© Courtesy of Sundance InstituteSixty years ago, Fred Flintstone hawked Winston cigarettes. Today, he pitches cereal. And both can kill. Stephanie Soechtig’s rabble-rousing documentary Fed Up argues that it’s time to attack Big Sugar just like we successfully demonized Big Tobacco. Narrated by Katie Couric, Fed Up is the first…
© Beth Dubber, Courtesy of Sundance InstituteKristen Stewart in Camp X-Ray.Kristen Stewart spent five Twilight films getting rescued by werewolves and vampires. Consider Camp X-Ray her rebuttal to a half-decade of playing damsels in distress. As Guantanamo guard Private Cole, Stewart is punched, bloodied, and spat on — and that’s…
#19: Nathan Abels Painter Nathan Abels, who moved here from Indiana in 2007, is best known for his ethereally subtle landscapes, which somehow commit to canvas the faintest changes in atmosphere and nanoseconds of time. It’s difficult work that he makes look easy and natural. Part of Robischon Gallery’s stable…
While beloved Colfax watering hole, the Park House tavern has been a well-regarded live music venue since opening their doors back in 2012, their foray into hosting comedy performances has been a more recent development. Beginning with Bobby Crane’s whimsically named “Jolly Trolley” open mic, the amiable Park House staff has welcomed Denver’s unwashed comics into the fold to utter deplorable things into their high-class sound-system week after week, quickly emerging as an essential part of a local comedian’s tuesday night itinerary. This friday, however, the Park House is doubling down on comedy, by mounting a new showcase featuring some of the funniest comics in town.
On Thursday, January 30, Westword’s second annual Whiteout will fill the McNichols Building with fashion, live music, specialty vendors and classic cocktails. We’ve been profiling many of the designers who will be featured in the runway show; producer and creative director Jenny Baker-Strasburg recently took a break from putting the…
Fashion is a creative field, in which people can take materials from the strangest of places and re-purpose them as wearable pieces of art. Someone who we caught rocking innovative menswear is Marques Pryor, a cashier at a Hyatt hotel , who was wearing a circuit board turned lapel pin…
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. When you buy glasswork from artist Sally Van Der Kamp, who works…
Joel Swanson: Left to Right, Top to Bottom and Critical Focus: Ian Fisher opened at MCA Denver Friday night, as part of curator Nora Burnett Abrams’s ongoing focus on local artists. While Fisher’s paintings of billowing clouds and skyscapes take over MCA’s Whole Room, Swanson has filled the David &…
Cyndi Lauper was totally right: Money does change everything. But it wouldn’t change how much fun you can have in Denver this week, because there are several worthy events that are absolutely free. You can play bingo, watch Big Trouble in Little China, or attend a panel discussion on women…
In the dark about the history of movies? Get a clue from critic Howie Movshovitz, who’ll be teaching Film 102, a four-class series that starts tonight at the Sie FilmCenter. Film 102 will look at the four major elements of cinema: color, genre, sound and melodrama. The first session, on…
American Mustang, which had its local premiere in November at the Denver International Film Festival, is galloping back into town for an extended run that starts today and continues through January 24 at UA Denver West Village Stadium 12, 14225 West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood, just in time for the…
Chay Yew is a hot director who was in the news a year or two ago when he took over Chicago’s acclaimed Victory Gardens Theatre and made several controversial changes. The strife at the time, according to the New York Times, “recalls family melodramas like August Osage County or even…
#20: Daniel and Maruca Salazar Daniel and Maruca Salazar are one of the local Latino arts community’s reigning power couples; while Daniel grew up here, Maruca emigrated to Denver from her native Veracruz, Mexico, more than thirty years ago. And they’ve grown right along with that community over the years…
A tribute to ice, snow and light, Paul Wertin’s temporary sculpture “Arches” opens tonight at the seventh annual Triumph Winterfest in Vail, when it will be illuminated with LED lights at dusk. Wertin began carving the icy structure from 120 blocks of ice earlier this month, creating a seventy-foot long…
You may be pinching pennies, but that doesn’t mean you have to stay home and re-watch all seven seasons of Buffy on Netflix (though that does seem like a solid option). There are plenty of inexpensive activities in Denver this weekend, from art openings to a screening of Eraserhead. Keep…
Denver fashion is now back in the national spotlight thanks to Tim Gunn’s new reality show, Under the Gunn. Mondo Guerra, winner of the 2012 Project Runway All Stars, is a mentor on the show, which debuted last night on Lifetime, and local designer Stephanie Ohnmacht is one of fifteen…
Yee-haw! Steamboat’s fortieth annual Cowboy Downhill, coinciding with the National Western Stock Show in Denver and featuring pro rodeo stars, is the must-see race of the year and Steamboat’s most popular annual event. The party starts at 5 p.m. Sunday with night skiing and six hot air balloons illuminating Mountain…
Fish has been tattooing at Th’ink Tank Tattoo since it opened its doors in 2002. He is also the co-founder of the men’s clothing line ELC Mens, which he started with a friend five years ago. An established name in the local tattoo industry, Fish will have to build a…
Artist House Tour Series Featuring Andi Todaro
If you aren’t watching Archer, you are missing out on television’s best comedy. The animated spy spoof — think Austin Powers, minus that franchise’s fundamental stupidity and tendency to recycle its best jokes until they are painfully unfunny — brings a lot to the table. The cast is excellent, with…
From Mouseketeer to sexy schoolgirl to shaved-head rebel, Britney Spears has created many dance-worthy tunes in her fourteen-year career. As part of the Alamo Drafthouse’s Action Pack interactive events, the theater will host a Britney Spears Sing-Along Dance Party Friday, January 17 at 9:30 p.m. (with a special encore performance…
Since the start of the new year, we’ve been filling our four blogs — Show and Tell, Backbeat, Cafe Society and the Latest Word — with a Colorado bucket list of the 100 things to do before you kick it. We’ve already shared Show and Tell Bucket List picks 25-16…
