Mike Giant is a veteran artist of almost three decades, an OG in the graffiti game — but also a practicing Buddhist with an awe-inspiring presence. A transplant to Colorado who arrived almost two years ago, Giant works in a big garage studio behind his property in Boulder, continuing a…
It’s a busy weekend for Denver’s art districts and galleries, with the daylong, citywide Mo’Print studio tours on Saturday, photography from the frontier, an out-of-this-world group show, and a flurry of one-person displays by Denver favorites working in every medium under the sun. What are you waiting for? Here are the…
This could be the most creative college scholarship idea ever, one that awards students for creativity, innovation — and the willingness to risk failure. Offered by the Museum of Contemporary Arts Denver, the Failure Fair Scholarship is an annual scholarship award open to all graduating, college-bound, Colorado high-school seniors. Explains…
That light-gray Glen plaid suit, topped with a bright-red bowtie and white kicks. That precociously naive predilection for absurdly oversized or miniaturized household gadgets. Those impatient eye rolls, mischievous tongue darts and sweetly demented giggles. The fizzy comic persona of Pee-wee Herman dates back to the late ’70s, when Groundlings…
You may still be recovering from St. Patrick’s Day, but this weekend offers many reasons to get back on your feet and out the door. There’s music in all flavors, celebrations of the community, and even a new comic-book store to explore. Keep reading for our ten favorite events under…
#91: Daniel Landes A writer, publisher, restaurateur, cook, and arts and literary community-builder, Dan Landes does the Renaissance-man thing the 21st-century way: He oversees the day-to-day at his hip eatery City, O’City, which also serves as a base for the upstairs performance space Deer Pile and the adjacent 1280 Sherman…
Born in Nigeria, Toluwanimi Obiwole moved to Denver when she was young, attending Denver Public Schools and graduating from the Denver School of the Arts. Through the written and spoken word, she has found her passion and voice – and she’s particularly passionate about sharing how she found her identity…
Why is it that little movies about being out of step so often wind up feeling the same? Not long into Michael Showalter’s Hello, My Name Is Doris, a comedy about a misfit frump pining for a much younger hunk, the unlikely target of the heroine’s affections muses to his…
The Brothers Grimsby is a movie for those who thought Kingsman: The Secret Service didn’t go far enough. If all the exploding heads and anal-sex jokes and creative impalements of Matthew Vaughn’s tongue-in-cheek spy thriller didn’t do it for you, rest assured: This time, we get to see British super-agent…
This patchy comedy about a cossetted, obnoxious gymnast who has slid deep into sloth in the decade or so since her Olympic triumph gets an occasional laugh from the American ills it sends up: jingoism, the sports-industrial complex, home-schooling, fast-food gluttony. The scattershot jabs pepper the flaccid storyline of the…
The seemingly stark divide between sleep and wakefulness serves as the main motif in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cemetery of Splendor, which allegorizes the history of Thailand as deepest REM slumber. Weerasethakul’s works are sensory delights, haunted, if obliquely, by Thailand’s violent political past and still fractious present. A film about the…
For the protagonists of cable dramas, sex and death are twin forces of titillation, pressure valves for frustrated middle-aged men or steely-eyed careerists. That’s also true for the audience of cable dramas, of course, but there’s a reason we eagerly pursue onscreen what often makes us squirm in real life:…
To celebrate the inaugural Denver Independent Comic and Art Expo, we’ll publish our fourth annual Comics issue on March 24 — and you can be a part of it. We’re accepting submissions from any Colorado artist who wants to create a cartoon about life in the centennial State — whether…
Although the Colorado Rockies don’t take Coors Field for several weeks — the home opener is April 8 — hits are already flying nearby. Three spectacular solos now on view at Robischon Gallery are real home runs, and they make the place look more like a museum than usual. As…
Grand Marshal Adrian Farrell, our Consul General of Ireland, and Queen Colleen Kate Kelly led the way as Denver’s celebrated St. Patrick’s Day Parade set off down Wynkoop and Blake Streets in LoDo last Saturday. The crowd, right down to the littlest kids and people’s green-clad pooches, got into the…
This week on stages in metro Denver, moments in American history will be recounted and reimagined, while opera singers and Shakespearean actors throw their lots together for a fun night of poetry and song. Here’s how to play along. Black Elk Speaks Aurora Fox Arts Center March 18 through April…
Marsha Norman’s Getting Out, first produced in 1979, portrays the grim dilemma of a woman just released from prison. Arlene has been driven to her bare-bones Louisville, Kentucky, apartment by a prison guard, Benny, who actually retired from his job for the chance to be with her — though his…
Shiny locks flew as kind-hearted good sports took the challenge and got their heads shaved Friday at the annual St. Baldrick’s Day cancer-research charity event at Fadó Irish Pub. Photographer Ken Hamblin captured the spirit of the day in these images from the party. Now see the hair fly in…
Lewis Black is a thoroughly astute political satirist. Assuaging righteous outrage with laughter is every comedian’s noble goal, but Black rises above the majority of his peers (at least those without their own eponymous television programs) with his keen analysis of social ills. Star and co-creator of Comedy Central’s dearly missed…
Mayor Federico Peña inspired me as a young Denverite with his call to “Imagine a Great City.” Though I often dreamed of moving to New York, my mother’s three bouts with cancer and other familial obligations kept me here, so I decided long ago that if I couldn’t be in…
#92: Tim Roberts Writer, editor, thinker: Tim Roberts is all of these things in his capacity as the day-to-day mover and shaker at Counterpath, the nonprofit literary press and event space that he runs with partner Julie Carr, earning a Westword MasterMind award along the way. As Counterpath starts a new…
Elliot, a Marine, is back from Iraq with a Purple Heart and a serious leg injury — though it heals well enough to allow him the choice of either returning to combat or getting a job at a Subway shop. While sorting through all of this, Elliot gets the full…
