The annual Boulder Arts Week unfolds in all its glory for the third time starting on Friday, March 25, and the schedule includes dance, poetry, film, theater, music, art, classes, workshops and much more. Festival founder and coordinator Emily K. Harrison has created an umbrella concept that unites these diverse disciplines…
Popular music held people together during Vietnam era of the ’60s and ’70s, both at home and on the battleground. But as veteran Doug Bradley knows, love songs and rock anthems were more than a backdrop to the war for soldiers on the front lines — they brought comfort and…
After sixteen months during which it won a 2015 Best of Denver award for Best New Womenswear Boutique, Whorl Shop will close its doors at 3326 Tejon Street on March 31 — another victim of rising rents in the area. “Whorl, as a retail store, is basically done,” explains owner Megan…
For the fourth year running, we asked cartoonists — and would-be cartoonists — to send us comics depicting life in Colorado. We received dozens of responses; not surprisingly, many focused on cannabis (pot put the high in the smile high city, after all) — but there were also an unusual…
The Vintage Voltage Expo celebrated ten big years of bringing back the oldies over the weekend with a huge spread of antique radios, turntables, receivers, vinyl records and classy guitars welcoming a dedicated clientele to the Northglenn Ramada Inn. Photographer Brandon Marshall was on hand to capture this blast from…
When the Denver County Fair returns to the National Western Complex on July 29 for its annual extravaganza, it will have a purrfect new face representing the event: Venus the Two Face Cat. Last year the fair dumped the Pot Pavilion in favor of the Kitten Pavilion, and the kitties…
I had never been to a “Home Show” before. Although I was a homeowner for many years (in what seems like a lifetime ago), I never saw myself as someone who would stroll down aisles of vinyl-clad windows or gutter systems, even if I do enjoy perusing gardening stuff. But…
#90: Charlie La Greca Charlie La Greca lives and breathes all things comic book — and then some. A comic artist and one-time inker for D.C. Comics, as well as a first-class nerd, he’s an original founder of Denver Comic Con who’s moved on the create the smaller, more artist-driven…
When a play starts with a school principal announcing that a tiger has escaped from a local zoo and is loose in the neighborhood, and proposing a handful of fairly mild responses (a buddy system, no recess) while also stating that he himself carries a rifle, you quickly conjure up…
The writing’s on the wall. While many political pundits have counted Bernie Sanders out, there are plenty of people in this state (the same people who helped Sanders win the Colorado caucuses) who still want him to be the Democratic nominee, as evidenced by the hashtag #StillBernie trending on Twitter…
The joke was on me when I first saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding back in 2002: I watched the film at a press screening that also happened to be attended by a large group of older female tourists. While I grimaced through the movie’s obvious gags and not-ready-for-prime-time direction,…
Drone warfare is a moral grey area, and this movie is on it. Gavin Hood’s Eye in the Sky stands alongside Drones and Good Kill as the cinematic equivalent of online commenters shouting “First!” on on a hot topic but not bothering to say anything new or insightful about it…
You’ve seen a lot of movies like Too Late, and yet you haven’t. Shot over several years on 35mm, Dennis Hauck’s neo-noir detective drama is only being shown theatrically in that increasingly rarefied format — a bold financial move for an independent film at a time when so many others…
In Arnaud Desplechin’s My Sex Life… or How I Got Into an Argument, intimate relations with Marion Cotillard lead one character to a spiritual awakening. Later, protagonist Paul Dédalus (Mathieu Amalric) declaims on what he considers “the one pleasure” that will never go away in life: “the surprise when I…
Brash yet intimate, writer-director-editor Trey Edward Shults’ observant, unnerving first feature transcends the notion of a “promising debut.” Here, the promise is already fulfilled on the screen, which bustles with chaotic family life — and prickles with anxiety. Krisha is a heartsick family story that plays as psychological horror, its…
Take heart, Newsroom fans. If you were hankering for more scenes of Jeff Daniels standing around talking, you’ll find an unlikely ally in the new young-adult sci-fi sequel Allegiant, the third entry in the Divergent series based on Veronica Roth’s hit novels. Too bad the stuff he’s saying is so…
Prestige cable flatters us about the past. It lets us vacation in the backwardness of previous generations, usually while throwing some empathetic side-eye. Gape at Mad Men’s blithe white dudes, each convinced he earned every bit of authority he commands over women and minorities. Or thank Jezebel that we’ve evolved…
A gripping novel, memories of the music that galvanized soldiers in Vietnam, and a slam poetry showdown are all on the docket this week for bookworms and spoken-word fans in the Denver metro. Joyce Maynard, Under the Influence Tattered Cover Colfax Avenue 7 p.m. Monday, March 21 Free Famous for…
Denver has more than one winning team: The Denver Broncos may be the national champs, but this city’s artists and arts organizations keep scoring with audiences not just in Colorado, but around the world. And while the football season is over, the 2016 arts season is just beginning, so we’ve…
Oh, Colfax. It’s hard to separate fact from fiction when it comes to this avenue’s spotty history, but one thing is certain: This street is home to some of Denver’s best restaurants, bars, venues and retailers. To survive and thrive along the longest main street in the country takes not…
The sun’s staying out late and you should be, too: There’s plenty to do around Denver that won’t empty your wallet. This week we’re nerding out, getting quizzed and laughing at lectures. Check out the Westword calendar for more to do, and let us know in the comments section if…
Teague Bohlen has been visiting neighborhoods around Denver, detailing what makes their residents really, really mad. His most recent tour took him to the area recently dubbed SoBro, which did not make his list of Seven Things That Make Baker District Residents Really, Really Mad — although the Baker District…
