Rather than throw together a group show featuring work by artists whose work is unconnected, for its current exhibit, Articulated Perspectives, the William Havu Gallery focused on four artists who all do work that is based on representational imagery but also incorporates abstract sensibilities. The show begins with a monumental…
Chris Richter. Back in March, gallery director Bobbi Walker realized that her planned June slot had come apart and that she needed to come up with somebody fast. At the time, she was checking out the scene in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and came across the work of painter Chris…
I Hate Hamlet. I Hate Hamlet is a bit like the curate’s egg: hilariously funny in parts, and in others so idiotic that you’re embarrassed for the actors. Why is the radiant Jamie Ann Romero wasting her talents wafting about as Deirdre, a stagestruck 29-year-old virgin who’ll have sex with…
It turns out that the cars and planes of Cars and Planes can kiss. Deep into Planes: Fire & Rescue, a time-killing kid-flick whose title is an exact summary of its plot, the filmmakers introduce us to two creaky old Winnebagos, a husband and wife in their sunset years, revisiting…
If the Saw series taught us anything, it’s that every quasi-inventive genre movie is fated to become a yearly franchise with increasingly diminishing returns. The Purge practically cried out for this treatment from its premise alone: James DeMonaco’s film had a big idea — a near-future in which “any and…
A defiantly R-rated farce seemingly commissioned to plug the We’re the Millers-shaped hole in the summer lineup, Sex Tape is warmer and more amusing than its ads would lead one to believe. In fact, it’s almost good enough, leaning a little too hard on the innate likability of stars Cameron…
The old Temple Emanuel building at 24th and Curtis streets stood vacant for many years until new owners recently took a chance on it, with the idea of turning it into a beehive of artist studios and community projects. And one of the new tenants, Processus, is another work-in-progress: Conceived…
“Is it possible for a police officer to be a cop and a human being, or are all cops bastards?” asks playwright Benjamin Michael Turk of Insurgent Theater, who stars in the one-man interactive play Behind the Badge. “I play a cop who thinks of himself as a good person…
For more than twenty years, Ween made some of the most absurd, original and delightful music of all time. It may take years for the band’s influence to be integrated into the rock canon, but the long arm of Ween, which formed in Pennsylvania in 1984 has hit the fine-art…
Robert Rutherford loves Denver, and he’s heartbroken that life’s vagaries are now sending him off toward new beginnings in San Diego. But the co-host (with founder Andrew Orvedahl) of the monthly storytelling project and podcast The Narrators is looking at his move as an opportunity to expand the concept westward,…
“In roller derby, you always see women just starting out who come in all shy and tentative, and then within a couple of weeks, they’re out there totally rocking it,” says Meghan Dougherty, co-author of Dorothy’s Derby Chronicles, a new series of young-adult novels about a diverse group of teen…
New York-based filmmaker Bill Morrison made two short films using Bill Frisell’s pre-recorded music, but Morrison wanted to work with the well-known jazz guitarist on a longer project. That effort would become The Great Flood, a documentary they began collaborating on in 2011 and released in 2013. Using film footage…
Marc Maron’s tenuous tenure in show business has survived several media outlets and questionable eyewear choices. After years of toiling in semi-obscurity, known only to fans of liberal talk radio and comedy nerds, Maron, who appears in Denver for two nights this week, rejuvenated his career by starting the WTF…
One of the best things about the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival is how it changes every year, experimenting with new ways to keep the returning crowds happy. That doesn’t mean that many of its best features — from the focal point of the dragon-boat races themselves to the exemplary ethnic-food…
Ten years after Brandi Shigley put out her Shigley shingle in the Golden Triangle to forge Fashion Denver, the local entrepreneur, designer and purveyor of the Do What You Love, Love What You Do business philosophy, is still going strong, as are her seasonal fashion markets, which emphasize the work…
The Henry Awards, named for longtime and much-loved theater impresario Henry Lowenstein, are organized by the Colorado Theatre Guild and given annually for excellence in theater. Colorado’s version of the Tonys, the Henrys are presented at a gala that also serves as a fundraiser for the guild and is attended…
Game shows have been a crucial part of television programming since the big box first infiltrated living rooms many decades ago. But in 2014, talent-based tournaments like The Voice are more than just a game: This make-or-break challenge pits dozens of aspiring singers against each other to battle it out…
This year marks Batman’s 75th birthday, and the world’s greatest detective has gone through some changes in that time. Before he was the Dark Knight, before his multitude of animated series, even before the campy ’60s television show, his very first appearance outside of a comic book was back in…
Raised as a Missionary Baptist in a Texas trailer park, Michael Mayes knew his share of roughnecks and racists; they were his friends. When he first saw Dead Man Walking, the opera based on Sister Helen Prejean’s book about her experiences accompanying two men toward state execution, Mayes realized he…
“Paper is a medium of contradictions: It appears to be very fragile, yet it can be very strong and tenacious,” says Cecily Cullen, creative director at the Center for Visual Art, where the new exhibition Paper Work will open tonight. Often viewed as a basic and mundane material, paper becomes…
Christopher Titus is a singular voice in standup comedy with a unique style and profound personal connection to his fanbase. Titus stood out early on in his career with appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Premium Blend, and managed to turn his one man show Norman Rockwell is Bleeding into the eponymous sitcom Titus which ran from 2000-2002 on Fox until it was cancelled following a dispute with executives. Titus has remained prolific in the aftermath, releasing standup specials The Fifth Annual End of the World Tour, Love is Evol, Neverlution, and The Voice in my Head in the space of a few years. He also co-hosts the Titus Podcast and is currently working to fund a movie called Special Unit, co-starring Denver’s own Josh Blue. In town this weekend to headline at Comedy Works South as he gears up for his next special The Angry Pursuit of Happines, Westword recently caught up with Titus to discuss honesty in comedy, dismantling pro-gun hysteria with humor, and his new History Channel game show, Pawnography.
The thirty-plot community garden lies in the shadow of Liggins Towers, a brick high-rise full of Section 8 apartments in northeast Park Hill. The property is owned by Zion Baptist Church, the oldest African-American congregation west of the Mississippi, but the garden is relatively new; the Eastside Growers Collective came…
