Exactly the sort of mysterious and almost holy experience you hope to get from documentaries and rarely do, Jeff Malmberg’s Marwencol begins with context: In 2000, Mark Hogancamp, an upstate New York resident, was beaten outside a bar so badly by four men that he incurred a brain injury and…
A near-irresistible exercise in bravura absurdity, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan deserves to become a minor classic of heterosexual camp — at the very least, it’s the most risible and riotous backstage movie since Showgirls. Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake has had a spooky quality at least since Tod Browning appropriated a few…
Winner of last spring’s SXSW festival and current indie darling, Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture is a comedy of youthful confusion that gets its kick not only from evoking a world of unromantic hookups, casual BJs and iPhone porn, but from satirizing New York’s bourgeois bohemia. Newly graduated with a degree…
For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. To…
Pamela Mencher has spent eleven years working on her play — but in some ways, she’s been working on it her whole life. Born on a Lakota/Sioux reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, Mencher spent her formative years there and on a Blackfeet reservation in Montana during the civil rights…
Where else can you get great local goods this holiday season? A good place to start would be a hop, skip and a jump away from Talulah Jones at the EZE Mop block on the 1200 block of East 17th Avenue, where husband-and-wife entrepreneurs Stephanie Shearer and Chris Bacorn run…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning December 1, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve…
When we read “Bike Porn” in the e-mail tip passed to us, we were a little more than intrigued. Did it mean there would be an exhibition of glossy 8″ x 10″s, displaying polished bicycles in hot pedaling action? Or would it be some sort of mutated combination of pornography,…
For about the next two weeks, the daylight hours will continue to get shorter, leaving little to do but contemplate the existential despair that comes with the gathering darkness, and maybe try to get some Christmas shopping done. Unless you’re Jewish, in which case it’s day six of Hanukkah, which…
We’re putting together our annual New Year’s Guide, and we want you to be a part of it. Send any arts-and-culture related New Year’s Eve/New Year’s Day event details to newyear@westword.com so we can include you in our listings. And thanks!…
Dixie Longate has come to Denver to ply her Tupper-wares (har) at the Garner Galleria Theatre. The show opened last week and will be here through early January, so there’s still plenty of time to go and reevaluate your tupperware needs. I went on Friday. Truly, it was ridiculous –…
Some 400,000 years ago, the earliest ancestors of man as we know him migrated out of Africa and into the land that would later become the snootiest place on earth: Western Europe. But that area was not so fancy then; in fact, it was rugged and cruel, and an ice…
Boulder-based adventure film company Sender Films just put out a new DVD compiling all six climbing films from the 5th annual Reel Rock Film Tour (DVD trailer after the jump): The Swiss Machine documents Ueli Steck’s alpine speed record on The Eiger Nordwand; First Round, First Minute follows Chris Sharma…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: This month, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve. Check…
People like to make their voices heard — and here at Westword, our poor editorial assistant is often an unwilling outlet for that: We get a lot of random people leaving messages on our general line. They complain about our coverage, leave us bizarre, incoherent “tips,” or, in the case…
Small works, affordable art, crafty items, the unexpected: Tonight’s First Friday Artwalk will no doubt feature plenty of them all, regardless of whichever urban quarter you land in. And that’s a good thing: Not only do local artists have to eat like the rest of us, but everyone benefits from…
Denver Open Media is celebrating its fourth anniversary tonight. It’s a unique organization in that their public access TV station does not get much of anything from the city of Denver. The government, in partnership with Comcast, provides the equipment, and the rest is more or less done by members…
Considering it’s an activity wherein people look on while other people walk down a street and do things at the same time, it’s unsurprising that the least boring thing about a parade is usually the floats. Actually, a lot of the time, the floats are pretty awesome — like the…
The upside is, every so often, a work of art comes along that is so innovative it changes the whole paradigm of its media, bearing a tangible influence on everything that follows. The downside is, most of what follows is a pale imitator — like how every movie with an…
Golden in Focus kicks off this weekend, showcasing a wide variety of photos from Golden’s illustrious history — and man, was it ever illustrious. We’ve got a preview of five of these pictures after the break, with helpful captions to explain exactly what’s going on, the historical context and other…
Celebrities don’t really owe the world anything. They do what they do and we treat them like royalty for it and ask nothing in return, except these days for maybe a tweet every couple hours to let us know what they are doing and thinking throughout every day of their…
The new High Noon Express Lift (Chair 5) at Vail opens a week from today, right after next week’s Snow Daze events. The high-speed quad chair replaces the old fixed-grip triple, cutting the ride from twelve minutes down to just under six and increasing the lift’s capacity by about 70…
