Teenage bodies are bared but fresh insight concealed in writer/director Eva Husson’s first feature, a dopey examination of Instagram-abetted adolescent abandon. Inspired by a news item that Husson came across in 1999 about a group of orgy-loving high schoolers in the U.S., Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story), despite the…
Front Range galleries turn it inside out this week with an outdoor market, a road trip-worthy slate of exhibits and an indoor street-art extravaganza. Here’s where to have fun in the sun and be cool at the school, with a big helping of art on a paper plate. Summer Art…
Let’s get out there and rock and roll this weekend! We’ve rounded up ten of our favorite events, none of which cost more than $10 and all of which promise a hell of a good time.Check out the Westword calendar for even more fun. ROLL | Heroes and Villains:…
At the edge of downtown at 921 21st Street, where the city gets grittier and there’s always parking, you’ll find a unique new boutique: Whiskey/Grade. This shop opened up in late March with a goal of tying alternative Denver subcultures together through fashion. Those subcultures include the front-of-the-house The Shop Barber…
He floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee. He was so mean he made medicine sick. He’s the only person to ever beat Superman. The death June 3 of boxer Muhammad Ali from Parkinson’s-related complications left another hole in this death-speckled year. To pay tribute to the man,…
#78: Thomas Evans Thomas Evans, better known as Detour, paints his culture on large canvases, capturing portraits of modern pop stars in swirls of pure color, some of them interactive works that viewers can touch to release sounds. As an entrepreneur marketing his own work, Detour has generally bypassed galleries…
In this delightful late-stage capitalist utopia in which we live, the entertainment industry never fails to squeeze every last possible dime out of any creative endeavor. You can take this as a disheartening prioritization of commerce over art — it is, to be fair — or you can look at…
Black Cube’s artist fellows have pushed the boundaries of the typical pop-up show in the past year by creating giant inflatables, using sites that included both Red Rocks and an entire house, and even questioning Denver’s housing displacement. Now artist fellow Jon P. Geiger has created “ROAM,” a 26-foot-high neon sculpture…
If mid-century pulp and noir gave us the cynical, quippy hardboiled detective, then Peak TV has given birth to its successor: the charbroiled cop, a bitter, corrupt, philandering, violent, addicted, nihilistic or just psychotic contemporary crime fighter. The supposed irony of this figure is that he (almost always a he)…
There’s something satisfying about hearing Tyler Perry, as mad scientist Baxter Stockman, say the words “Eliminate those turtles,” but it’s not quite novel enough to bring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows up to street level and out of the sewers. Early on, giant squid-like brain Krang (Brad…
Back in 2013, James Wan’s The Conjuring represented the high point of a wave of mainstream horror that showed there was still value in old-school scares — that there was life beyond torture porn and slick slasher reboots. It was a ghost story-turned-possession thriller that mined terror out of the…
In 2001 a friend, a grown-up, saw The Fellowship of the Ring more than a dozen time in the theater. Sometimes she’d leave with a half hour left. “I just needed to get to Galadriel and Lothlorien,” she told me. She didn’t need all the climactic fighting. In 2012 I…
Chalk artists hit the pavement in a big way last weekend at Larimer Square’s Denver Chalk Art Festival, creating colorful street-level masterpieces for prizes – and just for fun. One rainstorm and the art was gone; here’s how things looked in the moment, courtesy of photographer Brandon Marshall. Now find your…
The current show at Walker Fine Art, Altering Natural Perceptions, represents a newish approach for gallery director Bobbi Walker. Instead of installing a main exhibit up front with a selection of pieces by gallery artists in the back, as she has done for many years, Walker has lately been giving…
Summer brings small shows with big ideas to metro Denver stages, some of them in unexpected places. Here’s where to cool off with great theater this week. By the Waters of Babylon The Edge Theater June 10 through July 3 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays 6 p.m. Sundays Tickets: $28…
Permanent art, executed meticulously over a lifetime, that touches people and is literally touched by people. A piece of art that ages with you, shows your path and works as a scrapbook to your life. This can only be found in the art of tattooing. Denver has a beautiful and…
Since 2003, Art from Ashes has been pushing empowerment for youth through the creative arts. In April, the local nonprofit’s Phoenix Rising was again named a finalist for the 2016 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. “We’re local, we’re small and…
The Denver Film Society announced today a late addition to this summer’s Film On The Rocks lineup. Guaranteed to add a much-needed chill in July, Wes Craven’s 1996 horror masterpiece Scream will slash through the silver screen in honor of its twentieth anniversary on Thursday, July 7. Scream, written by Kevin…
Fun-loving families have a lot of options for Colorado adventures this summer. Here are five of our favorite activities; kick off your summer by trying one. Or better yet, try them all! 1. Llama Treks Snow Mountain Ranch 1101 County Road 53 outside Granby 970-887-2152 If summer’s got you feeling…
#79: Matthew Brown It’s been ten years since Matthew Brown’s Fancy Tiger Clothing began its style revolution on Broadway. Back then, Brown shared space with Fancy Tiger’s crafters’ emporium; clothing portion later moved down the street to its own dedicated space. Today, the boutique quietly purveys Brown’s modern, street-level fashion…
It was 8 a.m. when the doorbell rang, the ordinarily melodic tones turning to scratchy demon fire against my eardrum. Anyone who knows me knows I’m absolutely not a morning person, and typically force myself to go to bed around 4 a.m. — so after a bleary ook at the…
Our pioneer ancestors loved animals, finding most of them delicious. Basically, the settlers divided critters into three categories – wild (dangerous, to be killed and/or eaten), domesticated (utilized, then killed and/or eaten) and pets. Today deer, elk, mountain lions and bears still encroach on Front Range neighborhoods. Denver is the…
