Celebrate Earth Day 2013 while the sun is still shining! Today’s Earth Day also marks the third anniversary for Denver Bike Sharing, which launched Denver’s B-cycle system on April 22, 2010. To get the day rolling, Denver B-cycle is offering annual memberships at a discounted annual rate of $59 through…
Don’t worry, there (probably) won’t be any post-apocalyptic zombies at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema this Sunday. Probably. But when it comes to that day’s ten-hour long marathon of action flicks from director Michael Bay — the appropriately titled “Baymageddon” — there are no guarantees. Continue reading for details on the…
Reading is about more than following a narrative or learning facts, it can be a profound shared experience that culminates in the better understanding of ourselves and each other. In that spirit, welcome to the Westword Book Club, which celebrates books that inspire Denver artists. This week, Adrian Mesa, a comedian, gourmand and charming barbecue guest, discusses his favorite book, The Pilgrimage, by Brazillian novelist Paolo Coelho. The Pilgrimage concerns its protagonist’s spiritual development as he traverses the road to Santiago de Compostela, an important catholic pilgrimage site in Northern Spain.
Yes, weed is now legal in Colorado. And yes, this weekend is the giant 4/20 celebration. But that doesn’t mean that all the fun will be in Civic Center Park.From an alternative 4/20 celebration with music and comedy to Record Store Day to a free theater performance, this weekend is…
In many pockets of Denver, there are visible connections to our city’s past that are, with each passing year, slowly being erased in favor of a more modern aesthetic. This concerns Black Eye Coffee co-owner Gregory Ferrari, who is promoting a Kickstarter campaign to install a large, early twentieth-century-style mural…
Westword art critic Michael Paglia visited Robischon Gallery for this this week’s review, which takes on four different shows at the gallery. The largest of them focuses on New York-based collaborators Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick and their fantastical artwork, while the other three exhibits are also rooted in the…
Update: Congratulations to amyreannie and caseyvg! You’ve each won two tickets to Wanderlust. Check your email for details on how to claim them. Original post: Despite today’s weather, the season of wanderlust is on its way, and with summer comes the big-W Wanderlust festival at Copper Mountain. The annual event…
Tuesday night’s Shear Styles 2 hair competition at Suite Two Hundred gathered stylists from across the city to craft brazen and creative hairdos (while avoiding hair don’ts). Egypt, Latin, Roman and alien looks all crossed the runway during a night of great hair teased to great heights. Continue reading for…
At this year’s Frock Shop Spring Sample Sale, savvy shoppers will get to browse though pieces by both established and up-and-coming designers in Colorado. Now in its second year, Frock Shop — the brainchild of Colorado State University apparel and merchandising graduate Katie Gartner — brings together items from a…
Stoners the world ’round will celebrate the highest of all holidays this Saturday — 4/20, in case you got so baked you’d forgotten — and the high-minded here in Colorado are in for a special treat. Not only is the stuff legal here, but we’re blessed with cultural institutions that…
Ballet Nouveau Colorado has been putting together some of the most innovative collaborations we’ve seen — so it’s appropriate that the group is moving forward with a new name and new digs. Before the company completes its transition to Wonderbound, though, it will present one more show under the BNC…
Are the Asylum’s mockbuster movies made in tribute to the films they mock or just to make campy fun of them? Either way, these flicks — Snakes on a Train, Transmorphers, The 18-Year-Old Virgin and more — have inspired cult followings, and it’s no surprise that the posters hyping them…
In the rush to lead the pack, writer-director Ryan Perez, a UCLA grad and veteran of the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy theater, and who has been an in-house writer and director for Funny or Die since June 2008, had to cut corners. Perez wrote the script in 72 hours, bought…
Thanks to her otherworldly cuteness, wide-eyed “perma-kitten” Lil Bub is the Internet’s favorite celebri-kitty. Her bright-green eyes sparkle with perpetual wonder, and her little pink tongue sticks out beneath an upper lip that’s always smiling. She’s also polydactyl — meaning she has thumbs. When her human, Mike Bridavsky, needs cheering…
After working a packed auditorium into a frenzy at last September’s premiere of Lords of Salem at the Toronto International Film Festival, Rob Zombie anxiously took his seat and watched his audience watch his film, his first independently financed feature. It’s also the first film he’s made following a messy…
Picking up a mere seven years after the previous installment, Scary Movie V features no original cast members, no Wayans brothers producing (they bailed after No. 3) and a new director (first-timer Malcolm D. Lee). It’s still terrible. Why, you may ask, does one even bother to review Scary Movie…
Entering the Robischon Gallery right now is like walking through the looking glass, so to speak. Inside are four shows, each of which posits the existence of a fantastic faux reality expressing individual parallel worlds. Creepy and weird — not to mention accomplished and elegant — are just some of…
Georgia O’Keeffe. Georgia O’Keeffe has been done to death — on greeting cards, calendars and posters. That’s why it’s easy to forget that in the first half of the twentieth century, she was one of America’s most significant early modernists. And with her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, she crusaded for the…
A big winner at last year’s SXSW, Adam Leon’s Gimme the Loot, about a couple of graffiti bombers aiming to gain fame by tagging the Mets’ Home Run Apple, runs on nothing but biodiesel personality. Malcolm (Ty Hickson) and Sofia (Tashiana Washington) are mates only in spraying, and they work…
The good news: Here’s a lavish, serious science-fiction picture, one that on occasion transcends big-budget hitmaking convention to glance against grandeur. Joseph Kosinski’s Oblivion, based on his own graphic novel, is one of those futuristic puzzlers whose dramatic energies are most invested not in the characters or their fates, exactly,…
It’s time, apparently, for the aging ghosts of ’60s radicalism to once again take stock of their sins and compromises. In The Big Chill and Running on Empty, during the Reagan ’80s, the then-middle-aged revolutionaries’ to-do list involved holding down careers and worrying about their kids; now the noble fist-wavers…
“Can you speak up a little, man? I dove off a boat yesterday, and I now have an immense amount of water in my ear!” Brady Corbet, 24, is on the phone from the Republic of Panama, where he’s filming a new movie opposite Benicio del Toro and Josh Hutcherson…
