Dear Diary: Both Josiah Hesse and Bree Davies had tough weeks. Adam Carolla called Hesse an “asshole” from the stage of the Paramount because of an earlier interview Hesse had done with the comic; Bree got hit with snow because, well, because she lives in Colorado. And they both got…
The Family Feud format has always been good for kin-centered drama, and tonight’s live version at the Voodoo Comedy Playhouse should have plenty of it. Except that the members of the teams playing in this evening’s knock-off of the three-decade-old TV show aren’t related: The friendly competition will pit the…
Michael Gregory Mizanin, better known as pro-wrestler The Miz, made a name for himself as a cast member of 2001’s The Real World: Back to New York. But in the cade since then, the actor, TV host and professional wrestler has appeared on dozens of television shows and made a…
Crazed collector Andrew Novick even collects food memories with his camera, and sometimes he shares them with the world, as he does with Sweet Tooth: 1000 Photographs of Desserts (that I ate), an exhibit that opens with a reception from 5 to 11 p.m. tomorrow at cupcake emporium The Shoppe…
Doug Benson’s appearance in Denver this weekend is a welcome addition to a long line of marijuana-themed events that have given Colorado a globally recognized identity as a THC utopia. As the co-star of The Marijuana-Logues and the documentary Super High Me — in which Benson takes on the Morgan…
Snow returns this weekend, but that’s no reason to hole up in your house. Get a jump on spring by picking up some new seeds and gardening tips at Growhaus’s annual seed swap, check out Denver’s Month of Photography exhibitions, attend a zombie fashion show or drunkenly watch kung fu…
At The ABCs of Death, opening today at the Sie FilmCenter, you’re going to get the equivalent of horror tapas — one short, punchy tale for each letter of the alphabet, each delivered by a current or rising star in the genre. It’s a tasty appetizer that can serve as…
Want to be part of a new reality show? The Breckenridge-Wynkoop restaurants are collaborating with Koncrete Media, a local production company, on a reality TV show, Mile High Social. And they’re hosting a casting call from 2 to 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 10 at Ghost Plate & Tap; the…
The opening weekend of Equinox Theatre’s Bat Boy: The Musical last month was a smash — sold-out houses on both nights, and standing ovations for the cast. But a few days later came the horrifying news that Adam Perkes, the intense actor who played Bat Boy, had been found dead…
Update: Congratulations to amyreannie! You’ve won four tickets to see the Mammoth tomorrow. Check your email for details on how to win. Original post: Whether you’re already a fan of lacrosse or have never even seen a game, here’s your chance to capture the action for free. Our home team…
In Sigri Strand’s latest series, Conjuring the Sensation of the Sun, the photographer taps into a human’s relationship with food — but through the lens of science fiction. Part of the citywide Month of Photography, the resulting show opens Saturday, March 9 at GroundSwell, which just won a Westword MasterMind…
Ugg boots? For Bree Davies, that’s the best thing to come out of winter in Colorado. “Digging cars out of the snow, getting stranded for days inside my own house, standing in the cold waiting to get into a show, a movie or a restaurant — these are all things…
#85: Judy Anderson When Judy Anderson founded PlatteForum a decade ago, it was a good idea. Over the years, with the help of an enthusiastic team, it’s morphed into a great idea — a well-oiled machine that molds a rare product: Kids pumped up on creativity. The basic idea behind…
In the spare yet grand Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, co-director and tour guide Werner Herzog talks us through one season cycle in the life of a not-of-this-century trapper in the Siberian town of Bakhta, population 300. We follow Anatoly Soloviev puttering through the forested vastness and over…
Up front at Space Gallery is an impressive solo, William Stoehr: Icons, which comprises large portraits done in a wildly expressionist style. Stoehr blows up women’s faces to gigantic proportions using an action-painting approach, smearing the pigments in rapidly laid-down strokes. Despite the abstract shapes of these smears, Stoehr orchestrates…
Art of the State. This juried effort at the Arvada Center has been attracting crowds, to say the least. The two-person jury comprised Collin Parson, Arvada’s exhibition manager and curator, and Dean Sobel, who, as director of the Clyfford Still Museum, is an art-world celebrity. Because of the curators’ stature,…
Nine years on from her intoxicating road-movie debut, Somersault, Australian director Cate Shortland has fashioned a different kind of journey — this one set amid the winding trails of the Bavarian woods, circa 1945. There the five children of a captured Nazi officer flee toward what they hope is safety…
It’s a bad omen when, early on in Oz the Great and Powerful, we learn that the full given name of its wizard is Oscar — also the name of the ceremony that star James Franco once presided over as calamitously as he does this sagging Disney tent pole, a…
It’s a cliché of the voting world that even the staunchest liberals — especially of the privileged, male variety — tend to drift rightward through middle age and beyond. Yesterday’s protesters develop the libertarian malaise; its progressives seek to fence in their fiefdoms and tax-proof their stock portfolios. Not so…
On the opening night for Jon, the Catamounts served vodka before the show. The drinks — courtesy of Boulder’s 303 Vodka — came in glasses rimmed with blue Kool-Aid, and with ice cubes made of frozen cherry juice. This offering — along with a food wagon decorated with lights that…
Twenty minutes into the first full-length movie based on L. Frank Baum’s most beloved novel, a duck pukes into the face of Larry Semon, the star and director. Semon’s 1925 flop, titled The Wizard of Oz, opens and closes with a Geppetto-esque toymaker reading to his granddaughter from a well-loved…
In the music business, timing can be everything. Immortalized in the new documentary A Band Called Death, Detroit-area brothers Dannis, Bobby and David Hackney lived this reality as Death, an early-’70s proto-punk band on the verge of stardom — but for whom fame never came. Screening tonight as part of…
