To its credit, Edge Theatre Company has staged a world premiere annually for the past four years, all scripts by local playwrights. Some of the productions have revealed major talent, and that’s what I thought during the first hour or so of Jeffrey Neuman’s Exit Strategies. Sure, the play’s basic…
In your high school ceramics class, the teacher was always watching to make sure that students weren’t crafting pipes or ashtrays, but this workshop encouraged it. The first-ever Puff, Pass & Pottery class was an experiment in art and cannabis consumption, with the goal of creating an an ashtray comparable…
Party-goers in victory rolls, fedoras and WWII uniforms jitterbugged around the dance floor last Saturday at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum during an evening of well-costumed retro highlife. All photos by Danielle Lirette. Now see the full 2015 1940s & ’50s White Christmas Ball slide show…
Holidays got you down? Cheer up and head to local bookstores to take a trip into the present future with journalist Malcolm Gay or hear master storytellers Matthew Taylor and Jamie Horton tell tales. Malcolm Gay, The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines Tattered Cover…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Library data may not seem aesthetically pleasing, but artist Duncan Parks is…
Don’t get so wrapped up in buying gifts for others that you forget Colorado Gives Day on Tuesday, December 8; even if you don’t have much cash, there are plenty of ways to participate in the fundraiser on the cheap. And after you’ve emptied your pockets for charity, you can still…
Thanksgiving’s over and it’s time to start thinking about the next big holiday — and we could use your help to get into the spirit. Or is that spirits? Our annual New Year’s Eve Guide, which will be inserted in the December 17 issue of Westword and also posted at…
Art can be an unforgettable gift, and local artists are making the most of the holiday season by putting up stunning work that won’t break the bank. If you’re out and about this First Friday weekend, here are some excellent stops to put on your itinerary. Fresh Art | 50…
After two long months of public voting and friendly campaigning, Coors Light just announced that the Denver Film Society’s Joanna Cintrón has been named the 2015 Coors Light Líder of the Year. The honor comes with a $25,000 grant from Coors Light that Cintrón will use to introduce a Latino…
The smell of beard oil and beef jerky is hanging in the air; if you listen closely, you can hear the sounds of woodcarving and someone choking on hot sauce. This can only mean one thing: The men are here. Today more than eighty male vendors (and some co-ed teams)…
With only a few more weeks to make memories in the year 2015, managing your time could be difficult, especially with the holidays. So, make this weekend memorable by sipping pints for a purpose, bathing in chocolate and jumping off the top ropes. Drop us a comment if you know…
In 1970, Janis Joplin died of drug overdose at the young age of twenty-seven, silencing a voice that had filled millions with joy and inspiration. Now the new documentary Janis: Little Girl Blue, which opens this week at at the Sie FilmCenter, tells the artist’s story in her own words…
It’s December, which means you might want to stay inside and keep warm and cozy as the snow falls outside. But don’t get too comfortable, because this month’s fashion calendar includes everything from fashion blogger meet-ups to fashion shows, camps and trucks. Here are ten of the best fashion events…
There’s snow on the ground and you can’t leave the house without being assaulted by Christmas music or getting poked in the eye by a festive fir tree, and that can mean only one thing: You’d better start shopping. As every media outlet is hellbent on reminding us, the only…
A few months ago, I took a friend to Planned Parenthood to get an abortion. I had been to an appointment with her prior to that where she initially learned that she was pregnant. We talked about the options. It didn’t take long for her to make her choice. At…
Bees are such tiny, seemingly inconsequential creatures, yet milligram for milligram, they affect the landscape in profound ways. You could say the same about small, delicate movies like Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher’s 2014 Cannes Grand Prix winner The Wonders, which tells the story of a hippie beekeeper family in the…
Through the ornate fonts, tints, intertitles, scores, acting techniques and camera tricks that have made his “directed by” credit the ultimate redundancy, Guy Maddin demonstrates in The Forbidden Room that he has forgotten more about silent movies and early talkies than almost anyone else will ever know. And it’s the…
This past summer, RedLine founder Laura Merage launched another Denver art venue, Black Cube, which was conceived as a nomadic museum based out of a black metal container in the shape of a cube. The plan is for the box to be moved around and used for pop-up exhibitions or…
Many Denverites got the same chill yesterday watching the official video premiere of Those Who Can’t — the new show on TruTV from the Grawlix, the comedy squad comprising local heroes Ben Roy, Adam Cayton-Holland and Andrew Orvedahl — as they did watching Rateliff and the Night Sweats on Fallon: It’s…
#1: Susan Froyd Now and then throughout this grand 100CC adventure, it’s been suggested that I participate in my own project and answer the questionnaire myself. I haven’t known exactly what to think about that, because I don’t see myself as the maker and doer here. I’m just the ultimate…
December is a traditionally festive month. But between its Judeo-Christian holidays, family gatherings and glittering lights, it can be easy to go the entire month without replenishing your giggle stores. Fortunately, December is also a month of giving, and hoards of presents await under the chuckle tree, ready to reward Denverites…
O, Zeus, hear my lament that I was not present when Spike Lee imagined updating Lysistrata to present-day Chicago. I’ll bet he burst himself cackling. Aristophanes’s 411 B.C. comedy, written during the three-decade Peloponnesian War, concocts a crazy scheme: Women refuse sex until their blue-balled men give in and declare…
