At this point, the zombie genre has seen it all. Fast zombies. Slow zombies. Smart zombies and stupid zombies. Zombie love stories. Animated zombies. Hell, there’s even a zombie musical or two. But just when you think there’s nothing new under the undead sun, someone finds a fresh twist on…
You’ve picked your horse, you’ve dusted off your largest hat, and you’re ready for your annual guzzling of mint juleps — but if Churchill Downs isn’t in your weekend travel plans, where shall you go? Westword has compiled a list of the best derby-themed parties taking place in parking lots,…
The idea for The Body Electric Poetry Film Festival began when poet and filmmaker R.W. Perkins realized he was the guy who could make it happen. “I’m a video poet and had a lot of success with my stuff overseas — I was noticing a lot of really talented filmmakers…
#73: Norman Broomhall and Jean Albus Norman Broomhall raises chickens, sells vintage objects and mirrors antiqued by hand, plays the guitar and takes photographs; Jean Albus is a photographer, as well. Both are inspired by the call of nature and, together, they’ve created Into the Within, an installation that’s been…
Art critic Michael Paglia visits Plus Gallery and Spark Gallery in this week’s Westword, taking in works by four artists. The large show at Plus focuses on Colin Livingston and his dynamic brand of conceptual art, while Spark features three separate shows by Roland Bernier, Sue Simon and Madeleine Dodge…
Good things sometimes come in small packages, and that’s certainly the case with Westword MasterMind Johnny Morehouse’s long-running Five Minute Film Fest, a showcase of short shorts that pack a lot of punch in five minutes or less. Its latest incarnation has found a home at Deer Pile, and because…
Ania Gola-Kumor. One of Colorado’s greatest abstract painters is the star of Ania Gola-Kumor: Moving Paint, at Sandra Phillips Gallery. These large oil paintings, along with small works on paper that were done in oil stick and oil bar, represent both a continuation of Gola-Kumor’s longstanding interests and a new…
Iron Man 3 opens this week. For some viewers, the film’s appeal isn’t the eponymous superhero, but the sarcastic-yet-sensitive hero behind the gravity-defying, repulsor-ray-shooting suit of armor. I refer, of course, to Shane Black. Iron Man 3’s co-writer–director recharged the buddy-cop flick in the ’80s with his screenplay for Lethal…
Though conceptual art has been kicking around for a hundred years, it really didn’t resonate with more than a handful of artists until the rise of pop art in the second half of the twentieth century. Now, in the twenty-first, conceptual art is one of the main courses in the…
Over the course of its first sixty minutes, Ken Loach’s The Angels’ Share proves a testament to its director’s enduring reputation as a master of British cinema and the social-realist form, articulating the frustrations of Glasgow’s working class with clarity and sophistication. Robbie (non-actor Paul Brannigan) is a brash ne’er-do-well…
Where has Robert Downey Jr. gone? There’s no doubt he’s the star of Iron Man 3; he sprints through the picture like a neurotic panther. And yet he’s absent, detached in a Zen-like way from the whole affair. The nakedness that defines his best performances — in any role, up…
End of days or the beginning of new ways of seeing? Fittingly, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel’s Leviathan, an all-senses-consuming chronicle of a fishing trawler, takes its title from the sea beast described in the Book of Job, lines from which constitute the film’s epigraph: “He makes the depths churn…
Let’s start with the setting, so pristine, white, minimal and tasteful: chairs with gracefully curving legs, a glass table on which art books are meticulously arranged, a vase of white tulips, nicely grouped with just one flower swaying slightly out to the side. Tall panels of white brick form a…
When it was published in 1985, Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple was a groundbreaker — illuminating places that had been in shadow and, like most groundbreakers, intensely controversial. It described the plight of many poor, black rural women through the unforgettable voice of the protagonist, Celie, a voice that…
To: Stephanie Zacharek From: Alan Scherstuhl Hi, Stephanie, welcome again to the Voice! Like you, I found myself worn out by Iron Man 3, especially the long, kabooming climax. And, like you, I found myself wishing that Robert Downey Jr. had something deeper to play, and that the character had…
While Eero Saarinen’s name is synonymous with modernism, his daughter, Susan Saarinen, who will be making an appearance this evening at Mod Livin’, is in a league of her own. For tonight’s conversation, “33 Slides in 33 Minutes — How did we get from there to here: The roots of…
The makers of A Monster to Love’s stuffed creatures believe that every child should, in fact, have a monster to love. And because AMTL founder Ray Tollison’s twelve-year-old sons, Ben and Sam, are twins, every cute and squishable monster that the family venture makes also has a twin that they…
The Chocolate Crisis Center transformed itself into the RiNo Epicurean Market for one of the neighborhood’s First Friday events last fall. “It was kind of a lark to put it together the first time,” says Lisa Heppner, CCC marketing director. “But both the attendees and the vendors said they’d do…
Dive into a world of sky pirates, menacing cephalopods and bustier-clad lasses in Queen Victoria’s Floating Garden of Secrets and Natural Wonders, the world’s first full-length steampunk opera. Set in a dystopian future, the show tackles issues such as climate change while mashing up influences from Jules Verne to Gilbert…
Just because Star Wars inspired the name, don’t make the mistake of thinking the geeky goodness of May the Fourth Be With You stops with George Lucas’s saga of a galaxy far, far away. If it’s got a robot, a spaceship or an alien, it’s fair game today. “The idea…
Standup comic Chris Hardwick has a bone to pick with a certain urban demographic. “There is a growing contingency of ‘hipster nerds’ that is threatening our very lifestyle,” says the host of the Nerdist podcast and BBC America series, who starts a three-day run at the downtown Comedy Works tonight…
What began as antique dealer Eron Johnson’s winter reverie — how to get together with a few friends and have an outdoor market — has now turned into a major event. “It was a case of bad weather and boredom, and wanting to do something that said it was spring,”…
