The title All Is Lost promises despair, especially with Robert Redford looking so stolid and weathered and still-got-it golden on the poster. Could this near-silent, you-are-there survival story be another of Redford’s yawps of boomer gloom? Another complaint, like The Company You Keep, about the realization that the world we…
I’m not giving anything away if I tell you that Philip Dawkins’s Failure: A Love Story is about three sisters — the Fail sisters — who all die in the year 1928, but not before each in turn has fallen in love with the wealthy, affable and apparently aptly named…
In Yasmina Reza’s Art, four wealthy, educated men fall out because one of them has acquired an all-white painting. The discussion in Catherine Trieschmann’s The Most Deserving isn’t conducted in such polished sentences, and the cast of characters is rural and far less privileged than Reza’s; even Edie, the possible…
Think Little Miss Sunshine could have used an elastic penis? Behold: Bad Grandpa, in which a widower and an eight-year-old drive across the country hitting on chicks, farting in diners, and getting granddad’s manhood stuck in a vending machine before sending the boy out in drag to perform a striptease…
“Imagine if marriage didn’t exist, and you’re a guy and you ask someone to get married,” proposes comedian Aziz Ansari in his new Netflix standup special, Buried Alive, which premieres November 1. “Hey, so we’ve been hanging out all the time, spending a lot of time together. I want to…
Ten years ago, Art From Ashes launched as a nonprofit organization to help troubled youth express, connect and transform themselves through language. And today, founder Catherine O’Neill Thorn notes that Art From Ashes is one of the top fifty youth-arts organizations in the country. “We have evidence-based statistics that prove…
Denver’s skyline has transformed dramatically since Mary Voelz Chandler’s first edition of the Guide to Denver Architecture was released in 2001. Tonight she celebrates the publishing of a new, updated version, Guide to Denver Architecture, 2nd Edition, a 300-plus-page look at the city’s ever-changing architectural face, highlighting new builds and…
Boulder has always had sex appeal, but the Boulder Exotica Erotica Ball will take things up a notch when it lands at Shine Restaurant and Gathering Place tonight — a new location. The ball had been held at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art for many years, but that venue…
You know the rules: Cardio. Double tap. Limber up. Now you’re almost ready for the Movie and a Martini showing of Zombieland. The only other thing you’ll need is a kick-ass costume — zombies and zombie hunters alike are welcome — for the pre-film costume contest. There’s no rule saying…
National Pit Bull Awareness Day was launched in 2007 to spread appreciation for and education about the American pit bull terrier — arguably the most misunderstood and controversial breed in the country today. Three years ago, Littleton resident Kelly Kaliszewski, took that concept a step further with the Colorado Parade…
It’s no surprise that Garrett Ammon, the creative mind behind the newly minted Wonderbound dance company (and recipient of a 2013 Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Arts and Culture), is once again blurring boundaries with the first official Wonderbound performance, A Gothic Folktale: A Fool’s Journey — and he’s bringing…
As the birthplace of Colorado’s craft beer revolution, Boulder has had a love affair with bubbly brews since the late 1970s that continues today: The city is home to the Brewers Association, a national trade group; the American Homebrewers Association; the second-oldest brewery to have formed after World War II;…
“The people who don’t like science all have the same playbook when it comes to attacking it, and that playbook is borrowed from the Holocaust,” says author and geologist Donald Prothero, author of Reality Check: How Science Deniers Threaten Our Future. It was during the 2008 general election that Prothero…
While he’s often referred to as the only gay Republican standup at the Comedy Works, Denver comedian Chuck Roy is also the host of several “dirty” comedy shows at the venue. His vulgar Christmas shows began as a way for random comics to blow off some obscene steam during the…
Calling trivia masters, puzzle-solvers and fun-lovers of all types. There’s a new game show in town: Off-Center@The Jones presents Wheel of Misfortune, billed as “the scariest game show ever.” “Actually, it’s not really a parody of Wheel of Fortune at all,” says Off-Center co-curator Emily Tarquin. “It’s more like a…
Since its inception, the Denver Center Theatre Company has included original works in its lineup. And its ten-play 35th-anniversary season includes four world premieres, all selected from the 2013 Colorado New Play Summit, which has helped solidify the DCTC’s position as host of one of the top-tier new-play festivals. “We…
A new kind of studio/gallery space will rise out of the shell of an old family business tonight when Helikon Gallery & Studios officially opens its doors at 3675 Wynkoop Street with an inaugural exhibit and community reception. Illustrator Cayce Goldberg, whose family once ran a limo service out of…
The fashion that people wear can channel a certain mood, film or era — sometimes without the person sporting that street style even realizing it. That’s what happened when we spotted metal fabricator Melissa Howton at a Rhinoceropolis bonfire. Keep reading to see what film her look reminds us of,…
WA 3 Voormi from Something Independent on Vimeo. Voormi, a Pagosa Springs-based manufacturer of technical wool outdoor clothing and gear, won the 2013 Something Independent Wright Award for entrepreneurship last night at a pre-launch event hosted by Session Kitchen. “This is about the best treat I could have, to be…
Get ready to bribe, cheat, and drink your way to victory: the sixth installment of Metro Denver Promotion of Letter’s (MDPL) adults-only caper, Murder on Broadway, hits the Historic Baker neighborhood this Saturday, October 26. Registration for the fundraiser — a whodunnit escapade that’s part murder mystery, part dinner theater…
Walk into TANK Studios, and you’ll find a raw but ordered space where one artist’s studio segues into another’s, and big windows, high ceilings and skylights unfold in a panoramic, circular pathway. Built out in a South Acoma Street warehouse in the Overland neighborhood early this year by a group…
You can find a lot of interesting characters on Broadway, and this past week Mutiny Information Cafe added a few more. Painted on the store’s previously blank north wall is a mural complete with flying monkeys, alcoholic authors, a Westword Best of Denver cow and legendary blues guitarists — all…
