As a writer, singer, selfie-taker, documentarian of changes in her neighborhood and the fleeting colors of urban nature, massage therapist, MFA candidate and lover of people, art, culture and life, Coleman expresses in multiple ways what so many of us can’t or don’t know how to express: That beneath all the grit, bad politics and forces beyond our control in this world, we still live in a paradise.
Choreographer Patrick Mueller thought it was time for his Control Group Productions dance theater to pare things down and appeal to a broader base, but that’s just a piece of what Neverhome, an immersive, site-specific performance/walking tour inspired by currently converging themes of gentrification, migration and finding your way, is all about. Carrying your life on your back, after all, means cutting back.
Whitney: Can I Be Me premieres on Aug. 25 on Showtime In the February 2016 issue of ESPN The Magazine, Danyel Smith penned a powerful essay on Whitney Houston’s chill-inducing rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Super Bowl XXV, perhaps the pinnacle of national anthem performances. Smith frames Houston as…
Yes, there will be a total solar eclipse on August 21. But first, there will be lots of stupid deals.
In Steven Soderbergh’s hillbilly heist comedy Logan Lucky, the West Virginia prison where vault specialist Joe Bang (Daniel Craig) resides is pristine and peaceful. This is a high-security facility in a seemingly alternate world, a jail without racial tensions where the prisoners feast on edible food. While only a small…
Summer parties and elegant receptions — they’re all within reach whether you’re an artist or just a fan of them. Mix it up this week at these six events and openings.
Abstraction has been on a tear in the 21st century, and now there’s more proof of abstraction’s consistent appeal in contemporary art, in the form of three solos and a group show at Robischon Gallery.
Chances are good that you’ve noticed the street art in Denver. Chances are also pretty good that you’ve seen something that Pat Milbery helped create.
Consider August the golden hour: July’s heat is gone, but fall isn’t quite here yet, making this month the ideal time to get out and about. Celebrate Denver’s Mexican heritage and food at Westword’s second-annual Tacolandia, or kick off the High Plains Comedy Festival at a preview show. Give a…
Write Our World: Crawford Elementary School highlights the experiences of persecution and triumph that brought immigrant and refugee families from all over the world — including Nepal and Bhutan to Somalia — to Crawford Elementary School in Aurora, where 95 percent of students are minorities and 75 percent are English learners.
Here’s what Patrick Hughes’ The Hitman’s Bodyguard has going for it: It’s exactly the movie it promises to be, but more so. It’s more wild, more hilarious, more giddily irresponsible — it’s the hard R action comedy that kids sneaking into it might imagine it’s going to be, minus ’70s…
In It’s Only a Paper Moon Hanging Over Immigration History, which is being workshopped at the Dairy Arts Center, Motus Theater’s Kirsten Wilson wants to explore what constitutes race and whiteness, interact with audiences and encourage questioning and exploration.
The Black Cube Nomadic Museum is keeping Cortney Lane Stell more than busy in 2017. As director and chief curator of the Denver-based museum without walls, finding new avenues to explore as a curator comes easily to Stell. Case in point: the latest Black Cube project, Drive-In: Personal Space, an exhibit/performance she co-curated with Ruth Bruno of Colorado Creative Industries that will pop up for one night only in a vacant lot in RiNo on August 19.
The River North Arts District is booting out actual artists – that’s the claim of a group of arts activists who ramped up the fight against gentrification in the River North neighborhood by redecorating three iron slabs touting the RiNo Art District with flowers, crosses and other objects of mourning on Monday, August 14, 2017.
The High Plains Comedy Festival has announced its full schedule for its fifth edition.
The author Lorrie Moore once described a novel as a marriage, while short stories function more like brief affairs. Colorado has inspired many literary hookups, some passionate and some bleak. Here’s a list of short stories set in Colorado that you can easily read on your next lunch break.
On a crowded Brooklyn street, an Orthodox Jew adjusts his yarmulke, a tefillin bag under his arm. He speaks on a smartphone and practically struts. The man, as dandified as one can look in a black suit and a white shirt, is a red herring in Menashe. Several other Brooklynites,…
In the 1980s, four-quadrant studio comedies (i.e. for the whole family) peddled in relentlessly dark premises that directors then brightened up with wholesomeness: Three Men and a Baby features an orphaned infant who is mistakenly given away to drug dealers; Ghostbusters boasts multiple fatalities at the hands of an accountant…
Life partners Jeff Lee and Ann Martin are book people to the core: The couple’s shared love for our wild lands and the kind of socially engaged, place-based literature that argues for preserving natural spaces converge at the Rocky Mountain Land Library.
Though we’re already halfway through August, it’s still summertime…and nothing makes the living easier than a week full of great entertainment. Whether you’d like to picnic in the park during a blockbuster screening, enjoy laughs and quaffs at brewery-based comedy shows and Shakespeare parodies, or gather with a gaggle of…
On the eve of the publication of his second thriller featuring Clyde Barr, A Promise to Kill, author Erik Storey offers a look at “The Still Wild West.”
The Denver improv scene is “more diverse than Portland, not as diverse as Queens,” explains Nick Trotter, Voodoo’s Director of Education. This is a low bar.
