Does it matter that Freddy Krueger was a pedophilic middle-school janitor who died in a blazing fire when parents sought revenge? No. And unless you’re a horror-film obsessive, you probably don’t even know how he morphed into a pizza-faced Where’s Waldo with knife fingers — what matters is he lives…
Big ideas and fresh beginnings are waiting for gallery-goers in the Golden Triangle and Santa Fe art districts. Discover what happens when artists try new things at the following exhibitions and open houses. Large Works Gallery 1261 July 22 through August 20 Opening reception: 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, July…
The summer sun is setting sidewalks ablaze — and street style is starting to get hot, too. We spotted Serana Rose outside the Mutiny Cafe; she’s from Iowa, but now calls Denver home. Rose has performed in a traveling circus and stars in films produced by Bloodshed Deathbath. “I would perform on stage and…
Twenty years after Pokémon took the world by storm, the cute pocket monsters are back in the spotlight with Pokémon Go, an enhanced reality game for smart phones. This apparent resurrection of a ’90s fad comes as a sly surprise to many — it’s been a long, long time since…
We’re high on the Mile High City these days, and this weekend offers many examples of why Denver is such a great place to live. You can space out on space, learn to love animals and drink plenty of cold beer — all without lightening your wallet too much. Our…
#71: Tanya Mote As a master grant-maker, fundraiser and managerial wizard, Tanya Mote does the grassroots work that allows creativity to fly unfettered at Denver’s Su Teatro, where artistic director Tony Garcia works to simultaneously preserve and reinvent the region’s Chicano culture and roots. Mote’s extensive resume suggests she could…
Drivers aren’t the only public nuisances on the Denver streets. After we published our Eight Rules of the Road for Cyclists, readers suggested that we write something about the ways that drivers can be asshats, too. Good idea. Not that deflecting blame for bad behavior should be rewarded. (It’s just…
My love of zombie movies is no secret; I’ve written about it here many, many times. Similarly, my love of bad films has received a air amount of ink (okay, pixels) here as well. Since many zombie movies are truly terrible, it should be no surprise at all that sometimes…
Kids and adults alike are suddenly planning their summer around the places where they can find the most Pokémon. The app has topped 15 million downloads in the U.S. (and counting). Fortunately, Pokémon Go stops are clustered in some of the coolest spots around Denver, so you can stroll around…
Like the real 1980s, Stranger Things gets more unsettling as it goes. The opening episode of the Netflix show, created by the Duffer Brothers, gives us swear-y, scruffy kids playing D&D and then, beneath a lavish suburban starscape, encountering the unknown — which one of the boys promptly hides in…
In Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits, emotion becomes motion and psychology becomes space. It’s a coming-of-age story, but Holmer mostly eschews dialogue and standard storytelling devices; she tells her tale through movements and patterns and the way that she films them. The Fits follows Toni (Royalty Hightower), an 11-year-old tomboy…
Star Trek Beyond might be the Star Trekkiest film of the new, J.J. Abrams-ified Trek era. That is to say, it’s the one that feels the most like a turbo-loaded episode of the original series, and has at least some of that classic spirit of exploration and derring-do. That’s not…
Steve Allen didn’t know what to make of Frank Zappa. The clean-cut young musician was promising to “play the bicycle” on the set of The Steve Allen Show in 1963, spinning the wheels and tapping on the spokes. The result, with the help of a tuneless orchestra behind him and…
To understand what Absolutely Fabulous (first a TV show and now a movie) means to Brits, you’d have to go back to the TV premiere in 1992. Margaret Thatcher had their economy in a stranglehold until her departure as Prime Minister two years earlier, and when every sensible citizen was…
Opera, musical comedy and a cat talent show might sound like strange bedfellows, but they’re all good summer entertainment – whether you dress to the nines for a drive up to the Central City Opera House or celebrate the nine lives of the Amazing Acro-cats in action. Here’s where to…
The Gildar Gallery’s current exhibit has a novel-length title: My Body Is Everywhere. Where Is the Body? The show features an all-encompassing installation along with a selection of paintings and small sculptures; all of the works are by Hollis + Lana — the artist pairing of Conor Hollis and Amorette Lana…
Summer and summer movie events are as hot as Georgia asphalt right now. This week the eighth annual CinemaQ Film Festival returns to the Sie FilmCenter to show an array of scorching titles that illustrate and illuminate a snapshot of the current LGBTQ community. Full disclosure: In 2006, as programming…
Black Cube is known for really breaking out of the box. With the launch of its Gold Hill Art Project, the nomadic museum is taking art out of the galleries and into log cabins with the help of its first curator-in-residence, Laurie Britton Newell. Originally from England, Britton Newell brings an…
#72: Eleanor Perry-Smith Born and raised in Colorado, Eleanor Perry-Smith is a writer from the inside out, a natural poet with an eye for the interdisciplinary. She mixes words with graphic imagery, sing-songs poems in performance, writes and edits fiction and prose, and recently made a splash as a TEDx…
I’ll Eat You Last is subtitled “A Chat With Sue Mengers,” who was the top-tier agent to some of Hollywood’s starriest stars — or, as she calls them here, “my twinklies”; those twinklies included Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Gore Vidal, Nick Nolte, Michael Caine and, most important, Barbra Streisand. And…
25 years ago, Annie Leibovitz stunned America with her infamous portrait of Demi Moore — nude, bronzed, seven months pregnant — on the cover of Vanity Fair. The image of Moore’s proud, bare body, heavy with child and unmistakably erotic, meant that in some states the magazine had to be…
Hula-hoopers, giant puppets, jugglers, brass bands? You name it: If there’s a street performer doing it in the world, they were probably at Denver’s Union Station on July 16 and 17 for the revival of BuskerFest, a family-friendly street party that’s back after a break of several years. All photos…
