Three years ago, Michael Moore wrapped up a TV interview about the Sandy Hook massacre and asked the producers to leave him alone. “You guys call me every time there’s a school shooting,” he sighed. He had, after all, made Bowling for Columbine, which blasted the NRA and the nightly…
Dinner by candlelight, roses, chocolate-covered strawberries and champagne — isn’t that all at little passé for the modern lovers’ Valentine’s Day? Fortunately, Denver’s V-Day weekend calendar is packed with sexy celebrations, chocolate-infused tastings, build-your-own bouquet gatherings, parties involving puppies and, to top it all off, a throwback R&B concert featuring…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we look at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Mosaic artist Kasia Polkowska and her partner, Kyle Cunniff, took their show on…
What do we think of when we think of Jewish film? For three generations, the grainy black-and-white footage of the Holocaust has dominated the collective mind, a trauma that will take the passing of generations to dissipate. Recent Jewish-themed films however, reflect a resilient and rebounding worldwide Jewish population, displaying…
Local authors take the spotlight at a few literary events in Denver this week, while an Edgar Allan Poe tribute is set to music at another. Here’s where to celebrate homegrown talent and the father of American horror writing. Lindsay King-Miller, Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love,…
There was football, there was beer and there were a whole lot of hairy moments at Super Bowl 50. Beard fans had a few special reasons to celebrate. Here are the most super beards we spotted at the big game, courtesy CBS Sports. 5. Evan Mathis He hasn’t been a…
There’s a fun week of fun for free, but if you have a few extra bucks laying around, support local comedy heroes on their journey to primetime television. Over the next few day learn about art with a sense of humor, travel to Peru and let loose and dance. Drop us…
In response to almost-native Lauri Lynnxe Murphy’s recent pieces on transplants to Denver, one transplant responded that Denverites are “the rudest, most unfriendly, aggressive people I have ever met in any place of the world I’ve been to? And I have traveled extensively.” When we shared that comment, readers were…
Helikon Gallery just opened a show of street art, called Opiates for the Masses and curated by Myah and Scott Bailey, who own the Sally Centigrade gallery in Larimer Square. Everyone agrees the display is amazing, but one reader objected to the language we used to describe it in our story. Says…
While many Denverites stayed safe at home on Tuesday to avoid the snow, reader Mara Grace compiled this commentary on “Denver snow from the perspective of a ‘transplant’ (btw, I got my CO plates now!)”: YOU KNOW NOTHING, Denver Snow!! …Until you’ve opened up your door to eight feet of…
Denver artist and longtime Westword contributor Patti Cramer passed away a half-dozen years ago, but she lives on through her art, which remains popular. We have a big cache of her drawings, but paintings are harder to come by….and collectors want them. Do you have a Patti Cramer painting you’re…
It’s cold outside, but plans are heating up for Artopia 2016 — and presale ticket sales start this morning! Join us on Saturday, February 20, for Artopia 2016 — a night of art, culture and fashion at City Hall. And cocktails, of course, which you can enjoy as you move through…
Christmas 2016 is still more than ten months away — but we already know there’s a big, dirty present waiting under the tree. Legendary filmmaker John Waters is coming to town — to the Boulder Theater, to be exact — on December 7, and tickets go on sale at 10 a.m…
It started with a Google search for the world’s best LEGO maker and ended with commercial air time during the third quarter of Super Bowl 50. Last year Elevation Digital Media founders Chris Lewis and Jon Stevenson were tasked with creating a series of video spots for Arrow Electronics, the…
Hey, Denver drag fans! Are you ready for your close-up? Do you want to be part of a locally shot music video for one of your favorite, world-renowned drag personalities? Then mark your calendars for Wednesday, February 10, at Tracks Denver. The video shoot is looking for 100 “sexy” people…
Tell Me on a Sunday is a one-woman song cycle created by Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1979 with lyrics by Don Black, and the Avenue Theater is giving the show a meticulous production — but there’s not a lot of payoff for the care that went into the set, the…
The biggest story at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was the record-breaking bidding war for The Birth of a Nation, a prestige biopic about rebellious slave Nat Turner. When Fox Searchlight snatched it for $17.5 million — $5 million more than any other flick in the festival’s history — their…
The Super Bowl will soak up most of the shine on Sunday, and to that, we say Go Broncos! But there are plenty of other ways to have fun as well that don’t involve football. This weekend we’re cheering on puppies, having some giggles and dancing to the beat of…
Project Colfax is a stunning new urban-art installation created at the former car wash at Williams Street and East Colfax Avenue, a project involving the paint, sweat and tears of thirty local and national artists. The site is currently owned by Kentro Properties and the future fate of Project Colfax…
Chances are that most of us will be glued to the TV this Sunday, watching the Broncos play in the big game, rooting for the home team and seeing if Peyton can pull off one last win. But what if you couldn’t care less about the Broncos, the Manning legacy,…
Last summer, as I sat in the basement of the downtown Comedy Works listening to Dana Crawford explain how and why she went to the lengths she did to save Larimer Square from demolition a half-century ago, my mind kept getting stuck on the same thought: What a makes a…
Editor’s note: As our second 100 Colorado Creatives series came to a close in December, it became painfully obvious that our work was far from finished. We feel lucky to live and work in a place where the number of creative people is ever-growing, raising the bar of the arts…
