Land Ho! is essentially How Grandpa Got His Groove Back, a buddy road trip through Iceland, starring two divorced men with a combined age of 150 years. The writer-directors, Martha Stephens and Aaron Katz, are 30 and 34, respectively, young enough to be their leading men’s grandchildren but just old…
James Brown stripped pop to its rhythmic essentials: the groove and the grunt, the bridge and the scream. Tate Taylor’s Get On Up likewise reduces James Brown — and the biopic form — to all that matters most. Here are the highs of the man’s life, both artistic and recreational…
Deep within the heart of the Art District on Santa Fe, you’ll find a home for the kind of art that’s usually displayed behind lurid four-color covers and on the funny pages. If you prefer that to yet another wall of abstract swirls, Zac Conley’s Hall of Justice comic and…
In the beer-obsessed state of Colorado, a brewer has to try hard to make something really different. And the Lovibond series, a trio of sudsy events hosted this year by Imbibe Denver and the Colorado Brewers Guild, definitely qualifies. The second in this string of taste-fests-with-a-twist, Sesh Fest, focuses on…
If there’s one thing the Internet loves (besides porn), it’s cat videos — whether those cats are playing keyboards, chasing lasers or contorting themselves into absurd shapes to fit into tiny boxes. Now you can get a concentrated dose of cat madness with the Internet Cat Video Festival, a selection…
“When you say you’re drumming on Pearl Street, people think it’s a bunch of hippies in a circle — but it isn’t like that at all. We’re more like an army,” says musician Dan Curtiss, organizer of this year’s Colorado Brazil Fest. But it is an army in formation only,…
“We want the Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse to offer people the opportunity to explore tea in all its different forms and ways that it’s embraced around the world,” says Sarah Martinelli, who operates the exotic venue for the City of Boulder. “The teahouse is such a big, vibrant, visible tourist and…
In its fourth year, the ultra-urban Denver County Fair has edged a lot closer to becoming world-famous, and with good reason: Organizers Dana Cain, Tracy Weil and Andrew Novick work hard to constantly reinvent and improve the overall event while hanging on tightly to what’s tried and true, like the…
Let’s hear it for the noise! Today is the kickoff of Leadville Boom Days, a living tribute to the history of one of Colorado’s most notorious mining towns. The event attracts thousands to the town (elevation 10,000 feet) for three days of mining competitions, live music, local food and the…
When the remaining members of the legendary Monty Python comedy troupe announced they would be performing together one more time, there was much rejoicing. But local fans were bitter last month when Monty Python Live (Mostly) was performed in London and simulcast to select cities in the United States —…
Quentin Tarantino’s movies push the limits of cinematic violence and remix cult genre films into works of artistic rigor. Female characters lead many of his stories, and his depiction of women suggests a shift in the cultural fantasies of our era, says Denver Post film critic Lisa Kennedy, who will…
It takes grit to make a movie in Colorado — sometimes True Grit. This state’s film industry has gotten mixed reviews over the years, but there’s no question that producer Hal Wallis created a classic when he made True Grit, based on the book by Charles Portis, in Colorado in…
In addition to Adam Stone’s experimental work at Buntport, a cat circus and square product theatre’s multidisciplinary work in Boulder (see below), this weekend yields a unique playwriting festival, a classic musical and a one-night ode to old-time radio. Check out these onstage diversions. See also: Concrete Realities: SLAB…
The second Urban Nights Fashion Show is a “runway with a reason.” The event promises to not only be a great fashion celebration featuring some of Denver’s best boutiques and designers (including Project Runway’s Mondo Guerra) but to raise a lot of money for Urban Peak, a non-profit organization that…
Rolling into Denver’s National Western Complex August 1 through August 3, the Denver County Fair will prove once again that it is like no other fair in the country. Celebrating the many cultures and traditions that make Colorado special, the weekend gathering combines silly games with smart lectures, fun dances…
Catherine Opie began shooting photographs at the height of the AIDS crisis. Her portraits of LGBTQ people were born from the urgency of the moment: She was watching her friends die. Over the years, her work has evolved from documentary portraiture and landscapes toward greater abstraction and a study of…
The Gildar Gallery is housed in an anonymous-looking storefront on South Broadway, barely marked by a sign. That unassuming presence continues inside — but modest circumstances haven’t deterred owner Adam Gildar from presenting thoughtful programs not unlike those found at contemporary art museums. In this spirit, Gildar invited a guest…
For decades, feminists have challenged the art world to open up galleries and museums to women artists. While nominal progress has been made, many major institutions still show a disproportionate amount of work by male artists. This disparity is one of many reasons critics Eleanor Heartney and Nancy Princenthal and…
Code Black — which opens Friday, August 1, at the Sie FilmCenter — reminds viewers of an astonishing reality of the health-care industry: In emergencies, seconds count. The documentary follows Ryan McGarry, a physician who trained in the trauma bay at Los Angeles County Hospital and brought cameras along for…
If you publish a book for teens, will they get off their phones long enough to read it? That’s the question Colorado author and small-talk expert Debra Fine had to ask when she wrote her newest book, Beyond Texting: The Fine Art of Face-to-Face Communication for Teenagers. Ironically, the book…
#64: Joseph Coniff Like many of Denver’s notable emerging artists, Joey Coniff got off to a fast start after leaving the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design and the mentorship of Clark Richert, climbing aboard with Rule Gallery right out of the chute. It’s not hard to see why:…
As I stood outside a show at last weekend’s Underground Music Showcase, immersed in a nice conversation with my friend and former bandmate, we were the victims of a walk-by insult. But not the regular old street harassment kind of thing — no this was hollering of a different kind…
