Artist and arts advocate Tracy Weil and fellow artist Jill Hadley Hooper founded the wildly successful River North Art District in 2007. And Weil’s Weilworks, a postmodern farmhouse complete with a small farm, is right across Chestnut Place from Ironton Studios & Gallery, the post-industrial complex where Hooper is the…
Barbara Carpenter and Janice McDonald. In the east gallery at Spark, Barbara Carpenter has assembled a large group of small photos hung in clusters, salon-style, for Walking Miss Daisy: Photographs by Barbara Carpenter. The Miss Daisy of the title is Carpenter’s dog, and all of the photos have been taken…
99 Histories. In Julia Cho’s 99 Histories, a young woman returns to her Korean mother’s house. She is pregnant, alone, unsure what to do next. A onetime musical prodigy who stopped playing the violin when she was diagnosed with a never-fully-defined mental illness, she has broken up with Joe, the…
Michel Gondry likes video stores. He is, after all, the director of the ultimate VHS sonnet, Be Kind Rewind, in which Jack Black and Mos Def re-create classics like Ghostbusters from plastic bags and tinsel. (Sad about the death of Blockbuster? Give it a watch.) One night, Gondry was browsing…
Through the soaring windows of the Mandarin Oriental Miami, it’s hard not to notice the blue skies and matching azure water. Most people find Miami’s beachy, serene views relaxing. But for fans of The Hunger Games, the vacation vista could just as easily conjure images of blister-forming nerve gas, vicious…
The idea behind Attention Homes’ Sleep Out for Homeless Youth is to give people a chance to sleep in someone else’s shoes. Now in its second year, the fundraiser invites participants to support National Runaway and Homeless Youth Awareness Month by spending a night outside in the cold. The evening…
Denver has been presenting the Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Arts & Culture since 1986 — but this year the city added a new twist, asking people to vote for their favorites in two categories. Tonight, the winners of those contests will be announced at a free awards ceremony that…
Need your pants hemmed in a hurry? Get a tailor, swift. As much as we’d like to take credit for this music/fashion pun, it comes to you courtesy of MCA Denver, which is offering an evening of pants alterations and uninterrupted Taylor Swift songs for this week’s Black Sheep Friday…
The Colorado Symphony’s celebration of superheroes, sci-fi soundtracks and video-game scores is making a hero of composer Austin Wintory, a Denver native whose music for the PlayStation 3 game Journey has the distinction of being the first-ever Grammy-nominated video-game score. “I don’t know which is the greater honor: to have…
Haunted houses, common in October, are unusual for mid-November, but that’s just one of the ways HorrorHouse Fest veers from your typical haunted-house setup. For one thing, it’s more of a haunted bar – or at least it takes place in a bar. For another, the “haunt” here is actually…
Denver may never host a Super Bowl, but we’ve got the next best thing: the Donkey Kong world championships! Fully sanctioned by Twin Galaxies, video gaming’s high-score keeper of record, the Kong Off 3 will host 22 of the world’s best Donkey Kongers, including The King of Kong’s Billy Mitchell…
Theatre Esprit Asia, a local company bringing together pan-Asian casts with culture-centric works, has already proven in its first season that the concept is no flash in the pan. Not only is T.E.A., the theatrical brainchild of actors Maria Cheng and Tria Xiong, strong on talent, but the fine acting…
Looking to support the local shred economy by sending your ski and snowboard dollars to Colorado companies? Copper Mountain likes the way you think, and will present its third annual Colorado Days event this weekend in Burning Stones Plaza, at the base of the American Eagle lift. “It’s really pretty…
A San Antonio-based comic actor by way of Chicago, homegirl Ruby Nelda Perez is an old friend of Denver’s Su Teatro ensemble and artistic director Tony Garcia. And when she brings her touring one-woman show Doña Rosita’s Jalapeño Kitchen to Su Teatro beginning tonight for a weekend run, it won’t…
Most films are meant to be shown from beginning to end, delivering a set narrative that is the same every time. But when the audience sits down at First Person Cinema: Nicolas Rey for his film anders, Molussien, they’ll see just one of the 362,880 possible versions of the film…
As hard as it is to properly describe the late keyboardist and jazz experimentalist Sun Ra, it’s easy to turn his story into a comic book. But this much is true: Born Herman Blount in Birmingham, Alabama, he was drawn to music as a child and graduated to playing in…
Although it might sound at first like child’s play, The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love-Suicide is a production packed with heavy themes. “I have a personal love for new works,” says director Dr. J. Nick Dickert, “especially new plays that are problematic. Bullying is a pertinent subject right now,…
The team players at Buntport Theater make it their business to upend every cornerstone of drama, and that’s how they’ll start their new season — with Electra Onion Eater, a tragedy-turned-comedy that peels Sophocles’s Electra down to its soap-opera core, with a pared-down, floating chorus that speaks from the strangest…
It’s hard to believe, after last year’s hoopla over The Book of Mormon’s premiere at the Ellie, that its return engagement will be just another show. A very good show, as Westword’s Juliet Wittman pointed out in August: “The show is smart, cheeky, raunchy, irreverent and also surprisingly and exuberantly…
The autumn weather has been surprisingly warm, making this the perfect time for fashionistas to rock their finest fall duds. We spotted Metro State University of Denver journalism student Teresa Scaggiari rocking some great street style. Continue reading to learn about her style icons, where she shops, and her style…
The Funtastic Fun location on South Broadway has been closed since mid-2011. For years, people have driven by that white chunk of concrete and wondered what would become of it. Maybe they even spotted the glass jutting out of the top and puzzled over what the hell it once housed…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, Withey touts Generation War…
