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. Organizational developer Suzanne Sigona relocated to Denver from Washington, D.C. over twenty…
At some point Halloween went from real pumpkins, elegantly toilet-papered trees and hellishly funny Halloween films to plastic “fun-kins,” polite, chaperoned gatherings and bad Tim Burton movie reruns on the tube. Although I can’t identify exactly when the caramel apple fell off the stick, Halloween has become the soon-forgotten candy…
PalletFest filled Sculpture Park at the Denver Performing Arts Complex this past weekend with an ingenious layout built from recycled wooden pallets. Attractions included a maze, a music stage, a parkour course and vendor booths all made from pallets;demonstrations and merchandise all focused on recycled and upcycled materials. Photographer Brandon…
Paint the town read! A couple of bestselling authors will discuss hot-button issues and their work in Denver this week, and a controversial figure will be here to set the table for a celebration of the 75th year of her iconoclastic life. Read on for all the lit-pick details. See…
Bob Saget has a famously dichotomous public image. While he’s still most widely recognized for his ’90s television ubiquity, Saget was a standup long before he became a huggy surrogate father to a generation of Full House viewers. While the ribald nature of Saget’s act is less shocking now, thanks to his appearance in The Aristocrats and a role that subverted his family-friendly image on Entourage, what stands out about Saget’s humor is how defiantly strange it can be. Saget’s penchant for the absurd shines through, whether he’s onstage or behind the camera for the underrated cult comedy Dirty Work. With his first book, Dirty Daddy, due out in paperback later this month, Saget is really hitting his stride. Westword caught up with Saget over a rambly and digressive phone conversation to discuss Dirty Daddy, his dichotomous public image and why you shouldn’t have sex with things.
As the weather gets colder, the entertainment calendar starts heating up. This week you can watch a local comic yuk it up with Jimmy Fallon, learn about the city’s ghost stories and look at historic photos of a different kind of spirit while sampling some of the town’s liquid assets…
Our review of this week’s Dracula Untold doesn’t inspire much hope: “This Dracula Begins-style sword-and-fangs curio plays like someone said, ‘What if we took a vampire flick but did a find-and-replace swapping out all that bare-neck sensuality for some video-game ass-kicking?'” But for every genre-entry failure, there are numerous other…
Colorado was the first state to make Columbus Day an official holiday, in 1907. The federal government soon followed suit, and on Monday, state and federal offices will be closed to to mark the day, which will be celebrated with a Columbus Day Parade tomorrow. But while that parade was…
Visit worlds both fantastical and familiar this weekend at gallery shows that plumb the miniature and the infinite and everything in between. And you don’t even need to leave Denver for this visual vacation! Read on for all the details. See also: Got Oil? Lauri Lynnxe Murphy: Lament at Leon…
Interstate 70 roars through Globeville, and with an October 31 deadline for public comment, discussion over its expansion is roaring as well. Houses on either side may be torn down as part of the project, and murals under the viaduct at 46th Avenue and Lincoln — paid for by the…
Radiolab’s Jad Abumrad — who was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 2011 — is just as affable and eloquent on the phone as he sounds on the radio, with a dash of vulnerability revealed when he worries about fucking up the answer to a question. Yes, he actually said that…
This weekend should be all about fun, that’s what weekends are for. There’s no need to waste all your hard earned dollars, there’s plenty of cheap fun to be had. From vintage toys and Bronco’s memorabilia to dodgeball, this weekend will have you feeling like a kid again. Don’t worry…
Toys have a magical way of transporting us back to childhood, no matter what age we are. Re-encountering that one toy can instantly bring back memories of Christmas mornings or summer vacations. This Sunday, October 12, ride the nostalgia wave down to the Toy & Doll Collectors Supershow and see…
“Based on a true story” are the scariest words that can appear in a horror movie. While Freddie and Jason may haunt our nightmares, there are real monsters that walk among us. That’s why documentaries that tell true, terrifying tales can be more frightening than fiction. Here are our five…
If you were ever a patron of FashioNation’s iconic location on 13th Avenue in Capitol Hill, the new store on South Broadway — which “officially” opens this Friday, October 10 — should be comfortingly familiar. “If we took a screw down at the old store, it was used here at…
#52: Taylor Gonda When it comes to popular culture, Taylor Gonda talks a great game. As co-host of the local podcast These Things Matter, she chats about music, movies and other obsessions with celebrities both local and sometimes national. But there’s more to Gonda than These Things Matter: A regular…
Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, whose art often deals with environmental themes, has been on a mission to purge herself of oil-based materials. But boycotting oil is next to impossible. Next May, Murphy plans to leave her massive Five Points studio behind and embark on a cross-country journey in a tiny home…
Certain things just seem tailor-made to work together. Take gin and tonic, for example: They both basically suck on their own, but damn, are they a delight when taken together. Other things stand just fine solo, but combine into a thing of sublime beauty, like peanut butter and chocolate, or…
The Unsinkable Molly Brown. The Unsinkable Molly Brown is one of the Denver Center Theatre Company’s most ambitious productions to date: The company has spared neither pains nor expense in having Meredith Willson’s 1960 musical, which was fairly insipid, reworked and remounted. This iteration began life as part of the…
God save us from old coots and the actors who play them. Is that a terrible thing to say? Actors, like the rest of us, grow old, and there aren’t a whole lot of good roles available to them. But do we really need to see Robert Duvall playing a…
The “Dracula Begins”-style sword-and-fangs curio Dracula Untold plays like someone said, “What if we took a vampire flick but did a find-and-replace, swapping out all that bare-neck sensuality for some video-game ass-kicking?” Or: “Remember what the Star Wars prequels did for Darth Vader? Let’s foist the same kind of tragic…
It says something about current global affairs that a movie set during the U.K. miners’ strike of the mid-1980s — an event that tore lives to shreds — is likely to make you feel better rather than worse about the world. Pride, directed by Matthew Warchus, is a fictionalized account…
