The arcades were my first video game love, but we were not monogamous. Like most kids, I didn’t have an unlimited supply of quarters to drop into the arcade machines, and as with many kids of my generation — and every generation that’s followed — my parents made the cost-efficient…
The Rule Gallery is presenting a handsome solo, Beyond the Veil, by emerging artist Caleb Hahne, whose style combines realism and abstraction in a conceptual way. Every painting in the exhibit — whether a small portrait or a larger figure study — is anchored by a realistic passage done in…
This is getting ridiculous. An inhabitant of Denver from fifty years ago, plopped down in the center of town, would be hard-pressed to recognize its streets — much less negotiate them. Few American cities have changed so radically recently as the Queen City of the Plains. (It’s nice to be…
This week on Denver stages, you can experience the lives of a couple in love and trapped in an asylum, a chatty family at a birthday dinner, or four men in the muddled-up, comic world of a group home. Here’s where to snatch up tickets. Germinal Stage, Echoes 73rd Avenue…
SeriesFest, the spirited television and storytelling festival that has been renewed for a second season that will run from June 22 through June 26, just announced the lineup for its Independent Pilots competition as well as the industry stars who will be judging the entries during the festival. After an Opening…
It isn’t every day that you see stormtroopers and superheroes sauntering around Boettcher Concert Hall. But that’s what happened last weekend, when the Colorado Symphony Orchestra hosted a cosplay-friendly “Symphonic Tribute to Comic Con,” featuring theme music from Star Wars, Dr. Who and other pop-culture, cult-fare favorites. All photos by…
Jeremy Saulnier’s Green Room is an impeccably crafted cinematic torture machine — in the best possible way. The premise will make some cringe, while making others giddy: A punk band, trapped in a club in the middle of nowhere, have to fight off a bunch of murderous skinheads to get…
Like The Imitation Game, The Man Who Knew Infinity is a Great Man biopic about a man most viewers have probably never heard of. Srinivasa Ramanujan was a brilliant, self-taught Indian mathematician who in his brief time on this earth made seismic contributions to his field. That he’s largely unknown…
In an appreciation published in The Guardian a few days after the death of J.G. Ballard, in April 2009, Martin Amis noted that the paragon of New Wave science fiction was “remorselessly visual.” Ben Wheatley’s muddled adaptation of the dystopian 1975 novel High-Rise — one of many Ballard books that…
The food and culture of Mexico took over Civic Center Park during Denver’s annual Cinco de Mayo festival last weekend. Photographer Aaron Thackeray was there on May 8 to caught all the colors, cars, good times…and good weather. Now see the full Cinco de Mayo slide show. …
David Mamet, the caustic playwright who’s an unapologetic right-winger these days, has always liked to offend, and he does so with brilliant scripts filled with intelligent, jazzy and sometimes incisive dialogue. His November, now showing at the Avenue Theater, premiered in 2008, as George W. Bush’s second term was coming…
Washington Park went to the dogs on Saturday, May 7, for the 23rd annual Furry Scurry, a two-mile walk and fun run for pups and their people that benefits the Denver Dumb Friends League. All photos by Brandon Marshall. Were you there? Find your pup in the full 2016 Furry…
Generally speaking, Facebook’s “memories” feature that it thrusts at the top of your feed every morning harkens back to meaningless, long-forgotten posts, often of things that you’d prefer not to remember. But this morning, as I turned on the computer and sat down bleary-eyed to attempt to write (after falling…
Throughout May, Wheel of Fortune is celebrating a few great American cities — and this week, it’s Denver’s turn to take a spin in the spotlight. After months of planning, fifteen local contestants flew out to Los Angeles in March to tape the Denver-themed shows, which start tonight. We don’t…
“Death takes a holiday” is one of those wise, cynical, darkly funny old-European concepts that should yield rich fictional results, both comic and philosophical. The idea, which got its start in a 1924 play by Italian Alberto Casella, is that Death decides to take a break from collecting souls to…
Vaxxed, the new “documentary” about the alleged connection between vaccines and autism, is directed by Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced doctor responsible for duping untold thousands of parents into believing vaccinations could give their children autism. This may not be news to anyone who’s followed the controversy surrounding the film’s abrupt…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Nicole Gonzales and Michel “Mich” Velazquez met at a concert a couple…
Murals have been blooming like Denver’s cherry blossom trees this spring. No sooner had we settled on our award-winning mural in the Best of Denver 2016 than amazing street art started popping up around town. Here are the ten best new street-art murals of 2016 (so far)… 10. Dread Horseshoe Lounge 414…
The weekends have been kind of wet around here lately, so let’s live it up during the week. This week brings embarrassment, art discussions and an intimate evening with a local comic. Check out the Westword calendar for even more to do, and don’t forget about free day at the…
Denver is proud of its public art program, and new pieces are being added all the time, including along RTD’s A-Line from Union Station to Denver International Airport. But the program definitely has its critics, including Georgia Amar, co-founder of Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe, who shared this assessment with…
The Grammy award-winning Okee Dokee Brothers, a family folk duo with Colorado roots, release their debut picture book through Sterling Publishing on May 17. Can You Canoe? is named for the acoustic adventure album that launched the Okee Dokee Brothers’ career in 2012; the book takes readers on a cross-country…
According to her emails, Hillary Clinton has had an eye on Alicia Florrick since season one. As her pop-culture portraits go, The Good Wife has been a flattering one. Its protagonist first followed in the footsteps of many a political spouse by standing by her man, then relaunched her career,…
