Get ready, 2015, here we come: Start your new year of First Fridays with a look back at the career of a local cultural hero, a look forward at work by student artists, and an artistic view of the human brain. And more! See also: Gallery Sketches: Four Shows to…
Forbidden Broadway Garner Galleria Theatre The Broadway musical is a big, bloated, conventional, endlessly copycatting phenomenon that cries out to be skewered, and Forbidden Broadway has been skewering it for more than three decades, ever since underemployed actor Gerard Alessandrini turned his hand to writing satire and staged the first…
Last week, I devoted my column to looking back at the excellent year of geek fun we’ve just finished. So this week, it’s time to look ahead (that’s just science, after all). Last year, I made a bunch of geek resolutions, but it would be silly to do that again…
The hard work of fifteen students at University of Colorado Denver is paying off: Their animated film, I Need my Monster, has been voted into the championship round in the Student Filmmakers Award Audience Choice competition. The students have spent the last eighteen months at the school’s Digital Animation Center…
When I first revealed my plan to build a tiny house and take off across the country, at an artist’s talk at Mai Wyn Fine Art for my show Nest/Shedin March, I was terrified. I hadn’t planned to talk about the project in public, but it was a spontaneous response…
Earlier this year, I penned a love letter to Denver, the city I used to know. It wasn’t meant to be more than a lamenting for a physical place that no longer exists — a remembrance of the city that I have been watching change since 1980. Denver, like many…
As they bring in the new year, Denver theaters will spend much of January highlighting masterpieces and cult classics alike. Some of these films critique the movie industry while others are only worth watching because of how delightfully terrible they are. Several documentaries will ignite discussions about the function of…
The new year is upon us, and it’s time to start making — and breaking — resolutions. If you’ve resolved to get out and do more fun geeky activities in 2015, then you’re in luck — January will help you start the year off right. From gaming tournaments to classic…
Out with the old and in with the new — clothes, at least. The new year signals new fashion, and we’ve rounded up the seven best fashion events of the first month of 2015, evertyhing from pop-up trunk shows to fashion-industry meet-ups. See also: Gallery Sketches: Four Shows to See…
January is an overrated month. Resting on its New Year’s laurels until Martin Luther King Jr. day, January battens against the treacherous snow and punishing cold, assuaging its regret over resolutions broken with indica, hot toddies and Netflix marathons. Comedy, however, has the dubious fortune of being impossible to over or underrate. Either you’re laughing or you’re not. Whatever it is that happens to tickle your fancy is at once both entirely subjective and impossible to equivocate with rhetoric. With that in mind, here’s a collection of comedy shows for you to laugh or not laugh at. With perennially listed local favorites and returning visits from high profile headliners, there are plenty of reasons to bundle up and check out a comedy show this wintry month.
As anyone who has ever played Dungeons and Dragons can attest, tabletop role-playing comes with a lot of rules. Getting through an adventure can mean wading through thousands of pages of them — in bestiaries, player handbooks and other hefty tomes. It’s a problem that gamers Chris Matney and Evan…
With scores of galleries, art centers, museums, artist-cooperatives and even ad hoc spaces around town, you’d have to make exhibit viewing a full time job in order to see everything — and even then, it might be impossible. But there were some shows from 2014 that no one should have…
On Christmas Eve, while some folks gathered ’round the tree, Denver’s hip, young Jewish crowd bellied up to the bar — and a treasury of video games and pinball machines — at the 1up Colfax for an evening celebration of a different sort. Photographer Brandon Marshall was there to catch…
The fun doesn’t stop from Christmas to New Year’s, so we’ll be keeping the party going by watching movies, rocking out and singing the best music ever made. Check our online Westword calendar to see all the ways you can ring in 2015, and if we missed any bargains, tell…
Photo by Mark PokornyTalk some sense into ’em, Bilbo.Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson discuss the third-and-final Hobbit movie: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, in this special bonus episode of the Voice Film Club podcast. As always, send barbs, jabs,…
The Great Recession has lifted in Denver as developers appear to be building something on every square inch of the city. And what with legalized pot, the town’s hipness quotient is off the charts, attracting seemingly half the twenty- and thirty-somethings in the country who are dutifully moving into all…
This was a great year to be part of the GLBTQ rainbow in Colorado. Gay marriage made gigantic strides and became a reality; numerous notables, from celebrities to artists and politicians, came out and made their voices heard. Though we don’t have a lock on celebrating, our straight brethren could…
Next stop, New Year’s Eve. That means it’s time to reflect back, think about the future, and then decide how to best comport yourself in the coming year. Many galleries around town are riffing on that theme for their first shows of the year — so why not start your…
Editor’s note: It’s time to put 2014 into the history books and look forward to 2015 — but not before one last bash to kick off the transition in style, something you can plan with our New Year’s Eve Guide listings. Do you have even bigger plans for the coming…
“If everything were great, nothing would be great.” That line, from Scott Coffey’s smart and sweetly entertaining Adult World, is one of my favorite bits of movie dialogue this year, not least because it’s applicable to every movie genre — actually, every genre of everything. But in the movie world,…
Here are movie moments from 2014 I’ll never forget: Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s sad pop tart smacking her ass in Beyond the Lights, the sick room choked with flowers in Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo, Oscar Isaac and Kirsten Dunst’s Greek-island all-nighter in The Two Faces of January, and the entire soundtrack of…
In Rupert Wyatt’s highball-cool reworking of Karel Reisz’s 1974 The Gambler, Mark Wahlberg does not play a cop, does not shoot bad guys with a gun, and does not spend considerable time shirtless (though we do see him sulking in a bathtub, and there’s a fleeting wet T-shirt moment, too)…
