They juggle chainsaws, bowling balls and eggs — or at least they did until recently. A long-time fixture in the scene of local vaudeville-inspired oddball damsel-in-distress shows (if indeed there is such a scene), The Handsome Little Devils are in the business of capturing the heart of anyone who appreciates…
Now that we’ve hit the midpoint of October, it means the releases are going to start ramping up a bit for the holidays. It’s already apparent what the big films and games are supposed to be, but with so much junk coming out, it’s still hard to keep track of…
Last weekend’s Harajuku Street Fashion Party at Hinterland aimed to educate while giving aficonados a chance to deck out in Japanese pop styles and have a good time. If you were there, you might have caught on. And then again, you might not have. Here’s a vague pathway through the…
The critically acclaimed author of Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane, believes in supporting libraries. Last evening, he spoke to a crowd of roughly eleven hundred at the Mile Hi Church in Lakewood as a part of the free Jefferson County Distinguished Author Series in which he explained why libraries are so…
Fall is a busy time of year in the art world, and it’s hard to believe how quickly the weather and the local exhibits are changing. In fact, this season’s fall openers are rapidly heading to their appointed closings. With that in mind, I’m catching up and recommending two shows…
Woman attacks artwork: It was one of those stories guaranteed to get Colorado into the national spotlight. On October 6, Kathleen Folden, a fundamentalist Christian from Montana, acting on her religious zeal, attacked a print of “The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals (pictured below),” by Enrique Chagoya, which was on…
archiTECHtonica. This is one of several shows put together by CU Art Museum director and curator Lisa Tamiris Becker to herald the opening of the institution’s new building. It’s paired with a show made up of related objects from the permanent collection. Becker invited an international cast of artists who…
Art. Yasmina Reza’s cool, witty, much-celebrated and much-performed play is ostensibly about art, but it’s more about friendship. At the center of the action is an all-white painting, purchased by Serge, a dermatologist, for a huge sum of money. Perhaps he feels a genuine affinity for the piece, perhaps he’s…
Robert De Niro’s alarm must have finally gone off: In Stone, the actor seems more awake than he has been in years. De Niro is Jack, a prison corrections officer who, abandoning all professional and common sense, foolishly screws himself by screwing Lucetta (Milla Jovovich), the wife of the cornrowed…
After Fox Searchlight’s Amelia spectacularly flamed out last October, the studio tries again to grab awards-season honors with another biopic starring and executive-produced by Hilary Swank. Gone is the Kansas-patrician enunciation and smartly tailored Depression-era trousers; as Conviction’s Betty Anne Waters, a Massachusetts high school dropout and single mom who…
A very, very loose and highly symbolic adaptation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Gaspar Noé’s Enter the Void unfolds in four major parts. Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) is a young, drug-dealing American in Tokyo with an unusually close relationship to his stripper sister, Linda (Paz de la Huerta), and…
Marina Carr’s Woman and Scarecrow is about the impending death of a character she calls Woman, a woman of spirit and passion trapped in a miserable marriage in rural Ireland. The story isn’t linear, but pieces of the protagonist’s life emerge through the dialogue. Her mother was given to volcanic…
Vampires are trendy right now, but they’ve been around in one form or another — seductive, repellent, take your pick — for centuries, because the idea of a dead creature that maintains some form of vitality by sucking human blood is so resonant and evocative. It’s a kind of immortality,…
Indian summer? I think it came and went last Friday when balmy temperatures held into the evening for gallery-goers crossing back and forth on Delgany Street during twin openings at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the Denver Handmade Alliance’s Art by Craft show across the street. Outdoors, the…
From 8 p.m. to midnight on Friday at Hinterland, 3254 Walnut Street, fans of Denver’s fans of Harajuku fashion got together in the same room for a party put on by Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast. Photos by Kate Levy. Below are a few highlights (see the full Harajuku Street Fashion…
The so-called “Orange Ride,” a large group bicycle ride wherein Broncos fans dressed in their favorite team gear went down on Sunday morning, with Mayor and Democractic candidate for governor John Hickenlooper leading the way. Westword photographer Hunter Stevens was there and brings back these photos: Orange Ride to Invesco…
Robert M. Knight looks pretty much like a regular guy – an older hepcat who wears berets, to be sure, but, yes, a regular one. Yet in his career of more than forty years as a rock photographer, he’s snapped everyone from the Rolling Stones to Slash and the Sick…
There’s no expensive special effect or fancy set piece that can match the evocative power of a good storyteller. That was the resounding message at the Stories on Stage “New Frontiers” performance Sunday at the Denver Performing Arts Center. The performance was the third offering in the Stories on Stage…
Pomegranate Place is in one of those old mansions you find throughout the Capitol Hill neighborhood, a relic of another era. It looks like a place where a benevolent secret society might meet. But it’s a women’s center and on the cool dusky evening of Friday, October 15th, it was…
In most moments of schadenfreude, there’s one pretty clear loser: the guy who launches himself bodily at a wall, for example, or the dumbass trying to do tricks on a Segway. These people fail, and everyone — including the other people in the video — has a good laugh at…
Advertising agencies work tirelessly to come up with new ways to tell us the same thing over and over again: “Hey, buy our shit. Don’t you want to be happy?” Thankfully though, there are always a few ridiculous ads that cause us to take pause and appreciate the stupidity of…
Everybody likes Mr. Bones. And really, how could you not love a guy who walks around operating a giant and seemingly anatomically correct dinosaur suit, never missing an opportunity to pretend he’s eating a kid’s head? Though Mr. Bones was perhaps the most flamboyant, there were no shortage of characters…
