Forget the Orange Is the New Black bingewatch you’d planned for this week, because your eyes need to stay focused on one of the most ambitious but exciting festivals to come to the Mile High City. SeriesFest: Season One is a brand-new festival coming out of Denver – the birthplace…
Art cars, 3D printers, Tesla coils, plasma globes, Star Wars droids, a giant electric muffin: If it qualifies as geeky, chances are you could find it at the Denver Mini Maker Faire, which gathered together more than 100 makers and creatives of every stripe — crafters, hobby scientists, hackers, droid…
Of course a 2015 Joe Dante horror-comedy would be some kind of throwback. The Gremlins director has spent a career idealizing the creature-feature jollies of his youth, jolting audiences with wittily vicious nostalgia. Dante’s goofy monster movies have always been more toothy than their antecedents — more technically accomplished, fully…
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl may not be the best teen-cancer weepie ever made — if there even is a best teen-cancer weepie. But it’s surely the most adorable, for better or worse — less like The Fault in Our Stars and more like Diary of a Wimpy…
Summer in Denver is full of art festivals, where row after row of artists show off their work. But some of the best places to see art in the summer are unofficial: Street artists from Denver and way beyond have made their mark in this state. Here are our ten…
In Diva Watch, we’ll profile the passionate, diverse and fascinating performers who light up Denver’s drag community. We’re expanding on our Diva Dozen list from earlier this year by asking a series of questions to get a peek underneath the make-up. The “femme fatale” has long embodied a woman who,…
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. “Entertainment art is kind of foreign to a lot of people,” says…
For film fanatics, it boggles the mind that a generation of movie-watchers have no idea what seeing cinema on 35mm film is like. The phasing out of this grand format, along with the slow death of the repertory movie house, is the focus of Julia Marchese’s documentary Out Of Print,…
Summertime, and the living is easy — and the entertainment free! This week we’re hanging out with celebrity authors, dancing to some throwback tunes and learning about the world we live in—all for free. If you know of any other bargains, tell us in the comments section; for more entertainment…
Anyone who’s slogged through this sodden spring in Colorado knows that our supposedly semi-arid climate can get downright wet sometimes. For longtime residents, the freak hail, mini-twisters and violent lightning storms of the past month or so might trigger a few memories of another soggy June fifty years ago that…
Variety is the name of the game in the Denver art scene this weekend: You can choose to take art seriously, view it with a light heart or stroll and browse through an outdoor art market where the collecting is easy. Here are a few new shows and events to…
The secret to why children look happier in photos from 1973 than they do in photos from 1933 could have something to do with the toys they had to play with. Baby boomers, breakthroughs in plastic molding and the rise of television pop culture are all credited with the revolution…
The Kholghy family, owners of Authentic Persian & Oriental Rugs, are at war with the City of Glendale over the fate of their property on Colorado Boulevard. In the rug business for more than thirty years — with 25 of those years at their current location at 550 South Colorado…
Last year renowned Denver hairstylist Charlie Price broke down in tears while watching an episode of Al Jazeera’s Borderland. Memories of growing up in the early ’80s with two girls from Cuba came flooding back as he saw the effects that immigration has on Mexican children crossing the border. “My boyfriend,…
Ole’ Marge Gunderson summed it up best in the Coen Brothers 1996 offering, Fargo: “There’s more to life than a little money, you know. Don’tcha know that? And here ya are, and it’s a beautiful day.” She was right, because this weekend, there’s going to be so much to do and it’s…
Summer is the time to get up and get out, try a new sport, challenge yourself, meet people. And the season comes and goes pretty quickly, so here are ten suggestions for some new, mostly outdoor activities to try. We promise you’ll work up a sweat. Denver Cruisers Wednesday nights,…
When Colorado Maker Hub teams up with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science this weekend for the Denver Mini Maker Faire, the result will be a geekophile’s paradise, a thriving village of more than 100 tinkerers, artisans, tech nerds, robot-builders, Daleks and droids. We’d be hard-pressed to name them…
There weren’t many nerdy kids in the ’80s who didn’t love The Last Starfighter. How could we resist its charms? It was about a poor kid growing up in the middle of nowhere whose love and mastery of video games turned out to be his ticket to the stars! That’s…
Young Frankenstein is close to wrapping up its monstrously successful run at the Littleton Town Hall Arts Center, so grab tickets now. Meanwhile, Detroit continues to roll at Curious Theatre Company and Mary Poppins has landed at BTD Stage in Boulder. Keep reading for capsule reviews of these productions. Detroit. Detroit…
Prison life is reliably repetitive, but conditions can be frighteningly unstable, too. Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, which returned June 12 for its third season, reflects that paradoxical state of affairs by delivering more of the same — heartfelt but complicated relationships, inspired capers, compelling personalities, stomach-twisting flips in…
Ben Kronberg is among the most successful of Denver comedy expatriates, having amassed an impressive list of credits and accomplishments since moving to New York. With his high-profile appearances on Late Night with Seth Meyers, John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show and the Comedy Central Half Hour, it’s a surprise…
Sandra Fettingis did some amazing things during the first year of her artist residency at RedLine, including working with the Epic Program and ten high school students from Emily Griffith to make sanctioned street art that featured the teens’ own warriors. “We created this mural as part of a workshop…
