For those who grew up in the decade between 1985 and 1995, there was no cooler destination in TV land than Nickelodeon. Free of the artificial constraints of edutainment, the network delivered just what kids wanted: crass, silly shows bathed in torrents of slime. Unlike the safe, sanitized territory of…
Any director hoping to tackle Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning play Death of a Salesman has a huge hurdle to overcome; after all, many theater-lovers studied the work at either a high-school or college level and bring plenty of preconceived notions to the production. “One of the dangers of…
“Irony” and “artists” are two things that go together like peanut butter and jelly, and the new exhibition at RedLine, The Ironic Object, arranges them into quite a tasty sandwich. “I’ve long been interested in the object that functions in a pointed or ironic way,” explains curator Lanny DeVuono. “And…
Everyone’s got one lurking inside, but not many folks discover the secret to unleashing a successful creative life. Still, an impressive lineup of people have mastered that art, and they’ll be profiled in the Creative Life Series, which begins today with an exploration of spiritual guru Joseph Campbell and continues…
Sometimes style and research can go hand in hand. The more you learn about the looks of the past, the more you can create a new visual for the future. This practice is exemplified by local sushi bar hostess Morgon Johnson, who tweaks the styles of the 1940s and ’50s…
Eve Ensler — who will be in Boulder for a benefit for LOCAL Theater Company on Friday, October 11, is known to Coloradans primarily as the author of that raucous, liberating and unflinching theater piece, The Vagina Monologues, which has been performed several times in the Denver area — as…
In this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, our critics discuss Captain Phillips and Machete Kills, both out on Friday, October 11…
Mestizo, a new play written and directed by Anthony Garcia, kicks off Su Teatro’s new season on Thursday, October 11. The premiere stars Daniel Valdez, who in 1973 composed the album Mestizo — the first and only Chicano protest album to be released by a major record label. And the…
Matthew Shepard’s brutal murder fifteen years ago in Laramie, Wyoming, has become a major symbol of the struggle for civil rights for the LGBTQ community around the globe. Now, thanks to the diligent work of Shepard friend and filmmaker Michele Josue, the world gets to see so much more of…
Our workaday world is so minutely mapped and Googled that we sometimes forget just how much of it was, until fairly recently, unknown and feared — particularly the sea, home of seals mistaken for mermaids and even more fantastic creatures: the sea serpent and the kraken, whales as big as…
#40: Brian Corrigan. Brian Corrigan dreams big — in 3D — and his latest project means to recreate cyberspace live on the streets of downtown Denver next summer as a way of bringing people and ideas together through life-sized gaming. If all goes according to plan, OhHeckYeah: An Immersive Street…
MegaFauna launched its new location this weekend with a grand opening party to remember. Featuring tunes by DJ Viking Sound Machine and members of the Infatué dance crew tearing up the floors, the event was poppin’ from start to finish. To top it all off, Deep Eddy Vodka was pouring…
Julie Golden is a novelist, political activist, stained glass artist and hula hoop hobbyist who lives in Boulder. She is also who has also triumphed over unimaginable hardships with tremendous grace and a renewed vigor for life, whose compassion is evident in everything she does. Her novel, Vagilantes, is a twist-filled narrative that focuses on a group of women abuse survivors and the pedophiles who keep getting mysteriously murdered. Golden met up with Westword this week to discuss vigilante justice against pedophiles, writing like David Foster Wallace, and a brain injury that nearly took away her ability to read.
For this year’s Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide, we asked artistic movers and shakers to answer a few questions about the state of the arts, both locally and around the world. We’ll be rolling out their answers over the next few weeks in pairs that combine both veterans and…
David Sedaris, author of many humorous books of essays, including his latest Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls, has added a second Denver show. He will be bringing his awkward sense of humor and captivating stories to the Paramount Theater, November 24 at 2 p.m. This show follows his sold-out November…
It’s October, which in Colorado means time for snow and 70-plus degree days. If you just moved here six months ago — which is great! We’re glad you did! — there are some things you should know about Colorado. First, whatever clothes your brought from your home state, whether it…
Yes, it’s true. Over the weekend, one of the interchangeable blond anchors on Fox and Friends reported that, despite the WWII memorial being closed during the government shutdown, “some things are continuing to be funded . . . President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for…
The first thing the Mythbusters say before starting an experiment on their television show is, “Don’t try this at home.” Fans of the show will finally have an opportunity to disregard this advice and try their favorite experiments at Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition. The interactive exhibition opens this weekend at…
A known proponent of all things spook and horror, Stephen Graham Jones is a professor of writing at the University of Colorado Boulder. Highlighting his curricular activities this past summer: ENGL 3246 -201: Zombie Renaissance – Pop. Culture. If he’s able to bring that into the halls of academia, think…
#41: Artists Hollis + Lana. Husband-and-wife team Conor Hollis and Amorette Lana not only fell in love — they also fell into artistic collusion. Together, they wield spray cans to create organic collaborative works, sometimes monumental in size, on canvases, in sculptural shapes and across the sides of buildings. What’s…
With all of the fires and floods in the past six months, living in Colorado has had, if not a biblical quality, than at least the character of a National Geographic Channel special. Fire, as evoked by wood, is the anchor for an inspired pairing titled Truth and Consequences, now…
After the Revolution. Playwright Amy Herzog enters a very specific world in After the Revolution: the passionate, close-knit, hyper-idealistic world of Jewish Communism in New York City during the early decades of the twentieth century. For these activists, Soviet Russia was a model. But when Khrushchev denounced Stalin during the…
