January is off to a good start, with plenty of opportunities for free fun. This week you can celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, get hilariously romantic or help bring back an old art form. Check the Westword calendar for even more entertainment opportunities. Colorado Symphony Honors Dr…
We spotted fashion designer Akiala I. at a Conscious Creatives Meeting at Maze Haus of the Sacred Smoker Sanctuary. With so many new faces arriving in town every day, it was refreshing to find a Denver native, one who continues to find inspiration in her own town. We chatted with Akiala, who describes her look as “cute, street and exotic,” to learn more about her designs, where she shops and her style mantra
Almost all of the history of American movies flows into Steven Spielberg, and the movies that have come since can’t help but be in response. As a storyteller and as a cultural figure, his closest precedent isn’t John Ford or David Lean, but Dickens, another age’s popular titan, beloved more…
Tony Diego’s group art exhibit Regresarás (You Will Return) aims to spark a dialogue about international child abduction.
The new year is here, full of shining new hopes. Every January 1 we resolve to transform into the best version of ourselves, and and this year is no exception. If you’re determined to look good in 2017, Denver has plenty of events to get you off to a stylish start. Here are the dozen best fashion events in Denver in January, in chronological order.
Three Colorado films are headed to Sundance. One has landed a Netflix deal.
On January 5, Kent Thompson, artistic director of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company, announced his resignation after twelve years at the helm of the company. He will remain in the position until early March.
Get ready for the arty party of the year: Artopia 2017, Westword’s annual celebration of art, culture and fashion, will return on Saturday, February 25. And this round, we’re bringing style off the streets and into City Hall, where we’ll commemorate four of Denver’s most iconic strips — Larimer, Santa…
Get the most fun you can out of 2017, which is not hard if you heed the advice of our weekly ten for $10 list. This week, we present the first jokes of the year, movies for cinephiles of every taste and a chance to dance from music from the 40s while slugging from a 40 ounce bottle of malt liquor. Check out the Westword calendar for a full list of fun.
Here are the ten best comedy events in Denver in January.
There’s no shortage of snow in the mountains — and no shortage of fun events at Colorado’s ski resorts. Bargains abound in January 2017, which is officially Learn to Ski & Snowboard Month.
Can Elliot Fey save Cheyenne Dog Soldiers from technological demise?
Discover Denver, a project attempting to tell the city’s history through the stories of significant buildings, launched a new website today replete with an interactive map that gives users the chance to upload stories, photos and documents about the city’s varied structures.
Accepting the Welt Literature Prize in Berlin on November 10 of this year, the novelist Zadie Smith said, “Time travel is a discretionary art: a pleasure trip for some and a horror story for others.” She was speaking, of course, of the conviction among so many white people that there’s…
“With all respect, sir, may I ask, who are you?” “What you see before you is a man, a simple monk.” “Are you the Lord Buddha?” “I believe I am a reflection, like the moon on water. When you see me, and I try to be a good man, you…
Martin Scorsese opens his foreword to the latest edition of Shusaku Endo’s Silence with a simple, impossible question: “How do you tell the story of Christian faith?” The director isn’t presumptuous enough to present his adaptation of that beloved novel as a definitive answer, but his film does read as…
The start of a new year is always a time of reassessment, looking back at the past year while also looking forward to the next. For many of us, these are somber assessments: In 2016 we lost heroes and fought over politics constantly. Much of the time, art was replaced…
Painter Stanley Bell’s kaleidoscopic paintings are on display at Michael Warren Contemporary through January 21.
This is your guide to the ten best films in January.
The holidays might be over, but there are still plenty of things to do in Denver. From cheering on the Nuggets to the National Western Stock Show to loads of great art events, keep reading for the 21 best events in Denver the first week in January. Tuesday, January 3 Take…
For six years, Too Much Fun united Denver’s comedy and DIY communities with an anarchic celebration of laughter, hedonism and the bonds of friendship. Unfortunately for local comedy fans, the sixth-anniversary showcase — at the Deer Pile on January 4 — will be its last. The focus of a Westword…
Legendary bookseller Joyce Meskis talks about the next chapter for the Tattered Cover.
