Book It: The Five Best Literary Events This Week
For the week of February 12 through February 16, five far better choices for your Valentine’s week than the latest soul-killing iteration of Fifty Shades of Grey.
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Cleon Peterson Won’t Let Us Forget the Darkness Within
When MCA Denver promises big, it goes BIG: Anyone driving in the vicinity of the lower downtown denver museum can’t possibly have missed the gigantic art currently wrapping itself around the outside of the building. The work belongs to L.A.-based artist Cleon Peterson, who’s also created a monumentally striking artwork environment inside the MCA for the exhibit Cleon Peterson: Shadow of Men, which opened February 8 for a long run through May.
Fifty Shades Freed: A Woman Relinquishing Power Is Supposed to be Sexy?
The only fantasies Fifty Shades Freed convincingly fulfills are those of boutique publishers who would like to believe that a debut novel can acquire 250,000 preorders and that a local glossy can employ upwards of 50 full-time staffers, both of which occur in this film
Fashion Photographer Samantha Keller’s First Gallery Show
Samantha Keller is bringing her photos into the real world.
Catch Rashelle Stetman on Facebook Live Today, at Artopia February 23
Denver is full of great artists, and on Friday, February 23, one of the best, Rashelle Stetman, will be live drawing at Artopia 2018. But you can see her February 9 on Facebook Live.
Remembering Patrick Sheridan of the Emerging Filmmakers Project
“I don’t know if there is an actor or filmmaker in this community that hasn’t been touched or impacted by Patrick.”
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Weekend Warriors: Hit the Barre, the Court and the Mat
Unplug from the work week and dive head first into the weekend. Choose between finding your inner zen on your mat, or being rewarded with a beverage for your efforts. Keep reading for five weekend workout options.
Ten Things to Do in Denver for $10 and Under (Five Free!)
Looking for cheap fun in Denver this weekend? These are our picks.
Pachucos y Sirenas Looks Back at 1940s Chicano Counterculture
Chicano artists are exploring Pachuco culture at Museo de Las Americas.
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Six Arty Things to Do and See This Weekend in Denver
While waiting for the galleries to refire up after a busy January and February First Friday, you can enjoy art this weekend, while being educated, going to art parties and even making-and-taking your own X-rated valentines.
Review: BETC Stages Rajiv Joseph’s Intriguing Guards at the Taj
Rajiv Joseph’s Guards at the Taj, currently in a regional premiere with the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company, is often compared both to Tom Stoppard’s work and to Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
Review: Five Solos at Robischon Are Made in Americana
Five very different artists all linked by Americana add up to one big show at Robischon Gallery.
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Ten Things to Do This Valentine’s Day That Don’t Suck
Valentine’s Day is synonymous with overpriced dinners, predatory jewelry vendors and men on street corners selling oversized teddy bears. Break the mold this year with something new.
Peter Rabbit Sparks With Reinvention — but Not to Original Tale’s Detriment
… While the film does insist on its own irreverence a bit too much at the outset — it opens with a group of birds inspirationally singing, “You’re only as small as your dreams,” before they get abruptly knocked out of the sky — it offers plenty of lively fun once it settles down …
The 21 Best Events in Denver, February 6-12
The best things to do in Denver the week of February 6-12, 2018.
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Review: Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home Hits Home at Miners Alley
Beneath Fun Home’s lightness of touch, there’s profound emotional depth — and this beautiful production does every moment full justice.
Netflix’s The Ritual Offers a Great Creepy Forest, but Its Story Won’t Let You Get Lost
The Ritual finds a quartet of British lads/drips hiking through the deserted woods of northern Sweden, a labyrinth of ancient trees with trunks that stretch up forever
Book It: The Five Best Literary Events This Week
Denver has a flurry of fun for book lovers of all stripes this week.
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100 Colorado Creatives 4.0: Anna Kaye
A highly collected artist with an eye for hyperreal detail, Anna Kaye champions nature and the environment, both in and out of the studio. In the present, Kaye’s Pink Progression project, a series of exhibits commemorating and carrying on the spirit of worldwide women’s marches in 2017 and 2018, is set to roll out in the coming weeks, bringing together pink-hued works by dozens of Colorado artists in solidarity.
Free for All: The Five Best Free Events This Week
If you’re looking for free fun in Denver, this is your guide.
Colin Quinn on His Tour, Toxic People…and Colorado Murders
Despite a lengthy on-camera career that began back in 1987 as the host of MTV’s Remote Control, Colin Quinn generally seems most comfortable when he’s telling jokes or gently roasting fellow comics.
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Ayla Sullivan Explores History and Identity in We Are the Wake
“As a playwright, it’s my job to present a complex narrative and write about things that are complicated for me and the people who’ll see it,” she says.