I’m always skeptical when told that a play is going to shock and startle me, particularly when the play’s about race. Almost daily I watch spokespeople for Black Lives Matter on talk shows and hear commentators speculate about who will get the black vote that Barack Obama commanded. I read…
Looking for something to keep your kids occupied — or just feeling like a kid yourself? This summer the Denver Film Society and Tattered Cover Bookstore are joining forces to bring the works of author Roald Dahl to the big screen with the series Welcome to the Dahl House. Starting…
An E.M. Forster quote comes to mind when I think about why so many people live in Denver: “What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?” The beauty that Colorado offers is endless, a photographer’s…
Read all about it: This week you can delve into what it takes to get ahead, bury your head in a Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad mystery, compare high points in literature and art, or get your fill of a slam-poetry master. Keep reading for hightlights of Denver’s literary calendar. Angela…
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. “I grew up around Denver,” says sculptor Nicole Banowetz, who was born…
MediaLive starts today, and Boulder will be abuzz all week with free events. But there’s plenty to do in Denver, too, including free comedy shows. Keep reading for our three favorite free events in the area over the next few days. Check out the Westword calendar for more, and leave…
Today 17,000 people are expected for the eleventh annual Colfax Marathon, with City Park a prominent feature on the route. Brad Weismann’s recent list of Seven Things that Make City Park Residents Very, Very Mad included the plethora of races, concerts and other events in the Park, but Klaudia doesn’t buy…
Last weekend we shared comments by Georgia Amar, a co-founder of Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe, criticizing Denver’s public arts program. And readers were quick to respond. Says Russ Wright: Art is subjective. You, I and everyone else has an opinion on what they like or dislike. Personally I have…
The Denver Eye has closed. The popular Facebook page that brightened newsfeeds every day with fresh images of vintage Denver and the West has gone dark — at least for now. Tom Lundin — collector, curator and operator of the colorful page of Colorado ephemera — gave notice to thousands…
The art world has a very well-rounded Denver itinerary this weekend: Candy art, dream art and a scholarly lecture on regional architecture all figure into the calendar of new shows and events around town. Read on for the details. Geeky Tendencies: New Works by Kym Bloom Zip 37 Gallery May…
Bobbi Walker, director of Walker Fine Art, has assembled pieces by a half-dozen artists to create the engaging group effort Figuratively Speaking, which features sculptures, photos, drawings and paintings, all of which depict the human figure in some way. The gallery is enormous, and figurative sculptures by Gail Folwell have been installed…
Denver’s street-style scene is heating up. This week we spotted Nicole Ault, a student at Metropolitan State University of Denver, in Five Points, and chatted with her about her striking silhouette, where she shops, and what inspires her fashion sense. Her favorite accessory? “Sunglasses or shoes,” Ault says. “I never own…
Let’s get out there this weekend, be nice to everybody and enjoy ourselves. We’re getting a new patio to chill on, having all kinds of things to eat and just plain partying in general. These are our ten favorite, but there’s even more to check out on the Westword calendar…
Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump’s microbudget black-and-white English Civil War mushroom-trip movie A Field in England (2013) squeezed a tense and bizarre story from just a few dudes wandering around in a field. The married couple and filmmaking team — Wheatley as director and Jump as writer — previously made…
There’s a spectacular solo in the main space at Pirate: Rebecca Cuming: New Work, featuring the artist’s signature monumental paintings, which come out of the landscape tradition. Cuming’s compositions are clearly views of grassy or even flower-filled fields, but she’s worked the paint so expressively that the scenes have been considerably abstracted, with…
Spring is definitely here, bringing with it not just flowers and showers, but a new season of fashion — and fashion events are popping up all over. This month you can learn how to dress for every event, buy fashions that benefit good causes, and celebrate stores new and old…
The beauty of digital animation as an artform is its portability: It’s a case of have screen, will travel, as Ivar Zeile’s Denver Digerati has shown over several seasons of Friday Flash summer programs featuring motion-based video media on the Denver Theatre District’s giant LED screen at 14th and Champa…
The arcades were my first video game love, but we were not monogamous. Like most kids, I didn’t have an unlimited supply of quarters to drop into the arcade machines, and as with many kids of my generation — and every generation that’s followed — my parents made the cost-efficient…
The Rule Gallery is presenting a handsome solo, Beyond the Veil, by emerging artist Caleb Hahne, whose style combines realism and abstraction in a conceptual way. Every painting in the exhibit — whether a small portrait or a larger figure study — is anchored by a realistic passage done in…
This is getting ridiculous. An inhabitant of Denver from fifty years ago, plopped down in the center of town, would be hard-pressed to recognize its streets — much less negotiate them. Few American cities have changed so radically recently as the Queen City of the Plains. (It’s nice to be…
This week on Denver stages, you can experience the lives of a couple in love and trapped in an asylum, a chatty family at a birthday dinner, or four men in the muddled-up, comic world of a group home. Here’s where to snatch up tickets. Germinal Stage, Echoes 73rd Avenue…
SeriesFest, the spirited television and storytelling festival that has been renewed for a second season that will run from June 22 through June 26, just announced the lineup for its Independent Pilots competition as well as the industry stars who will be judging the entries during the festival. After an Opening…
