I’m Dying Up Here premieres June 4 on Showtime Mythologies are built on pain. It’s why nations remember the invasions they’ve suffered better than the ones they’ve perpetrated, why religions celebrate their martyrs, and why Disney princesses — among the most privileged individuals in their respective kingdoms — sing about…
In 2015, House of Cards’ fourth season had President Francis Underwood (Kevin Spacey) confessing a murder to his secretary of state, ICO (the series’ fictional ISIS) beheading a guy on live TV, lone journalist Tom Hammerschmidt (Boris McGiver) dogging the president with corruption charges, data scientist Aidan MacAllan (Damian Young)…
Vanessa Barcus first conceived of Goldyn, an apparel store with a high-fashion edge, as an online boutique in 2007. Ten years later, now at home in its brick-and-mortar guise in LoHi, Goldyn is not only one of Denver’s trendiest go-to shops for the millennial crowd, but it’s also morphed into one of the artsiest.
Some Denver experiences are iconic, things you must do if you’re a newcomer to this city. But natives appreciate them, too. In fact, the quintessential Colorado events are things you can do over and over again. If you’re a local, consider this a friendly reminder of ten ways to count your blessings.
As Denver heats up, so does the fashion scene. What better way to kick off your summer than with boutique parties, fashion shows and stylish fundraisers. Here are the ten best fashion events to hit in Denver this month.
Dave Chappelle’s Red Rocks stint sold out in a fury, and now Live Nation has announced it will be adding a second show at the Colorado Convention Center’s Bellco Theatre, on July 13.
Forms evocative of those found in nature connect the paintings and sculptures now on the first floor of the William Havu Gallery, and with growing season just under way, the presentation is perfectly timed. Although there’s an aesthetic seamlessness to the whole endeavor, what we’re actually looking at is three single-artist shows — two dedicated to painters and one to a sculptor.
For some reason, I can’t bring myself to hate Jim Brockmire. Played by comedian Hank Azaria, best known for his voice work on The Simpsons, Brockmire wears a perpetually wounded and somewhat confused expression, the look of a man coming off a bender who can’t find his car. His loud,…
Members of the Evergreen Players improv group will be studied by a Harvard neuroscientist looking for the source of their creativity.
You’re new in town, and you need a handy guide on how to have the quintessential Denver summer. To help out, we’ve compiled a list of the ten things you must experience if you’re a Denver newbie.
If you venture out into Denver’s arts and retail districts on the First Friday in June, you’ll get a serious injection of aesthetic politics and have a whole lot of fun. Consider these five openings as you look for places to start your journey.
Perhaps Wonder Woman’s greatest superpower is enduring for the past 75 years as a wildly unstable signifier. Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot in the title role, further adds to this complicated, contradictory cluster of signs and symbols. Forged from deeply feminist sympathies, the character debuted in All Star…
Technology has changed the way we order food, how we get home from the bar, and now it’s changing the way we exercise. With the introduction of Peloton into the fitness industry, indoor cycling no longer means signing up for class at a boutique gym a week in advance to reserve your spot.
Memorial Day is over, and a whole summer full of fun stretches ahead. Get a jump on the hottest season of the year at some of the very cool events this week, which range from a celebration of Buffalo Bill’s burial to a Bboy festival to the return of the People’s Fair. Here are the 21 best events for May 30 trough June 5.
There will always be, it’s become clear, one more Winston Churchill story to tell: one more slant on a weekend, a summer, a year in the life of the 20th century’s most formidable leader, a man whose history includes two world wars and speeches so glorious that future dramatizations were…
Fine artworks often begin on paper, as a sketch, or perhaps a quick study scrawled on a napkin. But what happens when that most basic and malleable surface then becomes the transformational medium? Paper, with a versatility that can both guide the nut of a brief idea and carry the…
I can’t remember how many productions of Cabaret I’ve seen over the last decade, but Len Matheo’s version at Miners Alley is by far the clearest, most intelligent and most exciting.
With his bow-legged power-walk, low-boil narcissism and tough-guy snarl, Brad Pitt is the comic ghost in David Michod’s all-too-real War Machine. The film, which is premiering on Netflix this week (and also getting an extremely limited theatrical release), was inspired by the late Michael Hastings’s book The Operators: The Wild…
“I can’t ensure I will not be disappeared in the future,” Joshua Wong says, deep into Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower, Joe Piscatella’s rousing, terrifying thriller of a documentary. He says it a little distractedly, as though his own life is an afterthought when considered against the scope of his movement…
As May rolls into June, penny-pinching locals, whether they’re comedy fans (or wanna be comedians), fashionistas or mystery buffs, have a full week of events to enjoy.
An artist has the ability to reinvent, in the process making statements that can be both provocative and colorful — on the canvas and in her fashion. MayG, a painter in mediums ranging from faces to jeans, describes her style as “original, colorful and fun.”
Imagine a remake of Cape Fear shot like Kubrick’s The Shining, with Max Cady recast as a child, and you’ll have some idea of the strangeness of Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer. The film has quickly proved to be one of the most divisive titles at this…
