It’s a good thing Jonathan Banks has such an interesting face. At the beginning of the third season of Better Call Saul, we spend a lot of quiet time with Banks’ surly, crooked-nosed cop-turned-criminal Mike Ehrmantraut of Breaking Bad fame, watching as he dismantles his own car and works out…
Some stereotypes deserve to be turned on their heads. On opening night of 303 Magazine’s Denver Fashion Weekend, March 30 at Exdo Event Center, we ran into graphic designer Eve Erdenebat, who proved that a woman can can rock a classic men’s suit just as well, if not better, than a man. We stopped to chat with her about where she shops and where she finds inspiration.
Artist and Westword MasterMind Ravi Zupa doesn’t want the public to forget that police continue to kill unarmed black people – even as the actions of President Donald Trump’s administration have jerked attention away from criminal-justice reform and the demands of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Removing tattoos for free is not an ordinary service offered by tattoo shops, but All Sacred is no ordinary tattoo shop. The hybrid tattoo shop meets nonprofit is currently in the market for a tattoo removal laser with the goal to offer the service of free tattoo removal for former gang members, criminal or otherwise, giving priority to those who tattoos have affected their quality of life.
Catch a bit of spring fever at one of our favorite events this weekend. Spend the next few days at the movies, in the comedy basement, or doing some light construction.
Now that April has officially arrived, spring fashion is busting out all over — at parties, shows, charity events and everything in between. Here are the ten best fashion events in Denver this month, in chronological order.
Performance is in Ayla Sullivan’s blood, along with her black and Vietnamese roots. Denver’s newest Youth Poet Laureate performed with the Minor Disturbance youth poetry slam team at the Brave New Voices national finals and is now a sophomore at the University of Colorado Boulder.
There’s always good reason to catch a Phil Bender solo at Pirate: Contemporary Art, but this current effort, straightforwardly titled Phil Bender, has the added attraction of being thoroughly poignant. Though not Pirate’s last show, it will be Bender’s last at the co-op’s longtime home in northwest Denver, which the group will soon leave.
A host of national comics creators will descend on DINK, Denver’s premier independent comics convention, at the McNichols Building on April 8 and 9. But DINK also prides itself on nurturing the local scene. Listed in alphabetical order, below are just a handful of the notable Denver-based artists and writers…
My first psychic was about six feet tall, with a plume of yellow hair that recalled both Phyllis Diller and Big Bird, a chain smoker who read my future — rather accurately — by flipping through a deck of playing cards. She punctuated important moments in the reading with jabs…
A Skull in Connemara is the second in Martin McDonagh’s award-winning Leenane Trilogy. The title comes from Lucky’s nonsensical, despairing monologue in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, and it falls between The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Lonesome West. All three were written in a frenzy of creative energy…
There’s a blizzard of fun events in Denver this week, including Opening Day, paper fashion and much more.
Ghost in the Shell looks great, sounds great and has a gaping hole at its center — where its emotional core should be. This big-budget adaptation of the Japanese manga and anime classic (Masamune Shirow’s comic premiered in the late 1980s, Mamoru Oshii’s highly influential first film version in 1995)…
Catch up on prior seasons of Vanderpump Rules on Hulu. Part one of the season five reunion airs Monday, April 3 on Bravo. Detractors of reality TV pooh-pooh the genre as a vacuous cesspool that celebrates crass idiocy and normalizes bad behavior that leads to societal horrors like our current…
Playwright Robert Schenkkan’s response to the election was swift and fierce.
For almost ten years, Jaime Kopke has been devising ways for museums and other cultural organizations in the Denver metro area to engage their audiences, beyond serving as reliquaries presenting art and information behind a symbolic wall of glass.
Stop by the Ritz-Carlton in downtown Denver for a creative pick-me-up at “Sense of Place: Creating Urban Adventure.”
Last year, Charlie and Jeff LaGreca stood in the center of the Sherman Street Event Center with grins on their faces. The two brothers had brought the unlikely to life: The inaugural installment of DINK, the largest independent comics convention in Denver history, was in full swing around them. Artists,…
Mark Sink, organizer of Denver’s Month of Photography, has also curated Between the Medium: Seeing Photographically at RedLine.
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts announced its 39th season, Monday, April 3 for both the DCPA Theatre Company and Off-Center.
April showers bring May flowers, but you don’t have to wait until next month for cinematic roses, because we’ve got a bouquet of the best film events in our city, right here.
The director of operations at Hope Communities, Crossroads’ landlord, recently told Westword that Crossroads is struggling; the theater company in Five Points is behind on rent, leaving Hope, an affordable-housing provider, to cover the mortgage payments. But Crossroads isn’t dying.
