Like the real 1980s, Stranger Things gets more unsettling as it goes. The opening episode of the Netflix show, created by the Duffer Brothers, gives us swear-y, scruffy kids playing D&D and then, beneath a lavish suburban starscape, encountering the unknown — which one of the boys promptly hides in…
In Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits, emotion becomes motion and psychology becomes space. It’s a coming-of-age story, but Holmer mostly eschews dialogue and standard storytelling devices; she tells her tale through movements and patterns and the way that she films them. The Fits follows Toni (Royalty Hightower), an 11-year-old tomboy…
Star Trek Beyond might be the Star Trekkiest film of the new, J.J. Abrams-ified Trek era. That is to say, it’s the one that feels the most like a turbo-loaded episode of the original series, and has at least some of that classic spirit of exploration and derring-do. That’s not…
Steve Allen didn’t know what to make of Frank Zappa. The clean-cut young musician was promising to “play the bicycle” on the set of The Steve Allen Show in 1963, spinning the wheels and tapping on the spokes. The result, with the help of a tuneless orchestra behind him and…
To understand what Absolutely Fabulous (first a TV show and now a movie) means to Brits, you’d have to go back to the TV premiere in 1992. Margaret Thatcher had their economy in a stranglehold until her departure as Prime Minister two years earlier, and when every sensible citizen was…
Opera, musical comedy and a cat talent show might sound like strange bedfellows, but they’re all good summer entertainment – whether you dress to the nines for a drive up to the Central City Opera House or celebrate the nine lives of the Amazing Acro-cats in action. Here’s where to…
The Gildar Gallery’s current exhibit has a novel-length title: My Body Is Everywhere. Where Is the Body? The show features an all-encompassing installation along with a selection of paintings and small sculptures; all of the works are by Hollis + Lana — the artist pairing of Conor Hollis and Amorette Lana…
Summer and summer movie events are as hot as Georgia asphalt right now. This week the eighth annual CinemaQ Film Festival returns to the Sie FilmCenter to show an array of scorching titles that illustrate and illuminate a snapshot of the current LGBTQ community. Full disclosure: In 2006, as programming…
Black Cube is known for really breaking out of the box. With the launch of its Gold Hill Art Project, the nomadic museum is taking art out of the galleries and into log cabins with the help of its first curator-in-residence, Laurie Britton Newell. Originally from England, Britton Newell brings an…
#72: Eleanor Perry-Smith Born and raised in Colorado, Eleanor Perry-Smith is a writer from the inside out, a natural poet with an eye for the interdisciplinary. She mixes words with graphic imagery, sing-songs poems in performance, writes and edits fiction and prose, and recently made a splash as a TEDx…
I’ll Eat You Last is subtitled “A Chat With Sue Mengers,” who was the top-tier agent to some of Hollywood’s starriest stars — or, as she calls them here, “my twinklies”; those twinklies included Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Gore Vidal, Nick Nolte, Michael Caine and, most important, Barbra Streisand. And…
25 years ago, Annie Leibovitz stunned America with her infamous portrait of Demi Moore — nude, bronzed, seven months pregnant — on the cover of Vanity Fair. The image of Moore’s proud, bare body, heavy with child and unmistakably erotic, meant that in some states the magazine had to be…
Hula-hoopers, giant puppets, jugglers, brass bands? You name it: If there’s a street performer doing it in the world, they were probably at Denver’s Union Station on July 16 and 17 for the revival of BuskerFest, a family-friendly street party that’s back after a break of several years. All photos…
Painter Jeffrey Harrison’s latest solo exhibition, Vital Visions: The Expressionistic Realism of Jeffrey Harrison, opened last Friday at Georgia Amar’s Habitat Gallery. In the show, Harrison breaks through the boundaries of realism with pieces that take on traditional figurative subjects: portraits and the nude. A Colorado native, Harrison grew up in…
Every year, Colorado Inside Out — the weekly public affairs roundtable discussion on CPT12 — takes a break from the usual business for the July 4 weekend. But that doesn’t mean the hard-working crew is taking it easy. In fact, sound engineer/producer Larry Patchett and the rest of the staff…
Colorado is an active state, no doubt about it. Every year we either have the lowest rate of obesity, or we’re bitter about losing out to those skinny bitches in Massachusetts. And we’re by and large environmentally conscious, too. Put those two factors together, and you have the reason why…
The events in this town are as hot as the temperature. This week you can take in some flash fiction, check out a new game show or meet a rising comic — all for free. See the Westword calendar for even more entertainment options, and let us know if we…
The renovated Union Station is celebrating its second anniversary all weekend with a resurrected buskerfest, developer Dana Crawford’s gift to the city. But the celebration really started the day Union Station reopened in July 2014, bringing new life to this part of downtown — and a new flashpoint for discussion…
For the past week, people have been walking around Denver, phones held high as they searched for tiny monsters popping up on Pokémon Go, the virtual-reality game based on those characters that first came to America on Pokémon cards two decades ago. But that fad didn’t explode as fast as this…
The local art scene is full of great exhibits and events right now. Here are Michael Paglia’s takes on a trio of ongoing shows in Denver and beyond. Audacious. Last summer, Rebecca Hart took the rudder of the Denver Art Museum’s Modern and Contemporary department, and Audacious: Contemporary Artists Speak…
The set for Thaddeus Phillips’s the ARCHIVIST is perhaps the most important character in this experimental, brain-dizzying work-in-progress at Buntport. Towering white columns of file boxes divide the playing area, boxing in — almost literally — the Archivist in all his magnificent and delusional loneliness. Beyond the columns, the darkened…
What did you want to be when you grew up? Many people focus on just one thing, but Roseanne Barr had many goals — and she worked hard to achieve them all. From standup comedy to creating one of the most iconic network television shows ever — Roseanne, which ran from…
