Walking out of Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson last May at Cannes, I felt like it was the closest the director had come to making an artistic manifesto. Having seen it again, I’m even more convinced. Jarmusch first arrived in New York back in the 1970s with dreams of becoming a poet,…
Organizing faculty shows can be challenging, since the pieces involved are often tied together by nothing more than the fact that they were created by artists who live and work right in town. Collective Nouns, the current show at the Center for Visual Art, was a particular challenge: Metropolitan State…
Artists thrive within limitations — at least, that’s one theory. A Wheat Ridge High School club’s request for proposals from local artists on how to celebrate the “Spirit of Wheat Ridge” — by decorating local traffic signal boxes wrapped in graffiti-resistant vinyl — is riddled with limitations. Among them: the artists won’t be paid.
Comedian Heather Snow passed away on December 31, 2016 after a battle with leukemia.
Bronx-born nonagenarian Dorothy Tanner and her late husband Mel Tanner began building Plexiglas light sculptures in the hip ’60s.
Near the end of Underworld, the 2003 film that launched the popular (and profitable) horror franchise, Viktor (Bill Nighy), king of the vampires, tries to kill the werewolf (a.k.a. Lycan) lover of his protégé, Selene (Kate Beckinsale), and she is not pleased. Grabbing a sword, Selene leaps straight up and…
If you haven’t already polished your cowboy boots for the National Western Stock Show, dust ’em off for an exhibit honoring Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Or check out one of the many art shows, plays, benefits and food events delights happening between Tuesday, January 10, and Monday, January 16…
Kent Thompson isn’t talking much about the reasons for his departure as artistic director, but he has no problem sharing favorite memories and proudest accomplishments at the DCPA.
This week, the bowling alley and longtime Denver Pavilions tenant is expanding with the grand opening of FTW, an adult-focused arcade that blends classic and new games with a chef-curated gastropub and bar.
The Colorado Photographic Arts Center moves in 2017 from RiNo to a larger space at 1070 Bannock Street in the Golden Triangle.
The group will host a meeting on Tuesday to address the needs of the DIY community.
Visitors landing at Denver International Airport didn’t get much of a Western welcome this past weekend. Although a new train announcement — recorded by a fast-talking auctioneer — touted the National Western Stock Show and a related exhibit on the bridge leading to concourse A, after the sign at the entrance to the bridge, the exhibit cases were empty.
The Bad Kids of Crestview Academy is a sequel, and if you’re asking yourself, “Of what?” you’re not alone. Just add to that the question of: “Why?” The original low-budget mega-gore film Bad Kids Go to Hell had a modestly kitschy, fun premise to match its title: The Breakfast Club…
Meet Amber Blais, the curator of the living-room-style storytelling series, Raconteur Denver.
In the ’80s and ’90s, there were action movies. They starred muscly guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone, or martial artists from Jean-Claude Van Damme to Cynthia Rothrock, or actors who were dedicated to the physical demands of the genre, like Bruce Willis or Wesley Snipes. They mostly told…
Very few comedians have amassed television résumés as impressive as Dana Gould’s — and almost none have made it as far without a starring role on their own eponymous sitcom. Yet with an HBO special, two one-hour Showtime specials and guest appearances on The Late Show With David Letterman, Conan, Maron and Real Time with Bill Maher all under his belt, Gould has hours of material waiting to delight the newly initiated; he has also had prominent guest roles on shows like Anger Management, Seinfeld and in the dirty-joke-etymology documentary The Aristocrats. Westword caught up with Gould before his visit to Denver this week for headlining engagements at The Dairy Arts Center and Comedy Works Downtown to discuss failed projects, his new show and the concept of “peak TV.”
New year, new us! JK, new year, same ol’ us: watching TV and hiding in a hole from the bitter January cold and impending doom. The only solution? Watching all the television! You can take the day of the inauguration off to protest, but I expect you back under the…
January is off to a good start, with plenty of opportunities for free fun. This week you can celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, get hilariously romantic or help bring back an old art form. Check the Westword calendar for even more entertainment opportunities. Colorado Symphony Honors Dr…
We spotted fashion designer Akiala I. at a Conscious Creatives Meeting at Maze Haus of the Sacred Smoker Sanctuary. With so many new faces arriving in town every day, it was refreshing to find a Denver native, one who continues to find inspiration in her own town. We chatted with Akiala, who describes her look as “cute, street and exotic,” to learn more about her designs, where she shops and her style mantra
Almost all of the history of American movies flows into Steven Spielberg, and the movies that have come since can’t help but be in response. As a storyteller and as a cultural figure, his closest precedent isn’t John Ford or David Lean, but Dickens, another age’s popular titan, beloved more…
Tony Diego’s group art exhibit Regresarás (You Will Return) aims to spark a dialogue about international child abduction.
The new year is here, full of shining new hopes. Every January 1 we resolve to transform into the best version of ourselves, and and this year is no exception. If you’re determined to look good in 2017, Denver has plenty of events to get you off to a stylish start. Here are the dozen best fashion events in Denver in January, in chronological order.
