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Reviewed: Two Shows Closing This Week, While God Goes On

By Juliet Wittman

Theater companies are packing up the tinsel and fake snow for another season, but there are still a few more options on local stages. Keep reading for capsule reviews of productions around town, including one stunner that closes this weekend: The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.

Denver: Quit Kicking Your Artists Out

By Bree Davies

In order for artists to live in Denver, we need the city to be affordable, and we need to be able to create, practice, perform and gather in our spaces without fear of raids.

Three Things to Do for Free in Denver, December 26-29

By Alex Brown

This week is your last chance to have fun in 2016 — and that shouldn’t be hard with these three events. You can peruse art, be part of a hysterical live audience or just play cards to rock and roll. Check the Westword calendar to see what else you can…

Elle Stars Isabelle Huppert as a Woman Under the Verhoeven Influence

By Greg Cwik

Dutch provocateur Paul Verhoeven has dedicated his career to sifting through trash to extract ugly truths. He’s a former math and physics student who decided movies make more sense, but it’s hard to picture him crunching numbers and plugging in formulas and dealing with absolute answers, as his proudly pugnacious…

Review: Rule Gallery’s Form & Void Mixes Words and Wire

By Michael Paglia

Over the years and in its various incarnations, Rule Gallery has mined the rich veins of Colorado art history to showcase the work of established talents while also striking gold by introducing new players to the scene. With its current show, Form & Void, the gallery does both. The exhibit…

Photos: Harvesting Holiday Gifts at Broken Shovels Farm

By Westword Staff

Broken Shovels Farm is a special place: Andrea Davis’s patch of land at 8640 Dahlia Street in Commerce City holds an artisanal cheesery, working goat farm, animal shelter, petting zoo, concert venue and rural pocket of love. On December 18, it was a very snowy, cold pocket — but the…

Ten More Great Gift Books by Colorado Authors

By Teague Bohlen

Books are, as holiday gifts go, some of the best things to give, and not just because they make you, the giver, look smart. (Though that’s clearly a plus.) They also carry meaning: you don’t just give someone any old book—you choose it for them specifically, because of their interests or because you and the recipient share some interest. Or, you know, location.With that in mind, here are ten great literary choices for Colorado gift-giving this year: from the poetic to the prosaic, from fiction to non, from the comic to works of sincere depth…they’re all books on the Mile-High scale of sublime.

Try to Escape the Room at Puzzah’s New Broomfield Location

By Adam Roy

Puzzah has established itself with its “puzzle rooms,” a variation on escape rooms that rely heavily on computer-controlled electro-mechanical puzzles custom-made in Denver. Now, the company is hoping its unique take on entertainment can find a fresh audience in the suburbs.

Walkthrough for the Assassin’s Creed Movie: Don’t Go.

By Alan Scherstuhl

The Assassin’s Creed video games are about skipping through tedious cut scenes set in the present so that you can vault into the past, through and over gorgeous recreations of the roofs and streets of medieval and Renaissance cities. Sometimes you chase floating feathers through Florence. Often, you’ll sneak behind…

Review: Edge Theater Takes a Fresh Look at A View From the Bridge

By Juliet Wittman

The Edge Theater’s production of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge doesn’t go for electrifying drama or make a point of foreshadowing the play’s incipient violence in the naturalistic early scenes. But this in no way diminishes the involving nature of the experience, the shock of the climax or…

Twenty Years Later, Scream Remains the Slasher Genre’s Great Last Gasp

By Keith Garcia

Twenty years ago, director Wes Craven and writer Kevin Williamson took us to the small California town of Woodsboro, where a horror-movie-obsessed masked killer was stalking and killing a group of teens who grew up watching slasher-film greats. This week, that film, Scream, celebrates its twentieth anniversary with a massive…