This year marks the 36th opening night for the Denver Film Festival, and like the previous 35, last night’s kickoff event took place against a backdrop of glitter, glamour and anticipation. And if director Jason Reitman’s Labor Day, which unspooled at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House before many of the…
Michael Paglia visits William Havu Gallery and David B. Smith Gallery in this week’s review, taking in a group show focusing on close-ups of nature and featuring artists Jane Abrams, Jean Gumpper and Betsy Margolius. The show at David B. Smith Gallery is a solo showcasing works by Don Stinson…
The Halloween ghouls have all slunk back into their closets for another year, and that means — you guessed it — the holiday shopping season is upon us. And the urgency is amped up in 2013, thanks to an early Hanukkah (the first candles are lit on Thanksgiving eve this…
Do you like movies? Of course you do. What geek doesn’t? The good news is that for the next ten days the Starz Denver Film Fest, one of Denver’s premiere cultural events, is going to be bringing a lot of movies to town for you to watch. The less good…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he shares his take on Resurrection of a Bastard…
With Denver Fashion Weekend 013 just two days away, we spoke with Lindsay Maynard, editor-in-chief/fashion editor of 303, to get the scoop on this weekend’s events and her thoughts on the local fashion scene. See also: Meanswear Monday: Ulysses Gonzalez…
Barbara Carpenter and Janice McDonald. In the east gallery at Spark, Barbara Carpenter has assembled a large group of small photos hung in clusters, salon-style, for Walking Miss Daisy: Photographs by Barbara Carpenter. The Miss Daisy of the title is Carpenter’s dog, and all of the photos have been taken…
The reliable William Havu Gallery has hit a groove this fall by establishing a theme for a series of exhibits: regional subjects by regional artists. The season opener was Western Not Western, which featured varying interpretations of Western subjects. Next week, there’s a Jeff Aeling solo made up of neo-traditional…
The inability to have a child is often treated as a “white people problem,” the province of middle- and upper-class couples who end up resorting to expensive fertility treatments. But Andrew Dosunmu’s supple, observant drama Mother of George puts a different spin on this anguishing issue: What happens when a…
Among the Avengers, Thor should reign supreme. Sure, Captain America is the de facto leader, but even he — like the others — is just a jacked-up human. Thor is a god. Or if not quite a god, as he demurs, he’s the next best thing: a flying titan with…
Weight-loss and weight-gain performances are tricky things. Robert De Niro’s heavily mannered turn in Raging Bull just has to be great — he gained sixty pounds for it, didn’t he? For his role in The Machinist, Christian Bale dropped to a sub-skeletal 122 pounds — he looked like a walking,…
For a while I try to figure out why I’m enjoying Rancho Mirage — currently having a rolling premiere at Curious Theatre Company and a couple of other companies nationally — so much. True, the dialogue is swift and clever — as Steven Dietz’s dialogue always is — and the…
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who spoke up for education, was subsequently shot in the head by the Taliban in 2012. But she survived and went right back to fighting for her beliefs. Now living in Britain, Yousafzai has become a heroine and spokeswoman for women’s rights — at the…
To celebrate its fortieth anniversary, the nonprofit Boulder Valley Women’s Health Clinic wanted to do something unexpected. So tonight at the Boulder Theater, the organization will present Condom Couture, a fashion show benefiting the clinic and its community work. And, as at any runway show, models will grace the catwalk…
High school is hard. Between the hormones, the peer pressure and the homework, it’s a miracle anyone survives. Now throw some uncontrolled telekinesis into that teen angst, set the whole thing to music, and you’ve got Carrie: The Musical, the latest horror classic to make the transition to the stage…
When Tran and Josh Wills started talking about closing Super Ordinary Gallery, which they’d been running out of their house, the Denver creative scene begged the couple to reconsider. “It worked, and we always had great turnouts and great support, but it was a little too much,” Tran recalls. But…
Denver once billed itself as “Paris on the Platte,” so the Paris Holiday Market is the perfect place to do some holiday shopping for the Denverites on your list. Although this is the market’s third year, it’s the first to be held in conjunction with the Denver Public Library’s Fresh…
The real point of Denver Arts Week isn’t to invent ten days of cultural events out of thin air. Rather, it’s to shine a spotlight on what happens here all year long — if you know where to find it. Think of it as a definitive map of the local…
A local legend-in-the-making will meet his hero in the ring tonight when Primos Hardcore and Wrestling presents Twist of Hate, a match between WWE superstar Matt Hardy and up-and-comer Rob Ryzin. In one of the biggest events to date for Primos, the two will face off in a contest that…
What started more than a half-decade ago as a collaboration between 303 magazine publisher AB Aharonian and local stylist Charlie Price has grown into a two-day, must-see scene: Denver Fashion Weekend Fall 2013, which features close to two dozen hair salons, boutiques and designers, including names like Mona Lucero, Garbarini…
The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art wants to stimulate you all weekend long with MediaLive 2013, an interactive audiovisual experience featuring ten artists with live-music accompaniment. “This four-day festival presents a variety of approaches, discusses the technology and underlying theoretical, formal and conceptual considerations, and offers opportunities to explore live…
Tonight’s Interactive Tour of the Universe — part of the new space series at Chautauqua — is bound to be an absolutely stellar evening of intergalactic education. “This is a presentation that Dr. Ka Chun Yu, the curator of space science at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, has…
