October is zooming by, and Halloween will be here before you know it. But fear not, the next ten days are filled with fashion events, everything from haunted boutiques to killer runway shows. Even fashion funding is an option: Until November 14, emerging fashion designers can apply for the Fashion…
Quick! Name the movie where Bill Murray plays a proudly shabby dude who acts like a prick for an hour, and then, for reasons of narrative convention rather than character-based truth, shambles toward either heroism or some vague be-nicer enlightenment. Maybe a tougher challenge would be to name the Bill…
Completing a trifecta of recent cinema suddenly fascinated with the social-science lab experiments of the Eisenhower-Nixon era, Experimenter is as cool as a grad student clamping electrodes onto a test monkey. One of our lowest-profile indie-film treasures, director Michael Almereyda never makes the same movie twice, toggling from Pixelvision experiment…
Why would a world-renowned philosopher come to Denver to talk at a free screening of an old film noir? “When I talk about German philosophers, people tend to tune out. When I talk about movies, I get a much better reception,” says Robert Pippin, a Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche expert at…
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. When Kristin Griffith and her husband recently decided to leave Griffith’s hometown…
When the original idea for BoomBaptricks — a variety show debuting tomorrow night at the Oriental Theater — was conceived, it was about creating an evening celebrating multiple art forms. A producer of comedy events around the city through her company 52Eighty Entertainment, LaRae Martinez had been working with Corin…
Thousands of the blood-streaked undead paraded through downtown Denver hunting for brains and making mayhem Saturday at the tenth annual Zombie Crawl. Here’s photographer Aaron Thackeray’s view from ground zero. Now see the full Denver Zombie Crawl slide show. Trust us — it will make your skin crawl…
Ever wonder what sorts of things unnerve the folks who make a living scaring their readers? We polled a few of our favorite local horror authors for the most spine-tingling October attractions, events, sites and sounds — and, some of their answers were as unexpected as the plots twists you’ll…
This week delivers a historical pop-culture references we’ve been waiting on for 26 years—we’re going back to the future. In addition we have art openings to check out and cereal to eat with comedians. Check out the Westword calendar for more events, and drop us a comment if you know…
Twenty-year-old Josh’s (Josh Thomas) world explodes twice in the Please Like Me pilot: first when he realizes he’s gay, and again when his bipolar mother, Rose (Debra Lawrance), attempts suicide. Josh takes both revelations in stride, though he dreads having to explain to his mom, whom he’ll be living with…
We’re in the spooky season, full of haunted houses, zombie crawls, scary movies — and next year could be even spookier. The announcement trailer for Friday the 13th: The Game was just released, and it hypes what looks like the scariest survival horror game yet, coming next fall. The asymmetrical multiplayer…
Here’s a scary story for you. Somewhere in Hollywood, a cabal of producers are forever zombie-ing up the corpses of long-dead licensed properties, ever hopeful that you will continue to throw your money at familiar trademarked characters even as they eat your brains. Sometimes, when a silver moon shines just…
The Denver Botanic Gardens is always cooking up new ways to bring folks inside its gates, and Glow at the Gardens might be one of the best: For three Wednesdays in October the temple to growing things is hosting the family-friendly after-dark event, which features activities for all ages, artistic…
Blue hair is all the rage these days, and the azure locks of Atomic Sean, a hairstylist apprentice at Babooshka, caught our eye when we spotted him waiting for a bus at 11th Avenue and Broadway. Sean is originally from Pennsylvania and New Orleans, and has lived in Denver for…
This weekend in Denver, find art derived from life experiences at Hinterland and a body of work from an unexpected source at David B. Smith Gallery. And then there’s this: Sally Centigrade will offer shelter — and limited-edition prints — to wandering mall zombies hitting downtown Denver for the Zombie…
A lot of ink (most of it negative) has been spilled discussing the cinematic oeuvre of Tyler Perry, whose gospel-infused morality tales leave critics cold but do so well with audiences that they’ve afforded Perry the chance to be an auteur — a creative who has absolute control over every…
Things are looking good in our fine city. The leaves are changing, the sun is setting earlier and the zombies are coming. And coming, and coming. Besides that invasion, the next few days will be filled with outdoor markets, live music and gear-swapping. Here are our top ten choices for…
If you keep up at all with Denver street art, you’re familiar with Gamma Acosta, who paints walls here, across the nation and even abroad. He can often be seen painting and repainting murals on the wall at Bella Vista Mexican Restaurant on the edge of downtown Denver (his latest…
It’s no secret that some of the best ideas are cooked up right in sunny Colorado. In this series, we’ll be exploring the latest products coming from Colorado makers, builders and innovators. After graduating from the University of Colorado Law School, Colorado native Deanna Seery moved to California to practice…
There’s really nothing scary about zombies when they’re solo. They’re slow. They’re stupid. They’re not much stronger than a normal person, and they’re a hell of a lot less coordinated. It’s like being confronted by a really drunk guy who wants to hug it out, and maybe bite your face…
The good news about the Richard Gere drama about the bad news of New York’s enduring homeless crisis? Time Out of Mind, written and directed by Oren Moverman, is stubbornly, respectfully unflashy, Manhattan neorealism steeped more in reportage than in the clichés of prestige films. A prideful man slow to…
Here’s a hair-raising assignment: Imagine you’re tasked with capturing the social and psychological complexities of a nation’s crackup within the framework of popular moviemaking. What if Gone With the Wind tried, in its swooning romance, to explicate Scarlett O’Hara’s slow-to-dawn realization of the hopeless immorality of the world she has…
