Artopia is this Saturday night guys and Westword gets all nostalgic about the amazing times had at the past 20 years of parties celebrating art, culture, Whiteout fashion, local creatives, international artists and all of the above. Plus, it’s shaping up to be the hottest Artopia in history, with a…
It’s cold outside, but plans are heating up for Artopia 2016 at City Hall on Saturday, February 20 — a night of art, culture and fashion. And cocktails, of course, which you can enjoy as you move through seven rooms of art installations and exhibits, curated by Jolt from Guerilla…
Artopia 2016 s just a month away, and you’ll want to get your tickets now — because prices go up tomorrow! Saturday, February 20 will be a night of art, culture and fashion at City Hall. And cocktails, of course, which you can enjoy as you move through seven rooms…
In a September interview with GQ, Constance Wu, star of NBC’s Fresh Off the Boat, observed of the HBO series Togetherness, “It’s a show about white people.” She’s not wrong: Created by indie-film luminaries Jay and Mark Duplass, along with the actor Steve Zissis, Togetherness is a low-key look at…
In a city of CrossFit “boxes” and 24 Hour Fitness locations, the FIT36 franchise has managed to muscle into the market. When she discovered FIT36 last summer, Sheryl Langley fell in love with the workout — and the results. She’s gone down three dress sizes and says she looks better…
For a fast immersion in cutting-edge art, don’t miss Artopia on Saturday night. But this weekend features other opportunities to further explore art: Local artists will rub elbows with national names at MCA Denver for a set of winter shows, while Niza Knoll Gallery looks at the digital frontier and…
Director John Carpenter has made some of the most memorable films of the last forty years, and one of the things that made them memorable was the music: Carpenter has been the music composer for his entire catalog — and beyond. Now Carpenter’s bringing his music into a different kind…
Earlier this month we walked through the process of having a building designated a historic landmark in Denver. Now we’re continuing the conversation we started in Building for the Future with this series that will look into the history of individual structures around town, and the people behind their creation. From its…
In the first two decades of the twentieth century, Russian immigrant and activist Boris Yelensky helped organize a series of parties in New York and Chicago to raise funds for anarchist comrades wasting away in Russian prisons. Though serious in intention, the events themselves were often full of revelry, lasting…
The centerpiece of Hail, Caesar!’s mid-century Hollywood satire is the eponymous film-within-a-film itself, an overwrought biblical epic in which a skeptical Roman centurion played by George Clooney has a literal come-to-Jesus moment. Risen, whose plot can be described in exactly the same way, never inspires one of its own. Co-writer/director…
There is precisely one attempted coup de cinema in the Jesse Owens biopic Race, which otherwise defaults to the backlot handsomeness of other Great Men tributes from Hollywood. In 1935, Owens (Stephan James), a freshman sensation on the Ohio State University track team, returns to the locker room after practice…
The weather is out of control right now, so after you soak up some of that sweet February sun, enjoy yourself at some of these fine events. This weekend has a lot of music to groove to, art to scope and karate chops to master. The Westword calendar has even…
When I think of the Center for Visual Arts, Metropolitan State University’s off-campus art center, I think of contemporary art because that’s what’s typically shown there. So I was surprised to find the place decked out, in part, in James Gillray’s hand-colored etchings from the late 18th and early 19th…
Just in time for the media overload of campaign season, RedLine’s year-long series R/Evolution invites viewers to forgo the “white noise of politicians, to look to the artists to help frame political, social and political conversations,” says Louise Martorano, executive director of the non-profit, adding that the series is “motivated…
#97: Silvana Vukadin-Hoitt Silvana Vukadin-Hoitt is a woman of the world, a traveler and a wanderer, a collector and a curator of rare and beautiful things and places, who settled down long enough to grow roots in Denver and call it home. Sometime photographer, Tennyson Street shop owner, gallerist and…
The world-famous Sundance Film Festival and its film-incubating Sundance Labs are kicking off the sixth year of Film Forward, a touring program of indie films and filmmakers, in Denver with the Denver Film Society, which will host two free screenings on February 22 and 23 at the Sie FilmCenter. Sundance…
Arcade. There’s no single word that can trigger more nostalgia for people of a certain age — my age, as it turns out. For those of us who grew up in the era, arcades (and arcade games) are our analog to Proust’s madeleines: Running into a favorite machine from the…
Folks showed up wearing next to nothing last weekend at Syntax Physic Opera, with donations of underwear and toiletries for the Urban Peak youth services organization in hand, for a full-on party with live music Church Fire, the Milk Blossoms, Crush Craze and the Hang Rounders and a giving spirit…
Over the past several years, Denver artist Nicole Banowetz has been getting attention because of the unusual medium she employs: inflated cloth. Banowetz is a member of the Pirate co-op, and her work is the subject of Gentle Infestation, now on display at the gallery. While the exhibit marks the…
Denver has a winning reputation — and not just because of the Denver Broncos. This city’s arts scene is renowned across the country, and for our annual Winter Arts Guide, inserted in this week’s edition of Westword, we asked a dozen people intrinsic to that scene a few questions about…
In order to capture the often-unseen moments of struggle when people try to survive colder weather in the inner city, Denver photographers Armando Geneyro and Blake Jackson used Instagram to invite photographers from all over the world to share what they saw. The resulting black-and-white images will be shown in…
A laugh comes at last just before the end credits of Robert Eggers’ lit-class horror-bummer The Witch: a boastful note attesting to the documentary truthfulness of the dialogue in the movie we’ve just seen. Over 90 minutes that prove shriekiness is no impediment to ponderousness, we’ve beheld the harrowing of…
