Eric Shumake Paints Bridges to Stop Denver’s Homeless Sweeps
To Eric Shumake, art and activism are one and the same, especially when it comes to the plight of Denver’s homeless population.
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One More Time With Feeling‘s 3D Reveals Nick Cave’s Ever-Shifting Genius
Don’t resist the temptation to take off your 3D glasses while watching the Nick Cave concert doc One More Time With Feeling. Without them, as you watch the images projected atop each other, you can see Cave as something like he envisions himself in this film made after the death…
Teams for the Women’s Colorado Classic Bike Race Get Ready to Roll
The Colorado Classic bike race is just over the horizon. Today, event organizers announced the teams that will be participating in the Women’s Colorado Classic.
The 21 Best Events in Denver, April 25-May 1
This week, we’re all about celebrating Denver, from historic homes at Doors Open Denver to Tennyson Street to this city’s immigrants. Check out our best events of the week for an opportunity to pay homage to the Mile High City. Tuesday, April 25 The nonprofit PlatteForum has built a reputation…
Review: Arvada’s Waiting for Godot Is Funny, Sad, Moving…and a Must-See
Geoffrey Kent’s Waiting for Godot at the Arvada Center is one of the best versions of this play we’ve seen: funny, lively, sad and moving, seeming simultaneously to take forever and to move rapidly along. Most important, it’s well cast.
Sexism? Square Product Theatre Wants to Talk About It, During “Women at Work”
Square Product Theatre artistic director Emily K. Harrison isn’t afraid to shake things up or try new things.
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Warning: You Can’t Unsee The Red Pill, the Documentary About a Filmmaker Who Learns to Love MRAs
Here’s a great example of how not to open your documentary. “After releasing my film in 2012 about marriage equality, I was at a loss of what topic to explore next,” says Cassie Jaye in the halting tones of a hostage reading her captors’ statement to the world. That comes…
Artist Konstantin Dimopoulos Is Painting Trees Blue in the Denver Theatre District
Denver gets ribbed for its fixation on blue public art — the curious blue bear that welcome visitors at the convention center and the demonic rearing horse at the airport both evoke controversy, each in its own way. But for Konstantin Dimopoulos, who arrived in Denver last week to begin painting trees blue in the Denver Theatre District, blue public art is no joke.
Let It Fall and LA 92 Look Back on a City in Flames
How do you document in a film the crack-up of something as complex as a city a quarter-century past? A pair of new documentaries about the Los Angeles riots of April, 1992 take wildly different approaches — and produce wildly different results. In the vigorous and illuminating Let It Fall:…
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Graduation Lays Bare the Cost of Thriving in a Corrupt Society
Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s Graduation is one of the best films I’ve ever seen about corruption. That’s true despite the fact that Mungiu underplays the typical elements found in tales about this subject: You won’t find many fast-talking crooks, sinister cops or elaborate sting operations here. Or a looming sense…
Things Could Get Worse: Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale Is a Sharp Slap to the Now
The Handmaid’s Tale premieres April 26 on Hulu In the first episode of The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood herself shows up to slap our heroine in the face. The grande dame of dystopian fiction plays an aunt, one of the abbesses in charge of a new order of so-called handmaids:…
100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Nicole Banowetz
A traveler whose monumental inflatable sculptures have taken her around the world, Nicole Banowetz blows up microscopic rotifers and radiolaria into larger-than-life airborne monsters and forms, sharing them through residencies as close to home as the Children’s Museum of Denver and as far away as Ustka, Poland.
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The Five Best Things to Do for Free in Denver, April 24-27
The Denver arts community is so populated with self-starting creatives that even the most penny-pinching locals have ample opportunities to enjoy free entertainment.
Picture Perfect: Five Big Events You May Have Missed This Week
If you devoted the past week to spring cleaning and turning in your taxes, you missed some great events around town. Catch up on all the action in these slide shows.
Ten (Plus!) Places to Buy Affordable Art in Denver
Are you interested in collecting art but afraid to get your toes wet because of the cost? Quality artworks can be had at affordable prices, if you know where to look and what to look for.
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Juvenile Offenders Get a Chance in Compassionate Doc They Call Us Monsters
In the opening of director Ben Lear’s heartbreaking and illuminating documentary They Call Us Monsters, screenwriter Gabriel Cowan sits at a table with four boys in a juvenile detention facility. For the next several weeks, Cowan will visit the boys and write a short screenplay with them that he’ll then…
Derrick Velasquez’s The Stacks Takes on Race and Rhinoceropolis at the MCA
The cornerstone of any library is in its stacks, where living records in the form of books and media sit, waiting to impart knowledge and share stories. When tasked with curating a show for the shelves of MCA Denver’s Open Shelf Library space, artist Derrick Velasquez began by deconstructing the library aesthetic and finding parallels in life, bringing together what might seem like a scattered group of collections in repose.
Dancer and Model Jewels Ramer Spotted at Denver Fashion Weekend
Models are always on the go, and dancers are always on the move. Denver-based model Jewels Ramer is both, so she is always ready for an audience. We spotted Ramer at Denver Fashion Weekend, and caught up with her to learn about her inspiration, her favorite ways to accessorize an outfit, and her fashion philosophy.
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The Mad King’s Splendor: Visconti’s Decadent Ludwig Hits Home Video
“Ludwig, you are the favorite of the Lord because more than any other man, you are exposed to sin.” A compassionate priest says this to the mad king of Bavaria about halfway through Ludwig, Luchino Visconti’s sprawling 1972 film, now finally available, in all its uncut glory, in a gorgeous…
The Promise Sets Hollywood Technique Against the Armenian Genocide’s Horrors
Terry George’s The Promise has the rare good fortune of turning up in theaters just weeks after another film showed how necessary a movie like this is. The second star-driven war-adventure film of 2017 to set a cross-cultural love triangle against the horror of the Armenian Genocide, The Promise would…
Magic Realist Painter Frank Sampson Takes Viewers on Fantastic Journeys
This past September Sandra Phillips relocated her namesake gallery to a smallish storefront on West 11th Avenue near Bannock Street which is just a block away from the Denver Art Museum and the other attractions of the Civic Center Cultural Complex.
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Ten Things to Do in Denver for Under $10 (Four for Free)
Having fun and experiencing all that Denver has to offer needn’t be the lone purview of bourgeois weekenders. Our city is too vibrant, too filled with the creations of odd characters to let something like pricey tickets keep you home-bound.