Praise the Lord! When the national tour of The Book of Mormon comes back to the Buell Theatre tomorrow for a three-week run that continues until November 24, it will bring back the ticket lottery that was so popular the first time around. A limited number of tickets for each…
The zombie craze is here to stay, and that seems doubly true in Denver, where the annual Zombie Crawl turns downtown into a freakin’ bloody mess of creeps and crawlers dropping body parts everywhere, as they did this past Saturday. As these photos by Westword’s Aaron Thackeray prove, Denver zombies…
Looking for something to do before the full-on costumed hysteria known as Halloween sets in? We’ve rounded up three free events this week — a psychic-friendly get-together, a fiber artist’s dream expo and one semi-spooky production — that will cost you nothing to get through the door, but pay off…
After a month’s delay and a location change to the JW Marriott because of weather, Cherry Creek North finally delivered “Celebrate Fashion,” a winning show that benefited the Denver Health Foundation. On Friday night, the ballroom was packed with loyal shoppers and dignitaries who cheered for their favorite retailers –…
Denver is celebrating 25 years of the city’s public art program with Beyond Blue, an exhibition running through December 22 in the lobbies of the Buell Theatre and the McNichols Civic Center Building, where it held an opening reception on October 17. Many of the 46 artists who created the…
The leaves tremble on the trees, knowing they, too soon, have to fall to the earth. Trembling is appropriate these days. It’s October, and the leaves know what comes up from the ground in October. Ghouls, ghasts, wights and other wickeds rise with the night and inhabit the dark corners…
Halloween is less than two weeks away, and the Mile High City is already in the mood for spooky celebrations. From not-so-scary haunted train rides to pumpkin-carving contests, bouncy castles, skydiving demonstrations and, of course, a whole lot of candy, we’ve rounded up some great family-friendly events happening this month…
What happens when you ask a couple of Colorado mountain kids from Carbondale to redesign a classic sneaker in collaboration with California sneaker shoe retailer Bait and shoe company Ontisuka Tiger? You get a limited release pair of retro kicks appropriately branded Colorado 85 “6,200FT.” We connected with Patrick Liberty,…
Yes, zombies are taking over Denver this weekend — but you don’t have to be undead to have a lively time. If getting gory isn’t your thing, you can enjoy improv, wheel into a giant bicycle show, and start shopping for the holidays. There’s plenty to do — and many…
There are a lot of zombie events in Denver this month, but the lineup on Saturday, October 19, takes the cake. If there’s a single day to celebrate your love of the living dead, this is the one. From morning to late at night, there’s something undead happening pretty much…
Celebrate Fashion, the show at the JW Marriott tonight, celebrates the retailers of Cherry Creek North, all of which will bring something different to the runway. SOL, located at 248 Detroit Street, will show off something not often featured at traditional fashion shows: lingerie. (SOL is short for Store of…
Rained out of its original outdoor venue and date last month, Cherry Creek North’s Celebrate Fashion is finally on for tonight — indoors — at the JW Marriott in Cherry Creek. The show will feature fourteen boutiques, each presenting fall adult and children’s collections available in Cherry Creek North. The…
While Colorado has more than its fair share of mountain-centric film festivals, Telluride Mountainfilm stands out for its diversity. Some of the biggest awards at this year’s edition of the 34-year-old conclave went to films with little to no connection to the mountains, including best cinematography winner Dirty Wars, which…
“You say boogie, I say bogey,” says Eric Matelski, in response to questions about the pronunciation of the ‘bogeyman’ element of the Bogeyman Group Art Show now up at MacSpa. Inspired by the fact that his family treated Halloween like Christmas in his youth, and in honor of Denver’s multi-cultural…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson disagree on Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave — a beautifully shot film, contrasting the all-too-visible evil of mankind…
Michael Paglia visits Z Art Department in this week’s review, taking in a solo show featuring work by the late Al Wynne. Wynne was a large part of the mid-century modern art scene in Colorado, but a majority of his life’s work was destroyed in a forest fire last summer…
When Nan Desu Kan staff member Becca Cressler collapsed on stage during the Cosplay contest at this year’s anime convention, everyone in the building stepped in to help. After two grand mal seizures and an extended hospital stay, the uninsured Cressler was left with mounting medical bills — but again,…
Conventions — or cons, in nerd speak — are one of the best things about being a geek. A con is like a rock concert, a film festival and a super store all rolled into one. Only for nerds: Hundreds or thousands or even tens of thousands of us gather…
After six grueling months of weekly competition that whittled 140 comics down to one, the 2013 Comedy Works New Faces Competition has a winner in Jordan Doll. He’d delivered heavily talked-about performances at UMS and High Plains, and there had been a lot of hype in the comedy scene that…
Joan Dickinson blurs genres to create works that span the mediums of drawing, literature, film and performance. The current artist in residence at PlatteForum, she will display genre-bending work inspired by the astrological and paranormal there at a show that opens today; she’s been working with students from the West…
Oakland-based artist Desirée Holman is admittedly a bit of a geek when it comes to otherworldly things, from auras to aliens, and that’s the subject matter she taps visually in her ongoing project, Sophont. Begun in 2012, Sophont is a multimedia mixture of light, video, sound and physical paintings that…
Being a sensible person, you’ve probably taken a liking to Benedict Cumberbatch, the actor, Dickensian beanpole and banana-fana name-game destroyer who has lately played everyone literate geeks adore: Sherlock, Smaug, Khan. And, as a sensible person, you probably were curious — even heartened — to hear that Cumberbatch would be…
