Growing up in Denver, Zach Reini liked to draw and got into punk, playing in such noteworthy local hardcore bands as Crawl, Dethbox and, currently, Citizen. His wide-ranging imagination also led him to explore experimental electronic music with his Data Rainbow project. But Reini never gave up on the visual…
One of my geek heroes, Daniel Manus Pinkwater, turns 74 on Sunday, November 15. Although he’s best known as the author of many kids’ and YA books, he’s an NPR personality and accomplished illustrator as well. It was in his guise as an author that I came to know and…
Again this year, Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights a selection for November 12: Karbala. Karbala Directed by Krzysztof Lukaszewicz 3:30…
This Friday — Friday the 13th, to be exact — a group of MFA candidates at the University of Colorado will tap into people’s superstitions with a spooky, site-specific, one-night-only exhibition at the Newhouse Hotel. Vacancy? No, their pop-up exhibit, will feature works in a variety of mediums inspired by the aesthetics…
Here’s a sentence you didn’t expect to read today: There’s a recent Simpsons that’s entirely worth your time. Seriously. “Halloween of Horror,” the fourth episode of the series’ 27th season, is a rarity: a late-era Simpsons rich with feeling, sharp jokes and the sense that this family and their story…
By the way the term is being used around this city these days, one would think Denver is the “luxury” capital of America. As new development bullies its way into our neighborhoods, “luxury” is the ubiquitous term used to sell it — “luxury apartments,” “luxury high rises” and “luxury living…
From the moment it opened, four years ago this month, the Clyfford Still Museum has been one of the city’s greatest cultural treasures. Located inside a lovely little concrete building, the museum is dedicated to the conservation and presentation of the work of the legendary abstract-expressionist pioneer Clyfford Still, who,…
Like most Denver residents, Black Cube artist fellow Derrick Velasquez has grown accustomed to seeing apartment building after apartment building appear throughout the city. The “blocked, stacked and stereotypical-colored” boxes are the inspiration for his upcoming exhibition, New Brutal, which will debut tomorrow in the future home of the Stanley…
Again this year, Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights selections for Wednesday, November 11: Virgin Mountain. Virgin Mountain Directed by Dagur…
Adult My Little Pony fans gathered over the weekend at the third annual Running of the Leaves, a con dedicated to voluminous manes and tails — and all the colors of the rainbow. Here’s how things looked to photographer Brandon Marshall. Now see the full Running of the Leaves slide…
Copper Mountain opens today, with skiing and riding on Rhapsody and Main Vein, “thanks to the hard work of Copper’s snowmaking team over the last week and fourteen-plus inches of natural snow,” the resort says. The American Eagle chairlift will crank up beginning at 9 a.m. The first 400 guests in…
How do you dramatize the unthinkable? On August 5, 2010, 33 Chilean miners were trapped when the hundred-year-old gold and copper mine in which they were working collapsed around them. For weeks, no one knew if they were alive or dead. But 69 days later, after a team of international…
Newspapers are dead, except in the hearts of anyone who has ever loved them — which means that there are still narrow slivers of hope. One of them now comes to us in the form of a movie: Tom McCarthy’s bold, shirtsleeve-sturdy newsroom drama Spotlight, which shows how a team…
I. ELWAY’S CONFIDENTIAL On a quiet Monday night at Elway’s Cherry Creek, it’s hard to miss James Ellroy. A trim six-three, clean-domed and fond of Hawaiian shirts, eyes blazing, he’s easily the most animated talker in the room. He’s not particularly loud or demonstrative, but he is passionate, holding forth…
#4: Geoff Cleveland Working jazz keyboardist (and occasional tweaker of the theremin) Geoff Cleveland leads an unlikely double life: He’s also a cheerleader, accompanist and sketch artist for the local comedy community, playing behind such comics as Chuck Roy and Josh Blue at the Comedy Works and Greg Baumhauer’s lounge-singing…
As I watched Curious Theatre Company’s production of Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet, there were moments when the close-to-heretical thought entered my mind that playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney has been anointed a giant of the contemporary theater far too soon, that this play is raggedy in conception and goes…
Again this year, Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights his pick for Tuesday, November 10: War of Lies. War of…
3 Kings Tavern was transformed into a haunted pinball arcade last Friday, November 7, for the 2015 Horror House Pinball Tournament of Death, where intrepid pinball wizards overcame creepy characters and ghoulish scenes between bouts of pinball play. Photographer Aaron Thackeray braved the pinball pathway to bring back these images…
Navajo Street co-op gallery Pirate Contemporary Art invited the neighborhood to its traditional Day of the Dead community observance last Friday night. Gallery-goers were treated to an altar display and original Day of the Dead artworks, a candlelight procession to Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, face painting and piñata parties…
Regular Denver Film Festival-goers tend to judge their experiences in part by the percentage of good movies to lousy ones they see before each edition of DFF runs its course. By that measure, my experiences since catching Charlie Kaufman’s low-key, defiantly weird Anomalisa on the fest’s opening night this past Wednesday…
Wolf Creek Ski Area got nineteen inches of snow last week, creating a base of 28 inches. All told, it has snowed 44 inches at Wolf Creek so far this year, which is nothing new for this Mecca for powder hounds. Some areas of the mountain have already been open…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Of the more than 16 million Americans who served in World War…
