What are your favorite places, services and events in the metro area? Give them the spotlight they deserve: The Westword Best of Denver 2013 Readers’ Poll is now live, and we want your input. Where is Denver’s best comedy night? What was the year’s best gallery show? Best public art?…
Is roller disco dead? From the looks of Down & Derby’s monthly party at Exdo this weekend, the answer is a firm, “Hell no.” That didn’t keep the group from borrowing that idea for its weekend theme, however — or drawing on disco style while doing some legitimate boogying on…
Last week, we used the first entry in our “100 Colorado Creatives” series to re-introduce you to the Ladies Fancywork Society, the crafty local collective dedicated to knitting and needlework art. This weekend, we spent a day at the museum — an opening day, in fact — when we stopped…
MGM studio exec Louis B. Mayer started the Academy Awards in 1929 as a way to bolster the image of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — and assist in mediating labor disputes. From that modest beginning, the awards ceremony has grown into one of the world’s biggest…
Just because the weekend’s over doesn’t mean your free fun is. This week you can watch (or join) the Martin Luther King Marade, knit a pair of legwarmers while you watch Flashdance, and attend a trunk show without even opening your wallet. See a complete listing of this town’s events…
In May in the Summer, Dahlia (Arrested Development’s hilarious Alia Shawkat) is a lesbian tentatively trying to step out of the closet.In his brief remarks before the first public screening of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford praised the Sundance Institute’s ongoing filmmaker development labs as “our core,” noting…
Yee-haw! While galleries across the country have had a tough time in recent years, the Coors Western Art Show at the National Western Stock Show Complex got off to a fast gallop last week, selling more than $800,000 worth of art at the Red Carpet Reception three days before the…
This Monday, January 21, Members of Colorado’s Mile High Freedom Band will be joining the Lesbian and Gay Band Association to perform in the Presidential Inaugural Parade. Chosen from more than 2,800 marching band organizations across the country, this will be a celebrated second round for the musicians, who performed…
A dog may well be man’s best friend. But if not trained properly, your canine companion could become your worst nightmare. That’s why Petco will be hosting free puppy socialization seminars this weekend in every location in metro Denver. The sessions are designed to introduce puppies to new situations in…
#99: Donald Fodness At first glance, the works of Donald Fodness — which range from intricate drawings to full-blown assemblages, installations and performance pieces — might seem like chaos personified, filled with a million unrelated things that make your mind go a little crazy, if in a good way. But…
If you’re going into the weekend with a nearly empty wallet, don’t fret. From ten cent art openings to comedy debates to a cult film about a sugar addict, there are plenty of events you can enjoy on a shoestring — or at least for under ten bucks. For a…
“Wow. Lucky number 13, I guess? Kind of at a loss for words here,” stumbled Denver-based filmmaker Josh Berman of Level 1 Productions, accepting the prize for Best Movie last night at the 2013 Powder Awards in Park City on opening night of the Sundance Film Festival. “To actually spend…
Philip Sneed is leaving his position as artistic director for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, a position he’s held since 2006, at the end of the month. He will become executive director of the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, replacing Gene Sobczak, who had left a marketing position at…
The most common byproduct of politics is high blood pressure, and no one experiences that kind of pre-stroke madness like standup comedian Lewis Black. With his shaky hands, bulging eyes and unbuttoned suit, Black often appears as an out-of-work schmuck who writes angry letters to the White House and TMZ…
#100: The Ladies Fancywork Society The Ladies Fancywork Society — a somewhat anonymous collective of crafty women — has been delighting Denver for a half-dozen years, working covertly in the dark of night to create yarnbombed installations that sprout out of nowhere in the strangest of places. They’ve made us…
The Aurora Century 16 — now known as the Aurora Century — will reopen tomorrow, after tonight’s “evening of remembrance” for the victims of the July 20 shooting. And through the weekend, Cinemark, the owner of the facility, will show free movies:The Bourne Legacy, Cloud Atlas, Finding Nemo 3D, Flight,…
The NBA is teeming with actors. Yes, actors. Maybe not the kind you’re used to in films and plays, but they still act. These “actors” can often be found over-dramatizing physical contact by flamboyantly diving into the air or covering their eyes while pretending to get clocked with an invisible…
Over the years, Floyd Tunson has exhibited his work at the Denver Art Museum, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Metro’s Center for Visual Art and several top galleries. And right now, you can see Floyd D. Tunson: Son of Pop, a full-blown survey of his long and illustrious career,…
Becoming van Gogh. Timothy Standring, the Denver Art Museum’s curator of painting and sculpture, is the brains behind the very compelling, very interesting and, most of all, very successful Becoming van Gogh, on display now. When we think of van Gogh, we are actually only thinking of the work of…
The mandate at Oakland’s Highland Hospital, as one doctor says during Pete Nicks’s attentive vérité portrait of the place, is to admit people “just as much for their social conditions as for their medical ones.” And as the same guy wearily acknowledges, “The ER’s not the place to manage someone’s…
A chiller about two abandoned little girls and their bond to the wraith of the title, Mama never delivers the primal terror its premise would suggest. Instead, the movie — the first feature by Andy Muschietti, who co-scripted with his sibling Barbara and Neil Cross — distracts with too much…
Despite all the buzz to the contrary, you never really forget that the horses in War Horse are puppets — at least I never did. They suggest living creatures, but they don’t embody them. You know that Joey, the magnificent chestnut that dominates the action, isn’t flesh and blood: You…
