Yes, it’s true. Over the weekend, one of the interchangeable blond anchors on Fox and Friends reported that, despite the WWII memorial being closed during the government shutdown, “some things are continuing to be funded . . . President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for…
The first thing the Mythbusters say before starting an experiment on their television show is, “Don’t try this at home.” Fans of the show will finally have an opportunity to disregard this advice and try their favorite experiments at Mythbusters: The Explosive Exhibition. The interactive exhibition opens this weekend at…
A known proponent of all things spook and horror, Stephen Graham Jones is a professor of writing at the University of Colorado Boulder. Highlighting his curricular activities this past summer: ENGL 3246 -201: Zombie Renaissance – Pop. Culture. If he’s able to bring that into the halls of academia, think…
#41: Artists Hollis + Lana. Husband-and-wife team Conor Hollis and Amorette Lana not only fell in love — they also fell into artistic collusion. Together, they wield spray cans to create organic collaborative works, sometimes monumental in size, on canvases, in sculptural shapes and across the sides of buildings. What’s…
With all of the fires and floods in the past six months, living in Colorado has had, if not a biblical quality, than at least the character of a National Geographic Channel special. Fire, as evoked by wood, is the anchor for an inspired pairing titled Truth and Consequences, now…
After the Revolution. Playwright Amy Herzog enters a very specific world in After the Revolution: the passionate, close-knit, hyper-idealistic world of Jewish Communism in New York City during the early decades of the twentieth century. For these activists, Soviet Russia was a model. But when Khrushchev denounced Stalin during the…
Tom Hanks has built a career out of playing aggressively noble roles, so it’s only natural to want to see him taken down a peg. But it’s no fun to watch him suffer at the hands of Somali pirates in Paul Greengrass’s true-life adventure Captain Phillips. Hanks plays the commander…
The most successfully realized element in writer-director Randy Moore’s would-be cult film Escape From Tomorrow, which has all the raw ingredients for a David Lynch-style phantasm, is that it was surreptitiously filmed in Disney World and Disneyland. While on vacation at Epcot Center with his wife and two young children,…
During his 2012 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Herman Cain rhapsodized about the fence he’d build on the U.S.-Mexico border: twenty feet tall, with barbed wire, electricity and a moat. “And I would put those alligators in that moat!” he cheered. For Machete Kills, Robert Rodriguez built that fence but left…
I’ve never liked Death of a Salesman, but I figured that maybe I’d just never seen a really first-rate production. With their current production, the Denver Center Theatre Company and director Anthony Powell have fielded the perfect cast: Mike Hartman — whose performance as the ethically compromised protagonist of All…
Anyone who has ever attended a writers’ workshop (guilty!) will recognize the characters in Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar, and also the dynamics among them. There’s Douglas, the apparently confident son of a somewhat well-known writer, who’s a few steps ahead of the other students in terms of his literary career: He…
When we scout the streets looking for style, it’s a rare day when we encounter another fashion blogger in the process. But that’s what happened when we ran into Cameron Clark on 14th and Champa streets, while the fashion blogger was visiting Denver from Atlanta. Keep reading to learn his…
For this year’s Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide, we asked artistic movers and shakers to answer a few questions about the state of the arts, both locally and around the world. We’ll be rolling out their answers over the next few weeks in pairs that combine both veterans and…
In a much-welcomed break from all those damn Disney princess debates, Kelly Oliver, the W. Alton Jones Chair of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, ponders recent fan favorites like Hanna, Winter’s Bone and The Hunger Games, Hollywood flicks featuring teenage girls hunting — even killing — animals. Why are these teen…
Justice Kwesi Kwarteng, founder and creative director of Colorado Fashion Week, dreams of turning Colorado’s fashion community into a competitive and sustainable force — and those dreams just came one step closer.A sold-out show this past Saturday, packed with supporters, representatives of Colorado’s fashion industry and the fashion faithful, provided…
Nuclear warfare, biological warfare, meteor impact, global pandemic, global warming, supervolcano, alien invasion, zombie apocalypse… sharknado? All are theoretical ways that human civilization could meet its demise. And while all are gruesome, most would allow the human race to depart Earth with at least a strand of dignity still attached…
While the weather is still deciding if it’s ready for fall, it is clear that we humans are set, as activities move inside and we prepare to brave the colder tempuratures. In accordance with this acclimation, we’ve found some great, free gatherings — like movies all about the secret powers…
After the pilot’s debut, comedians Ben Roy, Adam Cayton-Holland and Andrew Orvedahl thought their Amazon-produced Grawlix comedy series, Those Who Can’t, was dead in the water. While two other shows were picked up, The Grawlix crew heard….nothing. But now Amazon has commissioned the Denver comedy team to write six new…
Who were those masked people? Last Friday, revelers in disguise took over the Living Room for a Halloween evening of music and dancing at the Denver Masquerade Soirée and Global Champagne Party to benefit the Women’s Foundation of Denver. Photographer Ken Hamblin III was there, snapping pictures for Westword. Follow…
Over the weekend, Elitch Gardens unveiled this year’s Fright Fest, which includes two all-new haunted houses — the zombie-themed Flesh Factory and the Terror Chamber, a creepy initiation rite navigated by flashlight — as well as a seance show and a freak show at night, and a trick-or-treat trail, hay…
Picture.Me.Here is a digital storytelling exhibit for refugees from the Mercy Housing/ Grace Apartments in Aurora. A year ago, Brigid McAuliffe, Erin Preston and Lauren Dorn, digital storytelling professionals, sat in a Bhutanese woman’s apartment, drinking amazing tea and teaching that woman and other refuges how to handle hand-me-down cameras…
Federal employees furloughed by the government shutdown are getting a welcome break right now from a few companies in the Denver-area who are sympathetic to their plight. These are in the form of everything from free museum admission to discounted booze and food. Here’s the breakdown: See also: The best…
