There are so many seemingly random elements at play in the Yes! Lab’s concept for The Remake Rumble, a seven-week series that starts tonight, they could almost be variables in a long-form improv game. The basic idea: take the plot elements and characters from famous movies and remake them, improv…
This I know is true: Comic books aren’t easy. Banish the idea that they are from your minds immediately before you proceed. Sure, artists like Noah Van Sciver (creator of Westword’s weekly 4 Questions strip) make it look easy, but a comic artist is kind of like a god-figure who…
It’s more than simple hometown loyalty that keeps Lil’ Miss Firefly coming back to the Immundo burlesque show in Denver. During the past nine years, the Colorado native has built an international reputation with her act, a routine she’s performed in Las Vegas, New York and Europe. Firefly stands three…
After more than six months of residency at the Denver Art Museum and its accompanying marketing blitz, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs closed yesterday to head to its next destination in St. Paul, Minnesota, where it opens in February. Along with it, the 26-foot-tall statue of Anubis,…
Don’t feel like sitting in ski traffic to ride the rails? The Ruby Hill Rail Yard Terrain Park at South Platte River Drive & Florida Avenue opened on Saturday with rails, slider boxes, jumps and open slopes for sledding and learning to ride. Bob Holme, who oversees the terrain parks…
Pickings tend to run pretty slim in January, as far as holidays go — in fact, our extensive research of googling a couple of things revealed exactly zero legit, nationally sanctioned holidays this week. Maybe what with Christmas and New Year’s and Hanukkah and Kwanzaa and everything else, people are…
2011: Year in Preview. Bobbi Walker, owner of Walker Fine Art, has employed a clever way to create an automatic group show by putting together examples of work by all of the artists who will be featured in duets this year. The show looks good, but what’s really neat is…
John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole plops us down in the lives of Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart), fortyish bourgie marrieds rattling around an East Coast dream house. Becca and Howie’s young son was killed in an accident, and months later, the couple is trying to cope. Howie thinks…
When the MPAA handed Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating this fall, cynics suggested that the so-called kiss of death was better publicity for the gently experimental marriage drama than anything famously crafty distributor Harvey Weinstein could buy. When the rating was reversed last month — downgraded to an…
A quasi-documentary portrait of young non-actors striking poses, walking around Boston, hanging out and playing or listening to music, Damien Chazelle’s Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench is a giddy and cannily frugal avant-musical. Beginning when Chazelle, now 25, was an undergraduate at Harvard, and evolving over a period…
The first act of Next to Normal is brilliant. As almost everyone surely knows by now, the subject is an unusual one for a musical: a woman’s long struggle with bipolar disorder. Mental illness is hard to dramatize. Most attempts degenerate into sob-sodden sagas about someone’s obsessive pill- and therapist-aided…
Bedroom Farce is the story of four couples and three bedrooms. The oldest pair, Delia and Ernest, are looking forward to a pleasant dinner and a quiet night. They chat peacefully about repairs to the roof, share a late-evening plate of pilchards on toast and cradle cups of bedtime cocoa…
There’s no time like the present. It’s time to get gallery-hopping, and the first First Friday of the year has plenty to offer. Such as:…
Jumpin Jammerz, a brand of footy-pajamas for adults, is currently the number one Google search in the United States. At its peak, earlier this morning, people were searching for Jumpin Jammerz at a faster rate than people were searching for Barack Obama on the day of his inauguration…
This round’s Immundo burlesque show has a special treat in store for attendees: None other than Lil’ Miss Firefly, the sideshow midget (and yes, that is how she prefers to be referred to) doing a glass-walking burlesque routine fresh off her tour with the Pretty Things Peepshow — the nation’s…
If you find yourself aboard the Light Rail this weekend minus your pants, you are involved in one of three possible contingencies: Either a). you have escaped from the ward again, b). your friends are jerks, or c). you are participating in the latest project from flashmob impresario Rick Gold,…
If you think about it, the tropes of action movies are inherently pretty absurd. The quick cuts, the fetish for stony masculinity, the one-liners; watching even a good action movie is more or less akin to watching ninety minutes of a guy filling balloons with sweat, and then when he…
It’s hard not to love Ted Williams, the Ohio man who was homeless, found redemption from drugs and alcohol and now has a job offer with the Cleveland Cavaliers. His voice really is amazing, which got us thinking of celebrities who have voices that are grating, annoying, and perhaps most…
Now that the holidays are finally behind us, we can all return to a sense of normalcy with our weekend planning. Well, except for the fact the holidays left everyone broke. Thankfully, we’ve got plenty of stuff to do this weekend on the hyper-cheap, including art show openings, films and…
Faces in the crowd at the National Western Stock Show Parade on January 6, 2010 on 17th Street in Denver. More information about the show is available at nationalwestern.com. Katie Irwin “Horses are my favorite animal, pink is my favorite color, and the parade is definitely a good opening to…
Need a good excuse to get out of town this weekend? Here are our six sweet reasons to head up to yonder hills…
The gang’s all here — well, minus Angelina and plus the new and terrifying, droopy-eyed Snooki part two, Deena — and after a stint in Miami, they’re back at the actual Jersey Shore. Thank God…
