Call it coincidence or kismet, but sometimes life gives you what you need. Sometimes what you need is a job repossessing cars to break you out of your teenaged ennui, and sometimes what you need is a mysterious Chevy Malibu with a trunk full of god knows what. More likely,…
Denver is lucky to be home to a handful of vintage movie houses-turned-performance venues. For the city’s Northside, The Oriental Theater is the remaining shining star. And this weekend, the Oriental Theater’s exterior will reflect just how special this historic place is to the area with the unveiling of a…
When the label “emerging artist” crops up, it typically refers to a kid who is still wet behind the ears. Sometimes, though, an emerging artist is one who has been at it for years but only recently started to exhibit. That describes Conn Ryder, whose impressive Conn Ryder: Selected Works…
Ladies first: Three local productions opening this week in Denver feature great women’s words and roles, showcasing a prize-winning contemporary playwright, the noir drama of Norma Desmond’s fall from the spotlight and the influence of literary light Jane Austen. Here’s where to here them roar: And Toto too Theatre Company,…
At the start of the year, we named the thirteen freshest faces of drag in Denver, choosing from the latest lineup of drag stars giving their all on Denver’s stages. Now that list will come to life with a special show starring all thirteen queens at Charlie’s on Saturday night…
Eddie Pepitone is a hero to a certain stripe of comedy nerd, so his debut in the Mile High City would be newsworthy on its own. But rather than appearing at a club or theater, he’s headlining a local showcase produced by homegrown Denver comics Matt Monroe and Stephen Agyei…
Fairy tales were meant to be oral stories. Translating the tangents of old women in far-flung villages (whose chips on their shoulders about, say, their brother’s failed shipping business might inspire long asides about the shipping industry) into written texts doesn’t always make for the most linear, easy read. In…
Podcasts are in tune with the democratized spirit of Internet media; anyone with a microphone and a computer can offer their listeners unlimited hours of recordings, usually for free. Limited only by their imaginations, podcasters have a freedom of expression unrestricted by commerce, censorship or geography. Several great podcasts have…
City Park and City Park West surround what’s arguably the heart of Denver, and without a doubt the core of the impressive Denver Parks system. The two neighborhoods combined cover ground from Downing to Colorado Boulevard, and 23rd to Colfax avenues. (It’s important to include City Park West in this…
If you peak into Peak Thrift in northwest’s Denver Chaffee Park neighborhood, you may be rewarded with a cool, unexpected find: a hip vest, some DIY crafting tools, Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl. But what’s perhaps coolest about this store is its social mission. All proceeds support Peak Thrift’s parent…
Over the weekend, as Denverites came out to celebrate architecture with Doors Open Denver and the new A Line commuter train to the airport, the denizens of the RiNo Art District threw a party — and not just any party. Where Art is Made! showcased RiNo’s artists, eateries and breweries,…
Edmond Rostand’s 1897 Cyrano de Bergerac is a big, romantic beast of a play, written in poetic couplets, featuring a love as doomed and all-encompassing as any in literature — that of Romeo and Juliet, or Tristan and Isolde — though it doesn’t end in a lovers’ suicide. The story includes duels…
Children screaming, smoke, a war zone at times, and also, utter bliss. The inaugural Lantern Fest in Denver held high hopes and was the first in the state this year as the Colorado Springs two-night event last weekend was cancelled due to a snow storm (it’s been rescheduled for May 20…
Nearly every Alien movie begins the same way: in the vast loneliness of space, in a ship that’s running on its own. In the first film, Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979), the camera slowly glides through the dark, lifeless corridors of the commercial towing vehicle Nostromo before locating the sleeping bodies…
The second season of Amazon’s Catastrophe might do for the #TGIF-style family sitcom of the late ‘80s and ‘90s what the first did for the ailing rom-com: open-mouthed resuscitation on the operating table after one too many Garry Marshall–fueled heart attacks like Valentine’s Day. (Or New Year’s Eve? It doesn’t…
Score one for going home again. After misfiring with Begin Again, a film that asked us to worry over a disillusioned A&R man’s efforts to coax a folk-pop album out of Keira Knightley, writer-director John Carney has turned back to the striving Irish of Once, his breakout hit. He’s also…
In a bold move, just two days after Film on the Rocks announced its 2016 season, it’s already made changes: It will now kick off two weeks earlier with a screening of Prince’s Purple Rain on Thursday, May 12, at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. And FOTR, put on by the Denver Film Society and…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. This fall California expat Lynn Baker will formally launch her new venture,…
Denverites have no shortage of places where they can drink drink beer and watch local comics, but for the uninitiated there’s little sense of quality control. Denver also has plenty of spaces where the efforts of skilled comedians and passionate venue owners dovetail in giggly harmony, but most shows are…
Enjoy the end of April by wrapping up some bargain entertainment. You can enjoy a concert with amateurs and pros alike, find out your booze IQ and meet an important figure on Denver’s comedy scene. As always, visit the Westword calendar for more events. We Are Change Open Mic featuring…
Since inauspiciously starting out by habitually bombing at Chicago open mics (a developmental stage every comedian must endure in their own city) all the way through to the heights of his current fame, Hannibal Buress’ jokes have had a rhythm and sensibility unlike anyone else in comedy. After gaining a…
Michael Paglia just revealed “The Hateful 8,” eight examples of the kind of disappointing architecture — or is that n’architecture? — that you see all over Denver these days. But did he leave out some important, awful buildings? Anyone riding the free A Line train to Denver International Airport yesterday…
