Mayor Michael Hancock, Arts & Venues Denver and the Denver Commission on Cultural Affairs just announced the 2012 recipients of the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts: Denver’s Art District on Santa Fe, Denver Ballet Guild and Emmanuel Gallery. The awards will be presented at a free, public celebration…
Denver-based Cinema Geeks was chosen as one of ten film-making teams from around the world to compete in the International AR.Drone Film Festival. Made famous on the Internet by the spoof film Hepmento, the Cinema Geeks have won awards from the Starz Film Festival, the Boulder Shoot-Out 24-Hour Film Festival…
Backcountry and big-mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones is bringing his Teton Gravity Research film Further to the Oriental Theater tonight at 6:30 p.m. for the local premiere of the second installment in his Deeper, Further, Higher trilogy (tickets $13), and will also be screening the film on Friday at the Boulder…
In 1987, ACT UP — the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power — was born in New York City, an activist-centered response to the growing HIV and AIDS epidemic that was largely going ignored by the American government. Through How To Survive A Plague, a documentary opening Friday, October 12 at…
Denver native T.J. Miller is one busy comic. But even on the same day that his new comedy series, Mash Up, premiered on Comedy Central, Miller took the time to give us a call and chat about Hollywood success and why he still misses Denver. During our conversation, Miller was…
The Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design is fast building a reputation as a quality artist-making machine, and Joseph Coniff, a young RMCAD graduate, is living proof. Westword critic Michael Paglia called his 2011 exhibition at Rule Gallery “a spectacular debut for a young artist” and the show also…
Bree Davies grew up in Denver, and is about the same age as the 16th Street Mall — which means she spent plenty of time on it as a teen. She reminisced about those days in a blog birthday card to the mall, a sort of love letter that accepted…
The fall opener at David B. Smith Gallery is dedicated to Gregory Euclide, whose unusual work has made him someone to watch out for in the realm of contemporary art. Gallery owner David Smith has been a longtime supporter of Euclide, and this show, Observing only the ease of my…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist that starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with some odd takes on…
The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. The opening moments are pulse-poundingly exciting — music, live wrestling, flashing lights, tons of adrenaline from an already hyped-up audience. But the actual scripted beginning of the play is quiet, as a Puerto Rican kid called Mace describes his lifelong fascination with pro wrestling…
Made and narrated by a son in an attempt to reconcile his own perception of his father with that of the public at large, Gotham Chopra’s Decoding Deepak is as much an exercise in self-help as it is a demystification of its title character. Deepak Chopra, whose protégées include Lady…
Perhaps you’ve lost faith in movies about amusingly digressive criminals. Maybe you believe it’s no longer possible to be pleasurably jolted by inventive swearing, from-no-place head shots, and post-everything structural flourishes. Certainly you have no reason to expect blood-splattered poetry or throat-clearing laughter from yet another movie in which Los…
Perhaps more than any other male American star of his generation, Ben Affleck understands the narrative advantage of having Hollywood on your side. The Good Will Hunting co-screenwriter and co-star won an Oscar at age 25 in large part because he and collaborator Matt Damon, as struggling actors who created…
There are messengers all over Shakespeare. They fetch and carry, run on and off with news — but no one gives them much thought, despite the dangers of their profession. There are exceptions, of course: Someone occasionally flings a messenger a coin; at other times messengers are hit or killed…
Ben Dicke, a local actor and director, was inspired, astounded, knocked out, when he saw Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson in New York last year, and he decided it was a show that Denver audiences had to experience. The musical tells the story of our seventh president, set to propulsive emo-rock…
The Great American Beer Festival runs from October 11-13, bringing with it 580 breweries, 2,700 beers, 49,000 thirsty beer lovers and all the pomp and circumstance associated with what is the biggest, best beer fest in the world. But it also brought a lot of headaches, as not everyone who…
Though the old mining towns of Cripple Creek, Central City and Black Hawk adopted gambling as an industry, Victor didn’t. Instead, the town, which once boasted 20,000 residents, remains as an inhabited ghost town with a population of 400. It’s the perfect spooky setting for the first-ever Spirits of Victor…
Snowboarder Jeremy Jones is bringing the harrowing second installment in his Deeper, Further, Higher film trilogy to the Oriental Theater tonight and to the Boulder Theater tomorrow night as part of the run-up to the season. “The most terrifying moment making this film was when I was hiking a face…
“There’s no one way to be blind,” says Karen Karsh of the American Council of the Blind of Colorado. “We are all individuals.” And today’s Raisin’ Cane walk is all about identifying and supporting those blind and visually-impaired individuals while raising awareness for eye health, accessibility and other issues. National…
Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Big Love, Milk, J. Edgar), one of the most recognizable names in the LGBT-rights movement, is once again using his storytelling prowess to teach a history lesson, this time about the 2011 courtroom drama that overturned California’s gay-marriage ban, Proposition 8. The documentary play, called 8,…
There’s nothing like the crisp fall air to pump up a great run, and that will definitely be a plus for today’s Run the Rocks 5K. The sixth annual autumn race — which follows the paved-road trails surrounding Colorado’s picturesque Red Rocks Amphitheatre — offers a chance for participants to…
Much like political ads and zombies in October, found-footage flicks are starting to get old, but now and then comes a twist that makes the trend relevant again — even the second time around. Just in time for the witching season, Grave Encounters 2, the second in a series of…
