“Ice Cube Gallery sounds like an attractive escape from 100-plus-degree temperatures,” writes Michael Paglia in his review of Regina V. Benson: Wading In and Jane McMahan: Absence (through July 14), two shows that feature natural imagery as key components, in this week’s Westword. Meanwhile, the Golden Triangle’s Walker Fine Art,…
Denver is full of creative people doing creative things. We have the best graphic designers, the best videographers, the best photographers, the best decorators, the best lighting people, the best architects, and most importantly, the best public art. All over Denver, we are exposed to different styles of art influenced…
Editor’s note: Cruiser bikes have become a fixture in Denver, especially on Wednesday nights when weekly Cruiser Rides take over the streets. In fact, it’s hard to imagine a time when there wasn’t one on every corner. But the culture that comes with cruisers can be polarizing, and Westword contributors…
Editor’s note: Cruiser bikes have become a fixture in Denver, especially on Wednesday nights when weekly Cruiser Rides take over the streets. In fact, it’s hard to imagine a time when there wasn’t one on every corner. But the culture that comes with cruisers can be polarizing, and Westword contributors…
The Donald Sutherland collection archived at the Auraria Library Special Collections Department reflects a particular area of interest for the late University of Colorado Boulder professor: avant-garde art and experimental artists, many of whom he corresponded with. (He also wrote to authors; we recently wrote of the signed Thomas Hornsby…
The summer continues to be a scorcher, and while many of us are too hot to do anything useful, cooler heads are using this time to plan ahead for the future. Take a look at this week’s street-style subjects, who prove that you can be productive and look good at…
Flash mobs are so yesterday. Get ready for cash mobs! Rather than inciting a riot or inspiring a funky dance, these mobs encourage people to throw money at local businesses. As Samuel Schimek, who will be hosting the first installment of Style Strike at the Denver Pavilions at noon today,…
Free public movies seem to be a dime a dozen this summer — although most of the feature films are those favorite family reruns. But the four-week Film Fiesta series, sponsored by Arts & Venues at Su Teatro in Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe, takes a more serious turn…
Colorado’s splendid scenery seems like an ideal backdrop for movies. But while a handful of films have been made here over the past few decades, many movie crews actually use stand-ins for scenes allegedly set in Colorado. Melanie Asmer detailed some of these stunt doubles in “Ten movies and TV…
Every heard of Extreme Makeover? How about Say Yes to the Dress? Well, the Denver Pavilions debuts its own series tomorrow from noon to one in the plaza. With the tagline “If you don’t like it…STRIKE IT!,” Style Strike replaces outdated accessories with new, trendy items hand-picked by style host…
From July 13 through July 15, the Colorado Black Arts Festival will fill City Park with vendors, performers and artists all celebrating African culture. “Our theme this year is ‘Art Reflects Nature,'” says spokeswoman Jessica Springs. “We want the community to see how art and nature go together and how…
The Colorado Tomato Battle at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park Saturday was a mash-up of childhood frivolity and big-kid fun. Though the structure was more formal than the old Tomato Wars between Coloradans and Texans at Twin Lakes, the result was the same: utter chaos and tomato soup. Tomato Battle founders…
Coco Chanel once said, “A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.” I ensured my future when I married my perfume in 2008…literally. Since I had to spend a year jumping through the FBI’s hoops to have my last name legally changed to Davies, I decided to add a…
T.J. Miller loves Denver. He was educated by the rough blocks of Colfax, by the teachers at East High School, and by the comedians who came before him. After working odd jobs here and there to support his comedic obsession, Miller has finally established himself internationally on the comedy circuit…
If last year’s inaugural Denver County Fair was a grand experiment, this year’s “is going to blow the first one out of the water on all counts!” says DCF maestra Dana Cain. That’s because Cain’s mental notepad was a cover-to-cover frenzy of new ideas and lessons learned by the time…
You say tomato, I say tomato — either way, it hurts like hell when you’re hit by a green one. And it smells worse when you’re hit by a rotten one, as Natalie Gonzales learned when she joined in the Colorado Tomato Battle this past weekend. The event brought back…
I don’t need to tell you that Colorado’s weather has been a scorcher and that, less metaphorically, parts of the state itself have been scorched, including my sister’s neighborhood, Mountain Shadows. Her house was spared, luckily, but this once-handsome area of Colorado Springs will never be the same. The Waldo…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist that starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with some odd takes on…
A zealous gumbo of regionalism, magical realism, post-Katrina allegory, myth and ecological parable, Beasts of the Southern Wild, the southern-Louisiana-set debut feature of 29-year-old Benh Zeitlin, rests, often cloyingly, on the tiny shoulders of Quvenzhané Wallis. Her character, Hushpuppy, the film’s six-year-old (also Wallis’s age during filming) protagonist and narrator,…
Prepare to have your assumptions pitched out the window by this tense, surprisingly probing satirical documentary — and not just those about religious longing and “spirituality,” its ostensible subjects, but about how deep the genre that gave us Borat and Morgan Spurlock’s spotty oeuvre can go. Kumaré is essentially the…
Writer-director Mia Hansen-Løve’s third feature, Goodbye First Love, begins in 1999, when protagonist Camille (Lola Créton), a highly emotional high school girl in love, is fifteen, and tracks her through her mid-twenties as she’s establishing a career. We first follow Camille through her all-consuming romance with Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky), a…
Michael Frayn’s Noises Off is a farce about a farce. It relies on all those familiar farcical conventions — lots of doors with people going in and out of the wrong ones, a woman in her underwear and a man with his pants down around his ankles, sexual innuendo, blows,…
