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Readers weigh in on stoned driving

"Poem on the Range," Off Limits, March 6 Grand Slam What is the matter with the City of Denver? You would think that with all the study they'd done to create Imagine 2020, the new cultural plan, they would have discovered that Denver's slam poets have won awards around the...
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Six nu-metal bands you shouldn’t be ashamed to like

There's a lot of bad music out there. There are always people debating genres like contemporary country and Western and Top 40 music, but at the end of the day, the most reviled and defenseless genre of all is nu-metal. Too whiny to be intimidating and too dumb to be...
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The 2013 Village Voice Film Poll

In 2013, there were a thousand bright lights and no strong center ― even with Gravity, which ranked No. 8 on our tally of nearly 100 critics’ bests. results in this year’s Village VoiceFilm Poll, like the decisions arrived at by critics’ circles around the country, suggest that consensus is...
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Another 100 Colorado Creatives: Andy Juett

#69: Andy Juett Andy Juett came to the local comedy scene via radio, and has blossomed into a booster, standup comic, producer, stage host, behind-the-scenes guy and co-owner of the High Plains Comedy Festival, which kicks off its second year in August. But he also rolls out comedy shows all...
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Now Showing

Critical Focus: Ian Fisher. This show, located in the informal Whole Room at MCA Denver, is made up of a group of mostly monumental paintings of the sky. It's the type of thing that has become the artist's signature. Though Fisher begins with photographs of clouds used as studies, the...
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Art for Freedom

Three years ago, on the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, President Obama symbolically passed the intent of that document forward with the creation of Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month, an observance meant to increase awareness of worldwide injustices and give recognition to agencies battling them. “Around the world, millions...
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Dune: David Lynch’s glorious mess of a movie screens Friday

At the tail end of 1984, a film from one of the medium's undisputed masters, adapting one of the great science fiction novels of all time-- hell, one of the great American novels of all time -- was released. David Lynch, adapting Frank Herbert's masterpiece, Dune! What could go wrong?...