Colorado Springs’ U.S. Congressman Doug Lamborn spent some of last week yanking down a painting by a Missouri high-school student that depicted a cop as a pig. Today, the painting, a part of the Congressional Art Competition, came down for good, in response to Lamborn and other lawmakers’ criticisms of the piece and House rules.
Jamie Lee is coming to Comedy Works January 19-21; after her show, she’ll sign copies of her book Weddiculous.
Lynn Flanagan-Till will open Rosehouse, a plant store and apothecary, in the former Ironwood space on “Weirdo South Broadway” in Denver.
If you’ve never seen William Hahn on a stage, you need to catch him as Pale in the Edge Theater production of Burn This.
Historic Denver will take on the future of older buildings in Denver, the arts community will meet with the city to discuss the future of DIY, and the Denver Art Museum will host the “party of the year.” Find more things to do this week in our 21 best events…
The Whiteout fashion show is one of the highlights of Artopia. This year’s show will be better than ever — which is why you should buy your tickets before prices go up at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, January 17.
M. Night Shyamalan appears again to be having a moment. His last film, 2015’s grandparents-gone-wrong horror flick The Visit, proved a small hit with critics and audiences alike, and his latest, this week’s multiple-personality abduction thriller Split, seems poised to do likewise. And why not? Both films are effective chillers…
Daisy Patton culls images from found photographs. She blows them up, obscures them with paint and alters them with vivid colors.
One of Europe’s most famous working comedians, Gad Elmaleh recently relocated to New York to make his mark on the American entertainment industry, the last frontier of stardom. Born in Morocco, the multilingual Elmaleh has been performing one-man shows in Paris since the ’90s, and he wrote, directed and starred in Coco, a European box-office smash. Stateside, Elmaleh is probably best known as a character actor who stole scenes in films like Midnight in Paris, The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn and Crisis in Six Scenes; since moving here, he’s appeared on Conan, The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. In anticipation of his Sexpot Comedy-sponsored headlining showcase on Thursday, January 19, at the Gothic Theatre, Westword caught up with Elmaleh to discuss translating his act into English, his friendship with mentor Jerry Seinfeld, and his fascination with the Big Blue Bear, aka Lawrence Argent’s “I See What You Mean.”
Free things to do in Denver January 16-19 include a comedy battle, a powder party and plenty of ’80s trivia.
Roger Corman is not a visionary. But he is a prophet foretelling the future. In 1954, the notoriously thrifty B-movie/genre director pioneered the multi-picture deal, selling his low-budget Fast and the Furious to American Releasing Corporation with a guaranteed two-movie advance — Universal eventually licensed the film/title for one of…
A new video shows the Game of Thrones live concert experience with Ramin Djawadi.
Thoroughly Modern Millie, now playing at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, couldn’t be lighter. It provides a comically paper-thin plot, hummable but hardly memorable tunes and serviceable dialogue. But also lots and lots of fun, sparkly performances and some of the best tap dancing you’ll see around here.
Maybe it’s a just a sign of the Blumhouse-era horror-movie world we find ourselves in, but there’s something refreshing about a scare flick that (a) actually shows you its monster occasionally and (b) gives you a definite reason to be afraid of it. Hiding things in shadows to enhance audience…
Brace yourself for a harrowing season of dance, including classics like Firebird and a collaboration between the contemporary dance troupe Wonderbound and the hip-hop group, the Flobots.
That dusting of snow came just in time to christen Ruby Hill Rail Yard, the country’s first free urban terrain park, which opened on January 12 for its eleventh season of skiing and snowboarding. A joint effort between Winter Park Resort (which is owned by Denver) and Denver Parks & Recreation,…
Cheap and free things to do in Denver all weekend long
Wade Gardner will be premiering his documentary Marvin Booker Was Murdered, Friday at Cleo Parker Robinson Theater.
Meow Wolf could roar in Denver one day. A crew from the Santa Fe arts sensation was in the Mile High City this week, scouting locations and exploring the local arts scene, a mission that included sitting in on the Amplify Arts Denver town hall on January 10. .
Jay and Jerry Jaramillo, father-and-son artists, will represent Santa Fe Drive at Artopia 2017.
For better and for worse, Peter Berg has found his genre. After oscillating between sports (Friday Night Lights), superheroes (Hancock) and even board games (Battleship) without much distinction, the writer, director, producer and actor has made a loose trilogy in which Mark Wahlberg reenacts recent tales of American heroism. Lone…
Somewhere inside the 128-minute Live by Night is a reasonably solid 168-minute movie struggling to get out. No, that’s not a typo: You can sense the contours of an absorbing story as writer/director/star Ben Affleck’s slapdash and fragmented assemblage limps along. Most of the pieces are there, but they remain…
