When I was a Spanish minor in college, I realized toward the middle of my degree that there was only one way to learn — to really learn — a foreign language: to speak it. As much grammar as I knew (and I got really into the grammar — I’m…
The world premiere of Standard Films’ The Storming gets top billing at tonight’s Snowboard on the Rocks, and for good reason. In a film full of big names, big mountain lines and all-around ballsy boarding, featured rider Torstein Horgmo has the biggest trick of the year. Remember all of last…
After 34 years spent advocating for and supporting Denver’s GLBT community, The Center has a home of its own. The nonprofit, which sponsors Denver’s annual PrideFest celebration, has moved to fancy new digs on the corner of Colfax and Lafayette — and Westword got a tour of the new building…
Last year, Joaquin Phoenix was leaving acting. After the release of Two Lovers, Phoenix grew a large beard, announced he would be pursuing a career in rapping and seemed utterly to implode, beginning with a bizarre, apparently drug-addled appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman. During that interview, Letterman…
Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. As usual, we’re rounding up your options for the weekend to come and the following week, and…
Lord love them, but little kids don’t have the most refined senses of humor — it’s a fact that they will watch anything as long as it’s animated and someone takes a projectile to the balls every once in a while. Which is all fine and good, but kids don’t…
Some people will try and tell you that $10 won’t get you much these days. To those people, we say “you’re wrong, sir,” because every weekend in Denver there is more than enough to do for 10 bucks and less. This weekend you’ll find a Pagan Pride fest, ghost-busting, pancakes…
Inspired by the grand opening earlier this year of Denver Justice Center, the folks at the University of Colorado at Denver College of Arts and Media saw the new jail as the tie-in for a fall program that aims to expand on the nature of justice through the eyes of…
In a strange twist on common intuition, researchers at the University of Rochester in New York released a study yesterday that showed shoot-em-up video games may engender better and faster decision making skills among players, indicating that such games may actually be producing men of action. Who would indeed take…
Just in time to pick up your must-have skinny black jeans, bamboo-fiber sweater coats and silvery-black peekaboo tanks, Stella B’s boutique, 7504 Grandview Avenue in Olde Town Arvada, has put up an offer you can’t refuse, through Groupon: Put up $40 and you’ll get $80 worth of merchandise at the…
When the Mexican Consul General gets onstage and sings lead for the band — and has the crowd singing along with him — you will know that Mexico knows how to party. And Consul Eduardo Arnal wasn’t half bad, either: Belting them out in a solid tenor, he hammed it…
Tomorrow night’s Snowboard On The Rocks event is being hyped as the biggest snowboard movie premiere of all time, with three world premieres including Never Summer’s Made In America, Think Thank’s double feature Right Brain/Left Brain (see trailer after the jump) and Standard Films’ The Storming, plus performances by Cool…
Bitch-slaps and blood-oozing bullet wounds became less frequent in Colorado last week as filming of locally shot Motor Vixens wrapped up. Joe DuRand, who plays the character known only as Walker, calls the movie “a hot rod full of wicked women on a hell-ride to Nowheresville.” And Kelly Hart calls…
There are many jobs in this world. Some are so bizarre you probably don’t know they exist; some you might have had no idea people actually make a living at. In an effort to highlight some of these jobs, we’ve started a new series detailing the origins of people actually…
Say what you will about his policies, but it’s pretty much official at this point that Barack Obama is the most accomplished individual since Leonardo Da Vinci. For one thing, he’s president of the United States — which, okay, George W. took a little of the prestige out of that…
Like a kid too excited by the birthday present he got his mom to wait until her actual birthday, CBS released a clip this week from Amazing Race, which doesn’t debut until a week from Sunday, that was too awesome to keep under wraps. The video features Claire, one of…
No different from the days of the old west, the Seventh Annual Boulder Shootout Film Festival will test film makers’ nerves and speed. Given 24 hours to craft a seven-minute production, challengers must follow strict guidelines going back to the roots of filmmaking. And on Saturday, the race gets started…
The Museo de las Américas, already dedicated to a pan-cultural view of the New World, figures importantly in the unfolding Biennial of the Americas, which kicks off in a week with events and art exhibits throughout the city. So, for Liberadores/Liberators, a new show opening today at the Museo in…
MCA Denver is presenting an over-the-top group show in association of the Biennial of the Americas this summer called Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts From the Landscape of Glorious Excess. “We often talk about the need to conserve energy but this exhibition proposes that, seen through the lens of art,…
Pismo is Denver’s premier specialist for contemporary glass art, and the gallery is now celebrating its twentieth anniversary with Lino Tagliapietra. “There are two glass artists that every glass gallery on earth aspires to represent: Chihuly, the most well-known glass artist in the world, and Lino Tagliapietra, the best glass…
Around the corner from the bustling Santa Fe Drive art district is a funky two-room operation called Dark Energy Art Space (860 West Eighth Avenue, 303-719-0021, www.darkenergyartspace.com). The brainchild of emerging sculptor Ryan Raudonis, Dark Energy is a co-op of sorts, with a handful of other artists involved. Among that…
Exposure. Eric Paddock is the Denver Art Museum’s first full-fledged photo curator to head up his own new department. To unveil the permanent gallery for photography in the Ponti tower, he’s put together Exposure: Photos From the Vault, highlighting a range of gems from the DAM’s collection. Collected in fits…
