The Ten Best Movie Events in Denver in April

Our March weather may have come in like a lion and out like a lamb but our April film events are coming in like a tiger and look like they’ll keep coming like an elephant stampede. Mark your calendars for a month full of festivals, special guests and some really…

Review: High-Flying Stupid Fucking Bird Takes Off on Chekhov

When you think about Chekhov, the usual image is a stage filled with unhappy people, all yearning for something unattainable. That’s also what you get with Aaron Posner’s Stupid Fucking Bird, a take-off on Chekhov’s The Seagull — but this is a hybrid, a parody with a certain amount of…

The Riot Club Is at Once Predictable and Suspenseful

Clueless rich guy Tom Perkins rightly became the laughingstock of the Internet last year after comparing America’s “war on one-percenters” to the Nazi Kristallnacht. However detestably fatuous Perkins is in real life, it must be admitted that he’d make a fascinating fictional character, perhaps in a Greek tragedy about a…

Hard Living Can’t Diminish the Radiant Shine of Girlhood

Celine Sciamma’s pained, thrilling observational tale of growing up broke and black in slab-like Paris flats is no rebuke to Boyhood, but its besties-dancing-to-Rihanna rhapsody eats the lunch of that bit where Richard Linklater has Ethan Hawke drone on about Wings. They sing: “We’re beautiful like diamonds in the sky!”…

Donna Rae Altieri Shows a Half-Century’s Worth of Images at Ironton

For its contribution to the Month of Photography, which straddles March and April, Ironton Gallery is presenting 50 Years in Your Face: Photographs by Donna Rae Altieri. Though best known as a successful businesswoman and arts advocate, it turns out that Altieri is also a photographer. Altieri began taking photos…

Photos: Steampunk Cosplayers Show Off at AnomalyCon 2015

Goggles and rayguns and fancy hats, oh my: A reimagined Victorian age came alive over the weekend at AnimalyCon 2015, Colorado’s premier steampunk gathering for cosplay, mustache-grooming contests, author talks and the study of all things “more science than fiction.” Go back to the future with these photos by Danielle…

The Mayday Experiment: Sticks and Stones

On my birthday this week, someone threw a rock through Tiny’s largest window. The rock, only about two and a half inches across, went through both panes and bounced off the opposite wall twenty feet away, leaving a constellation of sparkling glass shards and a disappointing comment on humanity. I…

Photos: Snowboarders Fly at Left Hand Brewing’s Hops & Handrails

Despite the snow-chasing warm weather, Left Hand Brewing’s Hops & Handrails combined a slushy display of snowboarding derring-do with a good old-fashioned beer festival in Longmont over the weekend. Photographer Brandon Marshall brought back these images from the party. Now see the full Hops & Handrails slide show…

The Ten Best Geek Events in Denver in April

T.S. Eliot said April was the cruelest month, but that was clearly before he got a good look at all the sweet geek events happening in Denver in the coming month: Classic sci-fi, fantasy and horror movies, two conventions and our own homegrown horror-film festival are all on the calendar…

Lynda Barry Discusses Image and Art at RMCAD Tuesday

A seminal figure in the world of cartoons and illustration, Lynda Barry has been creating award-winning comic strips, books and graphic novels for the better part of four decades. Along making those contributions to popular culture, Barry is also a teacher; she’s currently an associate professor in interdisciplinary creativity at…

Three Things to Do for Free in Denver This Week, March 30-April 2

Has everyone been planning and practicing their #classicgags for April Fools Day? Put some detergent on your neighbors lawn (pray for rain), wrap the latrine with Saran Wrap. But this week’s free events are no joke: You can catch comedy, dig into new concepts or party to loud music —…