“When we’re done with this conversation, I’m going to look like a big bum,” says Teresa Castaneda, laughing as she stands by the front door of her home on Elati Street. She’s petite and tan, and a shock of gray curly hair frames her face like a wave. It takes…
Performance artist and RedLine resident Esther Hernandez calls her work a “living collage” or “social sculpture,” but these descriptions only address the performance experience in real-time, an interaction between artist and audience.
As Red Rocks Amphitheatre kicks off its concert season, the Denver Film Society announces the lineup for the eighteenth season of Film on the Rocks.
The comforting analog clack of typewriter keys is a leitmotif in Their Finest, Lone Scherfig’s slight but appealing adaptation of Lissa Evans’ novel Their Finest Hour and a Half (who knows why the subject of the original title was confusingly cast aside). In this tale of British filmmaking during World…
Two excellent shows at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center — Force/Resistance and Don Coen: The Migrant Series — have special resonance in the age of Trump.
Nasty, brutish and not short enough, Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire has a simple — and ultimately simpleminded — premise: to protract what would normally be a brief shoot-out scene to the majority of the movie’s 90-minute running time. On the surface, this reductio ad absurdum has a kind of pleasing…
Sondra Blanchard, the artistic director of the Public Works Theatre Company was visiting the Montreal Biodome, when she met a friendly puffin. That encounter served as the inspiration for her new play, Flight of Fancy, a gentle conversation starter about ecological collapse and mass extinction.
Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky deals with an important topic — the ignored contributions of women scientists — but it feels more like a young-adult novel than a living dramatic work.
HBO’s acid-bathed Beltway satire Veep didn’t exactly predict our absurd political reality. But it did come close enough that revisiting past seasons is like watching footage of a train wreck run backwards in slow motion. The episode called “C**tgate” brought a vaginal euphemism into a presidential election. “Election Night” saw…
It’s fitting that one of the great films about jazz centers on the re-creation of a moment. Kasper Collin’s exquisitely haunted meditation I Called Him Morgan, about the life and untimely death of hard bop trumpeter Lee Morgan, employs all the techniques you would expect from a documentary study of…
“Rob has this ridiculous beard and it’s such great, self-effacing, wonderful work he’s doing,” James Gray says about his film recounting the life of a British explorer who disappeared while pursuing his lifelong obsession with a mythical city in the Amazon.
“I’ve been trained for this.” Those words — or some variation — come up several times throughout James Gray’s The Lost City of Z, and they serve as one key to this strange, sprawling, majestic film. In adapting the 2009 nonfiction book about the search for a fabled city in…
Colorado’s biggest unofficial holiday is just a few days away, but there are plenty of things to do in Denver both before and after Civic Center Park gets lit. Here are the 21 best events on the calendar between April 18 and April 24, 2017.
Frozen fans, delight! The Broadway musical Frozen, based on the Disney cartoon, will be staged in Denver August 17-October 1, and the producers have just announced the principal cast.
History repeats itself. So does “famous artist” Phil Bender’s art. Denver’s artists are getting priced out of the city, again. And when Pirate: Contemporary Art goes to Lakewood, Bender and his multiplying art will go, too.
I’ve been trying to moderate my immediate reaction to Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced: that it’s a nasty, mean-spirited, dangerous and anti-Muslim piece of work, and I have no idea why a Pulitzer committee would have awarded it the 2013 prize for drama. But I can’t. The play falls into the general…
Tara Rynders leads a double life as a registered nurse and a dancer, but the opposing disciplines are more alike than you’d think, at least in Rynders’s creative universe.
To conclude its 46th season, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance will perform excerpts from Porgy and Bess and Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.
Painter Peter Illig’s retro sensibility and deep affinity for all things mid-century modern drive his work, which combines realistically rendered found snapshots brimming with emotional life and an unsettled state of near-nostalgia for the lost values of a vanished era.
There’s always plenty to do in Denver, but these five free events really capture the spirit of Colorado, April 17-20, 2017.
We spotted University of Denver student Allie Phocas at 303 Magazine’s Denver Fashion Weekend, channeling 1990s film icon Cher Horowitz. Phocas was born in Philadelphia and spent time in New York, but grew up in Jackson, Wyoming; she’ll apply for medical school in June and currently volunteers at Planned Parenthood. We stopped to chat with Phocas about what inspires her look, where she shops and what she thought of the show.
First things first. The new Mystery Science Theater 3000, that basic-cable and UHF puppet show that was above all else a treatise about what it was like to grow up on basic cable and UHF, is a cheery, companionable continuation, an almost business-as-usual new season Kickstarted and Netflixed that Febreezes…
