If you’ve seen the billboards around town for Odysseo, which opens on Wednesday, September 17, in the Pepsi Center parking lot, then you know that tastemeister Larry King says this horse-and-acrobat extravaganza “surpasses the world’s greatest shows.” In fact, there’s a lot of hyperbole surrounding the performance, but after chatting…
Jim Havey’s soon-to-be-finished feature documentary, The Great Divide, aims to tell the tangled story of water in Colorado — a subject as vast as the state and the eight states that Colorado supplies water to. He’s looking at the acequias (ditch irrigation systems) in the San Luis Valley, the export…
Cherry Creek North has been one of the top shopping destinations in Denver for decades — and on Friday, September 19, it will celebrate that status with the much-anticipated CCN Celebrate Fashion Show. Leslie Horna, CCN director of marketing and communications, took time out from her packed schedule to talk…
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. James André says he’s one of the twelve or thirteen people in…
Nan Desu Kan 2014’s greatest cosplay moment — the annual costume contest — unfolded onstage at the Denver Marriott Tech Center on Saturday night, with anime-inspired wings and weapons galore. Photographer Marissa Shevins recorded the action with these images and more. See also: Photos: The Cosplayers of Nan Desu Kan…
Last week’s weather gave us a preview of the frigid temperatures to come. So this week, why not check out a free knitting class — so you can make yourself a scarf before the snow really flies. You can also learn the history of a couple of cemeteries and party…
Step inside the Nan Desu Kan anime convention, the region’s largest, and you walk into a magical universe of gaming, screenings, fan panels, concerts and detailed costumery created in allegiance to favorite characters from the far-fetched world of anime. There’s nothing else like it, as these images by photographer Danielle…
Sender Films took seven years to make Valley Uprising, its joyful, wistful history of the climbing counterculture of Yosemite. And as filmmaker Peter Mortimer told the audience at the feature’s premiere in Boulder last night, they used every last hour of that time. “[Partner Nick Rosen] and I haven’t seen…
When the Chocolate Skateboards team rolls into town this weekend on its twentieth anniversary tour, local artist Evan Hecox will be front and center at the celebration. His artwork for the iconic brand will anchor a one-night-only art show at Super Ordinary that features his skateboard graphics, along with photographs…
Zombies and booze go great together because, well, booze goes great with everything. Besides, when the undead are clawing at your door, doing their best to feast on your entrails and you’re trapped inside with no possible escape, do you want to face that fate sober? No. No, you do…
This weekend’s gallery openings include works that reimagine inner and outer landscapes, inspire creativity in youngsters or just plain look good on a wall. Highbrow, lowbrow and everywhere in between, there’s something for everyone in Denver this weekend…. See also: Golden Opportunity: Jenny Morgan at Plus Gallery…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio loves the media and the media loves him. So does the Republican political establishment. So does the Tea Party. Through his six terms in office, the 82-year-old sheriff has perfected the media stunt and used public relation campaigns to keep journalists on his side –…
Here’s an idea: If, like me, you are bored to tears with the corporatization of sport and want to celebrate in some way those who play for pure love of the game — and maybe grab a burger, some hot dogs, and a cheap car wash in the bargain –…
There’s a chill in the air and it’s just about time to drive up to the mountains and see the leaves changing color. But there’s plenty to do in town, too, including several community parties with beer and music. You can also chase Bigfoot or rub elbows with some legendary…
Even in the most conservative areas, theater provides a home for the misfits, the oddballs, the outcasts and the rebels. In his new documentary, Skanks, David McMahon follows a group of performers as they prepare to perform Billy Ray Brewton’s raunchy drag musical Skanks in a One Horse Town, in…
I will never forget the first time I saw Phantasm. How could I? It haunted me for years afterward. I was maybe seven or eight years old, surely no older than nine. My dad was watching it, probably on HBO, because I think it was the only movie channel we…
While the first Colorado ski areas won’t be opening for another month, locals know that snowboarding season actually starts in September, with the early onslaught of video premieres to stoke the fire. And, for the second year in a row, you can see almost all of them in one place…
The fall theater season is in full swing. This weekend you can send off a local production as it takes to the road, re-view an old stage classic or catch the world premiere of a new play from a local playwright — and there’s an old-fashioned musical, too. Here’s a…
I’m a big fan of public art, and Denver has commissioned some standout pieces over the years that really spiff up the city. But sometimes things go awry when politics and civic bureaucracy meet the art world. While some of the people who serve on selection committees may have artistic…
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are enfants terrible whose rhythm, aesthetic and sensibilities have informed everything from cinema to sketch comedy and deodorant advertising in the years since Tom Goes to the Mayor debuted on Adult Swim nearly a decade ago. Gallows humor abounds in their new series Bedtime Stories, a hilariously macabre horror-comedy anthology which makes its Adult Swim debut on September 18. The show is a huge step forward for the duo, who’ve mounted their second national live tour in preparation for the premiere. What sets this tour apart from their last is the inclusion of Dr. Steve Brule on the lineup. Played by character actor John C. Reilly, who relishes each awkward syllable in the role of a profoundly unsettling physician with dubious advice, Brule first appeared in interstitial segments on Awesome Show and then spun off into his own series, Check it out with Dr. Steve Brule. Westword caught up with Heidecker before his Paramount theater show for a brief phone interview.
Today is my last day in Venice, which always makes me blue. Yesterday morning, on the way to my final screening, a tourist with an Eastern European accent I couldn’t quite identify stopped me a block or so from the sad and shuttered Hotel des Bains and asked me if…
Four years ago, comedian Bill Hader told his agent that he wanted to do a drama. It took a while. “I used to think typecasting wasn’t a thing, and it totally is,” Hader admits. “That’s an industry feeling: ‘How can I take that person seriously when I know they’re capable…
