Denver artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy has been trying to break her addiction to petroleum products, but they keep popping up: in her photos, in her paintings and in her large-scale sculptures, too. “When you realize how many things trace back to petroleum,” she says, “you’re thinking, ‘It’s like Alfred Hitchcock’s…
The Neustadt JAAMM Fest, which started seven years ago at the Mizel Arts & Culture Center as a literature festival, has grown into a three-week bash celebrating Jewish authors, musicians, filmmakers and more. The audience has grown, too. “Our attendance picks up each year,” says the festival’s Stuart Raynor. Every…
The Kinky Boots team of Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein was a match made in heaven when it came to writing a multiple Tony Award-winning Broadway hit; the final product — a hilarious romp about the owner of a shoe factory and the sassy drag queen who saves his business…
So far, the Denver Center Theatre Company’s new season has focused on classics — or close enough — with a new rendition of an old musical (The Unsinkable Molly Brown) and an in-the-round adaptation of one of the world’s most-read dystopian novels, Lord of the Flies. So maybe it’s time…
Yinfinity: New Works by Dmitri Obergfell Gildar Gallery 82 South Broadway The Gildar Gallery is a modest, nearly anonymous South Broadway storefront with minimal exhibition space, but to his credit, director Adam Gildar continues to present a schedule of thoughtful shows, even if some of them aren’t entirely successful. That’s…
Mary DeForest loves Jane Austen. The 68-year-old academic has read each of the author’s novels over 100 times. “I went to her tomb at Winchester Cathedral and burst into tears,” she says. “I couldn’t believe she was dead.” DeForest has spent much of her academic career defending Austen’s legacy. “Austen…
Keanu Reeves in John WickOn this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we welcome Village Voice contributor and filmmaker Zachary Wigon, who tells us about his paranoid thriller The Heart Machine (iTunes). We also scoop out some time for John Wick, which helps restore our faith in violent movies, Horns, Nightcrawler…
Halloween is just around the corner, and while many a party-goer has spent months carefully crafting the perfect costume, the rest of us are still scrounging for ideas. But when that dream look finally hits, where do you go to get the best wigs, capes, feather boas and play knives…
Catch up with a somber chapter in the history of Jewish culture at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center or follow an even darker path and get in the Halloween spirit at local stages this weekend. Keep reading for details. See also: Vampire Weekend: Theatre of the Vampires…
Buried Child Edge Theatre Company Sam Shepard’s Buried Child which won a Pulitzer in 1979, still carries a creepy wallop. The story of a violently dysfunctional family — a drunken, abusive father who has destroyed his sons and is now being destroyed in return — it was hailed as a…
My friend Philip Spangler has been here almost three months and is staying one more week, sleeping on a futon in my living room and working on the house every day. By the end of the week the goal is to have a fully-clad, Tyvek-wrapped box with a loft and…
Gone are the days when families would gather around the radio to listen to their favorite serials together. But starting tonight, The Night Dial will bring some of that old-time entertainment back to Denver with a Halloween-themed horror radio play at the Bug Theatre. The Night Dial is the brainchild…
Some folks are always jumping the gun when it comes to holiday decorations. Still, the idea of trotting out the Christmas ornaments before Halloween arrives is so bizarre that it’s just not done — particularly in oh-so-stylish Park Hill. Unless, of course, you happen to be shooting a movie. A…
History, art, culture and tradition come together in Día de los Muertos, which will go down throughout the upcoming weekend. From gallery gatherings and family-friendly celebrations to cultural workshops and cocktail parties, Day of the Dead attracts city-wide attention across multiple days of great events and celebrations. You can find…
Costumed geeks roamed the city as MileHiCon blasted off at the Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center for its 42nd year this past weekend. Cosplay specialist and photographer Danielle Lirette was there to document some of the sci-fi con’s best-dressed; keep reading for a sampler. See also: Zombie Apocalypse at Roll…
I didn’t want to start this conversation with what could be construed as the opening of a screaming match. Even if it is on a virtual page, when a woman is perceived as raising her Internet voice, she is accused of being hysterical, overreactive, agitating, bitchy, bossy, pushy, too assertive,…
#48: Jill Hadley Hooper The work of artist/illlustrator Jill Hadley Hooper can be seen nationally in the pages of the New Yorker and the New York Times, but here in Denver, she’s just one of us. Hard-working and community-minded, the 2007 Westword MasterMind in the fine arts category helped found…
With fall in full swing and temperatures changing by the hour, it’s prime time for cardigans. We noticed retailer Mario Charleston sporting a layered look in an all-natural palette at the Denver Pavilions and Lindsey Jackson sporting her layered look near the State Capital building. Read on to learn where…
Zombies — and other random costumed skaters — took to the rink Friday at the Exdo Event Center for a Halloween edition of the monthly Roll skate-dancing party. Photographer Scott Lenz dared to shoot these Zombie Apocalypse photos; keep reading for a sneak peek at the slide show. See also:…
Brothers Cody and Joey Sudmeier used their experiences as shoppers to create All The Above Clothing. Since they believe that fashion is the truest form of expression, each piece in their ATA line is inspired by a quote, lyric or phrase that’s printed inside the completed design. To find out…
This week, sit at the feet of an eminent poet, celebrate a rustic sleuth or examine the farm-to-fork experience in a new cookbook with a local twist. Keep reading for details. See also: Boulder Book Store Presents Chuck Palahniuk…
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. Daniel Neeman wakes up early so he can open the Tattered Covered…
