Denver Comic Con returns June 30 through July 2, stuffing the halls of the Colorado Convention Center with pop-culture goodness. To keep track of all the awesomeness, we’ve created another handy Denver Comic Con Bingo card.
This morning, the City Council Safety, Housing, Education, and Homelessness Committee unanimously voted to move forward the Safe Occupancy Plan, an effort to wrangle two seemingly opposed aims — fire code compliance and the preservation of DIY art spaces — into compatibility.
The House on Coco Road premieres on Netflix on June 30. Quick, tell me everything you know about Grenada. If you’re over the age of 35, you can probably remember Ronald Reagan’s thin lips pronouncing the country’s name with a dangerous emphasis on the first two syllables, essentially weaponizing the…
Among this summer’s attractions at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver is Derrick Velasquez: Obstructed View, a solo curated by Zoe Larkins that represents a followup to Velasquez’s 2015 Black Cube project. It’s a timely topic in a rapidly gentrifying city.
This weekend, Head Games VR, the first virtual-reality arcade in the Denver area, will celebrate a grand opening.
Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver is a remorselessly entertaining, impeccably assembled action-musical in which cars and people defy the laws of physics and common sense. They leap into gunfire and hop over hoods and careen down streets in perfect time to the beats of an unimpeachably cool soundtrack. It’s all absurd,…
Over six months after the city closed two DIY spaces for safety issues, Denver Community Planning and Development and the Denver Fire Department, along with other agencies, have announced their proposal for the Safe Occupancy Program, a “voluntary path to compliance for existing spaces.” That proposal goes to a Denver City Council committee today, but Amplify Arts Denver says it is “deeply flawed.”
Denver Public Library will release Denver Comix, a newspaper collection of comics by independent Colorado comic artists, on June 30, 2017, just in time for Denver Comic Con. The project was spearheaded by librarian and comic-book creator Thane Benson.
Considering how Donald Trump recently made a big deal about canceling the previous administration’s plans to ease relations with Cuba — even calling for the island to extradite revolutionary, alleged cop killer, political fugitive and Tupac godmother Assata Shakur back to America — you know it’s a matter of time before someone…
There’s going to be an embarrassment of nerdy riches at the Colorado Convention Center this weekend, June 30 through July 2, when Denver Comic Con returns for a sixth successful year. Here are ten rules to remember.
Hollywood has many more outstanding actors than it does outstanding scripts. That’s the only way to explain Naomi Watts’ career, which launched stateside with a masterful twin performance in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. Even with a pair of Oscar nominations, though, the actress has spent years languishing in Nondescript Mom…
In the run-up to this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Bong Joon-ho’s Okja was one of the most mysterious titles in the Official Competition lineup. Then, after people had seen it, Okja turned out to be … one of the most mysterious titles in the Official Competition lineup. Now that it’s…
A slew of warm-weather-happy events, including jazz in the park, Independence Day celebrations and outdoor art exhibits, are sure to get you in the summer mood. Keep reading for more of our best events in Denver over the next week. Tuesday, June 27 Denver’s City Park is a delight throughout…
Denizens of Denver hop on the saddle once a year on Bike to Work Day and sweat their way to the office to celebrate the noble art of bicycle commuting. On June 28, their efforts will be rewarded with plenty of freebies.
Ring of Fire is more a concert than a play: a cascade of Johnny Cash songs, along with a few that he covered by others, played by expert and enthusiastic musicians who clearly love the man and his music as much as they love playing together — and playing for…
King Arthur is neither Guy Ritchie’s worst film nor his best, but it might well be his most frustrating. A compendium of all the things that make the British director so occasionally exciting and so often irritating, this new, hyper-stylized take on the Arthurian legends veers between genius and idiocy…
Who knew Cate Blanchett wanted to be Tracey Ullman? That’s probably not the reaction director Julian Rosefeldt hopes will be stirred by this rigorous series of monologues, stitched together from more than 50 artistic and political manifestos and performed by Blanchett as 13 characters. But, like Ullman, Blanchett takes the…
When professional endurance mountain biker Rebecca Rusch rode the 1,200 mile-long Ho Chi Minh Trail that runs through Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in 2015, it was the culmination of another long journey: to find the story of her father, and American solider killed in the war.
Mar Williams is a hacker in a strictly DIY-driven way, following an arc meant to empower ordinary people and remove obstacles from the unending road that is life.
SeriesFest, Westword’s choice this year for Best Film Festival, returns this week for its third stimulating season, complete with a star-studded tribute to the ’90s, a bevy of industry hard hitters and a fresh batch of creative content to watch.
June may be winding to a close, but that hasn’t slowed Denver’s creative community’s tireless grind. Whether experimenting with European board games, eyeing nerd-inspired artwork in a hip boutique or taking songwriting lessons from Jill Sobule, you have access to everything you need to stay cultured, informed and entertained.
Ever since her feature debut, The Virgin Suicides (1999), a dreamy, diaphanous tale about the mysteries of girlhood, Sofia Coppola has ranked among the finest distillers of mood (especially languor) and milieu. Those qualities abound in The Beguiled, her sixth film, an adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s Civil War–set novel of…
