There was a time when the summer movie season was a season, sandwiched between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends. By the 21st century, the start date drifted back to the first weekend in May. This year, the superhero flicks started arriving with Deadpool’s release on February 12. Only two…
Roseanna Frechette — poet, activist and friend of Denver’s bohemian underground – thinks it’s time for Denver to take proactive steps toward keeping its arts community in town. Concerned about the continuing gentrification and redevelopment that’s put a stranglehold on our city’s creatives, who’re desperate for affordable digs and studio space,…
You can find new artwork wherever you go this weekend, from the Art District on Santa Fe to the co-ops of the Navajo Street Art District and the cultivated wilds of River North. Here are some of the hot spots…and hot shows. Modern Structure Space Gallery Through July 2 Space…
Denim is a staple of any American wardrobe — but it can be a challenge to pair denim with denim without committing fashion faux pas. On a recent sunny day in Cherry Creek, we ran into Jacob Saraff, a Denver fine arts student who attends the Cornish College of the Arts…
The glitter hasn’t been swept up yet from Monday’s grand finale of RuPaul’s Drag Race — spoiler alert, Bob the Drag Queen took the crown, leaving Kim Chi and Naomi Smalls in her rearview — but today tickets go on sale for “Season 8: The Queens,” a touring revue starring…
It’s a party, party weekend all over the city, from Civic Center Park — site of the rescheduled 4/20 rally — to Five Points to Stapleton. Across Denver, you can listen to music, laugh at comics, watch movies, drink beer and celebrate Colorado’s more recreational industries. Here are our ten…
Let’s break the bad news this way. Maria Bamford’s new Netflix series isn’t a disaster. It’s sometimes funny — it’s got comic genius Maria Bamford in almost every scene! — but only its finest moments bear the stamp of sensibility. Too often, this fitful, clamorous show feels Bamford-flavored rather than…
Richard Bridgland was given an impossible task: recreate 1970s Hollywood for Shane Black’s buddy conspiracy thriller The Nice Guys … in Atlanta. As a production designer, Bridgland’s had to make the Czech Republic look like 1930s rural North Carolina (Serena), New Orleans look like West Virginia (American Ultra) and a…
A longtime Edge member and noted ceramics artist, Gayla Lemke has mounted a bittersweet show, Watch Out for the Undertow, in the gallery’s front space; it’s dedicated to her mother, who died a few months ago. Lemke takes on this heavy topic by contrasting the memorial character of her floor…
If it had come out 20 years ago, when its creator was Hollywood’s best-paid screenwriter, Shane Black’s The Nice Guys might have stood, for some, as more proof that the studios had lost their way. So much money lavished on bloody buddy formula, on two-fisted archetypes cracking a case, some…
In Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, the sequel to 2014’s old-people-vs.-frat-brothers comedy, Zac Efron takes off his shirt in nearly every scene he’s in. It’s a sight to behold — again and again and again, but a calculated effort, like most of this film, to appeal to the ladies. As surprising…
In Greetings from Camp Katabasis, two campers are out in nature, annoying the hell out of each other, bickering, philosophizing, attempting to bond and mourning the death of a friend called Chuck. Katabasis, according to counselor Amie (Friend?) — whose hysterically funny monologues frame the action and is probably just…
Video-game movies suck. I can’t think of another sub genre that has such a tremendously consistent record of shit as movies adapted from video games, although it’s possible that video games adapted from movies come close. If that is ever going to change, we need to own up to the…
Uncalled Four is a diabolical comedy game show that blends Mad Libs-style prompts with standup comedians indulging their very worst impulses. While navigating their way through legal snafus, changing staff and venues and releasing a Colorado-themed expansion pack, co-producers and engaged couple Jake Browne and Samantha Sandt have continued to…
Among the manifestations of the feminist movement in the ’70s was a critique of sexism in fine art. It was undeniable that at the time — and stretching back to antiquity — women had essentially been fenced out of painting and sculpture. (Interestingly, the barriers to women in ceramics and…
Not all new buildings in Denver are as awful as the kinds of n’architecture Michael Paglia lampoons in “The Hateful Eight.” Not all modern architecture rates a rant on Denver Fugly. Over the past fifteen years, this city has gained some beautiful buildings, including the Fredric C. Hamilton wing of…
This week on metro Denver stages, you can enjoy a modern classic with Neil Simon’s Biloxi Blues at Miners Alley Playhouse or explore the avant garde world of multimedia performance at MediaLive in Boulder, with plenty of stops in between. Which direction will you take? Biloxi Blues Miners Alley Playhouse…
The 16th Street Mall may be considered a “tourist trap” by some Denverites, but other residents regularly head to this mile-long strip through the heart of downtown, dodging petition carriers and out-of-towners gathering by every Free Mall Ride stop to shop and enjoy the sights. Although souvenir stores seem to…
Podcasts are in tune with the democratized spirit of Internet media; anyone with a microphone and a computer can offer their listeners unlimited hours of recordings, usually for free. Limited only by their imaginations, podcasters have a freedom of expression unrestricted by commerce, censorship or geography. Several great podcasts have…
Burlesque isn’t just a heterosexual female art, as evidenced by last weekend’s International Queer Burlesque Festival, which combined male and female performers of every persuasion on stage at 3 Kings Tavern, Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret and Ophelia’s Electric Soapbox. All photos by Brandon Marshall. Now see the full Fierce! International Queer…
The Sun Valley housing projects have gone through a beautiful transformation. Crime in this impoverished Denverneighborhood has seen a moderate drop over the past decade, thanks to more funding from the city to clean up Sun Valley streets and protect kids who attend Fairview elementary school. Now even the dumpsters…
Denver artist Thomas Scharfenberg believes art should be part of the landscape, not the other way around. Scharfenberg, whose visual world often leads him beyond gallery walls and into the outdoors, thinks outside of the box as he spreads what he calls “ground constellations” and “physical pixels” — painted rocks,…
