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The Addicts Comedy Duo Proves Addiction Can Be Funny

By Ana Campbell

Both recovering addicts and comedians, Mark Lundholm and Kurt Matthews, aka The Addicts, have built careers of making their respective recovery processes not only relatable, but funny. No, it wasn’t funny when Matthews got in a drunk-driving accident in 1984 and almost killed himself and the girls in the other car. Losing relationships and being arrested wasn’t necessarily funny, either. But both Lundholm and Matthews recognize the humor in their flaws. “The insanity is funny,” says Lundholm.

Three Things to Do for Free in Denver, November 14-17

By Alex Brown

This week’s entertainment is all about reflection and perspective. We’re hearing stories, telling our own tales and taking a look into the future of our city. Keep reading for our three favorite free events in town, and look for more on the Westword calendar. Tales from the Road: Volume 1…

Witch Collective Goes Its Own Way With a Holiday Market

By Bree Davies

When a group of local artisans found themselves priced out of the holiday-market scene, they went their own way. The result was the Witch Collective, a group of artists and artisans committed to creating an affordable place where people can sell affordable handmade goods. From noon to 4 p.m. this…

Review: And Toto Too’s World Premiere of Lost Creatures

By Juliet Wittman

In Lost Creatures, local playwright Melissa Lucero McCarl imagines a meeting between two highly theatrical figures of the last century. The first is Kenneth Tynan, a theater critic whose brilliant writing brought him early fame. Guardian reviewer Michael Billington recently wrote that reading the book of essays that Tynan released…

George Rivera on the Artnauts and Finding Common Ground Through Art

By Susan Froyd

Cold-calling exhibition venues isn’t usually part of a curator’s job when creating an art show, but that’s exactly what University of Colorado Boulder art professor George Rivera did when he jumped departments in the ’90s after twenty years of teaching sociology. It started with his idea of shaking things up…

Denver Film Festival 2016 Must-Sees for November 11-13: Obit and More

By Michael Roberts

Again this year, Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today he spotlights selections for November 11-13, including The Cinema Travellers, Mifune: The…

Woodward at Copper Barn Bash Is On, Despite Ski-Season Delays

By Colin Bane

Copper Mountain announced this week that it has postponed opening day, moving the scheduled celebration from Friday, November 11, to November 18, in the hopes that Mother Nature and/or the resort’s snowmaking teams can help roll out a more appropriate white carpet for the occasion. But at least one portion…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Bonnie Ferrill Roman

By Susan Froyd

#49: Bonnie Ferrill Roman Colorado papermaker and mixed-media sculptor Bonnie Ferrill Roman creates airy, medium-melding installations that connect the dots from the realm of well-crafted fiber art to the frontier of art about ideas and personal issues. A longtime educator dedicated to sharing techniques and foundational know-how with young art…

Denver Film Festival 2016 Must-See for November 10: Rumba

By Michael Roberts

Again this year, Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today he spotlights a selection for November 10: Rumba. Rumba Directed by Dominique…

What Fox’s Pitch Gets So Right About Being A Pioneering Woman

By Angela Lutz

It’s fun watching Ginny Baker be rude to people. I was hesitant to give a chance to Pitch, the new Fox series imagining the life and career of the (fictional) first woman to play Major League Baseball, because I feared Ginny would be impossibly noble, driven and hardworking — the…

Being Téchiné: Five Decades Into a Great Career, the Auteur Opens Up

By Bilge Ebiri

In André Téchiné’s vibrant new film Being 17, two teens wrestle with desire and hostility in a mountainous corner of France. The subject matter is not new for Téchiné, who has for more than 40 years explored sexual self-awakening, alienation and family strife in films notable for their consistency and…

With an Interior Epic, Ang lee Gets Too Real for His Medium

By Bilge Ebiri

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is a small film burdened with the epic, thanks to both its subject and its setting. Based on Ben Fountain’s 2012 novel, it depicts a day in the life of a young soldier (Joe Alwyn) briefly returning from Iraq to be honored with his squad…

Sci-Fi Epic Arrival Is Best When It Looks Within

By Bilge Ebiri

One day, Denis Villeneuve will make a truly great movie. This is, apparently, a controversial opinion. Many out there feel strongly that the Canadian filmmaker has been leaping from triumph to triumph in recent years — with Sicario, Prisoners and Enemy under his belt — while some consider him a…

The 21 Best Events in Denver, November 9-15

By Westword Staff

There’s plenty to do around town this week, with Denver Arts Week running through November 12, and the Denver Film Festival wrapping up on November 13. But other events are crowding the calendar, including panels, dance parties and a Star Wars costume exhibit storming into the Denver Art Museum. And…

The Twelve Best Fashion Events in Denver Before Thanksgiving

By Mauricio Rocha

The holiday season is almost here, and there are plenty of fashion events in Denver this month to have you looking good at all those Thanksgiving gatherings. Here are twelve of the best, in chronological order. 1. La Vien Jewelry Event 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday, November 9 Jared…