The balloon art that you’ll see at the Festival of Balloons — a celebration of balloon sculpture that runs from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Downtown Denver Hotel this coming Sunday, March 30 — will make the typical balloon dog or balloon bouquet look like a child’s…
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 gallery business can be extremely difficult,” says Eric Matelski, a Denver-based…
As an obituary writer, Bruce Weber confronts mortality more than most. So he decided to bid farewell to middle age by taking a cross-country bike trip which he used to reflect on aging and mortality in his memoir: Life Is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Trip Across…
As Goldfrapp, singer Alison Goldfrapp and musician/composer Will Gregory have created a discography of breathy, synthesizer-heavy songs that carry an inherent cinematic feeling. For the duo’s sixth album, Tales of Us, Goldfrapp collaborated with Alison Goldfrapp’s real-life partner, film director Lisa Gunning, to build a series of music videos, each…
This should be an interesting week in Denver, since you can try out a new kind of music; have a laugh, maybe a cry; and get involved in the community — all for free! Don’t forget to check out the online Westword calendar for a complete roster of events, and…
Roll, the monthly roller-skate party at Exdo Event Center, took on a neon glow on Friday night with Wipeout!, a chance for skaters to don dayglo paint, lace up and circle the floor under black lights. Photographer Ken Hamblin was there to catch all the colors swirling; have a look…
You’ve got to love spring in Colorado’s mountains, where you might be sunburning a permanent goggle than onto your face one day, ripping powder the next, or maybe even taking care of both at the same time. There’s actually snow in the forecast this weekend, according to OpenSnow.com forecaster Joel…
On Under the Gunn last week, the judges gave Shan, Oscar and Natalia a pass — and Oscar was declared the winner, for his second victory. But the mentors’ relationships took a dramatic turn when Mondo and Anya confronted Nick with their frustrations about how Natalia continued to survive each…
When she was in high school, Favianna Rodriguez’s parents wanted her to study to become a doctor. They supported her creativity, but subjected her to a string of math and science camps that monopolized her time. As an A+, super-star student, she went to college, found herself pregnant, had an…
We made it to another weekend — and this first weekend of spring is blooming with activities that will keep you entertained without breaking the bank. You can have fun outdoors or indoors enjoying everything from counter-culture madness to black-light partying on wheels. Find more entertainment options in our online…
The Month of Printmaking, aka Mo’Print 2014, continues this weekend with a variety of events, including tonight’s opening reception from 5 to 8 p.m. at Niza Knoll Gallery for Printmakers 4. The exhibit features works representing the diversity of printmaking techniques — from woodcut and monoprint to intaglio and even…
#97: Evan Mann Artist Evan Mann’s sculptural work seems to grow naturally, in an all-white world of amorphous and organic shapes. Even his drawings appear to have begun in one corner and spread across a surface like snowmelt or multiplying cells, growing an idea. When he throws these shapes into…
When DeVotchKa’sShawn King approached Raul Pacheco to collaborate, he accepted the invitation with open arms. Despite being in the middle of recording, releasing and then touring for Ozomatli’s new album, Place in the Sun, Pacheco carved out time to work on Dreaming Sin Fronteras: Stories of Immigration and American Identity,…
Ten years ago, almost to the day, the current zombie apocalypse started in earnest. On March 19, 2004, patient zero hit theaters with the release of Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead. The world of the walking dead hasn’t been the same since. See also: Shaun of the Dead: Your…
Tattoos have become a popular modern art form, but Juli Morsella is exploring tattooing’s ancient, sacred roots and has put together an exhibition with works by artists from all over Europe and the U.S., examining tattoos from around the world. The show, Tattoo in Contemporary Art, opens Friday, March 21,…
Chris Fairbanks is a standup comedian, illustrator, and skateboarder who has appeared on Conan, Comedy Central’s Premium Blend,
and Jimmy Kimmel Live. Fairbanks is making the most out of his trip to Denver, with performances scheduled every night. On thursday the 20th, Fairbanks will be at the Deer Pile at 8:00pm, sharing a story for the Narrators podcast. On Friday at 8:00pm at the Oriental Theater, he’s co-headlining Sexpot Comedy’s Vernal Equinox showcase with Rory Scovel and a bevy of local chucklers. Fans can also catch Fairbanks with the Fine Gentleman’s Club at 10:00pm Saturday at the Meadowlark and performing with Andrew Ovredahl, 7:00pm on Sunday at Comedy Works South. Westword caught up with Fairbanks before his busy visit ta talk about Sexpot comedy, Texan highway system and the Tosh rape joke controversy.
Let’s start with the ending, the closing-credits disclaimer that insists that none of the lead actors in Lars von Trier’s two-part erotic epic Nymphomaniac filmed penetrative sex. If there is real sex in the movie, and it sure looks like there is, it must have been the duty of the…
“The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach” runs the old cliché and the rather uninspired starting point for The Lunchbox, a slow-building, pleasingly low-key romantic dramedy set in Mumbai. Making his feature-length debut as writer and director, Ritesh Batra throws some emotional and logistical complications at the…
David Lindsay Abaire, who first achieved fame with such surreal and fantastical comedies as Kimberly Akimbo, about a young girl with a disease that causes rapid and premature aging, and Fuddy Meers, in which a woman wakes up day after day remembering neither who she is nor what recently happened,…
For the past several years, a pair of alternating biennials have been presented in the month of March (though the shows and events associated with them often start in February and end in April). In odd-numbered years, there’s the well-established Month of Photography, and in even-numbered years, like 2014, there’s…
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…
The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Martin McDonagh’s The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a brilliant work, its flaws so intertwined with its crazed strengths that you can hardly separate one from the other. McDonagh grew up in London, the son of Irish parents, and invented an Ireland — and an…
