In 2016, art imitated life. It was messy and beautiful, simultaneously serving as an escape from the world and a reflection of it. And our readers appreciated all of it. Here are the ten most popular arts stories from the past year, along with links. 1. The Lantern Festival Is Coming…
Like many people after Carrie Fisher’s untimely passing on Tuesday, Dec. 27, I was moved to revisit Postcards From the Edge, the Mike Nichols–directed film that Fisher adapted from her own novel. This was the sole feature screenwriting credit for the actress-novelist, despite the fact that she was for decades…
The traffic-safety nonprofit Drive Smart has postponed its annual Ice Fest, including Youth Pond Hockey, Skate the Lake and the Evergreen Plunge, fearing the ice-melting warm weather would send the skaters and hockey players plunging into the water alongside the brave adults.
Since the dawn of the aircraft, delayed travelers have found respite in airport bars. But this year, Denver International Airport offered a more productive distraction: a free ice-skating rink on the plaza. As of December 30, 6,325 skaters had taken advantage of the rink, which gets an average of about…
Complicated subjects dominated cinema in 2016. Take The Lobster, a strange story about finding love (or not finding love) in the modern world, or Moonlight, in which director Barry Jenkins inspected the psyche of a gay black man growing up in poverty in south Florida. Our critics reviewed them all…
What does it take for a woman to win the trust it takes to become an action director? For Anna Foerster, it took two decades, an expert’s knowledge of visual effects and cinematography and a directing gig on key episodes of a cult television show — Starz’s Outlander. Now she’s…
Once upon a time, in the dark ages of not-that-long-ago, foreign television was a mysterious land beyond our reach. Aside from the occasional British import, the wonders of international series were limited to those equipped with multi-region DVD players. Scandinavian gloom mostly stayed in Scandinavia. Thanks to streaming, it’s now…
The Chateau Kittens’ budding Denver burlesque troupe decked out in cat ears and teddies rebooted the tired sexy-kitten trend in its dazzling Holiday Purrlesque Show, the group’s first performance.
Looking for cheap fun New Year’s weekend? Here are ten options, four of which are free.
When Alyson Two Eagles, a waitress, and then-partner Jeff Childress, an electrician, opened Ironwood on South Broadway in 2011, they were aiming to do something bigger with their lives. They called it a “things-we-love” store — and right from the beginning, it was: a curated cabinet of curiosities, a magical…
Mourners have been flocking to the Denver Art Museum to honor Carrie Fisher, whose Princess Leia robe is featured in Star Wars and the Power of Costume exhibit. And just a few blocks away, another museum recalls one of the iconic roles of her mother, Debbie Reynolds: The Molly Brown…
When news broke Tuesday that Carrie Fisher, known best as the actress who played Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, had died after suffering a major heart attack, staff at the Denver Art Museum laid out two notebooks where patrons visiting “Star Wars and the Power of Costume” exhibit could jot down their tributes to the actress.
According to WalletHub, Denver is the fourth-best place in the country for celebrating New Year’s Eve. (By its count, Orlando rates the top slot.) But we disagree: We’re high on all the different ways you can spend December 31 in the Mile High City, from watching free fireworks to running…
Saroo Brierley’s memoir A Long Way Home examines, in its uncertain prose, one of the signal concerns of our age: How do those of us who have grown up in relative comfort square our good luck with the lot of the rest of the world? That question gets feinted at…
“Henry was 18 when we met, and I was Queen of France. He came down from the north to Paris with a mind like Aristotle and a form like mortal sin. We shattered the commandments on the spot.” So declares Eleanor of Aquitaine (Katharine Hepburn) about her estranged husband, England’s…
2017 looks like it won’t be an improvement over 2016, so here are some promising films — either reviewed or previewed — to distract you in the next three months. In keeping with the pessimism most of the country is feeling, we’re also considering “what could be bad” in the…
Like craft beers or your news feed, Netflix’s niche-viewing categories are forever growing more micro-specific. Its new drama series, an eight-part bafflement called The OA, could only be categorized as a Sexually Frank Spiritual Locked-Room Suburban Afterlife Mad Scientist Communitarian Interpretive-Dance Ripped-From-the-Headlines Horror Puzzle Mystery. Its flavors never unite into…
Carrie Fisher was always smarter than the words and roles written for her, smarter than what Hollywood thought it wanted out of a princess. On Christmas Eve of the all-devouring Sarlacc that is 2016, after word had spread that Fisher had suffered a heart attack, a page from her original…
You forgot to book a sitter, and now you’re stuck at home on New Year’s Eve with your kids? Think again. We’re rounded up the top kid-friendly — and parent-friendly! — parties for families looking for one last bash in 2016. Keep reading for ten events on December 31, as…
Denver Arts and Venues has announced four opportunities to make public art in Denver.
Denver is a do-it-yourself town. The people who headed west after the gold discoveries in 1858 and 1859 were definitely DIY, determined to make new lives for themselves in the great unknown. When their claims didn’t pan out, some shifted course and became merchants, stocking supplies and offering services for…
Denver is the country’s fourth-best place for New Year’s Eve, according to WalletHub. Who tops the Mile High City? Orlando (number one), San Francisco (two) and Atlanta; Gilbert, Arizona, holds down the sad hundredth-best spot. The rankings are all based strictly on science, of course. “In order to identify the…
