In her comedy, Amy Schumer gets boldly, hilariously personal, whether she’s discussing HPV, divulging ridiculous sexual encounters or playing the ditzy blonde who just wants to catch a man (“I know this shirt’s a little weird — it kinda makes me look pregnant,” goes one of her jokes, “but, you…
The Cherry Creek Sneak marks its thirtieth anniversary today, and the iconic race will attract close to 10,000 runners of all skill levels. Over the years, the Sneak has added races for walkers, sprinters, visually impaired participants and even toddlers. To celebrate its birthday, it will tack on a new…
The Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown and Gameroom Expo will offer a far-reaching blend of arcade nostalgia this weekend, whether you’re a curiosity seeker with a pocketful of quarters (though you won’t need them if you have a ticket) or a serious gamer looking to win one of nine different pinball…
Say you like to ride your bike. And you like to eat, right? Vegetarian? All the better. You’ll feel right at home taking advantage of the BikeDenver fundraiser at WaterCourse Foods, where a percentage of every meal ticket today will go to the bicycle-advocacy group. And it’s no accident that…
For a rootsy duo, the Black Keys have proved themselves far more open to experimentation and collaboration than the tradition would dictate. From opening for Radiohead to being covered by Kelly Clarkson to working with a variety of MCs on the hip-hop project Blakroc, singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick…
“When I first started writing, I remember there was an ideal intended reader in my mind: Myself as a young boy, wanting to read an adventure story that had cool ideas and was thrilling and dangerous and had a certain amount of ass-kicking involved in it,” says Paolo Bacigalupi, a…
Gorinto, the Mercury Cafe’s Wednesday-night performance hodgepodge curated by Corey Elbin, is still showing signs of life after Elbin’s departure, thanks to the Gorinto community, which is pulling together to curate shows individually. Tonight, longtime metro-area musician/multimedia artist Mark McCoin will serve up Automatica, a culminating performance by students in…
At Access Gallery, the most visible wing of VSA Colorado, one expects to see work created by people with disabilities: The nonprofit organization primarily offers services and programs for the developmentally disabled, with the idea of giving them better access to the world at large. But Outside In, a new…
Johnny Cash, with his craggy features and long, black coat, cut a majestic figure in the annals of American music, but his earthy baritone and his songs — stark, sometimes outspoken and always well-wrought — were his real legacy. It’s those songs, nearly three dozen of them, that make up…
Update, May 2: We’ve picked our winner! Check your e-mail now! As stated on the sign, this is made in America: Home of the brave, and land of the free. Nothing spells that out quite as good as a large billboard in an alley with a massive bald eagle adorning…
It could be a holdover from Earth Day — or even 4/20. This week we spotted many people on the street sporting the color green. But more savvy fashionistas looked to film or music for inspiration…
It’s hard to ever really recover from losing a spelling bee: You remember the terror as you tentatively said another letter, that awful buzzer sound, the eternal shame that you misspelled the word “satellite.” But now the first annual Denver Bee this Saturday night is offering a way to put…
Editor’s note: Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver paints the town like nobody else, as demonstrated in his recaps of visits to the Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, our own Artopia and MCA Denver. (Make sure you read Noah’s blog for more comics and wonderment.) Last…
Like vinyl records and postcards, pinball simply will not die. Despite technology providing plenty of digital alternatives to the quarter-hungry beasts of the 1970s, the public’s interest in these anachronisms doesn’t seem to be waning, says Dan Nikolich, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Pinball Showdown and Gameroom Expo…
Artists from the Arts District on Santa Fe have been working with UrbiCulture to create a new urban farming space, Gabrielle’s Garden, in the La Alma and Lincoln Park neighborhood, adjacent to the art district. The farm, which is just one of the many spaces UrbiCulture farms each year in…
Here are the stats: For the fifth year in a row, Briceson Ducharme, aka Ginger Sexton, has been in the running to be a contestant on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Now, as the show heads into its fifth season, Ms. Sexton is tossing her hat in the ring for the fifth…
Following in the footsteps of Wallace Stegner, the “Dean of Western Writers,” takes a big pair of shoes. Though we don’t know what size award-winning Colorado author Kent Haruf wears, we do know that his literary prowess is deserving of the Wallace Stegner Award, given annually by CU-Boulder’s Center of…
Sometime this weekend, a prankster added a new element to “I See What You Mean,” the sculpture outside the Colorado Convention Center. Suddenly, the Big Blue Bear had taken a big blue dump. And one good turn definitely deserves another…
It’s a funny thing about the exhibition business: Sometimes multiple solos are presented at the same venue that work in concert with one another and for all intents and purposes function together as a group show, and sometimes pieces by different artists are organized into thematic group efforts that actually…
Batura, Winograde, Kunkel, Emrich. Though the current shows at Robischon are a quartet of solos — Stephen Batura, Edie Winograde, Jerry Kunkeland Gary Emrich— they actually function together as a coherent thematic group show on the topic of the New West. Batura’s masterful and monumental casein-and-acrylic paintings capture scenes from…
The Drowsy Chaperone. The role of the Man in the Chair is the spine for The Drowsy Chaperone, and the primary reason that this lighthearted, inconsequential and very silly show is so much fun to watch: Without him, it would just float off into the ether. But with him, we’re…
Using a fluid naturalism to establish its afterglow vibe, Four Lovers follows two married couples as they swap partners and invigorate their own marriages in the bargain — for a time, at least. Boutique jeweler Rachel (Marina Foïs) is unable to resist tattooed Web designer Vincent (Nicolas Duvauchelle), so she…
