The new year is upon us, and it’s time to start making — and breaking — resolutions. If you’ve resolved to get out and do more fun geeky activities in 2015, then you’re in luck — January will help you start the year off right. From gaming tournaments to classic…
Out with the old and in with the new — clothes, at least. The new year signals new fashion, and we’ve rounded up the seven best fashion events of the first month of 2015, evertyhing from pop-up trunk shows to fashion-industry meet-ups. See also: Gallery Sketches: Four Shows to See…
January is an overrated month. Resting on its New Year’s laurels until Martin Luther King Jr. day, January battens against the treacherous snow and punishing cold, assuaging its regret over resolutions broken with indica, hot toddies and Netflix marathons. Comedy, however, has the dubious fortune of being impossible to over or underrate. Either you’re laughing or you’re not. Whatever it is that happens to tickle your fancy is at once both entirely subjective and impossible to equivocate with rhetoric. With that in mind, here’s a collection of comedy shows for you to laugh or not laugh at. With perennially listed local favorites and returning visits from high profile headliners, there are plenty of reasons to bundle up and check out a comedy show this wintry month.
As anyone who has ever played Dungeons and Dragons can attest, tabletop role-playing comes with a lot of rules. Getting through an adventure can mean wading through thousands of pages of them — in bestiaries, player handbooks and other hefty tomes. It’s a problem that gamers Chris Matney and Evan…
With scores of galleries, art centers, museums, artist-cooperatives and even ad hoc spaces around town, you’d have to make exhibit viewing a full time job in order to see everything — and even then, it might be impossible. But there were some shows from 2014 that no one should have…
On Christmas Eve, while some folks gathered ’round the tree, Denver’s hip, young Jewish crowd bellied up to the bar — and a treasury of video games and pinball machines — at the 1up Colfax for an evening celebration of a different sort. Photographer Brandon Marshall was there to catch…
The fun doesn’t stop from Christmas to New Year’s, so we’ll be keeping the party going by watching movies, rocking out and singing the best music ever made. Check our online Westword calendar to see all the ways you can ring in 2015, and if we missed any bargains, tell…
Photo by Mark PokornyTalk some sense into ’em, Bilbo.Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson discuss the third-and-final Hobbit movie: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, in this special bonus episode of the Voice Film Club podcast. As always, send barbs, jabs,…
The Great Recession has lifted in Denver as developers appear to be building something on every square inch of the city. And what with legalized pot, the town’s hipness quotient is off the charts, attracting seemingly half the twenty- and thirty-somethings in the country who are dutifully moving into all…
This was a great year to be part of the GLBTQ rainbow in Colorado. Gay marriage made gigantic strides and became a reality; numerous notables, from celebrities to artists and politicians, came out and made their voices heard. Though we don’t have a lock on celebrating, our straight brethren could…
Next stop, New Year’s Eve. That means it’s time to reflect back, think about the future, and then decide how to best comport yourself in the coming year. Many galleries around town are riffing on that theme for their first shows of the year — so why not start your…
Editor’s note: It’s time to put 2014 into the history books and look forward to 2015 — but not before one last bash to kick off the transition in style, something you can plan with our New Year’s Eve Guide listings. Do you have even bigger plans for the coming…
“If everything were great, nothing would be great.” That line, from Scott Coffey’s smart and sweetly entertaining Adult World, is one of my favorite bits of movie dialogue this year, not least because it’s applicable to every movie genre — actually, every genre of everything. But in the movie world,…
Here are movie moments from 2014 I’ll never forget: Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s sad pop tart smacking her ass in Beyond the Lights, the sick room choked with flowers in Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo, Oscar Isaac and Kirsten Dunst’s Greek-island all-nighter in The Two Faces of January, and the entire soundtrack of…
In Rupert Wyatt’s highball-cool reworking of Karel Reisz’s 1974 The Gambler, Mark Wahlberg does not play a cop, does not shoot bad guys with a gun, and does not spend considerable time shirtless (though we do see him sulking in a bathtub, and there’s a fleeting wet T-shirt moment, too)…
The waifs that Walter Keane made famous were known for their huge peepers. But look down at their mouths: Every one kept its lips pressed tight, as though to prevent a secret from escaping. That’s where you see the real artist: Walter’s shy wife, Margaret (Amy Adams),who bitterly allowed her…
Anything Goes. Anything Goes premiered in 1934, after a hasty rewrite: The original plot concerned a shipwreck, and shortly before the scheduled opening night, a fire broke out on a cruise liner and 137 passengers were killed. By then the writing team, which included P. G. Wodehouse, had moved on,…
Ann Hamilton and Jae Ko et al. For Ann Hamilton: Selected Works, the initial enfilade of spaces at Robischon Gallery is taken over by works on paper by this noted conceptualist. The first group is from her “visite” series, the name of which is taken from the term “carte de…
There’s something curiously airless about director Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken, the story of real-life Olympian and WWII P.O.W. Louis Zamperini. Early on, Louis (Jack O’Connell) and his fellow American soldiers are zipping through the golden skies, dogfighting with Japanese planes — and even though the B-24’s doors are open and the…
Before worrying ourselves over its qualities as an adaptation or its findings as an experiment in just how much tumpety-tump parump-pa-bump the human mind can endure, let’s take a moment to marvel that Rob Marshall’s Into the Woods even exists — as a PG from Disney, no less! No matter…
“Politics really isn’t my specialty,” shrugs Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) to a naval commander (Charles Dance) in an early job-interview scene in Morten Tyldum’s choppy biopic The Imitation Game. Yet no less than Winston Churchill would credit Turing as the main cause of the Allies’ victory over the Nazis. Turing…
A lecture about space might sound as boring as an after-school special, but not the way Space in Your Face! does it. This seasonal event, founded two years ago by planetary-science Ph.D. student Julia DeMarines, combines science and art to show how cool and interesting space can be. “It’s geared…
