Fall is coming in faster than a crisp breeze, and so is news of a new season of film festivals, including two beloved fests that just announced their expanded line-ups this week. First up is the 37th Annual Aspen Filmfest, which is counting on the changing leaves to lure filmgoers…
Denver’s third Biennial of the Americas wrapped up its run last weekend as most of the official exhibits closed. Over the past few months, artists, innovators and experts had been charged with exploring the theme of “Now.” But the overall experience left many locals underwhelmed, as have the two previous…
Trine Bumiller: 100 Paintings for 100 Years, now at the McNichols Building, is unquestionably one of the best exhibits of the year — if only for the breadth of Bumiller’s vision. That vision took shape last summer when Bumiller, who lives in Denver, was selected to be an artist-in-residence at…
Mark your calendars, amigos: The Denver Film Society has announced it will host the second annual CineLatino Film Festival from September 24 through September 27, to coincide with Hispanic Heritage month. This four-day-long festival will celebrate the best in cinema from Latin America, Mexico, Europe and the United States, presenting…
Theater is back on track, with many fall season offerings debuting on Labor Day Weekend. From Aurora’s Vintage Theatre to Lakewood’s acclaimed Edge Theater and the Bug in Denver, the pickings are suddenly looking good. Any Given Monday Vintage Theatre Friday, September 4 through October 25 7:30 p.m. Fridays and…
Summer doesn’t officially end for another few weeks, but this is the last big weekend of summer fun for most folks. Fortunately, there’s plenty of fun to be had, right outside your front door and all along the Front Range. Here are ten ways to have fun this weekend without…
Brian Regan is one of the very few comedians who’s achieved an arena-headlining level of success on the appeal of his jokes alone. Regan’s observations on everyday peccadilloes and his emphatic delivery have won him generations of fans, from Mormon elders to precocious young comedy nerds in training. Unlike many other…
The Avenue Theater, long known for comedy, has been undergoing a prolonged transition since the departure of artistic director Bob Wells. The Avenue is a shabby, comfortable and unpretentious theater that you could always visit in your grubbies for a drink or two and a relaxing evening, though every now…
The Steve Jobs documentary from Alex Gibney (Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine) is worth seeing even if you’re tired of Apple fanboys — if only for the curious parallels between Apple worshippers and the members of the Church of Scientology, the subject of Gibney’s other recent doc (Going Clear)…
There’s a knot of tough, tender, persuasive scenes near the end of Isabel Coixet’s life-advice drama Learning to Drive. These are muscular enough that, had they come earlier, they might have powered the movie — the filmmakers’ hearts might be in the right place, but the film’s doesn’t kick in…
The first famous tennis player was King Louis X of France. Nicknamed Louis the Quarreler for his domestic politics, meaning he was likely a real pain to the ref, King Louis is renowned for two facts in athletic lore: He invented the indoor tennis court, and, after a hard, hot…
Director Alex Gibney’s choice to follow this spring’s Scientology slam Going Clear with the fascinating portrait Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine might seem like an about-face. The first documentary clinically eviscerated a religion that everyone loves to loathe. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, however, is adulated to an incredible…
A comedy too listless to bother crafting jokes or comic incidents, a character study centered on a sweet-natured prick it’s hard to believe could actually exist tumbleweeding into a job at a lube shop, 7 Chinese Brothers is a go-nowhere shrug of a movie, the kind of indie that might…
Sometimes a face is enough to anchor a movie. In writer-director Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth, Elisabeth Moss plays Catherine, a young city dweller who, after recently suffering both her father’s death by suicide and a crushing breakup, treks to the country to spend a week with her best…
A sense of humor will take you far in life, even along a daunting stretch of the Appalachian Trail. In his hugely popular 1998 book A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson chronicled his attempt to hike the full length of the trail, from Georgia to Maine, accompanied by an…
Within the town hall that is my Facebook newsfeed, I recently raised an issue that has been bugging the shit out of me — parking, and Denver’s increasingly frustrating lack of skills in this arena. As Denver gains hundreds of thousands of new residents with this latest boom, the ability…
#13: Peter Miles Bergman Peter Miles Bergman is well schooled in both art activism and the craftsmanship of modern communication arts, and when he’s not teaching at Metropolitan State University Denver, he’s printing books and zines and creating art pranks in cahoots with the Institute of Sociometry, a guerrilla art…
Plans? We don’t need no stinking plans. From the beginning, the plan for the tiny house has always been in flux. A lot of my initial ideas have been scrapped for lack of practicality – for example, a back door/escape hatch and the idea of having a washer and dryer,…
September is dedicated to getting back to business. For everyone from returning students to migratory birds, the long days of sun-dappled leisure are over and work begins anew. While comedy never takes time off, it’s in particularly fine form this month. From living legends to cutting-edge talents, from classy theaters…
Labor Day weekend is almost here, and you never got to take that summer road trip. It’s not too late! Here are eight reasons to head for the hills this weekend. 8) Telluride Film Festival Friday, September 4 through Monday, August 7 The Telluride Film Fest has long been an…
Guests perused the latest in bondage wear while ogling fiery performances and each other at the Exile 4 Fetish Ball, a gathering for like-minded BDSM fetishists dressed in leather, spikes and other strange devices this past weekend. Photographer Ken Hamblin was there to catch all the action on camera. Now…
It’s the first Tuesday in September, which means it’s World Art Drop Day. Denver Arts & Venues is celebrating World Art Drop Day by dropping clues and miniature blue bears around Denver that resemble Lawrence Argent’s “I See What You Mean”; Arts & Venues will be taking photos of the blue…
