New York has often been the setting for films about heroin addicts, with titles ranging from Shirley Clarke’s cinéma-vérité-tweaking The Connection (1961) to Slava Tsukerman’s new-wave cult classic Liquid Sky (1982) mining the drama of smack freaks tying off, shooting up and nodding out. But Josh and Benny Safdie’s tough,…
In Jurassic World, Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic Park reboot — set 22 years after dinosaurs started walking the Earth, again — brontosauruses, stegosauruses and velociraptors have become old hat, sort of like the mechanical Abe Lincoln at Disneyland. Meanwhile, the habitat around them has gone Vegas: Isla Nublar, home of the…
Almost anything goes in contemporary art right now, which explains the wide range of expressions included in the three shows at MCA Denver. It makes sense to begin with Critical Focus: Monique Crine, which is installed on the lower level. The exhibit was organized by MCA curator Nora Burnett Abrams…
The Chinese Zodiac got it wrong: 2015 isn’t the Year of the Sheep — it’s the Year of the Otter. Photographer Josh Olsen has spent the last several months taking photos of “otters” — described by Mister Hollywood as hairy men with an athletic build — and he is now releasing…
Join the Colorado Shakespeare Festival for more fun with the Bard, travel the world through the eyes of one woman with a suitcase or bid on the chance of a lifetime — to step on stage in a Broadway musical. Have some fun this week! Wittenberg University Theatre, CU-Boulder Campus…
After two days of raging thunderstorms that would have provided an appropriate backdrop for King Lear, the weather was bright and mild on the opening night of the Colorado Shakespeare Festival — perfect for Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare’s loveliest and best-constructed comedies. But this production mixes so…
“Go ahead, call them chick flicks. We dare you.” So reads the motto for the fifth annual Colorado Independent Women of Film Festival. For the June 12-13 event, founder and program director Eileen Agosta has curated more than twenty film and television projects by two dozen female filmmakers from across the…
When I was offered a tour of Lumina last week, I jumped at it. Although not my favorite new building in town, Lumina has done many things right where other developments have done so many wrong — especially on the Northside. It’s a big structure for the neighborhood, but at five…
Denver is an ideal place for outdoor movies; our normally cool, dry and clear evenings make for superb viewing. While the metro area once sported more than two dozen drive-ins, it’s now down to two: the 88 Drive-In Theatre and the Denver Mart Drive-In, which opens June 12. But there…
#21: Becky Hensley Becky Hensley’s motto is “You don’t know what you know until you teach it,” and as founder of Share Denver, a 1,600 square-foot, community-run Park Hill school and incubator for crafters and makers of all sorts that she calls an “eclectic Home Ec,” she lives it every…
Denverites who believe that there can never be enough cute in the world gathered at the Denver Coliseum this past weekend to commune with everything bright, happy and shiny — and each other — at Hello Kitty’s Supercute Friendship Festival, a brand-new American tour featuring stage shows, exhibits, interactive elements…
Nearly four decades after he first made his name as a political satirist, comedian Will Durst is taking on a new topic — getting old — in BoomeRaging: From LSD to OMG. “The last of the Boomer generation turned first last year,” says Durst over the phone as he strolls through his…
HearseCon 2015 invited the public to a car show of a different color on Saturday: The prevailing mood — and color — was black, as you’d expect at the Decay and Shine Hearse Show. Photographer Brandon Marshall was there to shoot these images of classic hearses and ambulances, Gothic pinup…
One of the funniest things in Live From New York!, the latest repackaging of Saturday Night Live history, comes from Amy Poehler, describing the institution that made her a star: “SNL — the show your parents used to have sex to that now you watch during the day.” Something almost…
In Diva Watch, we’ll profile the passionate, diverse and fascinating performers who light up Denver’s drag community. We’re expanding on our Diva Dozen list from earlier this year by asking a series of questions to get a peek underneath the make-up. Last Monday, Tracks Ultimate Queen contest successfully whittled down…
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. “If we can get real for a minute, it’s a family history…
Summer doesn’t really include a major shopping holiday, like Christmas or Valentine’s Day, so there’s no superego telling us where or what to buy. When it’s warm and sunny, we’re given over to lazy impulse buying and bargain hunting; we have the time to more completely enjoy our neighborhood shopping…
This week is full of free events that are a little different, definitely fun — and could even make you some money. Pitch a new way to educate children, try to figure out if a comedian is lying or talk about Cormac McCarthy — it’s all on the calendar this…
Our May 28 issue featured the ten winners of our third annual comics contest; you can see them here. And below, we’re sharing many more entries, some of which look at such serious Denver issues as growth and the plans to repair I-70, while others just turn a wry eye…
A party atmosphere will pervade tonight at Denver art openings in settings both traditional and refreshingly untraditional. Relax! It’s Friday! Here’s where to find the art in June. (RE)VISIONS: New Works by Uchay Joel Chima Art at the Cube, SugarCube Building Open on First Fridays in June, July and August,…
Chicano, the exhibit at the Museo de las Americas celebrating Chicano culture and history, closed last week with some living art: Momento Interactivo, when the community was invited to paint over the Chicano history mural that artist Carlos Fresquez had created on the gallery walls over the course of several…
Visible from I-25 — just like the lot’s former occupant Pagliacci’s was — the Lumina building at 33nd and Navajo is an eye-catcher. Unlike much of the clunky, boxy new Denver architecture that has strung up around the city over the last half-decade, the Lumina stands out with its rounded…
