You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Oregon-based artists Mandie and Nate Flemming love the Denver art scene so…
If you emptied your pockets paying November rent and partying on Halloween, you can still have fun this week. As 2 Chainz says, “Feelling good, bills paid…ride da wave.” This week we’re riding the wave of nature, comedy and movies, and it’s all free. As always, find more listings in…
This has been a grueling election season, with the television full of depressing news reports and endless political ads. The best way to avoid them? Program a movie, one that might give you a more honest look at elections, where you can augh at the irony, cringe at the realities…
There are many places where you can give thanks for Denver’s growing fashion scene this month. Get an an early start on gift-buying at Fancy Tiger’s employee showcase, Fancy Made, or at the new L.L. Bean outlet. And you can also give back by shopping at Dress for Success Denver’s…
When William Gibson published his first novel, Neuromancer, thirty years ago, he triggered a seismic shift in the landscape of science fiction. With its vision of a gritty near-future populated by cowboy computer hackers and cybernetically-enhanced mercenaries, the book singlehandedly established cyberpunk as a genre, in the process foreshadowing the…
Each November, cinephiles around the state gather for the Starz Denver Film Festival, one of the year’s hottest film events. Because the festival has an stellar lineup of directors, actors and critics escorting viewers through the best contemporary and historical cinema, it can easily overshadow other must-see movie events around…
Peter Fatianow first became interested in the possibilities of a retail store focused on sleep while working for an integrated delivery system in the Midwest that was acquiring sleep labs. “I was fascinated about what was going on in that business,” he says, and although he wasn’t working directly with…
As the holiday season approaches, the entertainment calendar for the month holds a cornucopia of comic delights in store for local giggle gobblers. Sidling up to a table richly dressed with top notch performers, local comedy fans will be heartily stuffed and belly-sore by the month’s end. With options including a Denver comedy institution celebrating its fourth anniversary, two of The Daily Show‘s most accomplished correspondents dropping in for grand theatre shows, club sets from movie stars and comic heroes alike, as well as a truly exceptional month of programming from both Comedy Works locations, it’s a moveable feast of funny all November long.
Kork-Ease platform shoes — particularly the iconic Ava style — became wildly popular in the United States in the 1960s, “at the time when everything was colliding in this country,” explains Kathy Teter, the event’s media representative. “It was the beginning of the youth cultural movement, and everything was happening…
Give thanks for being a geek. Even though October’s bounty of geek goodness is behind us, November brings a cornucopia of its own, stuffed with much more than just turkey and Mystery Science Theater 3000 reruns. Here, in chronological order, are Denver’s ten best geek events in November. See also:…
Halloween starts early in Denver — about two weeks early, to judge by this year’s slate of events — and there’s no better way to spend it than by getting good and scared at one of the city’s many haunted houses. To get a better idea of all the work…
The mad composer’s voice cuts in over the intercom, taunting us. He’s placed a time bomb somewhere backstage at the performing arts center, and I and two other detectives have just an hour to find and disarm it. A clock in the corner of the room ticks down the time…
Despite the state’s efforts to beef up its movie industry, it’s still unusual to see a crew actually filming on location in Denver. And it’s even rarer that one of those productions announces it’s holding open auditions for scores of extras — all ages and types, no experience necessary –…
Halloween won’t be on a Friday again until 2025. Don’t waste eleven years waiting for the next one because there is plenty to do this time. Even if you’re not into the whole ghouls and goblins celebration, there are options, including smashing pumpkins, meeting artists and practicing vinyasa. Surf the…
Horror films take place in an alternate universe where logic disappears. The villain comes back to life, the car doesn’t start and those damn kids always go into the dark basement alone. Instead of spending your Halloween partying with people in Ebola patient costumes, choose a classic horror movie franchise…
Casey Hartnett gave up a career in finance to travel the world without a plan — just guided by his spirit. “If something felt good, then that’s the path I chose,” Hartnet says. “I just kept following beautiful things. If something made sense, then that’s where I would go.” Through…
#47: Kara Duncan Through the ’90s, Kara Duncan went the art-school route, finally ending up at Cranbrook, where she earned an MFA in ceramics under the tutelage of Tony Hepburn. But in 2004, the artist began a new journey, when construction began on Vertigo Art Space, the gallery she’s run…
By the time you read this, I will be 29 movies deep into my seventh annual zombie movie marathon month. This year, in defiance of both common sense and my own advice, I decided to kill two birds with one stone and clear out my backlog of unwatched zombie movies,…
If you want to summon some ghosts, sip on witches’ brew and watch a satanic smorgasbord of documentary, experimental and narrative shorts, head to Glob for Cinema Contra tonight . Film programmer Anthony Buchanan promises that the ghost of Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey will host this unique mix…
Jake Gyllenhaal, not a particularly bulky guy to begin with, dropped twenty pounds or so to play a Los Angeles misfit who finds his calling as a freelance crime videographer in Dan Gilroy’s nervy thriller Nightcrawler. Even when Robert De Niro does it, weight change isn’t acting — it’s the…
Director Laura Poitras’s Citizenfour boasts an hour or so of tense, intimate, world-shaking footage you might not quite believe you’re watching. Poitras shows us history as it happens, scenes of such intimate momentousness that the movie’s a must-see piece of work even if, in its totality, it’s underwhelming as argument…
Perhaps Ruben Östlund’s most sophisticated thought experiment yet, the provocative and wise Force Majeure is a penetrating study of that most ludicrous of social pretenses: masculinity, toxic and ubiquitous. Östlund takes as his subject (and satirical target) a comfortably moneyed Swedish family — Tomas (Johannes Bah Kuhnke), Ebba (Lisa Loven…
