Scott Derrickson Q&A and Screenings

Making an effective horror film that is both original and scary is a difficult puzzle to assemble in Hollywood, so when a filmmaker gets it right, it’s fun to break it down and see how all of the pieces fit together. One filmmaker doing it right is Denver native Scott…

Howl New Year’s Eve

Do you make an annual resolution to forgo tacky New Year’s Eve parties — and then forget to keep it? You’re not alone, as proved by the crowds drunkenly tipping champagne glasses and kissing strangers under confetti each year. But there is hope. Howl New Year’s Eve, a soirée and…

New Year’s Eve at Monarch Mountain

Back in 1939, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Works Project Administration workers installed the first rope tow at Monarch Mountain, skiers were pulled up under the power of a Chevy engine. Once they got to the top, they came down much the same way skiers and snowboarders still do today:…

New Year’s Eve with Intendence and Blissfest

Opened in 1928, the Aztlan Theatre is the perfect location for a gangster-era murder mystery. Start off the new year with a bang — literally — and spend the night solving the double murder mystery of who killed Bob Webb and Theresa Cocas. Suspects include Al Capone, Timmy the Tooth…

Soul Gloss New Year’s Eve with Lipgloss and Mile High Soul Club

Two of Denver’s top-notch dance nights, Lipgloss and Mile High Soul Club, have teamed up to ring in 2015 with Soul Gloss New Year’s Eve, a party for audiophiles and vinyl purists. The Meadowlark’s intimate main room will transform into a sweaty dance floor as Lipgloss DJs Michael Trundle, aka…

Kwanzaa 2014

There’s a holiday for everyone, and in parts of the African-American community, today marks Umoja. It’s the first of seven days of Kwanzaa, which kicks off with a nod to unity and, in Denver’s Five Points community, with the lighting of the first candle on the Grand Kinara — a…

Adventure Golf Lights

Most miniature golf courses go to sleep in the winter months, but what do they dream about? At the Hyland Hills-run Adventure Golf and Raceway in Westminster, those dreams are live and lit up in technicolor hues for Adventure Golf Lights, a new holiday lighting attraction with 35,000 strands of…

Dreamgirls

As a die-hard fan of the Broadway musical Dreamgirls, Ignite Theatre director Keith Rabin had no problem picturing it on stage at Ignite’s home in the Aurora Fox Arts Center as the company’s 2014 season topper. Getting it just right was another story. “I was nervous about finding the right…

New Year’s Eve 2015: Ten Hot Spots Across the Mile High City

New Year’s Eve is the night for premium parties, costume balls and epic, end-of-the-year blowouts. On December 31, Denver will be filled with everything from sweaty dance floors packed with crowds getting down to the best DJs to dress-to-impress galas. We’ve rounded up ten of the best New Year’s Eve…

Review: Miss Saigon Raises Hopes, But Falls Short of Its Ambitions

Miss Saigon Vintage Theatre 303-856-7830 Miss Saigonis one of those ponderous English musicals that lumbered onto West End and Broadway stages during the 1980s and early ’90s. Like Phantom of the Opera and Les Misérables, it’s reliant on a throbbing score, big displays of emotion and stunning special effects –…

Twelve Denver Arts Flashbacks From 2014

As 2014 comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to reflect on what knocked our socks off this year in the Colorado arts world. Got some favorites of your own? Tell us about it in the comments below. See also: Fifteen arts flashbacks from 2013…

The Five Best Santa Movies: Ho, Ho, Ho, Ho and Ho

It’s judgment day. Have you been naughty or have you been nice? It all comes down that. But while you won’t find out if you get the new iPad or a lump of coal for a few days, it won’t hurt to pay homage to the ultimate holiday hero. Bake…

Podcast: Our Favorite Movies of 2014

Village Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek and LA Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson run down their ten favorite/best/top/whatever movies of 2014, along with Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl. Send barbs, jabs, claims or jokes to filmpod@villagevoice.com and follow us on the Twitter at @voicefilmclub. [Subscribe to the Voice Film Club…

The Ten Best Tattoo Shop Names in Denver

For some, it can be scary to finally decide to get a tattoo. Where do you even start? When it comes to researching a shop, its name is probably the first thing you’ll come by–whether you hear it from a friend or you find it on social media. So tattoo…