Filmmaker Daniel Junge, who won an Academy Award in 2012 for the documentary short Saving Face, made his official Sundance Film Festival debut yesterday with his new documentary, Being Evel. And another Colorado filmmaker, Louie Psihoyos, was back at the iconic Utah festival this past weekend with his second doc…
Richard Linklater ended his feel-good Best Picture contender on a high. His star, eighteen-year-old would-be artist Mason, graduated high school and was ready to conquer the world. But what if Linklater had kept filming? And what if Mason wasn’t an actor, but a real teenage boy? Meet Samuel Klemke. He,…
Italian horror film maestro Dario Argento has been freaking out audiences since he first burst on the scene in 1970 with the first in a series of Hitchcock-infused thrillers whose titles matched their stylistic terrors: The Bird With the Crystal Plumage, Cat o’ Nine Tails, Four Flies on Grey Velvet…
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. “I am a transplant,” says painter Sarah Fitzgerald. “I went to design…
Matt Hays didn’t get his first tattoo until he was 25. But from then on, he was hooked on the art-form, a departure from his background in 3D animation and video production. Colorado native Hays has now been tattooing for more than six years, and currently works at Mammoth American…
If things go the way the local weathercasters are predicting, this last week of January is going to feel a lot more like March. Take advantage of that and get out of the house to experiment with film, be a rock god or eat food made by a comedian, all…
Denver may no longer have an adult poet laureate — the position was eliminated a few years ago to save money — but the state still does: his name is Joe Hutchison. But on Friday, Colorado Creative Industry — the state’s art agency announced that it is accepting applications for…
Gary Hart, John Elway and Stapleton International Airport. All three of those blasts from the past won awards in our Best of Denver issue back in 1988. So did Colfax Avenue, which won Best Neon Strip that year. And while the longest, wickedest street in America has changed a lot…
Looking fashionable while working out in comfort can be a challenge; some women want to break a sweat without resorting to sweatpants. That’s why the Boulder-based sportswear clothing brand Skirt Sports was born. Founder Nicole DeBoom, a swimmer in the 1988 Olympic Trials, was a professional triathlete from 1999 to…
Steve Rannazzisi is best known to fans for his role as the long-suffering Kevin MacArthur on FXX’s The League, but he’s also a prolific standup comedian. Touring the country regularly, Rannazzisi’s career has progressed from his humble beginnings working the door at the infamous Comedy Store in Los Angeles to performing on Conan, @Mindnight, and the Comedy Central Roast of James Franco. Westword caught up with Rannazzisi ahead of his upcoming headlining engagement at Comedy Works to discuss fantasy football fans, putting a new hour together, and why people’s passion for the ridiculous is a recipe for comedy.
Hard to believe that we’re already in the fourth weekend of the new year. Hopefully everyone is keeping up with their resolutions, but if you’re not there’s not a lot going on this weekend that will be bad for your health or hard on your finances. Lose your voice to…
Americans love their national parks. And Colorado people love, love, love Rocky Mountain National Park, a 416- square-mile expanse of towering peaks, glacial lakes, tundra, forests and meadows less than two hours’ drive from Denver. Despite being much smaller in size than Yellowstone or Yosemite, RMNP typically ranks among the…
The National Western Stock Show has been going strong for the past eleven days, drawing record crowds to catch the rodeo, peruse all the booths, see art at the Coors Western Art Show, and even do some people-watching. See also: People and Animals of the National Western Stock Show…
Matisse and Friends Denver Art Museum 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway There’s a tight and tasty little painting show in the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building right now that has really flown under the radar. I’m talking about Matisse and Friends, which closes in just a couple weeks. There are…
What would you do if you had just 36 hours in this city? “The signs of Denver’s economic high times as a pot boomtown and bastion of progressive urban policies are everywhere,” says the New York Times in the just-published “What to Do in Denver.” Although the Times doesn’t mention…
Some films are simply better on the big screen. You can certainly admire the craft of 2001: A Space Odyssey on a 22″ computer monitor and the pair of tinny speakers that came with your circa-1995 soundcard, but you’re not going to feel the impact of the movie that way…
Charles Ives Take Me Home. There are only three characters in Charles Ives Take Me Home, now receiving its regional premiere at Curious Theatre Company, but you hear more than three voices. And while the plot can be explained in a few words, there are many levels of meaning within…
Mortdecai is creeping into theaters with the flushed shame of a debutante who expects to be pelted with tomatoes. It’s a pity. In 1965, Mortdecai would be the hit of the year. Director David Koepp whips through this pop-colored caper about crooked art dealer Charlie Mortdecai (Johnny Depp) — one…
William Matthews, who grew up in San Francisco, didn’t set out to be a Western artist. His first show in Denver, in the then-just-six-year-old Larimer Square, featured pastoral watercolors and poster typography. But in the early ’80s, Matthews was invited to Elko, Nevada, for a cowboy poetry gathering, and it…
The popular pop-up dinner gets reconfigured for winter, with food, drink and performance. Hosted by Longmont micro-distillery Still Cellars. Sat., Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m., 2015…
Old stories have been coming out of the woodwork for Winter Park’s 75th anniversary season, even as the resort takes big steps into its future, like the opening of a new 16,000-square-foot restaurant at the Lunch Rock peak of Mary Jane. But for the full time-machine effect, stop by any…
If your New Year’s resolution for 2015 was to get fatter, then Copper Mountain has just the event for you: the fourth annual WinterBike race, which sends pedal-pushers on a fifteen-mile loop through snow, ice and slush on super-sized bikes with extra-fat tires. “The fat-bike thing has turned out to…
