Steven Frost crosses disciplines as an artist, often mining pop culture and archives to tell modern stories. Installation, performance, objects and fiber art all play parts in those changing narratives, but the needle and thread driving Frost’s personal warp and weft goes a bit farther in telling his own story.
The numbers in the title of 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene refer to the number of setups and shots that were required to create the shocking cinematic savagery that occurs less than an hour into the director’s 1960 masterpiece, Psycho. You know the scene: It killed off star Janet Leigh’s character…
Imagine a remake of Cape Fear shot like Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, with Max Cady recast as a child, and you’ll have some idea of the strangeness of Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Killing of a Sacred Deer. It was one of the most divisive titles at this year’s Cannes festival, thanks…
As we head into Halloween, the entertainment calendar is so packed, it’s scary. Here are five free events for the workweek of October 23 through October 27.
Part-time model Alicia Myers is stylish both on and off the runway.
Halloween is on in Denver, and these ten photos prove it.
Looking for free and cheap things to do in Denver from October 19 to 22? Here’s your guide.
If you happen to be walking past the Colorado Convention Center this week, there’s a good chance you’ve seen art being made — humongous art following a continuous lines through a pattern of words, shapes and faces across a black-and-white urban canvas, rendered by a lone women in knee pads, brandishing a spray can.
Denver fiction author Kali Fajardo-Anstine draws from her centuries-old Colorado heritage, breathing life into her Chicana characters with the assurance of someone who’s lived it.
The Foreigner, currently showing in the Arvada Center’s Black Box Theater, is a farce. Written in 1984, it has new power in Trump’s America, and shows how language can both divide and unite, while sometimes silence has even more power. And like all good farces, it’s very, very funny.
Experience old favorites, new horizons and an opportunity to get your hands dirty this weekend at Denver galleries. Here are five hot spots.
This past January, Denver documentary filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe struck gold. The brains behind pop-culture surveys including The People vs. George Lucas, Doc of the Dead and Paul, the Psychic Octopus premiered his cinematic deconstruction, 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene, at the Sundance Film Festival.
Mayor Michael Hancock celebrated the reopening of the renovated Shoemaker Plaza at Confluence Park on October 14. And as promised, the plaque embossed with the poem “Two Rivers” by Thomas Hornsby Ferril, Colorado’s first poet laureate, is back on display.
Abstraction links the four artists in Space Gallery’s Unintended Consequences, and the results are eye-dazzling.
If you haven’t found the perfect Halloween costume, it’s not too late. Nor is it too late to pack your events calendar with festive happenings that’ll get you in the mood for some spook and fright. Find everything, from a Halloween parade to a celebration of all things creepy crawly,…
“This year we hunt big game. This year you get your first kill.” So says seasoned hunter Cal (Matt Bomer) to his teenage son David (Josh Wiggins), who’s arrived in rural Montana for his annual visit, and even those going in unfamiliar with the premise of Alex and Andrew Smith’s…
My favorite biopics — those that tell any portion of a real person’s story faithfully — are those that borrow from other genres. Pablo Larrain’s Jackie possesses the kinetic punch of a horror film. Mario Van Peebles’ Baadasssss! is a sharp comedy. And Mike Leigh’s Topsy Turvy is a cutting…
A darling of the NPR demographic, Mike Birbiglia’s affable everyman persona lends itself to longer bits based as much in storytelling as they are in standup.
Le Meridien and AC Marriott share a building, but the hotels have very different art collections.
You might not want to attend the bash described by Joseph Moncure March in his 1928 poem “The Wild Party,” but you should rush to get one of the rapidly disappearing tickets to the Denver Center’s staging of The Wild Party.
Trails near Denver are overrun with hikers all summer long. But once the weather cools, it’s possible to have a sense of solitude hiking not too far from the city.
A former journalist and magazine editor on the interior design, architecture and lifestyle beats, Kate Bailey now helms her own Denver public relations firm, Annabel Media. But since 2014, she’s also turned her entrepreneurial expertise toward giving back through TARRA, Bailey’s own nurturing platform for the promotion of women makers and creative thinkers.
