Roll Denver celebrated sci fi both classic and modern at Exdo on Friday, and everyone from Star Lord to The Penguin to Daft Punk strapped on their skates for The Grid and got rolling. Cassandra Kotnik was there to capture all the out-of-this-world action; keep reading for a look. See…
This may be a short work week, but it’s long on free fun. After you march in this morning’s MLK Marade to celebrate the reason we have the day off, continue the discussion at Black Lives Matter at the McNichols Building. Then it’s on to Night Brunch, movies and other…
The bi-coastal film pod continues in 2015! In New York, Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl, along with Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek, connect via the magic of the Internet with LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson to discuss the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards, announced on January 15…
There aren’t many filmmakers who are in the right place at the right time to capture the start of a subculture; most documentary projects come together around an idea or movement when popularity is at a fever pitch — but by the time the dust settles and the film comes…
From pop art to cutting-edge art to public art and beyond, there’s a little bit of everything to see this weekend, as gallery spaces kick off the new year with looks back…and looks forward. Keep reading for a look at some of the new shows opening this weekend, and one…
Lindsey Trees was born and raised in Fargo, North Dakota, where she grew up an only child with strong Midwestern values. “I moved to Denver in 2003, and it instantly became home. The 60 degree, sunny days we have in the dead of winter hooked me,” she remembers. But she…
Sexpot Comedy founders Andy Juett and Kayvan Khalatbari know first-hand how hard the members of Denver’s close-knit comedy community work throughout the year, building their own careers and helping one another along the way. And the duo thinks that throwing the first annual Denver Comedy Awards is a great way…
When metal sculptor Jamie Vaida packed up and moved his Grand Junction studio to Oakland, California, a few years ago, he quickly found an audience for the architectural details he specializes in — like some of the coolest spiral staircase handrails and hottest fireplace screens you’ve ever seen — and…
Most of us get to take a break from the typical Monday due to the celebration for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. With that extended weekend, make it a point to pack in as much as possible. This weekend, you’ll find free beer to be had, specific karaoke to be…
As a Chicano artist in the 1970s, Jerry Jaramillo was shut out of many studios and galleries. So, in 1978, he co-founded the Chicano Humanities & Arts Council as a way to give Chicano artists a chance to be seen. “It was really hard for Latino artists to find a…
#41: Aaron “Ukulele Loki” Johnson Aaron Johnson, aka Ukulele Loki, blithely changes hats every day: A musician, emcee extraordinaire, activist, lapsed public-school teacher, Denver County Fair freak-show host and radio host for Colorado Public Radio’s OpenAir (as well as a co-founder of Boulder’s Radio 1190), Johnson moves and shakes to…
It is safe to say that few, if any, directors in the history of geek film can boast a pair of back-to-back classics to rival Ridley Scott’s Alien and Blade Runner. Released just three years apart, both are near-perfect visions of science-fiction greatness the likes of which the world had…
Collage artist Peter Yumi hasn’t exactly been in hiding the last five years, though he’s rarely shown any work in galleries during that time. But he has been busy in the studio and sharing work with other artists on the Internet, and in 2015, he’ll be back on gallery walls,…
Jesus talked a lot about loving the underdog, the meek, the oppressed and the poor. He argued God is love and told his disciple to turn the other cheek. Jesus’s life ended in violence and bloodshed from which he could have liberated himself, but he chose not to fight –…
Anyone who loves Michael Mann movies — or even just the idea of Michael Mann movies — accepts that film style is a language and something more, a way of thinking, feeling and looking that goes beyond basic plotting, dialogue or character motivation. I can tell you pretty much everything…
In Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) — an astoundingly talented marksman credited with over 160 confirmed kills in Iraq — runs into a fellow veteran at a mechanic’s shop between deployments. The soldier shows Kyle an artificial leg and thanks him for saving his life…
Forget its generic title, its breakup setup and its indie-standard Brooklyn walk-and-talks: Writer/director Desiree Akhavan’s Appropriate Behavior is the freshest comedy of life and love since Obvious Child. Hilarious and heartbroken, Akhavan stars as Shirin, a bisexual Iranian-American video artist just bounced from her lover’s Gowanus apartment. (Relish the memory…
Brilliant.If you have any interest in modernism or fine craft — even if you aren’t particularly interested in jewelry — you’ll find something to marvel over at the Denver Art Museum’s winter blockbuster Brilliant: Cartier in the 20th Century. The show is a visual marathon, with so many things included…
Fiddler on the Roof.This production of Fiddler on the Roofdoes full justice to Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick’s brilliant songs, tells the evocative story with clarity and feeling, and also — uniquely — sounds the musical’s deeper, darker chords. The action is set in a rural Russian Jewish community whose…
Emerson argued that each flourish and tendril of a work of art has its exact corollary in the mind of the artist, that creative expression is always, in its way, a sort of autobiography: Want to know the person? Look at her works. But Ralph Waldo never lived to see…
Here’s the pipsqueak who has hauled himself up into a sharp-dressed leading man. Here’s the comic who’s boundlessly inventive in his swearing but also suave and commanding in pursuit of love, the motormouth horndog who yawps about like a puppy on fire but can melt your mother’s heart with his…
Things are already shaking for Sexpot Comedy in 2015, with a new video series ready to premiere, a slate of shows both big and small in the works, and a move toward having more of those shows at 3 Kings Tavern. But first, the minds behind Sexpot decided it was…
