With opening night for the 39th Denver Film Festival right around the corner, the Denver Film Society – who produces the fest – announced today that the premiere screening of Damien Chazelle’s (Whiplash) modern musical La La Land will have a little Hollywood sparkle, courtesy of an appearance by the filmmaker and…
When the re-imagined 2016 Snowboard Block Festival moved to the Denver Performing Arts Complex Sculpture Park with a new two-day format, it brought the Van Doren Pro Jam along for the ride on Saturday, October 15. Photographer Brandon Marshall caught the pro action – and a few skate punks, too –…
#54: Frankie ToanA relative newcomer to Denver, artist Frankie Toan is already well-embedded in the city’s under-the-radar art communities. A former PlatteForum resident and a current second-year resident at RedLine, Toan creates work that’s rooted in craft and heavy on message, confronting viewers with alternative social realities, urging them to throw…
Things are about to get Hallo-weird. Haunted houses have a cult following in Colorado — and fortunately for fans of big frights, metro Denver has plenty to choose from, including some brand-new sites. This year, for example, Fear Fest (located in an abandoned warehouse behind the National Western complex) and the…
The vampire flies on, and our fascination with him never seems to falter. We find him in television shows, teenage novels and the pulsing hearts of teenage readers, and in films both serious and camp — from F.W. Murnau’s subtle, haunted Nosferatu to Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers, with…
Though the hotel was mum on details, it’s safe to say Robert Redford and Jane Fonda were filming scenes for the Netflix-produced film Ours Souls at Night, which is based on the Kent Haruf book set in the fictional small town of Holt, Colorado, at the Brown Palace on Monday, October 17. …
How great a visual wonder is 4,000 lanterns floating through the air at once? Enough to stop traffic. The entirety of cars in both lanes on I-25 came to a crawl on October 15 to witness the beauty as lanterns glided just above traffic to the west on a slight, warm, October…
Somewhere in the mid-1970s, when we were both students at the University of Colorado, Terry Dodd worked with a feminist theater group I’d co-founded, playing the unnamed man who absconded with a beautiful store-room dummy in Joanna Russ’ one-act, Window Dressing. My mother was dying of cancer at the time…
Go West, young readers, with Ron Hansen’s retelling of the Billy the Kid legend — or engage in a little Denver-style fun from Suspect Press and City Stacks. Where will you be turning pages this week? Ron Hansen, The Kid Tattered Cover Colfax Avenue 7 p.m. Thursday, October 20 Award-winning…
After eight weeks of fierce competition, thousands of sequins and rhinestones, pounds of makeup and one giant cloud of hairspray, the winner of Tracks’s Ultimate Queen All-Stars competition was crowned last Thursday night. The finale kicked off with the Final Four queens — Arial StaxXx, Gia StaxXx, Kyile Vanderpump and…
It’s the middle of October and the sun is still shining, but that snow might fall any day now. So get out of the house this week to enjoy free movies, live music and conspiracy parties. Visit the Westword calendar for even more events. Ouija – Origin of EvilCristol Chemistry…
The Thing died a noisy death when it debuted in 1982. In fact, this masterful paranoiac thriller about a vicious shape-shifting alien infiltrating a group of scientists stationed in Antarctica bombed so hard that director John Carpenter was fired from his follow-up gig working on Firestarter. (Roller Boogie director Mark…
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience might be the most narrative film of Terrence Malick’s career. The enigmatic director’s recent work has been marked by a turn toward elliptical, stream-of-consciousness meditations, pretty much discarding any semblance of conventional storytelling. But going as far back as Badlands (1973), he’s had a…
As has been widely noted, Woody Allen’s Crisis in Six Scenes isn’t really a television series; its six episodes are not particularly self-contained, and plot developments crest and climax willy-nilly regardless of where each segment ends. It’s a two-and-a-half-hour movie, the longest one Allen’s ever made, and with the option…
Since opening in May 2013, Cold Crush has been place where artists could express themselves without restraint. Art was an integral part of the bar at 2700 Larimer Street, from the performers inside to the exterior of the building, including the south-facing facade that became a street-art canvas known as…
“As it always happens in the Chris Guest movies, we really don’t talk to each other before we get to set,” Jane Lynch says, explaining how she creates her menagerie of characters, specifically Gabby Monkhouse from Guest’s newest mockumentary, Mascots. “A couple months before, I got a call from Chris,…
This weekend you can explore a colorful survey of traditional indigenous textiles at the Museo de las Americas or take in the most contemporary examples of contemporary art at Dateline — and that’s not all. Here’s a sampling of what’s new at Denver galleries. A Mano/By Hand Museo de las…
Below the bustle of the highly-trafficked corridor where Speer Boulevard meets Broadway, there’s a new, reflective set of murals along the banks of Cherry Creek. Called “Paramount,” the two murals were painted over the past several weeks by Alexandre Orion, a world-renowned artist from San Paulo, Brazil. And they are…
For some creatives, fashion and music work together to create a real work of art. Khalil Arcady is Sur Ellz, a 23-year-old songwriter, producer and performer from Aurora who sports a multi-genre appeal in both his music and fashion sense. We spotted him at Westword’s DISH last month, where he was wearing…
Season three of Amazon’s Transparent has few of the cratering events that have marked our time with the Pfeffermans up to this point, but it continues to reward thinking viewers as it considers issues of gender and identity, the intersection of theory and reality, the lingering impact of sexual abuse…
“We’re all terrified of forgetting what he looked like or sounded like,” says David Wheeler in Newtown, Kim A. Snyder’s transfixing documentary portrait of collective grief and resilience. Wheeler, like many of the bereaved parents and siblings interviewed for Snyder’s film, finds some comfort in old photos and home movies,…
This weekend is all about doing whatever you want. You want live music? We got it. You looking to howl at the moon. Go for it. Heck, maybe you want to sit in a movie theater for eight hours—you can do that too. We’ve got something for everyone on the…
