Ten Things to Do in Denver for $10 or Less (Seven Free), August 5-7

Hot times, summer in the city. This weekend you can explore different neighborhoods, launch into space and generally rock out all over town. Keep reading for our ten favorite events that cost $10 or less; find more activities on the Westword calendar.  First Friday Parking Lot Concert with Selasee & The Fafa Family…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: Mike Giant

Graffiti purist, occasional tattoo artist, REBEL8 clothing designer and fine artist Mike LeSage, better known to the world as Mike Giant, came of age in the Albuquerque skateboard culture, a milieu he absorbed into his professional life. In the Shepard Fairey mold, he leads a double creative life, leaving his…

Catch a Colorado Shakespeare Festival Show Before the Season Ends

The Colorado Shakespeare Festival wraps up its 2016 season this weekend on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. To see if you can still score a ticket, call 303-492-0554 or go to coloradoshakes.org. Read our capsule reviews of three of this season’s shows, all still playing. The Comedy of Errors. Egeon…

Don’t Think Twice Is a Spot-On Comedy About Comedy

Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice stands as the best, most revealing film about comedy people and one of the best about artistic collaboration. It’s a boisterous and sensitive work of many facets: tender group portraiture, bang-on media satire, low-key romance, evenhanded inquiry into the ethics of selling out. Above all…

Das Jackboot: Don’t Sleep on Netflix’s NSU: German History X

You can have your houses of cards, your Jessica Joneses, your wet hot American summers. The Netflix original with its finger firmest on the pulse of our fraught current moment? It comes from Germany, comprises three feature-length “episodes,” and commences its tale more than a quarter-century ago. NSU: Germany History…

Drawn to Misery: BoJack Horseman‘s Third Season Is Its Best Yet

Just over a minute into the third season of the Netflix animated comedy BoJack Horseman, an entertainment-news interviewer asks our hero, “What would an Oscar nomination mean for BoJack Horseman?” The rest of the season is dedicated to answering that question, tracking BoJack (voiced by Will Arnett) from press junkets…

Review: Performance on Paper Dances Into the Denver Art Museum

This summer, the Denver Art Museum is presenting several exhibits devoted to dance; DAM curators are mounting shows within their specialties that somehow touch on that topic. Though it might seem like a stretch for Darrin Alfred, the curator of architecture, design and graphics, to come up with something relevant…

100 Colorado Creatives 3.0: The Black Actors Guild

#70: The Black Actors Guild They’re young, gifted and funny as hell, but the members of the Black Actors Guild also have a mission to give back to the community that supports them through school-enrichment programs and an open-minded, proactive spirit. Originally formed in 2009 by five students at the…

The Ten Best Geek Events in Denver in August

The end of summer is in sight, but there’s still plenty of geek fun to be had before it’s gone. August has a full slate of nerd-tinged fun, from movies to music and all points in between. Here are the month’s ten best geek events, in chronological order.  10. Weird Al…

Tickets Now on Sale for First Colorado Anime Film Festival

The Colorado Anime Film Festival, a new collaboration between the Alamo Drafthouse and the Colorado Anime Festival, will run September 9 through September 11 at the Alamo. The first festival of its kind in Colorado will kick off with a to-be-determined big title; ten more films, special guests and a series…

The Ten Best Comedy Events in Denver in August — Plus a Big Bonus!

With the dog days of summer fully under way, sweaty Coloradans may wish to heed the stars and avoid the sweltering outdoors. A second skyward glance, however, reveals that the August firmament sparkles with comedic luminaries all month long — many of them products of the Denver comedy braintrust. In…