Best of the Fest

“You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy our festival,” says Ely Hemnes, coordinator of the eighteenth annual Denver Jewish Film Festival, which opens tonight in the Elaine Wolf Theatre at the Mizel Arts & Culture Center, 350 South Dahlia Street. Curated over the course of a year, this multi-day…

Tips Up

The Winter X Games, which get started today at the base of Aspen’s Buttermilk Mountain, always go hard, with big air and high style. Thirteen of the Games’ eighteen seasons have taken place in Colorado, with the premier action-sports showcase attracting high-profile athletes and fans of all ages from around…

She’s Crafty

Craft Tech / Coded Media: Women, Art and Technology, an exhibition of digital, photographic and handmade work by artists working in various mediums and time frames, decodes — and sometimes debunks — gender stereotypes regarding technology. Curated by Deanne Pytlinski, assistant chair of the art department at Metropolitan State University…

BMoCA’s Femcees: Lyrics Decoded takes an interactive look at women in hip-hop

Femcees: Lyrics Decoded, at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Thursday, January 23, will bring artists and academics together to talk about two things: women and hip-hop. Expounding on the museum’s current exhibition, Craft Tech / Coded Media: Women, Art and Technology, and specifically, Kelly Monico’s multimedia installation, “Bitches n’…

A Matter of Degrees

Named for some of the most pleasant weather on the Western Slope, Banana Belt Days in Buena Vista kicks off this morning with an invitation to experience what the town has to offer, even in the colder months. “We’re typically a summer tourist town, but we have some wonderful winter…

It’s Alive

Cutting-edge technology has always allowed National Geographic to take viewers deep into unreachable areas of the globe. Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D — starting its IMAX theater run today at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science — goes a step further: Instead of exploring the vast expanse of…

Song of the South

Evita, the famous story of Eva Perón, is a timeless tale about the First Lady of Argentina; it takes viewers from her life as a girl from a poor rural family through her rise as a political figure and spokeswoman for the underprivileged. Though Perón died at the age of…

Not Simply Divine

Better known as his drag-wearing persona Divine than as a multifaceted actor, the late Harris Glenn Milstead spent the latter half of his short but notorious career trying to prove that he was more than just a queen. That effort is chronicled in I Am Divine, a documentary showcasing Milstead’s…

Through the Woods

The largest show of its kind in the Rocky Mountain region, the International Sportsmen’s Exposition, which opens today at the convention center, is an outdoor enthusiast’s dream. Hundreds of vendors and merchants presenting the latest in hunting, fishing and camping technology and services will converge under one roof for a…

Calendar Girl

“They claimed that I opened up the sexual revolution. I was just doing my job, and enjoyed every bit of it,” says Bettie Page in Bettie Page Reveals All, a new documentary that tells the story of a pinup girl who remained so far from the spotlight that she was…