Lucia Aniello’s ensemble comedy Rough Night might look, from its marketing, like a gender-flipped Very Bad Things. Both comedies feature a pre-wedding party that goes off the rails when a stripper accidentally gets killed by the rowdiest member of the crew. But Aniello’s film — which stars Scarlett Johansson, Zoë…
CHEER Colorado is part of the Pride Cheerleading Association, a group of volunteer adult cheerleaders spread across several cities that raises money for local LGBTQI organizations.
Playwright Marisa Wegrzyn has the antidote for that outdated image of flight attendants as beautiful young women patrolling the aisles in high heels, frolicking in hotel rooms with handsome male passengers on their layovers: Mud Blue Sky, now in a regional premiere at Edge Theater.
Here’s something I never guessed I would say: It might be worth going into the new Cars movie spoiler-free. Without giving anything away, I can tell you that, at its climax, this latest installment in a springtime of sequels the world doesn’t need eases into a surprising new gear and…
A film often smartly attuned to language, Beatriz at Dinner — a sober comedy about class clash and soft-to-hard racism directed by Miguel Arteta and written by Mike White — operates in several different idioms. English and Spanish (sometimes unsubtitled) are spoken, as are the lexicons of healing and affluence…
The art-gallery exodus to Lakewood continues. At the end of the month, Sally Centigrade, our Best of Denver 2016 winner for Best Lowbrow Art Gallery, will close its three-and-a-half-year-old space in Larimer Square and open in a new spot in Belmar. “We’re super-excited to be in a bigger space with other galleries,” says Maya Bailey (aka artist Mayah Mazcara). “We’ve way, way outgrown our space and being able to show the amount of artists that we have….We had to move.”
It’s only after three encounters, a night on molly, a blow-up argument, an impassioned recitation of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “First Fig,” and some tender May-December — late December — sex that Sam Elliott’s The Hero character can be bothered to ask what Laura Prepon’s does for a living. Turns…
It was two weeks before Salma Hayek’s 49th birthday when Mike White told her he was finally going to write that script about the dinner party, the one he’d promised her almost a year earlier. The screenplay would be loosely inspired by a real-life dinner the two had attended, but…
Some people might be different, but in Damon McLeese’s mind, that doesn’t mean they are disabled. He’s been mentoring differently-abled folks in creative pursuits as the director of Access Gallery and its parent organization VSA Colorado for more than twenty years.
Before there was Bumble, there were personal ads: popular sections of city magazines and weeklies. This couple met 28 year ago through a Westword ad.
If sunny June is making you swoon, you’re certainly not alone. Denverites own their city on balmy summer days, and spend their evenings experiencing the best of what our city’s creative community has to offer.
When the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s production of Hamlet opens on June 23 on Boulder, it will feature an actress, Lenne Klingamen, playing Hamlet. Should a female play the Danish prince? Juliet Wittman offered five reasons why it’s a bad idea, but even more reasons why it’s an idea whose time has come.
Over the years, Tom Cruise has been many things, but he’s almost never been marginalized — not in one of his own movies. Oh, he’s played supporting parts and done cameos here and there, but even in those smaller roles (in films like Tropic Thunder or Rock of Ages), he…
Bringing twelve epic weeks of tight tucks, wigging out and death drops to an epic close, the Ultimate Queen Competition grand finale hits Tracks Friday night, June 8.
If you’ve never shopped at Rockmount Ranch Wear, a Colorado institution at 1626 Wazee Street, this is your chance. The Western wear manufacturer/retailer that invented the snap-button shirt is hosting its first-ever sidewalk sale, starting today.
Natural Grocers has paired with local graffiti artist and entrepreneur Ratha Sok to paint several large murals on the walls of Denver store.
While living in Denver gets more expensive by the month, our fair city’s creative community has your entertainment needs covered.
The Front Range is heaven for outdoor enthusiasts: a short drive can take you hiking, biking or skiing. But Denver is also incredibly close to some of Colorado’s best rock climbing, from Clear Creek Canyon near Golden to El Dorado Canyon outside of Boulder. Here are five tips to help you take advantage of the magnificent climbing opportunities in and around the city.
Improv is Jessica Austgen’s stepping-off point and theatrical bailiwick, but she’s the complete package. As an actor, instructor, director, author and playwright, Denver Renaissance woman Austgen manages the art of telling stories both onstage and on the page, sometimes winging it at an improv fest and at other times, running the whole show.
Since last November, we’ve been asked to understand, if not necessarily sympathize with, the furious resentments of the racists, misogynists, homophobes and plutocrats who have brought us to this point of political calamity. The fifth season of Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) appears to be its own kind of…
Denver has ranked as the eighth best theater city in the United States.
June has enough comedy shows in store to tickle every rib in town.
