Space is the place for the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra’s interactive season finale, New Frontiers, which will explore the final frontier through a series of intergalactically-themed pieces tonight. The first stop is the fictional planet Krypton, where a violent percussion piece from Michael Daugherty’s Man of Steel-themed Metropolis Symphony sonically depicts…
Stephanie Zacharek has been reporting online from the Cannes Film Festival. For much more, including a couple daft cartoons she drew, visit westword.com/movies/. Foxcatcher Even if Steve Carell’s performance in Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher — a terrific one — ends up being the most lauded in the film, what Channing Tatum…
James McAvoy knows not to trust the British tabloids. While flogging his grotty drama Filth, based on the Irvine Welsh novel about a coke-addicted, double-crossing cop, they breathlessly reported that the Scottish actor had dived so deep into method acting that he’d convinced a German hooker to punch him in…
Jordan Wieleba is an old hand at creating captivating variety shows, and for her latest effort, Something Fabulous, she’s making the venue — Blush & Blu, Westword’s pick for Best Lesbian Bar in 2014 — one of the stars. “A big part of this show is the atmosphere,” Wieleba says…
Today’s inaugural Denver Flea is part market, part party and all Colorado. Celebrating the locally owned and locally grown, this hip take on the traditional flea market will set up in City Park with an array of Denver merchants selling vintage and handmade goods alongside food trucks, outdoor games and…
Although Arapahoe Basin typically closes its season with the Festival of the Brewpubs, sometimes — a few seasons ago, for instance, when a snow drought shortened everyone’s run — the skiing is already over. Not so in 2014, says A-Basin spokeswoman Adrienne Saia Isaac. “This year, the skiing is still…
Traditions old and new will put on a fair face this weekend when ArtStir, an all-Colorado art and design market that debuted in 2013 at the Denver Pavilions, returns in a bigger and better version for Memorial Day weekend. Samuel Schimek of Pavilions shop I Heart Denver took over the…
If you live in Boulder, it just wouldn’t be Memorial Day without the annual BolderBOULDER 10K, which has attracted not hundreds, but thousands of runners each May since 1979, making it one of the biggest road races anywhere in the U.S. If you run in Colorado, this is the place…
Historian Linda Przybyszewski’s interest in mid-century women’s fashion was piqued after she happened upon a home-economics text-book from the 1950s — and it further intensified when she discovered a pamphlet called “How to Buy Shoes” that was put out around the same time by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. What…
Kirk Hanna was a cattle rancher, a conservationist and a Colorado legend before his untimely death at age 43. His pursuit of a utopian vision for the ranching way of life and his impact on open-space preservation and resource management are just part of the story told in Hanna Ranch,…
Some things are just too good to be true, like a Dune film starring Mick Jagger, Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles and David Carradine, directed by cult-film legend Alejandro Jodorowsky, with effects and art by Mœbius, H.R. Giger and Dan O’Bannon. Such a thing is clearly too awesome to exist, but…
Somewhere in the midst of becoming a painter, Mark Penner Howell discovered the human figure. And if there’s anything especially new and interesting about the works going on display tonight for his solo show Double Rainbow Plans: Paintings by Mark Penner Howell at Walker Fine Art, that shift in focus…
Opening a new gallery is never an easy proposition, especially when the space in question is huge and comes with a reputation to uphold (past tenants have included the well-regarded Sandy Carson and van Straaten galleries). But artist and art consultant Mike McClung and his partner, Warren Campbell, already have…
Michael Paglia visits the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in this week’s review, taking in the show Matt O’Neill: Thrift Store Sublime which features a handful of stylistic moves that the artist has made during the past twenty years. Continue reading for photos from the exhibit. See also: New work…
In the social network age, it’s easier than ever to take on new hobbies, thanks in part to online communities like Colorado-based Craftsy.com, which offers streamlined instructions on the web. To celebrate its third anniversary, today the website is giving away all the lessons it typically charges for today. See…
Becky Tate was the last speaker to take the stage last February during Ignite Denver 16 — a periodic event that invites people to give five-minute, twenty-slide presentations about anything they want — and she was a good choice: Tate’s talk was about sex, and it was called “30 Days…
Some films are just meant to be seen on the big screen, but apart from a handful of cult classics and genre favorites, opportunities to do so can be few and far between. Denver’s Landmark Theatre chain is looking to change that with “A Film for All Seasons,” a 24-week…
It’s been two years since the once-private Anschutz Collection — one of the world’s most comprehensive collections of Western art — first opened its doors to the public for limited guided tours in its home at the American Museum of Western Art. And it’s been so successful — perhaps too…
Since getting out of prison in 2005, Piper Kerman has been pounding the pulpit for criminal-justice reform. Her prison memoir, Orange Is the New Black , attracted the attention of producer Jenji Kohan, who adapted it into a critically acclaimed Netflix series. Kerman has used the success of the show…
It was Jason Tugman’s first day of work. Almost a decade later, he still remembers the screams. A former circus fire-eater, he’d taken a job as a lighting technician for The Oprah Winfrey Show after burning off a chunk of his tongue. The pay was $32 an hour and he…
Many times in my life, others have assumed I was a vegetarian. At a work function or a family dinner, someone would attempt to pass me some kind of animal product, only to pull back the offering abruptly and say, “Oh, I forgot. You’re vegetarian.” But I’m not a vegetarian…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, the Village Voice’s Alan Schestuhl and L.A. Weekly’s Amy Nicholson are joined by special guest Chris Klimek to discuss the strange career of Tom Cruise, the new X-Men movie, and why Han Solo should die. We close the show with a special phone…
