Opening with a deeply sincere “I don’t give a fuck!” Austin filmmaker Ben Steinbauer’s investigative doc Winnebago Man sets out to prove the contrary. Steinbauer’s mission is to find Jack Rebney, the hitherto-anonymous pitchman whose fabulously profane tantrums during the course of making a 1989 RV infomercial — amid a…
Directing himself as a verifiable big-movie lead after some time in supporting-actor Triple-A ball, director-star Ben Affleck models a full line of warmup suits to play Doug MacRay, a second-generation blue-collar stickup man, the brains of his four-man bank crew. The setting is Charlestown, the square-mile majority-Irish Boston neighborhood that…
Yasmina Reza’s cool, witty, much-celebrated and much-performed play is ostensibly about art, but it’s more about friendship. At the center of the action in Art is an all-white painting, purchased by Serge, a dermatologist, for a huge sum of money. Perhaps he feels a genuine affinity for the piece, perhaps…
Colorado Avalanche fans look forward to the annual Burgundy & White scrimmage — a charity event benefiting Kroenke Sports Charities and the Colorado Avalanche Youth Hockey programs — as the unofficial beginning of hockey season. After all, it’s their first chance to see the new recruits in action. It’s “always…
Strap on your cutlass, grab your buccaneers and prepare to plunder: Today is BrethrenCon, Denver’s first-ever pirate convention. The one-day event is a celebration of all things piratey, with vendors, workshops, food and even a zombie-pirate themed dance to end the evening. “We have six hours of classes based on…
Whether you’re tossing it in a back yard, at a bar or at the county fair, cornhole is a game that’s fun to play — and even more fun to say. Today, a slew of two-person teams will do plenty of both at the inaugural Cajun Classic Cornhole Tournament at…
Art, it’s been said, is a mirror for life — and if that’s the case, then Bovine Metropolis is taking that credo a little further than usual. In Biography: Life as Comedy, the improv troupe takes interviews with everyday people and turns them into fodder for sketches, riffing, poetry —…
If you watched the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, there’s a good chance you saw some curling. You probably thought, “Shuffleboard on ice? An Olympic sport?” But did you know that in Canada, curling is as big as hockey, or that the number of Canadian curlers is equal to the population…
“Snowboarding’s always been about going big,” says local pro rider and Snowboard Film on the Rocks promoter Pat Milberry. “We wanted to do something special, something really big, to celebrate the snowboard lifestyle, bring people together and get everybody stoked for the season.” And tonight’s film fest at Red Rocks…
From the start, RedLine has had a hybrid identity: It’s a place where artists maintain studios; it’s a venue for exhibitions; and it aims to integrate art into the public realm. And clearly, the hiring in June of P. J. D’Amico as RedLine’s director means that the public component will…
Dish, Westword’s annual food-and-drink orgy celebrating the local dining scene, sponsored in part by by Jacob’s Creek Wines -gets down and dirty tonight at Exdo Event Center, 1399 35th Street, at 7:30 p.m. with samplings from thirty local restaurants, bakeries, bars and street-food carts (of course), including: Appaloosa Grill, Apple…
Describing The Portal, a multimedia rock concert, isn’t simple. There are three live performers: a vocalist, a hand drummer and a guitarist. There’s a video and there’s a soundtrack. There is a lighting-and-projection system. And all of these elements play together in harmony to create the experience. “It’s all very…
Forget what you’ve seen in B-movies or heard from the fire-and-brimstone preachers: Pagans are just normal people. That’s the message of today’s Front Range Pagan Pride event. “The purpose and the mission of the project is to educate people to what paganism is and what it isn’t,” explains Joy Phelan,…
As evidenced by Bob Saget’s post-Full House career, there’s an entire niche of people out there in the market for shock comedy; really, the guy’s whole shtick is pretty much based on unsettling sexual references to Kimmy Gibbler. And if you’re one of those filth-mongering folks, then Dirty, Rotten, Filthy,…
It can take as few as four or five sessions with a licensed therapist to move most troubled teens away from considering suicide, but too often, teens don’t get the help they need. So, in 2002, after Jefferson County’s Green Mountain High School saw four student suicides in one school…
Score big tonight at Morton’s Steakhouse in the Denver Tech Center, when Denver Broncos all-pro cornerback Champ Bailey and re-tired Broncos all-pro safety John Lynch host Savor the Grape for Charity, a benefit to support the Boys & Girls Club of Denver and the Darrent Williams Memorial Teen Center, named…
If there are two things Telluride loves, it’s festivals and, in the midst of the spectacular fall colors, outdoor photography. Now, for the first time, somebody has thought to put the two together. “When I first moved here in 2000, that was my first full festival season,” says Eric Moore,…
Buntport Theater Company is getting cocky as it continues the Versus series, in which the group calls out local entertainment companies and challenges them to do what they do best — before Buntport attempts to do it better. Buntport has previously scored victories over the Swallow Hill Choir, the Flobots…
Proving once and for all that French people are just as vacuous as Americans, Kim Kardashian set off an explosion of fanboyism during a visit today to one of the world’s most prominent mainstays of good taste: the Louvre. Like a black hole of culture, the Kardashians’ appearance at the…
Is there anything that can’t be made 65 percent more awesome with the addition of zombies? Most evidence points to “no,” and this trailer for Zombies del Bicentenario (Zombies of the Bicentennial) just adds one more entry to that list of evidence. Is it real? Is it fake? Is it…
How gnarly is the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race? Plenty gnarly, and if you’re not among the hardcore to have completed the grueling race, you can get your gnar vicariously through Citizen Pictures’ 2009 documentary Race Across the Sky and the forthcoming sequel documenting the 2010 race (see trailer…
It’s been a weird week for Colorado’s favorite prodigal daughter. On Saturday, in possibly the most depressing reconciliation ever to take place, Heidi Montag made up with until-recently estranged husband Spencer Pratt after — get this — the two were detained for twelve hours by Costa Rican authorities after two…
