As of today, summer’s gone. Fall’s here. Sure, there are golden aspen trees, apple picking, trick-or-treating, hay rides and eventually ski season to look forward to. But damnit, if we’re not missing the dog days of summer already.
When white supremacists and anti-racists clashed on the UVA campus in Charlottesville, Lydia Moyer, who teaches at the school, was out of town.
It’s easy to think that Denver actually condones graffiti because of the praise it poured on last weekend’s street-art-is-good-for-development CRUSH festival, in the once-graffitied, industrial neighborhood that’s now the RiNo Art District. But the city still has it in for spray-paint toting vandals.
The weekend is nigh, which can feel like either a blessing or a curse depending on the state of your pocketbook. So take heart, destitute Denverites, for Westword has scoured the local entertainment calendar for the best events in town that won’t break the bank.
Jacob Barreras is the ultimate projectionist who exercises his eye for new and the historical avant-garde film while plying his trade for the University of Colorado Film Studies Program, and Libi Striegl, a doctoral candidate in intermedia art, writing and performance at CU, bounces around between disciplines with special interests in robotics, software design to textiles and filmmaking.
Breckenridge Brewery will unveil its new packaging designs at a special exhibition September 21 at the Farm House Restaurant at Breckenridge Brewery, 2920 Brewery Lane in Littleton. The labels were created by German graphic designer Florian Schommer, and commissioned through a partnership with Chicago-based VSA Partners.
Discover new art spaces and firmly established faces this weekend at gallery openings on every level of the spectrum. Here are three new shows to tide you over for a week.
Digital animator Faiyaz Jafri has been on top of his game for as long as the medium has even been around, beginning thirty years ago on an Apple computer with the most basic of programming tools available. It was a painstakingly different onscreen world back then, but Jafri, now an internationally known animation pioneer who produces his own cutting-edge, award-winning work while also co-directing Hong Kong’s Third Culture Film Festival, still represents the gold standard in his trade.
Mike White’s father-and-son college-trip comedy-drama Brad’s Status is legitimately more frightening than anything in It. Quite aside from the fact that real life is always scarier than monsters from the beyond, the writer-director’s deep understanding of envy, entitlement and embarrassment has never been more nightmarishly effective. But don’t expect one…
Over the phone from his Los Angeles office, David Lynch tells me, “It was all Harry Dean. I’d do anything for Harry Dean.” The visionary director is referring to taking on an acting role in John Carroll Lynch’s directorial debut, Lucky, which stars Harry Dean Stanton, and is largely based…
The fall opener at Michael Warren Contemporary offers two back-to-back solos, both with work inspired by nature and the natural environment, featuring artists Allison Stewart and Heidi Jung.
Throughout September, the Denver Film Society has been throwing “A Month of Movies Influenced by Music.” Tim Kasher’s No Resolution shows on September 20.
The Denver Museum of Nature & Science will host a major exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls alongside the largest collection of historic artifacts from the Holy Land ever assembled; the show opens March 18, 2018.
Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! is so much movie that critics April Wolfe and Alan Scherstuhl have elected to sync up Pacific Rim-style to take it on. Warning: The discussion below delves right into what we might call spoilers if a movie like Mother! could be spoiled. Now let’s drift. April, Each…
Fall begins this week, so there’s not a minute to waste. Head for the hills if you want to see the aspen glowing gold or some hot fashion in Vail. Out on the plains, you can learn all about this state’s agricultural industry and pet a donkey, too. And here in Denver you can catch comedy shows, movies, lectures and exhibits…and drink a lot of beer, too. Here are the 21 best events in and out of town this week.
The sequel to 2015’s hit Kingsman: The Secret Service won’t make you feel the urgent need to take a shower and/or throw up, like the original probably did. Believe it or not, that’s not always a good thing. Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Matthew Vaughn’s follow-up to his brutal, joyfully degenerate…
Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company is showing the regional premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists, and it’s a superb production.
B-movie actor Bruce Campbell discuss his new book “Hail to the Chin” and his latest TV series, “Ash vs. Evil Dead.”
LA Weekly film critic April Wolfe is reporting for us from the Toronto International Film Festival. The documentary section of TIFF has a reputation for programming the types of films that can easily compete for audience attention with the narrative juggernauts, and this year is no different. From Agnes Varda’s wacky…
Rocky Mountain fans of Bill Maher have a reason to celebrate: He will be bringing his irreverent humor to Denver on Saturday, May 26 and Colorado Springs on May 27.
“I think I’m very black, very cool and very dope — those three things. If I had niche or had to choose one, it’d be cool, black and awesome — and fun.” That’s how Amir George, a Chicago filmmaker, describes his own Afrofuturist alternative film work, though he admits a lot of it is really dead serious, if portrayed in a playful way.
There’s no delicate way to say this, so I’ll just spit it out. I spent the first 10 minutes of Stronger, David Gordon Green’s eventually potent drama of trauma and recovery, trying to work out whether star Jake Gyllenhaal was intending to suggest that the real-life Bostonian at the story’s…
