Happy skiers and snowboarders flocked to Arapahoe Basin over the weekend for the official kickoff to the 2014-’15 Colorado ski season, amid sunny conditions and a party atmosphere. While balmy weather is keeping the snow guns at bay elsewhere, it’s only a matter of time before Loveland, Winter Park and…
In today’s world, the art of storytelling has been diminished by quick texts and 140-character tweets. So Nina Rolle and Johanna Walker are crusading to keep storytelling alive with the Truth Be Told story slam. “I think that people really crave stories,” Walker says. “They help us build community and…
Update: Online voting has begun in the “I Heart My RTD” student art contest. The website features sixteen designs created by middle school students in the Aurora and Cherry Creek school districts and asks users to vote for their favorite. Two designs will ultimately be chosen to be adapted for…
The inaugural Denver Moth StorySLAM, presented by The Moth Radio Hour, will land at Swallow Hill tonight. These events, which are set up like poetry slams — except with true stories that last no more than five minutes — have already been hits in major cities like New York City,…
This weekend, you can survey the art of mourning and found objects, revel in grand strokes of pure color or see what’s gone under the radar in the local videography community. For more options, check out Westword’s gallery listings; read on for sketches of a few of our favorites. See…
When musician, performer (and sometime Westword contributor) Luke Leavitt set out to create “Pockets of Contextless Waste As Points,” he saw it as a way to finally cross paths with an Internet friend. The part-music, part-poetry, part-performance art event happening at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 18 at DIY space Hamsterdam,…
Stickers are not just for stationary. Ink Monstr, a graphic design and print shop, will be taking over Cluster Studios for Sticky Situation, a one-night-only elite art show and competition on Saturday, October 18. And you can help choose the artist who moves on to the national contest. See also:…
The Classic: An Art and Fashion Exhibit will fill Green Labs, a marijuana think tank and performance space, with music, style, art and design tonight. The event is two shows in one, and will introduce Instant Classic Standard Clothing, a new lifestyle and clothing brand. In advance of tonight’s Classic,…
This Saturday, October 19, happens to be a little known holiday called Evaluate Your Life Day. While that may be a heavy thought, there are plenty of lighter activities for the weekend that may be more fun than simply reflecting on one’s self. For instance, seeing a movie about food,…
For kids, there’s nothing better than Halloween. You get to fulfill your wildest fantasies, explore your darkest fears and get a bag of free candy. It’s a time before adulthood beats the magic and wonder out of you, a time when you can still believe there’s something more out there…
Halloween takes over the month of October, providing plenty of places to party and play in costume. There’s a lot to do and see around the city during this spooky season; here we’ve compiled a list of the top twenty haunted throwdowns catering to the mature crowd. (Don’t worry, we’ve…
Many basements, attics, closets and garages harbor dusty boxes of Super 8 films, VHS tapes or even mini-DVs. These old home movies show long-forgotten birthday parties, trips to the amusement park, babies cuddled by now deceased grandparents, all flickering moments in time captured but rarely screened. The Center For Home…
During the ninth annual Denver Zombie Crawl on Saturday, more than 20,000 undead are expected to descend on the 16th Street Mall to strut their decaying stuff. In a crowd like that, it can be hard to stand out; fortunately, there’s a near-infinite number of zombie movies from which you…
A gloom hangs over writer-director David Ayer’s brutal war drama Fury that only the audience can see. It’s April 1945, and we know that in weeks the Nazis will surrender. The war is already over; Hitler just hasn’t admitted it. American sergeant Don “Wardaddy” Collier (Brad Pitt) suspects as much,…
The big news: In its first half, before it bottoms out with the rankest feel-goodery, Theodore Melfi’s too-familiar ain’t-he-irascible comedy-drama St. Vincent features scene after scene of Bill Murray actually trying to make you laugh. How long has it been? He plays Vincent, a drunk-driving Brooklynite whose look suggests that…
Lord of the Flies. William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is an anguished meditation on the nature of evil. Golding, who fought in the Royal Navy during World War II, was acutely aware of the horrors of which humankind was capable when he wrote this novel, which was first published…
Far North & Outer Space. Far North & Outer Space, now at Goodwin Fine Art, features new work by Beau Carey and Lanny DeVuono, both of whom create contemporary paintings based obliquely on views of the landscape. Many of the Careys are snow scenes and were inspired by a National…
Writer-director Hong Khaou’s slow-moving feature debut, Lilting, examines grief’s isolating effects through the eyes of two subjects: Chinese-Cambodian immigrant Junn (Cheng Pei-pei), whose son, Kai, is killed shortly before moving her away from her London retirement home, and Richard (Ben Whishaw), the lover Kai was working up the courage to…
The tragedy of Jason Reitman’s Men, Women & Children is that it was released the year it was made. A snapshot of today’s cultural disconnection, in which Facebook, texting, World of Warcraft and streaming smut lure people away from dinner with their families, the film’s so current that its observations…
You can’t live in New York for more than ten days without meeting some truly dreadful people: couples who fret about having to choose between buying a summer home and having a second child, even as you’re struggling to pay your monthly rent; large groups of people getting together for…
“Denver has a thing for Halloween and a thing for zombies, and it shows every year,” says Danny Newman, founder of the Denver Zombie Crawl. “It’s our ninth year doing it, and it keeps growing.” This year, Newman expects as many as 35,000 ardent fans of the undead to descend…
In Chris Mohr’s world, chocolate and Halloween go together like peanut butter and jelly. That’s why Choctoberfest, Mohr’s public paean to all things chocolicious, will also feature a side trip of zombie-related fun, including costume contests for children and adults (Westword geek reporter Cory Casciato will be judging the grownups);…
