Michael German went undercover with white supremacists for a year and with right-wing militants for another eight months and now he wants to set some things straight. “One of the things I learned working undercover is that the studies that the FBI or even academia had on these groups were…
Hey. Do you guys remember puppet comedian Jeff Dunham, whose downtrodden Mexican “on a steeeek” character José Jalapeño delighted many a middle-class white American in the ’90s? Well, imagine he blazed up a joint with Bill Maher, wrote a manifesto on atheism and then made a multimillion-dollar animated feature film…
Over 2,000 bicyclists will arrive in Leadville on Saturday, August 13, to race in one of the most grueling yet beautiful mountain bike races in the world, the Leadville Trail 100 MTB. Thirteen of the riders, including Tour de France veteran Ted King and former Olympic cyclist and Coloradan Timmy…
You have credit Robb Woulfe of Breckenridge Creative Arts for wanting to bring world-class arts programming to the Colorado mountain town. And judging from events like June’s inaugural WAVE: Light + Water + Sound festival and this week’s second annual Breckenridge International Festival of Arts, he’s succeeded in his mission,…
Denver Food Rescue gets fresh produce to Denverites in need by making a simple connection: It gets food that would otherwise go to waste from grocery stores and takes it to community organizations across the city. It’s like a food bank without the warehouse, and a bicycle delivery system instead…
Sure, you could stay home and catch the Olympics — but there’s just too much fun stuff going on in town this weekend. Why stick to your sofa when you can explore the city, dance your cares away, and have some cheap laughs? Here are our ten favorite events under…
Nominations are now open for the 2016 Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Arts & Culture, which will be announced during Denver Arts Week in November. Here are the categories: Arts & Culture Youth Award This award is presented to a person under eighteen that has made a noteworthy difference in…
Visibility of the LGBTQ community in new media and pop culture continues to rise, and adding to it is the new web series Her Story. The trans-forward series is getting an in-depth presentation, complete with its creators and talent, and courtesy of the GLBT Community Center of Colorado and the Sie FilmCenter,…
Are tiny houses the solution to many of society’s ills? Artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy is exploring tiny houses as a sustainability move, and a way to educate people about climate change; she’s been writing about the Mayday Experiment in articles here. Now Off the Grid is sponsoring a series of…
Nuts!, a marvelous, mostly animated doc/drama hybrid, couldn’t have come along at a better time. Director Penny Lane (Our Nixon) showcases, with wit and suspense, the undoing of one of the 20th century’s great flimflam artists, a huckster who seized then-new communication technologies — and the trappings of Christian divinity…
The Bronx is burning in the introductory episodes of The Get Down, Netflix’s new series that presents as urban-cinematic fable the genesis of rap. The cluttered, over-caffeinated 90-minute pilot, directed by creator and executive producer Baz Luhrmann, takes place in the summer of 1977, when a serial killer terrorized New…
Daniel Reskin, a transplant from Miami, relocated to Denver with little but solid material and a few connections; he quickly ingratiated himself with the local performance scene. (An under-acknowledged benefit of new residents is that they find opportunity where locals see only wreckage.) Space Owl Alliance, Reskin’s new comedy/music hybrid showcase,…
When you think of local celebrities, you may picture Demaryius Thomas of the Broncos, actress Amy Adams, or rock band the Fray. But one celebrity eclipses them all by a landslide in terms of fanatical popularity. With slightly over one million followers, Loki the Wolf Dog has become an Instagram…
Heidi Jung stands at the front window of her modest, blond-brick home situated in Denver’s Northside. She points at a tiny house across the street, where a giant rolloff dumpster takes up the entire driveway. “That was my Aunt Stella’s house,” the painter says. “They’re just gutting it, not tearing…
Two years ago today I bought a trailer, on which I would build a tiny house. I had no idea that two years later, I would still be working on it. But then, the raft of tiny-house movies and TV shows hadn’t come along yet to warn me — and…
The physical world is all around us — and so are solo shows by artists who create pieces that reflect their views on that world. Robischon Gallery is featuring five individual and divergent, if related, solos. In the large front space, Ian Fisher: In Advance of Light gets the group…
Writer Keith Gessen once said that Philip Roth wasn’t a misogynist and didn’t hate women because he spent all his time “thinking about fucking them.” But he did concede that Roth probably thought “women were a foreign country.” In James Schamus’ debut feature Indignation, an adaptation of a late Roth…
Pete’s Dragon is as cuddly as the mountains of plush toys Disney hopes to sell from it. A disarmingly homespun blockbuster, this loose remake of the studio’s 1977 live-action/animation hybrid is perhaps best defined by all the things it’s not: It’s not a soaring action flick, nor an indulgence in…
Hell or High Water sees a Scottish director making a down-home, West Texas–set movie about cars, guns, brothers, banks and twist-off beers. But this outsider’s perspective is nothing new for David Mackenzie, who has worked with Ashton Kutcher and Anne Heche on a Los Angeles romance about a gigolo (2009’s…
Do we call Anthropoid a thriller? Sean Ellis’ earnest, day-ruining WWII bullet-a-thon is rooted in fact but comes on like pulp fiction in its first reels, hitting secret-mission story beats old enough to have served in the big war. As freedom fighters Josef (Jamie Dornan) and Jan (Cillian Murphy) skulk…
Stephen Frears’ Florence Foster Jenkins is a likable study of delusions of grandeur. Working from real-life material, Frears creates an alternately funny and mysterious portrait of someone whom most viewers either don’t know at all or regard as an odd footnote in musical history. We first see Florence (Meryl Streep)…
“The Bug Theatre is truly the most unique performance venue in Denver,” says Deb Flomberg, who’s used the Bug for some very unique performances. But on Friday, August 5, Under the Big Top was all about the Bug itself — the second annual family-friendly event designed to raise funds for…
