Sleeping away from home is scary. Hotels hotels, motels and other temporary sleeping arrangements can be full of bed bugs, meth residue and sketchy-ass neighbors — and when you step out of real life and into the world of horror movies, you can add murderous ghosts, zombies and psychotic clerks…
If Black Friday did a number on your wallet, you can still keep yourself entertained this week in Denver. There are plenty of things to do that won’t cost a cent — from a horror flick to a Chanukah celebration to a free comedy open mic. Did we miss a…
On January 30, the second annual Westword Whiteout will kick off Denver’s 2014 fashion season at the McNichols Building. The evening — which raises funds for the American Transplant Association — will include live music, specialty vendors, classic cocktails and some of the city’s top designers in a signature runway…
The fourth annual Victorian Holiday Home Tour kicks off tomorrow, November 30, inviting visitors to get an intimate look at some of central Denver’s oldest and grandest homes. A tradition that has fast become a local favorite, last year’s event featuring local mansions saw more than 800 people through the…
Buying gifts for the holidays can be daunting. You battle other shoppers for an unbeatable deal and stand in mile-long lines — and sometimes the gift receiver doesn’t like the present anyway. For those who would prefer to buy something thoughtful that gives back to the community, or make a…
Baby, it’s cold outside, which is all the more reason to stay inside and concentrate on cool, geeky activities all month. Once Christmas gets here, you’ll probably be too busy playing with your shiny new Xbox One or Playstation 4 to get out of the house much, but until then,…
The holiday shopping season begins in earnest on this nasty day after Thanksgiving, and though Small Business Saturday is tomorrow, it doesn’t mean you can’t keep right on shopping local and handmade — now and all year long. And how can you resist, anyway, with all of these alternatives still…
Headed for the hills to make the most of the four day weekend? Yeah, us too. Beaver Creek, Steamboat, and Crested Butte all opened for the season today; Aspen Mountain, Snowmass, and Telluride open tomorrow, and Purgatory and Howelsen Hill open this weekend. Read on for some tips on where…
This week, we’re covering all things hipster in Denver: best bars to run into them, best restaurants to eat with them, and now, best stores to shop with them. From do-it-yourself creative spaces, locally-made apparel, geeked-out workshops, and antique oddities, the Denver hipster scene is alive and well on all…
With holiday shopping in full swing, we’ve packaged up some fashionable events to make your season bright in early December — starting with the Red Ball, an annual fundraiser for the Colorado AIDS Project. See also: Diana Vreeland might have loved words as much as she loved fashion…
Though the onslaught of ads would have you believing that this weekend is all about spending cash, that doesn’t have to be the case. In fact, you don’t have to drop that much dough at all over your post-Turkey Day weekend. All of these events — which include everything from…
Halloween is long gone, but costume fiends don’t care: they’re always on the hunt for the next party. Which is why the Denver mask shop ArtSmyths is presenting Puttin’ On The Ritz at the Mercury Café this Saturday, November 30. ArtSmyth’s owner, Tiffany Smyth, is throwing Jazz-era dead-celebrities funeral party,…
When the Denver Art Museum doubled its exhibition space in 2006 by building the Frederic C. Hamilton wing across the street from its iconic Gio Ponti tower, the idea was to use the new building for temporary exhibits — in particular, big blockbusters. A lot of people, especially art writers,…
One of the tragedies of the Internet age is that sometimes movies get attention for all the wrong reasons. When Abdellatif Kechiche (Secret of the Grain) debuted Blue Is the Warmest Color in Cannes in May, the festival jury was so taken with the film and its two lead performances…
Once upon a time — the 1980s — you could walk into a movie theater any day of the year, plop down a few bucks, and watch one man kick another man’s ass. Not every action flick was great, but most were good enough, the film equivalent of pizza. Back…
Unlike the Park Chan-wook picture it’s based on, Spike Lee’s Oldboy is drab and humorless, devoid of the stylistic curlicues that can get you through even a bad Spike Lee film. Like its hero, a clueless lug who’s imprisoned for twenty years by an invisible captor for a transgression he…
I’m no sports fan, but I am capable of responding to the myth and magic of baseball. A couple of years ago, I was absorbed and delighted by Ken Weitzman’s The Catch, which grew out of the Denver Center’s New Play Summit to receive a full production. This play presented…
Clark Richert. In the few years it’s been in business, Gildar Gallery has mostly showcased young and up-and-coming artists, but with Dimension and Symmetry: Clark Richert, the intimate space on Broadway has moved to Denver’s big time, as Richert is among the best-known artists in the state. The show comes…
Rancho Mirage. The dialogue in Rancho Mirageis swift and clever and the characters are vivid, if not particularly deep or likable. But while the trials and tribulations of the three couples involved are standard-issue — infidelity, money problems — they’re presented in ways that are completely, off-the-map absurd. We start…
If you don’t eat meat, holidays like Thanksgiving — which revolve around food — can be a bit daunting, because not only do you have to deal with the typical obnoxious-relative routine, but there’s not even a plate full of goodies to concentrate on while you pretend not to hear…
That pecan pie packs plenty of calories, but you can preemptively burn them off today at the 40th Annual Mile High United Way Turkey Trot in Washington Park. Last year, more than 9,500 runners registered, and upwards of 20,000 attended the celebrated trot, which Forbes has called one of the…
We usually see finished artwork in gallery exhibits: pieces that tie up the loose ends of a process to make a visual — or visceral — statement. But the process is also interesting, and that’s what fascinated Emily Moore of Love Gallery as curator of a new invitational show, Origins,…
