In 2012 Westword reported on the award-winning arty adventure films from the Carbondale-based collective of filmmakers known as Forge Motion Pictures nearly a dozen times — they just might be the hardest working film team in Colorado — and the crew is kicking off 2013 with a splash: over the…
Although Show and Tell contributors didn’t quite have the skills (or nerve) to try out ourselves, photographer Brandon Marshall stopped by Fusion Factory’s open auditions for go-go dancers and hula-hoopers over the weekend. The tryouts came just in time to prepare for Fusion’s Mardi Gras celebration, at which those who…
Denver is full of fun — and free — events this week. From long-horned cattle on the downtown streets to art from around the world, there’s plenty to see — and you won’t have to watch your wallet emptying out in order to enjoy the sights. For a full calendar…
Maybe you keep it in the back of a drawer or between the leaves of an old journal, or perhaps in a cardboard box in the garage. You don’t know why you keep it, but you do, and every once in a while, when you come across it, it screws…
Did you resolve to become more expressive in 2013? To indulge all of your artistic fantasies — even if your wildest dream is to sing “Feelings” before a crowd? Inspired by our list of “Denver’s ten best karaoke bars,” one reader visited our number-one pick, the Rear Inn Lounge. And…
Despite its friendly approach to photo-sharing, Instagram has brought out the true photographer in all of us — and might have scared that photographer away with its updated terms of use. As if Twitter and Facebook weren’t enough to keep us entertained between thumb-swiping refresh rates, Instagram gave us one…
The American Council of the Blind of Colorado’s Million Penny Campaign, which kicks off at the first of the year and runs through March 31, is exactly that — a penny collection drive. The non-profit will also take donations in any other amount, but the penny drive seemed like a…
In a year of big ski-town anniversaries — including a 40th bash at Copper Mountain, 50th anniversaries at Vail and Steamboat and Eldora, the 75th anniversary celebration at Loveland, and the upcoming 100th anniversary of Steamboat Springs’ Howelsen Hill — the wildest party of all just might be this week…
It’s the first First Friday of the year, and that means that Denver is teeming with art openings galore. The great thing about art openings? They’re almost always free. And the rest of the weekend is packed full of events, too, from classic film screenings to go-go dancing tryouts, and…
Millinery — real millinery, where hats are made and blocked from scratch — is a dying art, and nobody knows that better than self-taught Denver milliner Susan Dillon, who markets her completely hand-wrought, sculptural work under the name Kitty Mae Millinery. “I am saddened by the number of people who…
Two days after Christmas, victims of the Aurora Century 16 theater shootings and family members of those killed there on July 20 got an e-mail invitation to a special reopening ceremony at the facility later this month. Many didn’t appreciate the invite, labeling it a blatant marketing ploy. In fact,…
Nine years ago, Westword introduced the MasterMind awards. Recognizing that the local arts scene needed a little fertilizer to really get going, and growing, we created a program that every year honors five cultural visionaries — artists and organizations alike, in the very broad areas of multimedia, performing arts, literary…
When TNT Maddox became the first female Harlem Globetrotter since 1993, she wasn’t sure how she’d be received by her fellow players. But the Colorado Springs native says her teammates are now like her brothers, and that she’s had nothing but a positive experience since donning the red, white and…
Even if the year the world was supposed to end is barely out of sight, people still don’t know much about Mesoamerican mythology and the workings of the Mayan calendar, or what that heritage means to us in modern times. But Westsider Tony Shearer did. The late activist, poet and…
Quentin Tarantino’s eight feature, Django Unchained, is earning raves around the country. “The boisterous, outlandish, fiercely intelligent Django Unchained is at once an act of provocation and reparation — not just for slavery, but for Hollywood’s decades of saintly Negroes and sass-talking sidekicks,” writes Scott Foundas in his review. But…
When the words “true story” appear twice in a film’s opening disclaimer, it’s a guarantee that what follows will include at least one questionable fiction. The Impossible is inspired by the Alvarez Belons, a Spanish family of five who survived the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that claimed almost 300,000 lives;…
Rock and roll proves the coming-of-age crucible in Not Fade Away, Sopranos creator David Chase’s semi-autobiographical feature debut of shaggy hair, shagadelic beauties, and the joy and sorrow wrought from chasing, and failing to achieve, one’s dreams. Chase’s tale of showbiz striving has, in its basic form, been told before:…
Diana seems like a typical middle-class wife and mother: smart, energetic and ironic, waking her sleepy son and teasing her daughter. That is, until she begins making sandwiches for everyone’s lunch — a maneuver that involves tossing dozens of slices of bread onto the floor, then sinking down and dabbing…
“Like a lot of other stuff in my life, I sort of fell backwards into it,” says screenwriter Will Beall of his unexpected perch atop Hollywood’s A-list. Unexpected, because just five years ago, Beall was busy working for Tinseltown’s second-most famous employer, the Los Angeles Police Department, where he served…
David Chase looks like he wants to whack somebody. Not just anybody, mind you, but the middle-age guy with the bad dye job a few tables away from us in the Library Bar of the Regency Hotel. “Hiya!” bellows the dye job into his phone. “I’m sittin’ here watchin’ the…
Beaver Creek – home of the Birds of Prey World Cup ski race and famed double-black runs with names like Golden Eagle, Peregrine and Osprey – gets literal with its raptor motif today, offering up a free interactive exhibit hosted by Nature’s Educators starting at 3:30 p.m. in Beaver Creek…
For the Harlem Globetrotters, basketball is more than just a game; it’s about connecting with a global audience. In 2012, the team went to Afghanistan to play for the troops for the first time in its eighty-year-plus history, and the ballers will play two games today in Colorado, where they’ll…
