Zombies are everywhere. Zombie movies, zombie TV shows, zombie games, zombie books, zombie walks, zombie runs, zombie fashion shows — the damn things are impossible to escape. Right here in Denver, there are so many zombie events happening this month that we dedicated a post just to listing them. For…
Mary Voelz Chandler knows her structures. An art and design critic for the Rocky Mountain News until it folded in 2009, Chandler now works directly in the building field, as a communications specialist with G.H. Phipps Construction. She shared her knowledge in 2001’s Guide to Denver Architecture; now she’s back…
The Colorado Symphony has been infected with a virus — a terrible affliction that compels the group to play classic horror film soundtracks. But that’s not all. “Oh, god, it’s terrible,” says Scott O’Neil, conductor of the Undead Orchestra. “They’ve been exhibiting these really strange mood swings and food cravings…
Hey, Denver: We’ve got game. For the last 35 years, we’ve been able to boast a world-class film festival, and this year’s 36th Starz Denver Film Festival only ups the ante. The full schedule, released on Monday and tucked into today’s issue of Westword (and also available online), proves the…
Al Karim, Zimmer, Al Karim, Friberg. Robischon Gallery is so large that it can easily handle four (or, in a pinch, five) substantial solos. Typically, there’s some unifying element that links them all together, and that’s true this time, as all of the artists involved use photo-based methods ranging from…
Defending the Caveman. This is a low-key, low-budget one-man show, part standup comedy, part general nightclub act. Written by Rob Becker, the piece has been appearing in intimate venues around the country for several years. Becker was inspired by the comment he frequently heard from women that “men are assholes,”…
When Lanny DeVuono moved to Denver a few years ago to take the helm of the fine-arts department at the University of Colorado Denver, she was not only already an experienced professor, but also an accomplished painter known for her conceptual realism and a widely published art writer. Last year,…
Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero’s 1968 zombie-flick classic, has long been the subject of intense critical analysis laying bare its rich social and political commentary. Romero not only set in motion the zombie fetish that thrives globally today, but he created a film that simultaneously captured the…
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…
