who took McDonald’s from a single burger shop to a globe-straddling child-fattener, John Lee Hancock’s The Founder can’t stop selling. The first fast-food kitchen, set up in 1953 by the solemn McDonald brothers in San Bernardino, gets celebrated here as rousingly as John Glenn’s first…
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Keith Maitland Gets Animated Discussing His Powerful Documentary Tower
One of the most powerful documentaries of 2016, Keith Maitland’s Tower immerses the viewer in the 1966 massacre at the University of Texas, during which Charles Whitman fired from a clock-tower in Austin, shooting 49 people and killing 16. The film takes a somewhat surprising and stylized approach to re-creating…
Meet Bobby LeFebre, One of the Street-Smart Artists of Artopia 2017: Federal Boulevard
Get ready for Artopia 2017, which will celebrate Denver’s street art with four areas dedicated to some of the Mile High City’s most iconic avenues: Larimer, Santa Fe, Colfax and Federal.
100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Cayce Goldberg
#40: Cayce Goldberg A digital painter and Rocky Mountain School of Art + Design graduate, Cayce Goldberg switched gears to transform an old building owned by his family into Helikon, a RiNo district gallery/artist community. Now a gallerist and the heart and soul of Helikon (its name was inspired by…
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Paid Parking and Eight More Bad Money-Making Ideas for the Cherry Creek Mall
Starting this week, the Cherry Creek Shopping Center will begin charging for parking — not just in the structure, but in the outlying lots as well. (Sorry, Safeway.) Sure, the first hour is free, but who goes to the mall for less than an hour? The entire concept of a mall (and the ’80s) is based on sticking around and making a day of it. You might think that a dying concept like an indoor mall actually charging more would be a bad idea. And in that, you would be right. It’s like SeaWorld raising ticket prices. It’s like the rates for landlines going up. It’s like…well, like a very bad idea. In the spirit of what Cherry Creek laughingly refers to as “Smart Parking,” here are eight other very unwise charges that the mall could institute in order to increase revenue.
Review: Terry Maker: Time Release at Fulginiti Pavilion Celebrates Medicine and Faith
The Fulginiti Pavilion for Bioethics and Humanities is a little jewel box set among the behemoth buildings of the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. Though small, it has a big job: to build a bridge between the sciences that dominate the campus and the largely neglected arts. The Fulginiti’s…
Storycraft’s Laura Condi on Finding New Friends and the Work of Good Storytelling
Denver is a storyteller’s town. Ongoing programs like the Narrators, Raconteur Denver, the Denver Moth StorySLAM and Boulder’s Truth Be Told thrive in a niche that falls somewhere between standup comedy and performance art. But Denver transplant Laura Condi thinks there’s room for one more event. Her venture Storycraft differs from the…
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Evergreen Lake Plunge Organizers Cross Their Fingers for Bad Weather
Warm weather ruined the New Year’s weekend Evergreen Lake Plunge, forcing the nonprofit Drive Smart and the Evergreen Park & Recreation District to reschedule its annual fundraiser. Assuming the weather’s cold enough, the Plunge is now set for Saturday, February 12.