The story beats of Patti Cake$, a socioeconomic-sermonizing comedy about a thick young white woman with huge hip-hop dreams and little prospects, are as predictable as the ticking of an egg timer, as generic and tinny as the pulses of a drum machine. I rooted not for Patricia Dombrowski (Danielle…
Besides your discomfort, one effect of writer/director Justin Chon choosing the title Gook for his electric, impassioned second feature is a suggestion of definitiveness, a suggestion that, for better or worse, this isn’t just the story of its characters but that of a people. The film, a comic drama tinged…
When actor/writer/director Justin Chon was 11, his father took in early news reports about the Los Angeles riots of 1992 and left without a word to drive to the family’s shoe store in Paramount, a relatively poor 4.8-square-mile city bordered by Compton and Downey. “In a lot of Korean families,…
This week marks the end and beginning of a few things in Denver. Film on the Rocks bows out on Monday, September 11, with a screening of Twister, and the CRUSH Festival returns to RiNo on the same day. Find more on those events and more in our 21 best…
Visionary Denver architect Charles Deaton erected a handful of remarkably original structures in the middle of the twentieth century. His most famous work, the “Sculptured House” in Genesee, is unofficially known as the Sleeper house; his bank in Englewood will be celebrated on September 7.
Fire Chasers premieres September 8 on Netflix The greatest surprise is the beauty. The gripping new Netflix documentary series Fire Chasers opens with visions of orange-and-black hell, of ash and apocalypse, of California homes and trees and horizons ablaze, of the sky itself now some jack-o’-lantern’s smile. The fire brightens…
Amanda Berg Wilson has two major projects coming up: You on the Moors Now, which she directs for the Catamounts — the Boulder company she founded — opens on September 8; the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ next immersive project, The Wild Party, runs October 11 through 31 at Stanley Marketplace.
Sommer Browning is primarily a poet and, by day, a librarian, but she’s also a collector and purveyor of one-liners, both in person and in hand-drawn comics, as well as a curious observer of Denver’s growing cross-cultural art scenes. Her latest project? Georgia Art Space — a new multi-disciplinary arts showcase named for her five-year-old daughter and housed in her garage.
Inside Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières’s Forced From Home mock refugee camp tour, 360-degree videos will immerse you in the stressful camp life, where aid is meted out and water and supplies might be scarce, and you’ll even be confronted with the challenges of making split-second decisions about what to take in a run-or-die situation. You’ll also learn about the staggering levels of displacement happening now around the world from MSF personnel who’ve worked in its midst.
The five best free events in the Denver area this week.
In this op-ed, Tershia d’Elgin, author of The Man Who Thought He Owned Water, discusses “the naked truth” about the Colorado Water Plan.
On the third weekend in August, Guanella Pass was invaded by a gaggle of guys in leathers with sparks coming from their hands. This was not a hair-band reunion concert, but a downhill skateboard race that drew an international roster of 147 competitors.
Summer is waning and the kids are headed back to school. In between buying mountains of school supplies and Kleenex for your little ones’ classroom, you might want to take one last weekend to celebrate the hazy, lazy days of summer as a family (or celebrate sending your spawn back to their teachers, depending on how the summer panned out). We’ve compiled a list of five family-friendly fairs around Colorado to enjoy with your kiddos.
It’s September and TV is back so praise the lord and pass the Postmates app, because I’m not trying to leave my apartment unless it’s to protest Donald Trump. It’s just TV, protest Trump and repeat. Happy fall! Sept. 5, FX, American Horror Story: Cult This season of Ryan Murphy’s…
The writing haunts recommended by some of Colorado’s best wordsmiths.
When artist Emily Camp lived in Buffalo, New York as a child, her mom would tell her to pack her bags; they were going to the city
for the weekend. That intrepid spirit rubbed off on Camp, now 21. Instead of renewing her lease on her Glendale apartment in January, she’ll load her car (currently a Jeep Patriot, although she’s on the lookout for a larger sprinter van) with art supplies and embark on a painting tour of the fifty states, paid for by sales of her art via a GoFundMe campaign.
While the Labor Day holiday has strayed from its collectivist roots, it’s still possible to enjoy some of the finest entertainment that Denver has to offer on proletarian wages. Here are ten events that cost less than ten bucks, and six are free.
Cocona, a Boulder-based manufacturer of 37.5 Technology, opened the Cliffside Shop 300 feet above the ground on the Bastille Wall in Eldorado Canyon.
Published author, journalist and avid traveler Monique Antonette Lewis grew up in Texas and Colorado before following her wanderlust across the U.S. and abroad. During a stint in New York City, Lewis founded the reading series At the Inkwell, which has since gone international, with outposts bringing literary communities together to read for each other — and the public — in bookstores and bars in Denver, London, New York, Richmond, San Francisco and Seattle.
When I was first asked to join in on the debut Denver adventure of Camp No Counselors (CNC), a company that hosts adult three-day sleepaway camps around the country, it was pretty much an instant “yes.”
Kick back and kick off your Labor Day weekend with art. Here are six First Friday openings all set smack in the middle of metro-area arts and cultural districts.
Jamil Jude, an up-and-coming young director whose relationship with Curious Theatre Company artistic director Chip Walton goes back over six years, is currently in Denver rehearsing the cast for Appropriate, which opens September 2. Jude is very enthusiastic about Branden Jacobs-Jenkins play.
