At the intermission of Equivocation, this summer’s traditional non-Shakespeare-but-related-to-Shakespeare offering from the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, I found myself exultant, almost floating along the aisle to the lobby. I’m so grateful to the Colorado Shakespeare Festival for bringing us this play, I said to a friend. It’s brilliant. And so it…
As many Coloradans know all too well, law-enforcement agents of this country’s less-enlightened states deliberately and systemically profile Colorado drivers in an attempt to bust them with legal weed. On June 13, beloved Denver comedian Jay Gillespie found himself targeted in Childress, Texas, where a routine traffic stop led to…
“This is an area that’s been long neglected in terms of infrastructure, and that’s one of our major intents — to bring greater connectivity to this northeast Denver community,” says Will Kralovec, director of master site development for the Urban Land Conservancy, which is leading the community-driven development of 303…
When it comes to biking, what’s gonzo to one rider may be nothing but sweet singletrack to another. Colorado has a staggering variety of trails that appeal to all skill levels, but the routes that demand total concentration and titanium-steely nerve — steep, switchback-y, technical, rocky, rooted out and rutted…
This week you can take in fabulous fiction, environmental activism or hard-driving slam poetry this week in bookstores and on stages along the Front Range. Word! Benjamin Hale, The Fat Artist & Other Stories Boulder Book Store 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 28 $5 voucher required If you like fiction that…
Enjoy these last days of June by discovering new tunes, catching a movie or traveling to galaxies far, far away. We’ve rounded up our favorite free events below; check out the Westword calendar for even more to do around Denver. Record Swap Vinyl Nights Ratio Beerworks 5 p.m. Tuesday, free…
During last weekend’s Denver Comic Con at the Colorado Convention Center, the streets of Denver were full of people wearing costumes saluting their favorite comics characters and superheroes, in a celebration of the scene. But one spectator was not impressed. Says Amanda: Dressing up in black and red lingerie and calling…
David Kimball, the longtime senior regional publicist for Landmark Theatres, is leaving Denver this weekend to return to his hometown of Tulsa. He left this goodbye letter to his adopted hometown: There are so many things I’ll miss about Denver when I move away soon. Here are just a few:…
This weekend in Denver galleries — and other unexpected places — you’ll a grab-bag of experiences, from giant bunnies to a temple to the joke, with interludes both meditative and peaceful in between. Peoplescapes and Intrude Republic Plaza Now, through August 17 Arts Brookfield brings a new group show, Peoplescapes,…
This holiday weekend, why not go to camp? Greetings from Camp Katabasis, the brilliantly funny new show from Buntport Theater Company, has a special Memorial Day performance. But there are other shows to remember around town, keep reading for mini-reviews of three favorites. Greetings from Camp Katabasis. In Greetings from Camp…
LivWell, one of Colorado’s largest cannabis companies with fourteen dispensaries across the state, has replaced its original Evans location with its largest store to date: a 6,000 square-foot space at 1941 West Evans Avenue that opens today. The old, 2,000 square-foot store would fit inside the new store’s waiting room. …
Of course you’re going to the Westword Music Showcase in the Golden Triangle on Saturday, but that still leaves plenty of time to enjoy everything else this city has to offer, including comedy shows, brewery birthdays and a couple of beach parties. Keep reading for our ten favorite events that won’t set…
Thousands of dedicated cosplayers and comics geeks stormed Denver Comic Con 2016 over the weekend of June 17-19, 2016, for a glorious glimpse of such celebrities as Marvel maven Stan Lee, the latest in comic culture and, thanks to all the costumes, each other. Photographers Aaron Thackeray and Danielle Lirette…
Paul Hamilton owns one of the country’s largest private collections of African art, which fills his three-story Five Points home: up the stairs, down in the basement, out in the garage. Over 800 artifacts are stashed into every crevice imaginable. Now artist and photographer Thomas Evans has brought Hamilton’s collection to…
It’s no secret that I love horror movies, but I have a confession: They don’t really scare me. At least, not usually. My beloved zombie movies fill me with a sense of apocalyptic angst, but almost never fright. As much as I love the gore in so many of these films,…
I’ve long been amazed that artists in Denver’s alternative scene will go to such lengths to pull off shows that run for only a few weeks. But few have gone to as much trouble as Charles Livingston has with Altared States at Pirate, which is anchored by an over-the-top installation…
The most surprising thing about the new buddy action-comedy Central Intelligence is the sight of Kevin Hart playing straight man to another actor’s antics. In previous comedies, Hart has been the pint-sized, fast-talking dynamo at the center of the action. Even in movies where he’s the guy in over his…
Let me tell you all the good things about Nicolas Winding Refn’s high-art, lowbrow horror film The Neon Demon before I tell you what I will not tolerate. After Drive, Refn seems obsessed with his idea of Los Angeles, one where there’s always a full moon, no traffic and everyone…
Has Paul Rudd become Hollywood’s idea of the face of economic insecurity? There his handsome mug was, in Ant-Man, beneath a Baskin-Robbins ball cap, his character making do behind an ice-cream counter while Marvel made bank in promotional tie-ins. And now, in The Fundamentals of Caring, Rob Burnett’s alternately winning/cloying…
Woodrow Wilson described D.W. Griffith’s notorious Civil War epic Birth of a Nation as “writing history with lightning.” Gary Ross’ Free State of Jones, which covers roughly the same period as Griffith’s film, is more like writing history with index cards. Diligent and informative but also fragmented and inert, it…
When commercials for Mel Brooks’ Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) ran on Channel One at my high school, I was ready. Vampire movies had dominated the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, and at last a slapstick comedy was set to lampoon all that arty melodrama. High school me couldn’t…
Now more than ever, Denver PrideFest, one of the largest pride events in the nation, stood tall last weekend as a symbol of love and solidarity within the GLBTQ community, here and everywhere. Photographer Miles Crisinger caught all the colors of the fest’s July 19 parade and rally. Now…
