The runaway success of RuPaul’s Drag Race has put the spotlight on the subculture of drag queens, introducing the world to dozens of talented performers who have battled it out for seven seasons for the honor of being crowned the “next drag superstar.” Many of these personalities have crossed Denver…
Alternative ideas and alternative spaces both play a part in new gallery shows this week, proving that you never know where you’re going to find topnotch art in Denver on a Friday night. Here are some ways to enjoy new work and shop till you drop at the same time…
Cherry Creek North is making a stylish splash. At last Saturday’s Cherry Creek North Food & Wine bash that filled a block of Fillmore with tables from more than twenty local restaurants and other food-friendly ventures, we spotted a globe-trotting trendsetter sporting a paisley-printed look. And it turned out that businessman…
Of all starving artists, poets may be the most starving. A challenging art form that demands a type of time and engagement most people just aren’t willing to give, poetry tends to get sidelined even in communities dedicated to nurturing challenging art that demands time and engagement, relegated instead to…
It’s road-trip time, and there’s plenty of opportunity this weekend to head out on a mission. You can travel a small portion of the state hitting music festivals, celebrating bikes and beer in Boulder or by taking a stroll down the Cherry Creek while learning about art. There’s always too…
If you know of the CW show Supernatural at all, you probably have a pretty low opinion of it: “What, that trashy CW monster show with the two pretty boys? Do I look like a teenage girl to you?” (No disrespect to any teenage girls who might be reading.) But I’m here…
Chances are good that you don’t know the works of writer/director/actor Xavier Dolan — and that is a crying shame. Dolan is Quebec’s wunderkind of cinema who, since turning nineteen, has put out five amazing pieces of film that show the practice, originality and power of someone much older and…
On July 25, Mayor Michael Hancock, Denver Partners Against Graffiti and 200-plus volunteers took to the streets of Capitol Hill to “buff out” some of the graffiti surrounding East High School. This was the sixth annual “Brush Off Graffiti” event, celebrating another year of working to keep Denver beautiful, as DPAG’s…
Kelsie Huff was a mess, a co-dependent drunk from a family of drunks who’d made a shambles of everything in her life. But she’ll tell you that herself — that and a whole lot more about her struggles with alcoholism and her dysfunctional past in Ranch Dressing & Other Coping Mechanisms,…
Even if you’re the sort who believes there can be no such thing as too much political coverage, it can’t hurt to cast a fond glance back to 1968, when only three networks — NBC, CBS, and the perennial laggard ABC — jockeyed for the attention of the American public…
Promising and disappointing all at once, Jon Watts’s backroads thriller Cop Car heralds the arrival of a significant director, one adept not just at the usual action and suspense but also at the fleet, affecting depiction of lives as they’re actually lived. In the opening scenes, the camera glides alongside…
A handful of galleries mounted shows this summer that were meant to coincide with Denver’s Biennial of the Americas and its one-size-fits-all theme of “now.” Rule Gallery got on board and invited guest curator Hayley Richardson to come up with Nothing Belongs to Us, an exhibit intended to reflect what…
Colorado Crush is Colorado’s largest independent graffiti and street art festival. The inaugural event took place in 2009 at the Exdo Event Center, where the original murals created at that festival have long been painted over. The sixth annual Colorado Crush, set for September 14 through September 20, will take…
Global pageantry, dance and history, and a hilarious comedy all have a place on local stages this week, whisking you off to faraway places or taking on all-American pop-culture controversies. Here are the details: Terracotta Warriors 3-D Newman Center for the Performing Arts Through September 6 8 p.m. Tuesdays through…
Pump Boys and Dinettes isn’t so much a play as it is a collection of songs spun around a concept so thin it’s hardly there. The place is a small town on Highway 57 “somewhere between Frog Level and Smyrna,” and the protagonists are four guys who work at a…
Spearheaded by Grafenberg Productions, Camp Atlas is a weekly comedy show at the Atlas Theatre that follows the lives of the fictional camp’s counselors and campers as they navigate their hilarious way through “wacky shenanigans.” The cast features local improvisers Peter Nesbitt, Rachel Walker, JuLee Simmons, Dexter Schiller, Trista Charnas, Castle…
“This conversation is the best one I ever had,” David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) says as The End of the Tour wraps up, and the movie, a pleasantly talky chamber piece, gives us welcome bursts of conversations. That long chat, with a David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) abashed by the success…
There’s steady, scary thrill in the final third of Meru, the latest attempt to conquer the climb-and-tweak-the-nose-of-God mountaineering documentary, a genre that has yet to reach its apex. The terrible beauty of the Shark’s Fin point of northern India’s Mount Meru is enough to make this worth seeking out on…
In the holy trinity of N.W.A., each icon had a power: Dr. Dre produced, Ice Cube wrote the words, and Eazy-E was the comic relief. N.W.A.’s biopic, Straight Outta Compton, blurs those roles. Both Dre and Cube produced the film, and seem to have edited the script with a red…
It stands alone, surrounded by a parking lot at the corner of Leetsdale and Exposition in southeast Denver. The little, tan-colored building is squatty and fairly nondescript — well, save for a big sign on its roof that says Planned Parenthood. Across the street is George Washington High School, my…
There are two very disparate exhibits running through Saturday, August 15, at the Ice Cube Gallery co-op. And both are interesting in their own ways. In the spaces to the right of the entrance is Binaries, a three-part installation by Ice Cube member Linda Graham, who collaborated with her grandson,…
At least once a week, someone squeals to me that they love tiny homes. There are a lot of tiny home fans out there, along with tiny house television shows (none of which I’ve watched), movies and blogs. The zeitgeist is here. Which is why over 10,000 people registered for…
