When artists and roommates Laura Conway and Anna Winter started talking about curating their own gallery show in their home, it was crucial to challenge the traditional format of a place for art. “While subverting the white wall gallery model isn’t new, we wanted to experiment in our own alternative…
We seem to be obsessed with superheroes these days — but on Veterans Day, we recognize the true American heroes. Thanks to cinema, civilians have been able to get a closer look at what war is really like, with all the horrors and the heartbreaks. The best of these war…
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. Tylor Belshe is a near-native: He came to Colorado during his sophomore…
The temperatures will be dropping this week, but the forecast is for free fun. Whether you’re checking out a holiday show, chuckling at local comics or reliving your teenage years, you’re sure to have a cool week. After all, it’s Denver Arts Week! Check out the Westword calendar for a…
Arapahoe Basin was first — as usual — but two other Summit County ski resorts, Copper Mountain and Keystone Resort, will open today, despite warm weather recently that pushed back Keystone’s original opening-day plan. In addition, Wolf Creek down in southwestern Colorado, opens this weekend as well. But with temperatures…
Some people get off to porn, other people get down to BDSM role play. And then there are those people who are turned on by bicycles. Bike Smut is a collection of short erotic films that have everything to do with bikes. This DIY bicycle-themed festival has been traveling across…
It just got easier to laugh in Denver. Kayvan Khalatbari, local ganjaprenuer, owner of three Sexy Pizza spots and godfather of the Sexpot series of comedy shows, just launched a new website that ties together many of the various strands that make up Denver’s burgeoning comedy scene. The site, SexpotComedy.com,…
When Australian filmmaker Richard Tuohy says he makes experimental films, he means it. He runs Nanolab, an artist-run film-processing lab where he develops 16mm and Super8 film for fellow filmmakers. In his free time, he has devoted himself to exploring hand-processing, optical illusions and even cameraless films. Tuohy does not…
Tom Waits thought November, “only believes in a pile of dead leaves and a moon that’s the color of bone.” Pretty grim thought, Tom, because around Denver, we’re partying this November weekend. There’s going to be an avalanche of activities going on due to Denver Arts Week. Laser light shows…
Mike McClung, the director of Michael Warren Contemporary, curated Drips, Drops, Pours and Spins, a show featuring four abstract artists who all use the liquid and viscous quality of pigments to create non-objective compositions, the subjects of which are the pigments themselves. See also: Review: Discovering and Interpreting the West…
After providing community health and services in Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood for decades, Servicios de la Raza moved this week to a new home at 3131 West 14th Avenue. To do so, the organization had to sell its buildings at 41st Avenue and Tejon Street, which meant the removal of the…
Tuesday, November 11, is Veterans Day — but around the globe it’s known as Remembrance Day, the holiday created to mark the end of World War I, which formally concluded at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1919. “World War I was supposed to…
Halloween is over. Boo! And not “boo” like a ghost says, but “booo” like when your team gets buried by an avalanche of scoring from the other team (goddamn Patriots…). Still, just because the calendar says the spooky time of year is over is no reason you have to listen…
#45: Darrin Alfred As associate curator of architecture, design and graphics at the Denver Art Museum, Darrin Alfred — who cut his teeth at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art before landing in Denver — keeps the museum’s design collection up-to-date, while curating such shows as 2009’s popular poster…
Here’s a question the rest of us are lucky never to have had to think about: How many people does it take to bear away the corpse of a grown gorilla? Early in Virunga, Orlando von Einsiedel’s stunning heartbreaker of a doc, we see men, a dozen or so, carrying…
Last year’s ski and snowboard season was the best on record, according to Colorado Ski Country USA, with a record 12.6 million visits to Colorado ski areas — and this year’s snow forecast is even better. “Seeing our visitation punch through the 12.5 million level and best our prior mark…
There’s so much space in Christopher Nolan’s nearly three-hour intergalactic extravaganza Interstellar that there’s almost no room for people. This is a gigantosaurus movie, set partly in outer space and partly in a futuristic dust-bowl America where humans are in danger of dying out, and Nolan — who co-wrote the…
It’s an unwritten rule that we’re supposed to feel most in step with people our own age, as if sharing the same cultural and historical references somehow enables our ability to look into each other’s hearts. So why do we sometimes tumble into deeper friendships with people who are ten…
Adapted from Amy-Jo Albany’s memoir about growing up with her father, Joe, the jazz pianist best known for playing with Charlie Parker, Low Down stars John Hawkes and Elle Fanning as a father-daughter duo with a lot of love and even more problems. A charming, gifted musician with a heroin…
Buried Child. Sam Shepard’s Buried Child, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979, still carries a creepy wallop. The story of a violently dysfunctional family — a drunken, abusive father who has destroyed his sons and is now being destroyed in return — it was hailed in its time as…
Dmitri Obergfell. Yinfinity: New Works by Dmitri Obergfell positively vibrates with aesthetic and conceptual energy. The sculptures and wall panels that make up the show survey a range of image sources and a variety of sensibilities. For Obergfell, these pieces are linked by references to ancient or otherwise recognizable symbols…
Imagine if nerdy Clark Kent didn’t have to remove his glasses and pocket protector to save the world. Then imagine him as fat and sweet as a marshmallow. Meet Big Hero 6’s Baymax, Disney’s new cuddly champion: a waddling, inflatable health-care companion who can sense your pulse, diagnose disease and,…
