Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. We’ll be rounding up your options every Friday for the weekend and the following week, and making…
Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Emily Osment is coming to Elitch Gardens for a free concert tomorrow night and my two kids, ages nine and seven, couldn’t be more excited. Why? Well, because I apparently have let them listen to Radio Disney a lot and watch…
I love Paris in the springtime or even Paris in Denver in the summertime: That’s the taste you’re destined to experience at tomorrow night’s Créme de la Couture Grand Opening Fashion Show, which will serve doubly as an introduction to Créme de la Couture, a new high-end second-hand boutique opening…
Oh, Zac Efron. With your rippling arm muscles and your perpetual look of vaguely baffled concentration, you might, like Keanu Reeves, go on to more serious films that use your vacant expression for something interesting–but you’ll always be a teen heartthrob to us. And stupid, formulaic studio vehicles like Charlie…
It’s a rock-and-roll musical that puts a main character named Jesus in a land where people worship boobs. It’s also a classic hero-myth set to interpretive dance. It’s The Lovinator, and it’s going to be weird — but co-creator Brian Powell says it won’t be so weird as to not…
I turned up at the well-chosen, sparkly-walled Beauty Bar for the first of a season’s worth of Project Runway viewing parties hosted by Tran Wills of the Fabric Lab and Mondo Guerra, the Denver designer who was put to the test in Season 8, which debuted on Lifetime last night…
There’s been a lot of talk about whether Denver can afford to build the set of designs by Santiago Calatrava done for the expansion of Denver International Airport. The reason? Times are hard, and the Calatrava pieces are projected to cost around $650 million. The Spanish-born, New York-based architectural genius…
Five years ago, Los Comicos Super Hilariosos strode onto Denver’s stand-up wasteland like the Avengers of ass humor, the Super Friends of shit talking, the Justice League of dick jokes. The collective’s monthly shows have featured Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl, Greg Baumhauer, Ben Roy and their colleagues giving Denverites a…
Some people just stand out. Whether their style is cutting-edge, quirky or just well executed, they make you want to know: How do they do it? Because we work for you, dear reader, we’re finding out. Each day, we hit the streets and talk to one person who catches our…
Everyone likes to let it all hang out sometimes; after all, it’s the way all of us were born, and it will surely be the way some of us, under questionable circumstances, die. Most people, though, when they let ’em hang, they do it in the privacy of their homes…
Some people just stand out. Whether their style is cutting-edge, quirky or just well-executed, they make you want to know: How do they do it? Because we work for you, dear reader, we’re finding out. Each day, we’ll hit the streets and talk to one person who catches our eye…
I totally can’t get enough summer clothes. It’s the season when one should try things — little things like wispy tank tops and breezy tissue linen camp shirts and sandals — incessantly, grabbing them off hangers or pulling them from shelves and throwing them wildly about the closet until somehow…
Love it or leave it, no one can deny that the inaugural Biennial of the Americas gave Denverites something to talk about. Now it’s drawing to a close, but before we all move on to the next big thing, there are still a couple of days to take in the…
If you’re wondering, dear readers, this used to be the site of our On the Edge outdoors blog. But change is on the way, and this is your first look at it. We’re so thrilled to debut this new facet of Westword’s local cultural coverage that we couldn’t even wait…
Twenty years ago, Metropolitan State College of Denver opened an off-campus gallery to serve as an outlet for students, professors and the community. Over those two decades, it has gone through a number of changes, the most recent of which took place this year. First dubbed the Center for the…
Colorado Art Survey. Over the years, Kirkland Museum director Hugh Grant has relentlessly sought out and acquired new things for the institution’s permanent collection. In the current exhibit, Colorado Art Survey, he shows off some of these conquests and brings other things out of storage. There are some rarely seen…
Beauty and the Beast. Though it’s backed by expert musicians and technicians, the real miracle is the Phamaly company itself. The leads are as good as — and often better than — anyone you’ll see anywhere. Jenna Bainbridge is the sweetest Belle imaginable, with a clear, strong soprano and, paradoxically,…
While Hollywood has belatedly cooled on snarky, loud-quiet-loud proto-Tarantino gangster comedies, our English-speaking brethren across the Atlantic remain steadfast, pumping public money into spawns of Sexy Beast and maintaining full employment for slumming stage-trained thespians. By no means the worst of the lot, Gaelic import Perrier’s Bounty might be the…
In Steve Carell’s first few episodes of the American version of The Office, his character, Michael Scott, hewed closely to the template created by the series’ British mastermind, Ricky Gervais. Scott, like David Brent before him, was cruel and obtuse, a nightmare of a boss who thinks he’s a leader…
Alain Resnais’s Wild Grass has plenty of fans — it copped an award at Cannes in 2009 — but I don’t see what they see. The 87-year-old filmmaker’s latest is an insufferable exercise in cutie-pie modernism, painfully unfunny and precious to a fault. Adapted from a novel by Christian Gailly,…
There are times when I want to scream at a director doing Shakespeare: For God’s sake, if you don’t like the damn play, don’t stage it. For this Colorado Shakespeare Festival production, Scott Williams has tarted up Measure for Measure with all kinds of extraneous trickery: red umbrellas and vinyl…
Summer is the time for group shows, and this year, the William Havu Gallery has divided the season in two, with a landscape show filling the first part of the schedule and an abstract one now filling the second. Straightforwardly titled Abstracts, the exhibit brings together many of the artists…
