What better way to start off April than with a terrifying Belgian horror movie? See the scary flick Calvaire, learn about the music business from industry professionals, or help raise awareness about sexual assault this week in Denver — all without spending a dime. No joke! Read the Westword calendar…
Spirit Realm Investigative Project, an all-female ghost-hunting crew, spends much of their time in the dark, seeking out spirits. But at 8 p.m. tomorrow, March 30, they’ll be in the spotlight on episode sixty of the Bio Channel’s My Ghost Story , sharing spooky experiences at Colorado’s Gilpin County Jail…
There’s no better way to celebrate Easter weekend than by watching ladies with bizarre nicknames wrestle in jello. Denver will have that and many more events — from photography shows to a Walking Dead-watching party — that you can enjoy over the next few days without dropping too much cash…
After two successful shows, comedian Deacon Gray has scored a regular time slot — the last Saturday of each month — at the Bug Theatre for his unusual two-part shows, called Text-a-Saurus. The first part of each show features regular standup from a couple of comedians. This month’s guests are…
Earlier this year, Denver Zine Library co-founder Kelly Shortandqueer started an Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign to help him pay for “top surgery,” which is similar to a double mastectomy and the final stage of his transition from a woman to a man. Shortandqueer had also planned a benefit to help raise…
Shake off your cabin fever by going out on the town this week — without spending a dime! For starters, you can tiptoe through the tulips at a Denver Botanic Gardens free day, try your luck at draq-queen bingo, or watch Hobo With a Shotgun. For more reasons to get…
Despite snowy forecasts, spring has officially sprung — and fun events are springing up all over town. From a chance to see an Amsterdam Internet archivist’s work to a free screening of the new Ryan Gosling flick to a snack-filled block party, we’ve rounded up ten events that will green…
Since her suicide half a century ago, Sylvia Plath has been the subject of many biographies, a Hollywood movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow, and even a song by alt-country rocker Ryan Adams. But Carl Rollyson’s new book, American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath, takes a different approach to…
Though the U.S. Men’s National Team has gone to the FIFA World Cup every year since 1990, it has never been an easy road. That road will wind through Denver today when the U.S. plays Costa Rica in the second of ten World Cup qualifying games on the way to…
Although St. Patrick’s Day is over, the partying doesn’t have to stop. This week, you can see a documentary about ending poverty, catch a sketch comedy show, or participate in a community scrapbooking project (and eat cookies). And all of these events are free, so you won’t have to shell…
What do you get when you mix psychedelic Trapper-Keeper artist Lisa Frank with burlesque? The Merry Widow’s Artisan Operetta will answer that question tonight with its monthly, artist-inspired variety show at Voodoo Comedy Playhouse. In the past, host Tamara Pidhayny has chosen such pre-1960s inspirations as costume designer Edith Head,…
This weekend is all about the green of St. Patrick’s Day, and you won’t have to spend much of your own hard-earned green to have fun. For just ten bucks (or less), you can enjoy everything from a burlesque tribute to the Irish holiday to an experimental film symposium to…
Joan Crawford once famously proclaimed that she loved playing bitches. But back in 1928, in Our Dancing Daughters, the film that made her a star, Crawford played quite a different role: a jilted roaring ’20s party girl. And you can see that movie for free this week, as well as…
Snow returns this weekend, but that’s no reason to hole up in your house. Get a jump on spring by picking up some new seeds and gardening tips at Growhaus’s annual seed swap, check out Denver’s Month of Photography exhibitions, attend a zombie fashion show or drunkenly watch kung fu…
“They always say after you leave art school to just keep creating work and be in the art scene,” says Jennifer Harrington, who got her degree from the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in 2010. But once real life kicks in and the pressures of day jobs and…
As a poet, Hoa Nguyen writes concise, lyrical poetry that mimics the quality of music, reflecting on grand themes of planetary grief and experiencing the numinous. Her other pursuit, as a reader of tarot cards, deals in many of the same archetypes and patterns. Nguyen will be in town Saturday…
Obscene/Courageous Theatre is known for its offbeat, entertaining and sometimes disturbing productions. But the company’s newest show is a little different. “It’s a really cute play; it’s a love story,” says Sarah Crockarell, co-artistic director for Obscene/Courageous. “There’s no horror, nobody gets stabbed. It’s really based on slapstick and irreverent,…
After a tarot reading in the early 1990s in San Francisco that she calls “mind-blowingly amazing and accurate,” Hoa Nguyen became interested in the mystical art of divination. Now the world-renowned poet, founder of poetry journal Skanky Possum and current teacher at Ryerson University in Toronto will be traveling to…
The Boulder International Film Festival opens tonight with Muscle Shoals and continues through the weekend with three more days of independent cinema, symposiums and events featuring special guests from all over the world. It can be tricky to pick films from the festival’s extensive schedule, so we asked co-founders Kathy…
From Baz Luhrmann’s mid-’90s version with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes to a 2011 animated retelling with garden gnomes, Romeo and Juliet has been translated into many time periods and approaches over the years. And now the Denver Center Theatre Company is bringing William Shakespeare’s tragic tale of teenage love…
The mission of the Boulder International Film Festival has always been simple: to screen films that won’t be showing at the cineplex downtown. “These are films that people might never see in Boulder,” says Kathy Beeck, who founded the festival in 2004 with her sister, Robin. “We go through a…
For those with laughable love lives, or even attached couples who’d rather chuckle than go out to a swanky dinner, the Colorado Comedy Coalition is putting on a show at the Voodoo Comedy Playhouse that’s all about amour. Featuring performances by comedians Chris Miller, Kristin Rand, Willie Red, Derrick Culver,…
