“We just want to get famous enough to meet Lena Dunham,” say twin artists Taylor and Jazzmyn Barbosa. They may be joking, but it doesn’t seem like too fantastic a dream; the Barbosa sisters’ art is cut from the same vulnerable, whip-smart cloth as the star and creator HBO’s Girls…
The Stanley Film Festival, presented by the Denver Film Society, has announced the complete lineup for the festival, which runs from April 24 through April 27 in Estes Park and includes screenings of such movies as Eyes Wide Shut and Gremlins and more. In keeping with its setting in the…
That TV that looked so great twenty years ago is looking like an environmentally unfriendly albatross today — it’s essentially trashed, but too full of toxic materials to throw out with the trash. But on Saturday, April 5, Republic Services of Denver will provide a convenient way to recycle obsolete…
Clothes to Kids Denver is a non-profit organization that provides free clothing for low-income, school-aged children. On Friday, April 4, the Cat Walk Club, comprising students from the Johnson & Wales University fashion merchandising program, will have host its annual Diver City fashion show, with a portion of the proceeds…
#93: Becky Wareing-Steele Becky Wareing-Steele lives in a world of miniatures, where tiny figures and creatures go about their lives inside tiny bottles and jars and whimsical lockets, and even among the jagged crystals of cracked-open geodes. Her crafting career started with a button-making machine and worked its way into…
Some cult films have such an expansive audience, they may as well be mainstream. Others attract a smaller, more dedicated cult of followers who share the movie’s joys via word of mouth and keep it alive at midnight screenings. Then there are other films that seem to have no cult…
Whether you are interested in cultural documentaries, classic dramas or anti-colonial revenge films, this year’s XicanIndie Film Festival promises to showcase the most innovative and intriguing Latino, Chicano and global indigenous films. Here are five must-see selections from the festival, which starts tonight; head to Su Teatro to see the…
Whether he’s stuffing his subjects’ faces with food or taking pictures of them covered in their own blood, Andrew Novick takes photographs that document an always interesting and often delightfully weird time. This time around, the artist, collector, Peeps expert, Stanley Film Festival collaborator and Warlock Pincher looked to his…
Critical Focus: Ian Fisher. This show, located in the informal Whole Room at MCA Denver, is made up of a group of mostly monumental paintings of the sky. It’s the type of thing that has become the artist’s signature. Though Fisher begins with photographs of clouds used as studies, the…
Tucked into a pocket of his workout sweats, Steve Rogers — aka Captain America, the serum-enhanced Yankee Doodle Dynamo who’s spent the last six decades in deep freeze — keeps a notebook of cultural beats he’s missed: Star Wars, Marvin Gaye, Thai food. If only he’d added ’70s conspiracy thrillers…
Our story resumes: Having found a love-like feeling for Jerôme (Shia LaBeouf), “restful domestic comfort” has, at the outset of Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac: Volume II, robbed the young Joe (Stacy Martin) of her orgasm. Naomi Wolf documented a similar problem in her 2012 book Vagina; the similarities between Joe…
The great insight in director Roger Michell’s fourth collaboration with writer Hanif Kureishi is its vision of Paris as an arena equally amenable to romantic comedy and sulking tragedy. Thus the City of Lights becomes a proving ground in Le Week-End, in which Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan play an…
The shining strength of Dava Sobel’s And the Sun Stood Still — which is currently receiving its world premiere in Boulder — is that, at a time when the sciences have been so muddied by sloppy thinking, willful ignorance and financial pressure, it provides insight into the scientific process and…
Mo’Print, the Month of Printmaking, is winding down, and although the centerpiece is the Open Press show at the McNichols Building, there have been dozens of other events focused on printmaking up and down the Front Range. Among the ones that I’ve checked out are the two on view at…
Why can’t women stay friends? That’s a trick question, of course, but also one that British actresses Emily Mortimer and Dolly Wells — lifelong pals in real life — attempt to answer earnestly and honestly in their new HBO cringe comedy Doll & Em. In the six-episode series, Mortimer and…
“I’ve interviewed a lot of nasty characters over the years,” says a cheerful Errol Morris over lunch on a bright Los Angeles day.”I’m a connoisseur of bullshit.” He’s sampled some of the finest: Holocaust deniers; murderers swearing their innocence; a beauty queen who claims she only kidnapped and raped that…
Whether it’s baseball, burgers or men in uniforms, the Colorado Rockies’ season opener against the Arizona Diamondbacks has something for everyone to love. And this year, Coors Field will be showing off a brand-new, 38,000-square-foot rooftop deck that boasts “incredible panoramic views of the Front Range and downtown Denver,” says…
Sound has a quasi-imperialistic property, says Adán de la Garza, co-curator of Loud!!!, a video-art show about sound. In a movie screening, if you dislike what you see, you can close your eyes, but you cannot close your ears, he points out. “The person who is emitting the sound is…
A lot of artists and gallerists — including some folks who are both — are looking to Denver to go global as an art town. And though it’s hard to keep a balance between our city’s local cultural flavor and the rush of world trends in art, some of them…
“Unless a film is put in the white man’s context, it’s not significant; it’s a subtle kind of racism,” says XicanIndie Film Festival curator and filmmaker Daniel Salazar, speaking of movies about Latinos, such as Buena Vista Social Club, that feature white characters for white audiences to relate to. Most…
In 1998, Israeli beauty queen Linor Abargil was crowned Miss World — but just six weeks earlier, she had been abducted, stabbed and raped. Using her newfound fame as a global platform, Abargil became an advocate for victims of sexual violence. Her story is explored in the 2013 documentary Brave…
One Night Stand Theater has been around for four years, putting on six discrete nights of theater a year to full and enthusiastic houses. Tonight’s Food, Glorious Food: Tales of Cooking and Cuisine, comprises six plays, one short story and a couple of poems, all by local writers. Audiences will…
