Back to the Future Day Celebrated by Denver Street Artists

The ever-changing canvas of Bella Vista Mexican restaurant is sporting a new piece of street art that is a bit more topical than usual. Today is Back to the Future Day, since 4:29 p.m. October 21, 2015 is the exact date and time referenced in the second BTTF film released in…

Bear Grylls and Ed Helms Ran Wild in Colorado — and Survived!

Adventurer, survivalist and outdoor guru Bear Grylls is the star of Running Wild with Bear Grylls, now in its second season with NBC. On each episode, viewers watch Grylls take A-list celebrities, TV stars and even a Super Bowl-winning quarterback, Drew Brees, into untamed and untouched areas around the globe for a…

Looking in the Rearview Mirror at the Career of Robin Ross

Point Gallery curators Frank Martinez and Michael Vacchiano had planned to do a show featuring recent work by artist Robin Ross, who built her career in Brooklyn but moved to Crestone, Colorado, about four years ago. Sadly, Ross passed away while the show was still in the planning stages. So…

Experimenter Makes Urgent Art Out of Milgram’s Notorious Study

Completing a trifecta of recent cinema suddenly fascinated with the social-science lab experiments of the Eisenhower-Nixon era, Experimenter is as cool as a grad student clamping electrodes onto a test monkey. One of our lowest-profile indie-film treasures, director Michael Almereyda never makes the same movie twice, toggling from Pixelvision experiment…

Photos: The 2015 Denver Zombie Crawl Mobs the 16th Street Mall

Thousands of the blood-streaked undead paraded through downtown Denver hunting for brains and making mayhem Saturday at the tenth annual Zombie Crawl. Here’s photographer Aaron Thackeray’s view from ground zero. Now see the full Denver Zombie Crawl slide show. Trust us — it will make your skin crawl…

Six Hex Horror Writers on Their Favorite Colorado Frights

Ever wonder what sorts of things unnerve the folks who make a living scaring their readers? We polled a few of our favorite local horror authors for the most spine-tingling October attractions, events, sites and sounds — and, some of their answers were as unexpected as the plots twists you’ll…

Three Things to Do for Free in Denver This Week, October 19-22

This week delivers a historical pop-culture references we’ve been waiting on for 26 years—we’re going back to the future. In addition we have art openings to check out and cereal to eat with comedians. Check out the Westword calendar for more events, and drop us a comment if you know…

Goosebumps Honors the Vigorous Fun of R.L. Stine — for a While

Here’s a scary story for you. Somewhere in Hollywood, a cabal of producers are forever zombie-ing up the corpses of long-dead licensed properties, ever hopeful that you will continue to throw your money at familiar trademarked characters even as they eat your brains. Sometimes, when a silver moon shines just…

Photos: Family Fun at Glow at the Gardens

The Denver Botanic Gardens is always cooking up new ways to bring folks inside its gates, and Glow at the Gardens might be one of the best: For three Wednesdays in October the temple to growing things is hosting the family-friendly after-dark event, which features activities for all ages, artistic…

Street-Style: Hair Stylist Atomic Sean Spotted on Broadway

Blue hair is all the rage these days, and the azure locks of Atomic Sean, a hairstylist apprentice at Babooshka, caught our eye when we spotted him waiting for a bus at  11th Avenue and Broadway. Sean is originally from Pennsylvania and New Orleans, and has lived in Denver for…

Gallery Sketches: Three Denver Art Openings and Events October 16-18

This weekend in Denver, find art derived from life experiences at Hinterland and a body of work from an unexpected source at David B. Smith Gallery. And then there’s this: Sally Centigrade will offer shelter — and limited-edition prints — to wandering mall zombies hitting downtown Denver for the Zombie…