Regina Benson’s On Fire was inspired by her trials last summer when Benson was forced to evacuate her home in Golden because of an approaching wildfire. Below (and in this week’s Westword), Michael Paglia writes on her new show and how she came out of the approaching flames…
The right wing likes to portray President Barack Obama as either one of two things: the good-times party animal you can spot in a Tag Team video, or the stereotypical Angry Black Man. Neither image brings to mind a good leader (and both are, you know, quietly racist). But as…
If these walls could talk. Barack Obama left town yesterday without going anywhere near Denver International Airport. After barely three hours on the ground in Denver, which was part of a three-state Western swing, the President headed back to Washington, D.C., without even a drive-by tour of the secret bunkers…
Oskar Blues is the second Colorado brewery to tap into a viral YouTube video, releasing Honey Badger Smoked Porter at its restaurants in Longmont and Lyons yesterday. The beer was inspired by “The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger (original narration by Randall),” a National Geographic video with a hilarious voicever that…
In the 1880s, English explorers Teresa and St. George Littledale — with their fox terrier, Tanny, in tow — mounted expeditions in the Rocky Mountains and across North America. And then they headed even further afield, to the Caucasus, the Pamirs, Russian Central Asia, Mongolia and eventually Tibet, in an…
Though it’s easy to over-drink and nearly impossible to over-read, books and beer go hand in hand. And a glass or two of the right beer with the right book can rightly relax the mind and stimulate the senses, thus drawing you deeper into both crafts. As is the case…
Author Neal Stephenson will be at the Tattered Cover LoDo on Friday and in advance of that appearance, we’ll have a Q&A with him tomorrow. In the meantime, we’re giving you a chance to win a copy of the book right now, so you’ll be able to have Stephenson sign…
Back in the early part of the twentieth century, physicist George Gamow had a hand in some of science’s most fascinating breakthroughs: the Big Bang theory, DNA and RNA, radioactivity. The physics department building at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he taught until the end of his career,…
In the sixteen years it’s been around, This American Life has been more than just a radio show: It’s been the parent of movie scripts as diverse as Unaccompanied Minors and The Informant, a major influence on countless other experiments with the radio format, from Radiolab to The Moth, not…
Beginning Saturday, Paragon member and executive director Michael Stricker joins co-founder Warren Sherrill and Emily Paton-Davies in the troupe’s production of Jez Butterworth’s Parlour Song, the last show of its present season, as well as the last to be performed in a sublet venue (in this case, the Kim Robards…
Interpellation: a word I learned in my college critical theory class, which I admittedly skipped almost every day of. The Althusser day, however, I dragged my semi-stoned, semi-drunk ass out of bed and learned some useless philosophy. Interpellation, as it was explained to me, is the act of mirroring. Ads…
When we chatted with Keith Garcia, Denver FilmCenter’s Programming Manager, prior to last week’s showing of I Am Nancy, he told us a secret: Garcia promised that in honor of the film’s star, Heather Langenkamp — who came out to Denver for the screening to talk about her role as…
As the days cool down and fall sets in, our slightly less profuse sweating heralds the coming of jacket weather — and what better jacket to kick off the season than Ryan Gosling’s scorpion-emblazoned one in Drive, a jacket so badass it inspired Tim Davids to pull together a list…
Today is unofficial nostalgia day: One of the greatest games of all time gets an HD rerelease today alongside one of the best books about gangsters. It’s certainly a little retro-tastic when you combine that with the hilariously dumb new Transformers movie, but thankfully, we’re saved from only consuming old…
The most-hyped snowboard film of the season gets its Colorado premiere with a sold-out show at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House tonight at 8 p.m., when snowboarder Travis Rice and Brain Farm Digital Cinema director Curt Morgan bring The Art of Flight to town (there are still tickets available for…
Other than possibly your grandpa’s basement, there aren’t too many places to drink swill beer and play ping pong in this town — and that’s a damn shame, especially considering it’s an excellent sport for hipsters. Luckily, hardly any sooner had we pointed that out than the clever folks down…
Related sensibilities create a resonance between three installations on view right now in RiNo — two at Ice Cube and one at Ironton. In each case, the artist created an all-enveloping environment, and in each one, the shared characteristic is an ethereal or insubstantial element. Another connection is the necessity…
Bonny Lhotka & Norman Epp. This duet, the full title of which is Horizons: Bonny Lhotka & Norman Epp, brings together the internationally known Boulder-based digital artist with an up-and-coming Denver sculptor. Though to a great extent their individual bodies of works have decidedly different aims — Lhotka is technically…
Clybourne Park. Racism persists, but the ways in which we feel and express racism change with the times. Bruce Norris’s brilliant Clybourne Park was inspired by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, at the end of which the Youngers, a struggling black family, are about to move into a…
I believe it was Chekhov who said that if you drive a wood chipper into the forest where dumb coeds are partying in the vicinity of suspicious hillbillies, that chipper must be used on human flesh. And so it is, though the intentions are decidedly reversed in Tucker & Dale…
One single scene captures the tricky tonal balance of Jonathan Levine’s cancer comedy 50/50. Adam, a straight-edge radio producer played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, has just finished his first round of chemotherapy. It was tough, but the kindly gents IV’d next to him (Philip Baker Hall and Matt Frewer) made it…
As a musical, Ragtime inevitably lacks the complexity — as well as the violence and darkness — of E.L. Doctorow’s wonderful novel, but it still has a thousand times more intelligence, charm and integrity than the average musical. As written by Terrence McNally, with music by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics…
