Written and directed by Paul Weitz, Being Flynn is an adaptation of Nick Flynn’s 2004 memoir Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, which explored the author’s pivotal experience working at the Boston homeless shelter where his down-and-out dad, Jonathan, was a frequent guest. In the movie, Paul Dano and Robert…
Artists and arts lovers alike turned out for Friday night’s Start the Art benefit concert — to talk, listen to performances by local musicians Terry Sandoval of the Hunger Artist, ScaTTer GaTHer and headliner Joshua Novak, and promote the cause of arts education for kids, with the goal of raising…
I’ve written about almost all of Colorado’s homegrown snowboard companies over the last year or so, but Highlands Ranch-based Origin Snowboards wasn’t even on my radar until earlier this month when my kids discovered it. With grom-sized boards starting at just 85cm and the biggest board in the line maxing…
This poster by Nakatomi caused the kid behind me to say: “Dad, I want the giant squid poster. Now.” Flatstock is a dangerous place to be with a credit card. This year, Flatstock 33 (presented by the American Poster Institute) featured over 100 artists with enough completely badass concert posters…
PHAMALY is an amazing asset to the Colorado arts scene, a theater company composed entirely of performers facing a wide variety of physical challenges. The group’s goal is to provide professional theater opportunities and artistic development for performers with disabilities and to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities in…
I will not say that Ghost Adventures host Zak Bagans (referred to in the Urban Dictionary as “Douche Bagans”) is the douchiest guy to ever host his own TV show, that he’s a certifiable uber-chad, that he looks like Ryan Seacrest and Ty Pennington’s love child, or that the way…
Spring has sprung early in Denver, bringing with it crocuses, daffodils and March Madness. And if all of that puts you in a mood to shoot a few hoops in the Mile High sunshine, you’re in luck: The freshly painted Southwest Court at Skyline Park opened for business last Friday…
The world didn’t end last May 21, as Harold Camping had predicted. Nor did it end on October 21, which was his revised prediction. Finally earlier this month, the 90-year-old Camping, who was born in Boulder, admitted he was wrong, and said he was getting out of the predictions business…
To celebrate the opening of its fourth run on the Denver stage, award-winning Broadway musical Wicked will partner with the Cherry Creek Shopping Center to open special preview “the World of Wicked” today, and running through April 15. Wicked fans and other mall-goers will get to bask in an emerald…
The Art Directors Club of Denver presented the eighth annual Paper Fashion Show Thursday, March 15, 2012 at the Seawell Grand Ballroom at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. Guests were treated to 50 original fashion designs created (almost) entirely of paper. Flowers, wings, lace and all assortments of…
A ticket to tonight’s Start the Art benefit concert buys more than just a night of good food, a cold beer and music by Westword Music Showcase nominee Josh Novak — it buys a chance to support a brand-new initiative to ensure kids’ access to arts education. Event organizers Chris…
You’re sure to be seeing green this weekend for St. Patrick’s Day (Here’s a Denver guide for St. Patrick’s), but that doesn’t mean you have to spend all of yours. Everything on this list costs less than $10, whether you want to drink green beer, learn about experimental film, or…
Today doesn’t just mark the start of that festive, lush, and green holiday: St. Patrick’s Day. It also kicks off that upcoming festive, lush and green season: spring…
Run for your life! The zombies are coming to Colorado this summer, and the “Run for Your Lives” 5K obstacle course will have fitness freaks fighting to avoid zombies while they also fight to stay on course. It’s like The Walking Dead, but at a faster pace, Nick Lucchesi points…
Last night was the first installment of the two-part finale of Project Runway All Stars, and it posted one of the toughest challenges in Project Runway history. The remaining three designers were challenged to create “mini collections” of five pieces in only four days — the shortest turnaround for a…
Tomorrow night, Buntport Theater will open a new show, inspired by a true event, called Tommy Lee Jones Goes to Opera Alone. But the title belies the community effort it took for Buntport to produce and animate a nearly life-size puppet of the solitary actor…
Luckily, they aren’t the running zombies. The “Run for your Lives” zombie 5K obstacle course is coming to Colorado this summer, where fitness freaks bored by the running routine will have to dodge “zombies” — volunteers complete with fake blood and lumbering steps — as part of the race. It’s…
Sarah Haney takes pictures of Barbies in compromising positions. Her art could be construed as a feminist discourse, commenting on the pressures of womanhood, and some of that is true. But for the most part, Haney’s just being hilarious. Currently, she’s spending most of her time experimenting with different forms,…
Slither up to Boulder tonight to hear herpetologist Robert Jadin lecture on “Venomous Snakes,” including a new breed of pit-viper snakes belonging to the genus crotalus. “Many different biodiversities exist and have yet to be discovered,” he says. Earth has just as much to be discovered on the surface as…
Michael Atkinson’s thoughtful review of In Darkness brought up tough, but important, memories…
The annual Art Director’s Club Denver Paper Fashion Show had a growth spurt in 2011. “Last year, the day of the event, we’d sold 800 tickets, and we figured that would be more or less the end of it,” says event organizer Shanna McNeal, “and then we had 400 we…
Garth Sundem says his new book was born of personal need. “There are a lot of things that I do poorly,” explains Sundem. “But for everything that I do poorly, someone has figured out how to actually do it right, and those people are scientists.” For Brain Trust: 93 Top…
