A disheartening case of When Auteurs Go Affected, Every Thing Will Be Fine confirms that Wim Wenders — making his first dramatic feature since 2008’s Palermo Shooting — is a filmmaker now light-years removed from his Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire heyday. Egregiously airless and artificial, Wenders’s latest (written…
Less an adaptation of one of the great books about film than a feature-length recommendation, Kent Jones’s documentary take on François Truffaut’s exhaustive career-survey 1966 interview with Alfred Hitchcock is an arresting précis, sharply edited and generous with its film clips. It’s a smashing supplement to Truffaut’s classic study. It’s…
Years after Moby-Dick was a flop, Herman Melville visited an old ship’s captain named George Pollard. Both men had seen better days. In their youth, both had sailed the seas with some success. Melville had written novels about his adventures with island girls, and Pollard had helmed one of Nantucket’s…
The deadline came and went without anyone objecting to the application for a “certificate of non-historic status” at 119 South Broadway, a building that started life as the Webber Show and was most recently home to Kitty’s South, a porn palace. So while staffers with the city’s Landmark Preservation Commission…
Holiday shoppers can’t get enough of Holiday ManCraft, the only artisan fair in town (and the world?) devoted to handmade wares made exclusively by men. This year’s fair, bigger than ever, moved up to the Forney Museum for its fifth edition on Friday night, when it featured more than eighty…
Chilly days are here to stay, so there’s no better time to check out Colorado’s many hot springs, including the ones on our recent list of ten great hot springs. Iron Mountain Hot Springs is the newest spot on that list; though the earthy, warm water source is obviously not fresh on…
While helping my mom move over Thanksgiving, I was looking everywhere for the handcart – when had I used it last? It wasn’t anywhere in the studio…and then I remembered, months ago, removing the half-built stairs from the tiny house when we went through the redesign of the interior, cutting…
To its credit, Edge Theatre Company has staged a world premiere annually for the past four years, all scripts by local playwrights. Some of the productions have revealed major talent, and that’s what I thought during the first hour or so of Jeffrey Neuman’s Exit Strategies. Sure, the play’s basic…
In your high school ceramics class, the teacher was always watching to make sure that students weren’t crafting pipes or ashtrays, but this workshop encouraged it. The first-ever Puff, Pass & Pottery class was an experiment in art and cannabis consumption, with the goal of creating an an ashtray comparable…
Party-goers in victory rolls, fedoras and WWII uniforms jitterbugged around the dance floor last Saturday at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum during an evening of well-costumed retro highlife. All photos by Danielle Lirette. Now see the full 2015 1940s & ’50s White Christmas Ball slide show…
Holidays got you down? Cheer up and head to local bookstores to take a trip into the present future with journalist Malcolm Gay or hear master storytellers Matthew Taylor and Jamie Horton tell tales. Malcolm Gay, The Brain Electric: The Dramatic High-Tech Race to Merge Minds and Machines Tattered Cover…
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. Library data may not seem aesthetically pleasing, but artist Duncan Parks is…
Don’t get so wrapped up in buying gifts for others that you forget Colorado Gives Day on Tuesday, December 8; even if you don’t have much cash, there are plenty of ways to participate in the fundraiser on the cheap. And after you’ve emptied your pockets for charity, you can still…
Thanksgiving’s over and it’s time to start thinking about the next big holiday — and we could use your help to get into the spirit. Or is that spirits? Our annual New Year’s Eve Guide, which will be inserted in the December 17 issue of Westword and also posted at…
Art can be an unforgettable gift, and local artists are making the most of the holiday season by putting up stunning work that won’t break the bank. If you’re out and about this First Friday weekend, here are some excellent stops to put on your itinerary. Fresh Art | 50…
After two long months of public voting and friendly campaigning, Coors Light just announced that the Denver Film Society’s Joanna Cintrón has been named the 2015 Coors Light Líder of the Year. The honor comes with a $25,000 grant from Coors Light that Cintrón will use to introduce a Latino…
The smell of beard oil and beef jerky is hanging in the air; if you listen closely, you can hear the sounds of woodcarving and someone choking on hot sauce. This can only mean one thing: The men are here. Today more than eighty male vendors (and some co-ed teams)…
With only a few more weeks to make memories in the year 2015, managing your time could be difficult, especially with the holidays. So, make this weekend memorable by sipping pints for a purpose, bathing in chocolate and jumping off the top ropes. Drop us a comment if you know…
In 1970, Janis Joplin died of drug overdose at the young age of twenty-seven, silencing a voice that had filled millions with joy and inspiration. Now the new documentary Janis: Little Girl Blue, which opens this week at at the Sie FilmCenter, tells the artist’s story in her own words…
It’s December, which means you might want to stay inside and keep warm and cozy as the snow falls outside. But don’t get too comfortable, because this month’s fashion calendar includes everything from fashion blogger meet-ups to fashion shows, camps and trucks. Here are ten of the best fashion events…
There’s snow on the ground and you can’t leave the house without being assaulted by Christmas music or getting poked in the eye by a festive fir tree, and that can mean only one thing: You’d better start shopping. As every media outlet is hellbent on reminding us, the only…
A few months ago, I took a friend to Planned Parenthood to get an abortion. I had been to an appointment with her prior to that where she initially learned that she was pregnant. We talked about the options. It didn’t take long for her to make her choice. At…
