The one thing I know for sure is that most Oscar voters don’t care that a film as seemingly pleasant as Damien Chazelle’s modern musical La La Land has proven so divisive. Even as lyrics from “City of Stars” have become inspirational memes, artists like songwriter Elon Rutberg are calling…
Anne Fanganello isn’t afraid to shake up the status quo with her fashion. Her two lines – the couture AnnaFesta and athletic FestaSports – aim to make women of all shapes and sizes, especially plus sizes, feel confident and comfortable in their own skin. You can see her work in action at the Whiteout fashion show at Westword’s Artopia, set for February 25 at City Hall.
Brian Ball, a father and a server at the vegetarian-chic City, O’ City since 2011, has no paid sick days and no paid time off. When he had a hernia-like abdominal problem on a plane trip from Las Vegas, he wound up in the emergency room for surgery. He was out of work for two weeks as bills pilled up. So his girlfriend and ex-wife teamed up on a burlesque fundraiser.
While we have to say goodbye to a Denver staple, we also get to wave hello to brand new things. Celebrate the final party at Ironton, roast the presidents and have a dance or two this weekend. Check out the Westword calendar for more. The Vagina Monologues Swallow Hill Music…
How do you sell an international comedy-action superstar to an American audience? Sony Pictures, the distributors of charming Hong Kong action-fantasy Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back, still haven’t figured out how to pitch comedian-turned-filmmaker Stephen Chow outside of Asia, especially since Chow has stopped starring in his…
If you’ve grown weary of the Don Drapers and Walter Whites of the world, don’t expect James Keziah Delaney to make a strong first impression. Taboo’s antihero, played with signature laconicism by Tom Hardy, is another difficult man for this golden age of TV — and, as fate would have…
#30: Corky Scholl A visual storyteller as a television-news photojournalist, Corky Scholl further spreads his enthusiasm for the authentic, human side of life as the keeper of Save the Signs, a Facebook page and a movement dedicated to documenting disappearing urban neon signage in Denver and across the nation. Scholl’s fascination…
An Iliad is a version of Homer’s epic poem about the Trojan War, told in ninety minutes in a mixture of exalted language and everyday vernacular by a single lonely figure on a stage that represents somewhere blasted and unnamed — a place with dark, broken windows, bits of crumbling…
In director Amma Asante’s epic political romance A United Kingdom, David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike star as Seretse and Ruth Khama, the interracial royal couple who stunned the world when they fought to rule the country that would become the Republic of Botswana. The story’s a wildly interesting history lesson…
Delving into microeconomics and macroaggressions, Toni Erdmann, the dynamite, superbly acted third feature by writer/director Maren Ade, is social studies at its finest. This quicksilver, emotionally astute comedy operates on many different registers and moods: Whoopee cushions and gag teeth are part of the fun, but so too is a…
Jordan Peele’s Get Out is the most trenchant studio release in years, a slow-building, often hilarious horror thriller built upon a dead-serious idea: that a black man walking alone through white suburbs is in as much danger as any slasher-flick teenager. Peele opens with that image, showing us, in a…
March marks Denver’s biennial Month of Photography, a tremendously successful, multi-venue event founded by photographer and photography advocate Mark Sink in 2004. Each iteration of MoP sees many of the area’s exhibition spaces mounting shows at least tangentially related to photography. The Arvada Center has already opened two of them: Double Exposure: An Exhibition of Photography and Video, a large group show, and Stop/Look/See: Photography by James Milmoe, a major solo.
Feral Factory is working with RedLine, the RiNo Art District and other groups to open up new spaces for art shows in Denver and hold conversations about creative work and how it intersects with social issues. The initial exhibit opens February 24.
Boulder’s award-winning experimental dance organization Hoarded Stuff Performance presents the world premiere of practicing, choreographed and performed by Laura Ann Samuelson.
Bust out your party pants for Atropia, Westword’s annual celebration of art, culture and fashion on Saturday, February 25. This year, we’re highlighting major thoroughfares in Denver and the people and art that keep them vibrant. Read on for details, and for more of the best events in Denver. Tuesday,…
War is hell: Curtis Bean recognized that during his two tours in Iraq. But he didn’t know that coming home would be hell, too. The native of Troy, Missouri, had joined the Army when he was seventeen, “to be part of something larger than my home town,” he says. Bean…
The high pitch of the national climate-change debate vibrates throughout the production of Two Degrees, a world premiere at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts after the script was workshopped at last year’s Colorado New Play Summit. No one in the audience can be unaware that all of President Barack Obama’s work on the issue is about to be undone.
Never not hard at work, the last email Nick Thorne sent to his cohorts in the Black Actors Guild was a series of notes and edits on the group’s latest episode of its web series, Behind the Smile. The writer, director, actor and producer passed away on February 8 of this year. Thorne was 25.
This Tuesday night, February 21, at Alamo Drafthouse, Billy Overton, the founder of experimental electronic band Loanword, will do a live film score for Swedish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen’s most acclaimed work, Häxan.
No, I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore is not a documentary about all the things going through your head right now, but in his directing debut, actor Macon Blair (Blue Ruin, Green Room) certainly captures something of the spirit of the times. As this stylized, deliriously violent,…
It was a good year for geeks, 1977. Dungeons and Dragons was just hitting the mainstream (and starting to be attacked as evil…which, of course, only fueled its popularity). The Atari 2600 was released, and that was pretty much it for going outside to play for the next decade. And a little kids’ movie called Star Wars was just about to change the world. And in the middle of it all, GenghisCon was born here in Denver. Forty years later, here are ten reasons to celebrate GhenghisCon.
#31: Sally Stockhold Photographer Sally Stockhold doesn’t just shoot pictures: She’s a set designer, costumer, historian, actress and, sometimes, her own subject, caught in the act of living her own wildest dreams and impersonating famous artists and pop figures. A New Yorker who had a successful career as a commercial…
