Denver may not have seen any snow, but there’s been a flurry of activity around town. In fact, the metro area is buried in great events — large and small, intimate and extravagant, upscale and downhome. Keep reading for the 21 best events in Denver this week. Tuesday, November 15…
The Stanley Film Festival, which attracted horror fans and industry professionals to the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, is canceled for 2017 – and perhaps permanently. After a three-year run, from 2013 to 2015, the “Sundance of horror films” was put on hiatus in 2016 after the iconic hotel, which…
Many Coloradans are still reeling from last week’s election results. In the hours following the final tallies, social media was essentially one nationwide primal scream of despair. Friendships ended in an acrimonious storm of tweets, Thanksgivings were made even more awkward and hope was very nearly lost. But in a heartening…
The Amazon series Good Girls Revolt, centered on a landmark 1970 gender discrimination case at Newsweek, is the kind of period drama that’s more interested in commenting on the present than recreating the past. The storyline, about professional journalists, plays fast and loose with the facts, and creator Dana Calvo…
Mayor Michael Hancock has been busy honoring the people and places that make Denver great. On November 10, he handed out the Mayor’s Design awards; today he named the 2016 recipients of the Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Arts & Culture at a luncheon at the McNichols Civic Center Building…
Both recovering addicts and comedians, Mark Lundholm and Kurt Matthews, aka The Addicts, have built careers of making their respective recovery processes not only relatable, but funny. No, it wasn’t funny when Matthews got in a drunk-driving accident in 1984 and almost killed himself and the girls in the other car. Losing relationships and being arrested wasn’t necessarily funny, either. But both Lundholm and Matthews recognize the humor in their flaws. “The insanity is funny,” says Lundholm.
The 39th annual Denver Film Festival kicked off on November 2 with the screening of La La Land, already anointed an Academy Award front-runner, and the red-carpet appearance of star Emma Stone. And while I had a mixed response to Dev Patel’s Lion, one of the subsequent showcase items, our roundup…
This week’s entertainment is all about reflection and perspective. We’re hearing stories, telling our own tales and taking a look into the future of our city. Keep reading for our three favorite free events in town, and look for more on the Westword calendar. Tales from the Road: Volume 1…
On Sunday, November 13, the Denver Art Museum will give us the chance to see Darth Vader and other Star Wars characters up close at the Star Wars and the Power of Costume.
When a group of local artisans found themselves priced out of the holiday-market scene, they went their own way. The result was the Witch Collective, a group of artists and artisans committed to creating an affordable place where people can sell affordable handmade goods. From noon to 4 p.m. this…
In Lost Creatures, local playwright Melissa Lucero McCarl imagines a meeting between two highly theatrical figures of the last century. The first is Kenneth Tynan, a theater critic whose brilliant writing brought him early fame. Guardian reviewer Michael Billington recently wrote that reading the book of essays that Tynan released…
Cold-calling exhibition venues isn’t usually part of a curator’s job when creating an art show, but that’s exactly what University of Colorado Boulder art professor George Rivera did when he jumped departments in the ’90s after twenty years of teaching sociology. It started with his idea of shaking things up…
Again this year, Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today he spotlights selections for November 11-13, including The Cinema Travellers, Mifune: The…
Copper Mountain announced this week that it has postponed opening day, moving the scheduled celebration from Friday, November 11, to November 18, in the hopes that Mother Nature and/or the resort’s snowmaking teams can help roll out a more appropriate white carpet for the occasion. But at least one portion…
After the whistle blows, throw away your cares and soak up as many of these bargains as you can. This weekend you can sing karaoke, appreciate art (Denver Arts Week runs for one more day!) and dance to almost anything. Details on our ten favorite events under $10 follow; check…
#49: Bonnie Ferrill Roman Colorado papermaker and mixed-media sculptor Bonnie Ferrill Roman creates airy, medium-melding installations that connect the dots from the realm of well-crafted fiber art to the frontier of art about ideas and personal issues. A longtime educator dedicated to sharing techniques and foundational know-how with young art…
Denver DJ Erin Stereo likes to see the club packed with booty-shakers willing to strut their stuff and dance like no one is watching. On Saturday, November 12, she’ll unfurl the first edition of the Everybody’s Free dance party, hitting the floor at 9 p.m. at Grandma’s House on South…
Haters Back Off!, a new eight-episode comedy streaming on Netflix, is about putting yourself out there, ignoring the haters, following your dreams no matter who or what stands in your way and utterly humiliating yourself on YouTube. Also at church socials, gay bars, funerals, rest homes — really anywhere Miranda…
Again this year, Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today he spotlights a selection for November 10: Rumba. Rumba Directed by Dominique…
It’s fun watching Ginny Baker be rude to people. I was hesitant to give a chance to Pitch, the new Fox series imagining the life and career of the (fictional) first woman to play Major League Baseball, because I feared Ginny would be impossibly noble, driven and hardworking — the…
In André Téchiné’s vibrant new film Being 17, two teens wrestle with desire and hostility in a mountainous corner of France. The subject matter is not new for Téchiné, who has for more than 40 years explored sexual self-awakening, alienation and family strife in films notable for their consistency and…
A young man tramples through the snow in fast, furious, headlong motion in the beginning of André Téchiné’s Being 17, a film that proceeds at a similar clip. So have many of the director’s previous works: Téchiné, who began making movies five decades ago and remains the best-known of France’s…
