Too hot to hike? Escaping into a movie theater to glut on popcorn and blockbuster films is one of the tried and true ways to beat the blazing summer sun. Sure, these $200 million Hollywood titans sometimes crash — but even if they let you down, you can bank on…
Adam Sank is a nationally reknown comedian who has appeared on Last Comic Standing and VH1’s Best Week Ever. In June, Sank debuted his one-man cabaret show Mama, I Want to Sing Showtunes: A One ‘Mo Show to sell out crowds, with another run planned for august. Westword caught up with Sank before he comes to town this week to headline the LOL Presents showcase at the Denver Improv for phone interview where we discussed transcending an audience’s labels and performing naked at nudist retreats.
When the Cinderella City mall opened its doors in Englewood in the ’60s, it was state of the art in an almost Disney-esque fashion, all light and fountains and lofty arches, with a movie theater and the quaint Cinder Alley, a tchotchke lane where the hippie kids shopped. But, like…
For Justice Kwesi Kwarteng, Colorado Fashion Week has been largely a labor of love — and hard work. Inspired by Fern Mallis, the former executive director of the Council of Fashion Designers of America and founder of 7th on Sixth Productions, since 2011 CFW has focused on building an economically…
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. The Godfather has an offer you can’t refuse. Actually, that’s the Colorado…
This week in the local lit world, you can learn everything you ever needed to know about sleep, laugh it up at a book-signing by a comedian who’s taken to writing young-adult novels, or watch authors’ stories come alive onstage — and still have time to go home and get…
There are secrets behind the public art pieces at Denver International Airport — and it’s not what conspiracy theorists would have you believe. We checked in with DIA Exhibitions Coordinator Tim Vacca and Public Art Program Coordinator Mandy Renaud, and discovered there’s a method to all the madness. Keep reading…
We’re nearing the end of the month, and your bank account could be running on empty. But that doesn’t mean the rest of July won’t be full of fun. You can take in a movie, be a fanatic or just hear some bands — all for free in Denver this…
Typical county fairs hand out blue ribbons for livestock, quilts and homemade pies. The 2014 Denver County Fair, which starts next Friday, August 1, will hold competitions for all of those, too. Only some of the pies might get you stoned. See also: “Denver County Fair’s planned Beer Pavilion goes…
It’s summer, when the co-ops chug along with regularly scheduled member shows — and sometimes, the art spills outdoors. Here are some new-show picks to help get you artfully through the weekend. See also: Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy: I Think I Feel Something…
Comedy shows come and go all the time, usually whimpering out of existence after a few ignominious months of effort. So when a show reaches its second anniversary, it’s truly something to celebrate. Comedy fans can help ring in the anniversary this year on July 27th at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret. Named 2014’s Best Comedy Night by this very publication, Propaganda! has excelled thanks to host and producer Matt Monroe’s savvy booking, mingling a roster of enviable headliners with Lannie’s classy ambience month after month for free. July’s lineup features out-of-towners Raj Silverman and Brandie Posey along with local favorites Chris Charpentier, Adrian Mesa, Dr. Kevin Fitzgerald and headliner Adam Cayton-Holland. Doors open at 7:00pm for the free showcase.
In celebration of reaching this milestone, Westword caught up with Monroe to discuss the highlights of the past 2 years and how his commitment to Propaganda! would surprise his exes.
Sherissa Gibson has joined the growing cadre of designers who are offering their interpretation of “fashion” in the Mile High City. Her designs for Skye Gibson Designs are created for the confident, sexy woman. We recently caught up with Gibson to talk about how she got into the business, the…
Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Hillary Hall continues to defy legal threats and issue same-sex marriage licenses — just as Boulder County Clerk and Recorder Clela Rorex did four decades ago. In his documentary Limited Partnership, the closing night film at this year’s Cinema Q film festival, filmmaker Tom Miller…
As the weather heats up, people start to lose their minds — and their money — and this weekend is going to get particularly weird. Luckily, you can partake in everything from some crystal healing to seeing what’s in the stars to running around butt-naked. It’s too cheap not to…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, Amy Nicholson of the L.A. Weekly and Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice interview film critic and author Karina Longworth, who’s just launched a fascinating new podcast on the history of Hollywood called You Must Remember This. [Subscribe to the Voice Film Club…
“Green chiles are important to me,” says gardener Letitia Salazar Monk. The Anaheim green chiles that she grows at the Eastside Growers Collective are a symbol of her heritage: Her ancestors were Yaki hunters in New Mexico, and her philosophy is rooted in indigenous food production and gathering. See also:…
People who say they don’t like board games are probably playing shitty games. What’s not to like? You get to hang out with friends and scratch a competitive itch while pretending to be a business tycoon or ruler of the world. That’s a good time! Well, it is as long…
With the booming Denver housing market and the influx of hipsters struggling to find meaning in a culture built on a bedrock of irony and flippant fashion, visiting Brooklyn — ground zero for vacuous aesthetes — is like looking into a crystal ball and seeing the future Queen City of…
#65: Jeffrey Dante Campbell A longtime fixture on the local hip-hop scene as the rapper Apostle and founder of the youth-friendly Colorado Hip-Hop Coalition, Jeff Campbell’s been around the block — and ventured away from it — over the past two decades, before coming back with a bang: Last fall,…
The annual Denver Face Paint and Body Art Jam is taking place at Mountain Air Ranch from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, July 27. And there should be plenty of bodies to work with, since Mountain Air is a clothing (very) optional facility. Unfamiliar with body art? We’ve collected…
The business of childhood is the business of waiting: waiting for Christmas, waiting for school to let out, waiting to be old enough to stay up past nine. No other movie I can think of captures the wistfulness of those days full of waiting better than Richard Linklater’s Boyhood, an…
Philip Seymour Hoffman is an island of rumpled calm in Anton Corbijn’s urgent A Most Wanted Man, a glum-out-of-principle espionage story based on a John Le Carré novel. The role demands that Hoffman be quiet, steady, occasionally frustrated, and that he hold secrets — often from us, which is a…
