Ten Things to Do in Denver for $10 and Under This Week (Six Free)
Looking for fun on the cheap? Here are ten things to do in Denver for $10 and under, six of which are free.
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Five Family-Friendly Adventures Celebrating Fall
It’s time for some serious Colorado family fun with Autumn campfires, festivals, harvest feasts and bugs galore!
100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Katy Zimmerman
Mysticism, nature and personal politics mingle freely in Denver artist Katy Zimmerman’s organic work, rendered in a constellation of mediums while hurtling through a dimensional space-time continuum.
Documentary Backpack Full of Cash Explores School Choice
Sarah Mondale’s latest film, Backpack Full of Cash, which premiered late last year, takes viewers inside public school systems on the east coast to examine how the pivot toward “school choice” initiatives like charter schools and voucher programs impact the education system as a whole.
Denver Film Society Joins Antitrust Lawsuit Against Landmark Theatres
Denver Film Society has joined four theaters in filing an anti-trust lawsuit against Landmark Theatres.
Randy Sklar of the Sklar Brothers on Poop Talk, Hipster Ghosts and the Politicization of Sports
The comedian twins the Sklar Brothers have been making the stand-up rounds, producing TV shows and podcasts. Here’s what brother Randy has to say about what they’ve been up to and what’s next.
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Five Arty Things to Do This Week in Metro Denver
Fall is here, and so are a host of new shows going in new directions in Denver and Boulder. Be adventurous and try all five of these.
Woodshock Is the Rare Drug Movie That Suggests What It’s Actually Like to Do Drugs
Please accept what follows as a considered statement, arrived at through observation and experience, and not as film-review hype or boilerplate: Kate Mulleavy and Laura Mulleavy’s Woodshock is the rare drug movie that, as you watch it, if you surrender to it, stirs the sensations of having taken drugs. I’m…
Review: Art Season Off to a Strong Start at Goodwin, Walker
September marks the beginning of the new art season, with the long-running shows of summer finally closing and the first of the fall shows opening at Goodwin Fine Art and Walker Fine Art.
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Should Actors Join NFL Players in Taking a Knee for Justice?
Since the election of Donald Trump—and in some cases long before that—several Denver theater directors have been increasingly concerned with political issues and are expressing those concerns in their casting and choice of material.
Bertrand Bonello Takes on Teen Terrorism in a Hypnotizing, Estranging Film
Often populated with voluptuaries, the films of Bertrand Bonello unerringly distill mood and milieu. In his heady, sinuous biopic Saint Laurent (2014), for example, Bonello ditched the traditional, usually tedious birth-to-death arc that most films in that genre follow to focus instead on the years 1967 to 1977, the great…
BoJack Horseman: the Smartest TV Show About Major Depression
BoJack Horseman streams on Netflix It’s not a huge surprise that my sensitive and kind-hearted spouse could be left sobbing by an episode of a popular TV show. She’d say herself that she’s an easy mark, TV showrunners. But it’s definitely a surprise when any show even tries. TV writers…
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The Great Carla Gugino Grits Her Way Through the Oddly Chatty Gerald’s Game
Gerald’s Game premieres on Netflix on Sept. 29 One of the most hilarious things I’ve ever seen on television comes early in The Langoliers, a 1995 ABC miniseries adapted by Tom Holland from a Stephen King novella. It’s the one about a small group of travelers waking up on a…
American Made Finds the Top Gun Taking Aim at Patriotic Profiteering
Just a little more than three months ago, Tom Cruise starred in a lifeless wannabe-blockbuster called The Mummy that made little use of his innate charisma (shut up, he still has some) or his star persona, turning him into an anonymous action hero. Now comes American Made, a picture that…
The 21 Best Events in Denver, September 26-October 2
The 21 best events in Denver for the week of September 26-October 2, 2017.
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Review: Denver Center’s Macbeth All Tech Wars and Warlocks
The Denver Center’s production of Macbeth gets points for originality and guts, but director Robert O’Hara needs to trust more in the words, the subtleties underlying them, and Shakespeare’s pulsating silences.
Pioneering Activist Dolores Huerta — and a Rousing New Doc — Won’t Let History Write Her Out
Let me set the record straight: Dolores Huerta created the rally cry “Si se puede,” otherwise known as “Yes we can.” If you’ve only ever seen the 2014 film Cesar Chavez — about the legendary farmworkers union president — or watched an Barack Obama campaign speech, you may have thought…
Stone and Carell Are Ace, but Battle of the Sexes Too Often Faults
In Battle of the Sexes, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ film rehashing the most infamous tennis match in modern history, Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) must brawl with the coed United States Tennis Association for equal pay as she comes to terms with her attraction to women and what might be…
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Costume Drama Victoria & Abdul Simplifies a Fascinating Victorian Friendship
Lording over the colonies is all bore and bother for the queen in Stephen Frears’ sumptuous yet centerless Victoria & Abdul. The film dramatizes Queen Victoria’s spirited friendship with Abdul Karim, a charming clerk from northern India who — in this telling — jolts the Empress of India from her…
Pure Barre Pops Up in Belmar
Pure Barre is celebrating the opening of its fourteenth studio in Colorado with the unveiling of Pure Barre Belmar on Sunday, October 1.
100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Vincent Comparetto
A native New Yorker now living in Denver, Vincent Comparetto walks the planet at street level, but with a global view fired by a love for traveling. When he’s not doing that, Comparetto teaches, makes films and music videos, does motion graphics design work, photographs sights seen in places near and far and, as an artist with an elegant modernist design sense, stencils designs over collaged backgrounds in limited editions.
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Free for All: Five Free Events in Denver This Week
A new and wondrous week is dawning in Denver, and the local entertainment calendar is as lively as ever. With concerts, comedy shows and even a thrift-store-fashion runway, there’s a free event to suit every taste happening nearly every day this week.