In its last moments, Amy Berg’s exposé of sexual predators among Hollywood’s management classes offers a curious disclaimer: “The filmmakers acknowledge that this is not a gender based issue,” a title reads, just before the closing credits. “We chose to tell these specific stories, but they are representations of a…
Summer is the best time in our city, but it can get downright overwhelming with all the events to keep up with. This weekend has almost too much going on, so make sure to check out the Westword calendar for a complete list, if this one ain’t enough for you…
Denver-based actor Rachel Fowler, who lived in France for several years as a child, is a fluent speaker of French and avidly seeks out any opportunity to perform in the language of love. To that end, the current member of Boulder’s woman-run Local Theater Company is also an artistic associate…
Colorado has every amenity an outdoor enthusiast could ever desire — except a beach. But there are still plenty of water attractions across the state. From Broomfield to Glenwood Springs, you can get in the swim at everything from natural hot springs and cool reservoirs to acres of man-made rivers,…
Denver artist Adam Milner has been out of town, earning his MFA at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, but he’ll be back intermittently this summer for a couple of exhibitions, beginning with Echo Chamber, which opens Friday, June 5 at David B. Smith Gallery, and then in July as part of…
Is there any sub-genre of science fiction and fantasy film that sucks as bad as time travel? What is it about the concept of going backward or forward in time that seems to bleed all the intelligence and any semblance of good sense out of filmmakers? And yes, while there…
The City of Lakewood is pulling out all the stops for the fifth annual Inspire Arts Week, which actually runs eleven days — from Thursday, June 4 through Sunday, June 14 — and features nineteen participating artists and arts groups presenting thirty different cultural events that range from symphonies to…
Nick Montfort, computational poet, creative programmer and MIT professor, has spent much of his career exploring the connections between computing and literature and talking about those connections everywhere from Brazil to St. Petersburg to the Google campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tonight he’s in Denver to read from and discuss #!…
Instagram is a cultural touchstone, a way for photographers — pro and amateur alike — to compete, collaborate and share their work with the world. And there’s plenty in Colorado to share — from breathtaking mountain scenery and gritty urban sights to aerial acrobats and adrenaline junkies caught in the…
With the arrival of green grass and pleasant evenings, some Front Range theater groups are moving outdoors, sending out invitations to bring the family and get cultured out under the stars. Here’s where to take in some theater this weekend, indoors or out. Theatre on the Green Series, Chicago Founder’s…
iZombie is about as sunny and optimistic as the zombie genre gets, which of course isn’t all that much. Even by supernatural standards, it’s a bloodthirsty canon, demanding regular sacrifices of innocents and grisly feats of skull splitting and cerebellum cannibalizing. The CW’s Seattle neo-noir boasts plenty of both to…
Counterpath Press may be homeless right now, but it hasn’t lost its way — as evidenced by the program the 2013 MasterMind winner has planned for tomorrow at the Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax space, where four very different authors — Nick Montfort, Michael Friedman, Sanaz Fatemi and Graham Foust — will…
For Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers created a legendary children’s book about a nanny who descends on the stuffy, upper-class Victorian household of the Banks family and proceeds to tame two unruly children and enlighten their parents with discipline, kindness and magic. The book had a lasting effect on me when…
As waterlogged Denverites take their first tenuous steps out into the sun after an unexpectedly soggy May, a bounty of fine comedy shows await. The torrent-quenched giggle gardens are blooming anew with more opportunities than ever to laugh away the balmy evenings. Between the reunion of a cult-favorite sketch comedy…
In bands like Six Months to Live and The Babysitters, Gregory Hill earned a reputation for embracing the weird and refusing to pander to expectations. His work as a novelist has followed the same path: His debut novel, East of Denver, the tale of a man who drags his Alzheimer’s-afflicted…
As spring swings into summer, it’s time to put your best-dressed foot forward. There are plenty of fashion events in the first half of June, ranging from trunk shows and workshops to hair shows and fashion parties. Here are the seven best places to look your best, in chronological order. …
Twenty years back, at the height of the UFO boom, the truest believers in alien abduction scenarios would argue that their most compelling evidence was the commonalities between regular people’s stories of nighttime visitations. Even under hypnosis, “abductees” testified to remarkably consistent waking-dream terrors: an alert immobility, shadowed and mostly…
The first line in Entourage is a good indication of what the next 104 minutes will bring. Peering through a pair of binoculars while a speedboat carries him toward a yacht in the dazzling waters of Ibiza, Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon), the big brother of megastar Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier),…
There’s a point in City Park, on the backside of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, where you can see the city skyline just perfectly. The foreground is patched in with rolling acres of green surrounding Ferrill Lake and its companion boathouse and bandstand. In the background, you can…
When John Cusack was launching his career in the ’80s, Brian Wilson had gone from rock star to living lore — a brilliant Bigfoot. “People would have Brian Wilson encounters,” says Cusack, who plays Wilson in the new biopic Love & Mercy. “In L.A., people would say, ‘Oh, I was…
The Melissa McCarthy of Spy is different from the one who rose to prominence by shitting in a sink. Bridesmaids scored her an Oscar nomination, and for the ceremony, McCarthy donned a glamorous rose gown with a diamond collar and belt. But in the years since, Hollywood has continued to…
Though its obituary was written a generation ago, abstraction is back with a vengeance in contemporary art. This week, I’ll look at a set of four solos and a small group effort at Robischon Gallery, along with a super-simpatico solo at Rule Gallery. The festivities at Robischon begin with Don…
