Playwright Marcus Gardley has won prestigious awards and been compared with such giants as August Wilson and Tennessee Williams for the poeticism of his language. But he's also been criticized for writing plays that lack structure and for creating characters more symbolic than real. The Denver Center Theatre Company commissioned...
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Update: Yesterday, we reported about Troubleshooter Tom Martino pleading guilty to disturbing the peace for a domestic incident involving his wife, Holly, last December; see our previous coverage below. After the piece was published, Martino conducted a wide-ranging interview with Westword, going into more detail than ever before about the...
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The Write Stuff
Even before the passage of Amendment 64, which allows adults age 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of marijuana, law-enforcement agencies have campaigned against driving under the influence of drugs, even though, from a statistical standpoint, alcohol-related DUIs dwarf pot-related ones. This weekend, Arvada's Keith Kilbey became...
Sinice 2008, Colorado voters have repeatedly rejected personhood ballot measures, each time by wide margins. But another version of the proposal has already been certified for the November 2014 election -- and a group of anti-abortion legislators have just introduced a bill, HB 14-1133, with very similar language. A pro-choice...
Carcass (due Wednesday, April 2, at The Summit Music Hall) were pioneers of grindcore alongside their friends in Napalm Death. By the time of its classic 1993 album Heartwork, the band had transitioned had all but fully into its melodic death metal phase. Carcass had already had a lasting impact...
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Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with a spacious kitchen. They often bring some of their market's best ingredients home with them and cook up a feast, and when they're not...
The headline on a post published around this time last Tuesday -- "Marijuana: Denver City Council ban on front-porch smoking looks bound for victory" -- reflected the conventional wisdom regarding an addition to the Denver pot ordinance that would have made smoking weed on front porches and front lawns an...
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The Preach Pit
It doesn't feature iPhones, Twitter or an Internet, and yet Paul Verhoeven's RoboCop remains perhaps the most prescient sci-fi effort of the past thirty years -- a work from 1987 whose continuing relevance is matched by the fact that no one would dare make it today. Or at least remake...
The title of "Reverend" is high on the list when Jason Downing breaks down his many duties in the Fort Collins-based quintet Musketeer Gripweed. "It's teaching and preaching," says Downing of his deeper mission in the folk, rock, roots and gospel outfit. "That's what I'm interested in having in the...
Update: Last week, we told you about the stabbing death of eighteen-year-old Anthony Benavidez at a Thornton trailer park; see our previous coverage below. Shortly after their arrival at the scene, members of the Thornton Police Department took a seventeen year old into custody on suspicion of committing the crime,...
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In 2011, when former Westword restaurant critic Laura Shunk reviewed Ondo's Spanish Tapas Bar, a subterranean space in Cherry Creek that never had the benefit of the foot traffic on busier blocks with higher profiles, she raved about the joint, pointing out that Ondo's "stays true to its Spanish inspiration."...
For over a decade, I've enjoyed sharing my neighborhood on the edge of LoHi with the students of the Contemporary Learning Academy, a DPS high school for kids whose needs and/or schedules just don't fit with the system's more traditional high schools. When DPS first bought the building overlooking I-25,...
Dear Stoner: This summer I was charged with marijuana DUI after a trooper stopped me for swerving on I-70 on the way to the mountains (I was actually looking at my cell phone for directions). The officer instructed me to do roadsides (which I passed with flying colors), submit to...
The marquee offering among the winter shows at Robischon is David Kimball Anderson: Altitude, the California artist's first Denver solo. The spaces are filled with installations meant to evoke the journey of twentieth-century Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Viewers could hardly be expected to know this, because the references...
#13: Lynne Bruning Denver-based but with an international following, Lynne Bruning studied neuroscience and architecture, but found her place in the world as a weaver, designer and well-traveled e-textile expert active in the worlds of the Internet, Maker Faires, hackerspaces and Burning Man. In a brilliant twist, Bruning blends an...
Update: Two juveniles were taken into custody following the explosion of what's been described as a "chemical device" at SkyView Academy charter school. At least five people required treatment at an area hospital; see our previous coverage below. Now, authorities are detailing a possible charge against the pair for possessing...
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A tale of love complicated — if not thwarted — by prior responsibilities, intractable barriers and the rigid high-society norms that frustrate its Victorian characters' attempts to live as they so desperately want, The Invisible Woman finds Ralph Fiennes proving as adept behind the camera as he is in front...
What happens when an ineligible candidate wins an election with two-thirds of the vote? That's the situation Amy Speers finds herself in. A candidate for the Adams 12 Five Star school board, Speers was declared ineligible a week before election day when district officials realized she didn't live in the...
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. In honor of the heartfelt holiday ahead, husband-and-wife duo Rob and Jen...
Update: An arrest has been made in the weekend shooting of Loveland Police Officer Garret Osilka; see our previous coverage below. Cody Powell, 23, who'd been identified as a person of interest in the case, phoned the authorities from a Loveland Walmart and offered to turn himself in. He's now...