Sure, you could stay home and catch the Olympics — but there’s just too much fun stuff going on in town this weekend. Why stick to your sofa when you can explore the city, dance your cares away, and have some cheap laughs? Here are our ten favorite events under…
Nominations are now open for the 2016 Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Arts & Culture, which will be announced during Denver Arts Week in November. Here are the categories: Arts & Culture Youth Award This award is presented to a person under eighteen that has made a noteworthy difference in…
Visibility of the LGBTQ community in new media and pop culture continues to rise, and adding to it is the new web series Her Story. The trans-forward series is getting an in-depth presentation, complete with its creators and talent, and courtesy of the GLBT Community Center of Colorado and the Sie FilmCenter,…
Are tiny houses the solution to many of society’s ills? Artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy is exploring tiny houses as a sustainability move, and a way to educate people about climate change; she’s been writing about the Mayday Experiment in articles here. Now Off the Grid is sponsoring a series of…
Nuts!, a marvelous, mostly animated doc/drama hybrid, couldn’t have come along at a better time. Director Penny Lane (Our Nixon) showcases, with wit and suspense, the undoing of one of the 20th century’s great flimflam artists, a huckster who seized then-new communication technologies — and the trappings of Christian divinity…
The Bronx is burning in the introductory episodes of The Get Down, Netflix’s new series that presents as urban-cinematic fable the genesis of rap. The cluttered, over-caffeinated 90-minute pilot, directed by creator and executive producer Baz Luhrmann, takes place in the summer of 1977, when a serial killer terrorized New…
Daniel Reskin, a transplant from Miami, relocated to Denver with little but solid material and a few connections; he quickly ingratiated himself with the local performance scene. (An under-acknowledged benefit of new residents is that they find opportunity where locals see only wreckage.) Space Owl Alliance, Reskin’s new comedy/music hybrid showcase,…
When you think of local celebrities, you may picture Demaryius Thomas of the Broncos, actress Amy Adams, or rock band the Fray. But one celebrity eclipses them all by a landslide in terms of fanatical popularity. With slightly over one million followers, Loki the Wolf Dog has become an Instagram…
Heidi Jung stands at the front window of her modest, blond-brick home situated in Denver’s Northside. She points at a tiny house across the street, where a giant rolloff dumpster takes up the entire driveway. “That was my Aunt Stella’s house,” the painter says. “They’re just gutting it, not tearing…
Two years ago today I bought a trailer, on which I would build a tiny house. I had no idea that two years later, I would still be working on it. But then, the raft of tiny-house movies and TV shows hadn’t come along yet to warn me — and…
The physical world is all around us — and so are solo shows by artists who create pieces that reflect their views on that world. Robischon Gallery is featuring five individual and divergent, if related, solos. In the large front space, Ian Fisher: In Advance of Light gets the group…
Writer Keith Gessen once said that Philip Roth wasn’t a misogynist and didn’t hate women because he spent all his time “thinking about fucking them.” But he did concede that Roth probably thought “women were a foreign country.” In James Schamus’ debut feature Indignation, an adaptation of a late Roth…
Pete’s Dragon is as cuddly as the mountains of plush toys Disney hopes to sell from it. A disarmingly homespun blockbuster, this loose remake of the studio’s 1977 live-action/animation hybrid is perhaps best defined by all the things it’s not: It’s not a soaring action flick, nor an indulgence in…
Hell or High Water sees a Scottish director making a down-home, West Texas–set movie about cars, guns, brothers, banks and twist-off beers. But this outsider’s perspective is nothing new for David Mackenzie, who has worked with Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche on a Los Angeles romance about a gigolo (2009’s…
Do we call Anthropoid a thriller? Sean Ellis’ earnest, day-ruining WWII bullet-a-thon is rooted in fact but comes on like pulp fiction in its first reels, hitting secret-mission story beats old enough to have served in the big war. As freedom fighters Josef (Jamie Dornan) and Jan (Cillian Murphy) skulk…
Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins is a likable study of delusions of grandeur. Working from real-life material, Frears creates an alternately funny and mysterious portrait of someone whom most viewers either don’t know at all or regard as an odd footnote in musical history. We first see Florence (Meryl Streep)…
“The Bug Theatre is truly the most unique performance venue in Denver,” says Deb Flomberg, who’s used the Bug for some very unique performances. But on Friday, August 5, Under the Big Top was all about the Bug itself — the second annual family-friendly event designed to raise funds for…
“The first time I wrote a play, I was teaching high-school theater, 25 years ago,” says John Moore, the award-winning former Denver Post theater critic and current senior arts journalist at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. After that came a long hiatus until Brian Freeland, then artistic director…
Summer is a great time to read — and to celebrate reading at book-related events around town, from signings to cons to literary bashes. Book them all, and find more literary activities in our online calendar. She Writes Press Book Tour Tattered Cover Aspen Grove 7 p.m. Tuesday, free She…
Transplants landing in the Mile High City: Is there any topic that inspires more discussion from Denver residents, new and old? In this commentary, local Natalie Tuffeld urges us all to get along: Last week, stuck in horrendous traffic on I-25, I silently cursed each and every one of the…
The first Denver Yoga Festival stretched through LoDo this past weekend, starting with sunrise yoga in the Oxford Hotel on Thursday, August 4; hundreds of yoga enthusiasts joined in what promises to become an annual event. Photographer Ken Hamblin was there to catch the early action. See the full Denver…
The Centennial State is known for more than a few things: great skiing, the beauty of the Rockies (the mountains, certainly not the ball team), the current Super Bowl-champ Denver Broncos and, yes, legalized pot, to name only a few. What Colorado isn’t widely known for is a relevance to…
