Trans Series Her Story Screens to Benefit The Center

Visibility of the LGBTQ community in new media and pop culture continues to rise, and adding to it is the new web series Her Story. The trans-forward series is getting an in-depth presentation, complete with its creators and talent, and courtesy of the GLBT Community Center of Colorado and the Sie FilmCenter,…

Nuts! Reintroduces the Quack Who Sold America Goat Testes

Nuts!, a marvelous, mostly animated doc/drama hybrid, couldn’t have come along at a better time. Director Penny Lane (Our Nixon) showcases, with wit and suspense, the undoing of one of the 20th century’s great flimflam artists, a huckster who seized then-new communication technologies — and the trappings of Christian divinity…

Netflix’s The Get Down Makes You Wonder How It Keeps from Going Under

The Bronx is burning in the introductory episodes of The Get Down, Netflix’s new series that presents as urban-cinematic fable the genesis of rap. The cluttered, over-caffeinated 90-minute pilot, directed by creator and executive producer Baz Luhrmann, takes place in the summer of 1977, when a serial killer terrorized New…

Daniel Reskin on Space Owl Alliance, High Plains and Casa de Haha

Daniel Reskin, a transplant from Miami, relocated to Denver with little but solid material and a few connections; he quickly ingratiated himself with the local performance scene. (An under-acknowledged benefit of new residents is that they find opportunity where locals see only wreckage.) Space Owl Alliance, Reskin’s new comedy/music hybrid showcase,…

Loki the Wolf Dog: Colorado’s Most Famous Four-Legged Celebrity

When you think of local celebrities, you may picture Demaryius Thomas of the Broncos, actress Amy Adams, or rock band the Fray. But one celebrity eclipses them all by a landslide in terms of fanatical popularity. With slightly over one million followers, Loki the Wolf Dog has become an Instagram…

On the Screen, Roth’s Indignation Only Fitfully Comes to Spiteful Life

Writer Keith Gessen once said that Philip Roth wasn’t a misogynist and didn’t hate women because he spent all his time “thinking about fucking them.” But he did concede that Roth probably thought “women were a foreign country.” In James Schamus’ debut feature Indignation, an adaptation of a late Roth…

The Low-Key Pete’s Dragon Dares to Mostly Let Its Beast Chill

Pete’s Dragon is as cuddly as the mountains of plush toys Disney hopes to sell from it. A disarmingly homespun blockbuster, this loose remake of the studio’s 1977 live-action/animation hybrid is perhaps best defined by all the things it’s not: It’s not a soaring action flick, nor an indulgence in…

Read Alert: Four Literary Events in Denver This Week

Summer is a great time to read — and to celebrate reading at book-related events around town, from signings to cons to literary bashes. Book them all, and find more literary activities in our online calendar. She Writes Press Book Tour Tattered Cover Aspen Grove 7 p.m. Tuesday, free She…

A Note to Denverites, Old and New: Can’t We All Get Along?

Transplants landing in the Mile High City: Is there any topic that inspires more discussion from Denver residents, new and old? In this commentary,  local Natalie Tuffeld urges us all to get along: Last week, stuck in horrendous traffic on I-25, I silently cursed each and every one of the…

Photos: First Denver Yoga Festival Stretches Across Lower Downtown

The first Denver Yoga Festival stretched through LoDo this past weekend, starting with sunrise yoga in the Oxford Hotel on Thursday, August 4; hundreds of yoga enthusiasts joined in what promises to become an annual event. Photographer Ken Hamblin was there to catch the early action. See the full Denver…