If your budget doesn’t include funds for a flight to New Jersey and a ridiculously-priced ticket to the Super Bowl (or if you just don’t care about dudes in tight pants throwing a ball around), don’t fret. There’s plenty to do here in Denver this weekend. From a lit journal-release…
We live in a world of letters — letters in books and on billboards and TV screens, and appearing clickety-clackety as our fingertips conjure them out of keyboards. But author Kitty Migaki found characters lurking in more unusual places — among the angles and curves and cornices of buildings –…
Wondering how to accessorize your Denver Broncos jersey for that big Super Bowl party on Sunday? Look no further than Rhode Island-based jewelers Alex and Ani, who have crafted a bracelet featuring the Denver Broncos logo — and with the NFL’s permission, which means no cranky cease-and-desist letters that the…
Channel your inner eighteen-year-old this Saturday night at the fourteenth annual Valentine’s Day Prom hosted by the Secret Agents of Change. The groups mission is “to host fun events that raise awareness and introduce young people to philanthropy,” and the prom definitely qualifies. From its humble start in a freshman…
It’s Super Bowl time! That’s always exciting. The Broncos are playing! That’s even more exciting. Unless, of course, you don’t give a single fuck about football. Typically — stereotypically, at least — geeks aren’t supposed to, just like we’re not supposed to be able to get girls/guys, dress ourselves stylishly,…
#16: Paul Moschell Artist Paul Moschell doubles as a sweet-hearted animal-lover and an eccentric-about-town who, when he’s not painting whimsical characters on paper and matchboxes or building disturbing pieces out of doll parts and other objects (some of them sharp and pointy), shoots video selfies of himself dancing with his…
Tonight, January 30, Westword is holding the second annual Whiteout, a celebration of Denver fashion that will bring live music, designers, vendors and and signature cocktails to the McNichols Building, with a portion of the proceeds going to the American Transplant Foundation…
Quick, somebody check Jason Reitman’s house to see if the real man has been turned into dust by a body snatcher. Though his name’s on the poster, it’s impossible to believe that the sardonic boy wonder of Juno, Thank You for Smoking and Young Adult would direct a stilted romance…
Baltimore’s 12 O’Clock Boys are a dirt-bike crew who literally believe in “ride or die.” If it weren’t for their Sundays in the streets causing havoc for the cops, boredom and stress would get them in worse trouble. And from what we see in Lotfy Nathan’s documentary, we believe it…
Anyone can catch American Hustle or Dallas Buyers Club on the big screen, but there aren’t a lot of opportunities to see the short films that have been nominated for the 86th Academy Awards, which will air on March 2. So film buffs may want to check out the Oscar…
Playwright Marcus Gardley has won prestigious awards and been compared with such giants as August Wilson and Tennessee Williams for the poeticism of his language. But he’s also been criticized for writing plays that lack structure and for creating characters more symbolic than real. The Denver Center Theatre Company commissioned…
As she usually does, Tina Goodwin has brought together two solos at Goodwin Fine Art, with one in the larger front space and another in the smaller dog-leg corridor in the back. Also typical for Goodwin is the fact that the two shows are simultaneously distinct from one another and…
Clark Richert. In the few years it’s been in business, Gildar Gallery has mostly showcased young and up-and-coming artists, but with Dimension and Symmetry: Clark Richert, the intimate space on Broadway has moved to Denver’s big time, as Richert is among the best-known artists in the state. The show comes…
The Legend of Georgia McBride. Matthew Lopez’s The Legend of Georgia McBride makes for a bright, fast, entertaining evening, but there isn’t a lot of there there. Casey, an easygoing dreamer, has a wife he adores, Jo, and scrapes out the barest of livings as an Elvis impersonator at a…
A favorite pastime of critics and serious film-goers, perhaps the most idiotic and fruitless one, is to complain about how bad the movies have gotten. The complaint is meaningless, because no matter how “bad” the movies get, there are always actors. There’s no such thing as a golden age of…
The second annual Westword Whiteout, which gets under way at 7 p.m. tonight at the McNichols Building, will celebrate the season’s hottest fashions and Denver’s coolest designers. The signature event mixes live music, fashion-forward vendors and handcrafted cocktails, and concludes with a curated runway show featuring some of the town’s…
The Denver Art Museum has made the final Friday of the month just as popular as the first on the local art scene with its ongoing Untitled programming, which kicks off a new season tonight. “It offers a totally different kind of museum experience,” explains Jaime Kopke, DAM’s manager of…
Sexpot Comedy – the monthly comedy showcase that’s the brainchild of ganjapreneur and pizza tycoon Kayvan Khalatbari –- is back with its second edition, Ice Queens of Comedy, with enough laughs to melt even the most hard-hearted audience. Tonight’s lineup highlights two of Denver’s funniest jokesmiths: host Jordan Doll and…
Since it’s served up some of the best-looking parties and shiniest silent auctions in town for nearly a decade, you’d expect the Design Council of the Denver Art Museum’s tenth annual Design After Dark fundraising gala to follow suit. And the feel, if not the exact look, of parties past…
Look closely and you’ll find things hidden within Denver’s architecture. Local author Kitty Migaki’s Alphabet Denver reveals where kids can discover every letter from A to Z concealed in the city’s landmarks and buildings. Using poetry, photographs and the GPS on your phone (or the addresses in the back, if…
Celebrate the Year of the Horse for two hours today, at the 2014 Colorado Chinese New Year Celebration, which has had “hundreds of volunteers working year-round,” according to Huiliang Liu, president of the Chinese American Foundation of Colorado and the Denver Chinese School. But they had a lot to accomplish:…
Volker Schlöndorff, filmmaker and proponent of the New German Cinema, might be best remembered for his Oscar-winning turn as director of The Tin Drum in 1979, but 1976’s Coup de Grâce, filmed in black and white and set amid post-revolutionary turmoil in the Baltics, avoids that film’s crazy bombast for…
