A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a group of like-minded people came together to celebrate their two favorite things: literacy and Star Wars. And, like the movie series, their celebration lives on…and on. The second annual Star Wars Reads Day, an intergalactic holiday marked across the…
What’s an unconference? Basically, it’s by the people and for the people, a model that works just fine for this weekend’s SpaceUp Denver, which brings together regular folks with a shared interest in the mysteries of outer space during World Space Week. “SpaceUp is a template for a conference used…
Taking a fresh approach to a familiar story, Rocky Mountain Deaf Theatre co-director Nicki Runge has adapted Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest into a conceptual, viewer-engrossing production. With a majority of the troupe’s actors being deaf and signing their dialogue (while others either sign and speak or…
Halloween is still weeks away, but this weekend’s Mile High Horror Film Festival has enough cannibals, zombies and demons to keep you good and terrified until it’s time to bust out that slutty pumpkin costume and beg for candy. With a full slate of new, independent horror films complemented by…
“Our family philosophy is don’t get mad, get funny,” says Keenen Ivory Wayans, co-founder and host of In Living Color, the ’90s sketch-comedy show that brought the styles and rhythms of black culture into the homes of mainstream America; the program also introduced the world to Jim Carrey, Jennifer Lopez…
For years, the University of Colorado at Boulder’s First Person Cinema series has quietly presented work by some of the best experimental filmmakers in the nation, and this time out is no different. The first of the season’s single-filmmaker showcases focuses on New York-based media artist Denise Iris, who works…
Even if you’re not a gardener, you can appreciate the genius of the Drunken Botanist (aka Amy Stewart), whose book The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World’s Great Drinks landed on the New York Times bestseller list. “She’s incredibly engaging and quite entertaining,” says Sarah Olson, adult programs…
The Great American Beer Festival, which takes place annually in Denver, is the biggest and best sudstravaganza in the world. This year, the sold-out fiesta runs October 10-12 and features 626 breweries pouring an astounding 3,159 beers. But GABF is just the start. Beginning this weekend and continuing through next…
Now in its tenth year, Denver’s Indigenous Film & Arts Festival continues to present a native- and third-world view through enlightening film screenings and other events. The multi-location, multicultural fest, this year themed “Connections,” begins to unreel tonight at 7 p.m. with a free screening of global shorts, a Q&A…
The ghost of Julius Rosenberg floats high above and around Amy Herzog’s drama After the Revolution, the story of a devoutly Marxist East Coast family clinging to the memory of patriarch Joe Joseph, a blacklisted American Red whose refusal to name names in a McCarthy-esque era continues to inspire the…
Just because nearly every classic film of note is available on disc or via streaming doesn’t mean that’s the best way to see it. There’s something electrifying about sitting in a darkened room with a few dozen appreciative fans while the action unfolds on a seventy-foot-wide screen. Denver film aficionados…
Michael Paglia visits Emmanuel Gallery and Gildar Gallery in this week’s review, taking in two shows rooted in conceptual process and neo-modernism. The show at Emmanuel focuses on the conceptual art of Adam Milner, while the show at Gildar displays neo-modern abstract paintings from duo Hollis + Lana. Continue reading…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, the Village Voice’s Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek both praise Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity (starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock), saying the director exhibits a “lovely human touch” with film, which is set in space, and that it’s “so different than anything else he’s…
Street fashion can pull inspiration from a variety of sources. This is especially true for womenswear, because ladies have more fashion options — as shown by Ashley Warmington, the Volkswagen saleswomen we recently spotted stylishly stepping out to see Muse at the Pepsi Center. Read on to learn where she…
College is expensive — we all know that — but we also know there’s an exception to every rule. And this exception is indeed exceptional: The University of Colorado Denver, in association with the Anschutz Medical Campus Graduate School, will be hosting a Mini School for the Humanities today through…
The Denver Roller Dolls have had a big year in 2013 — the league’s all-star Mile High Club won the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s Division 1 Playoffs earlier this month and is headed to the WFTDA Championships next month in Wisconsin as a top-seeded team — but the Dolls’…
Nancy Stohlman can do it all. She can create new genres of literature, write operas and teach you how to do both. Someday she hopes to become a pirate, but in the meantime her new flash novel The Monster Opera will be transformed into an opera on Friday, October 4…
World-renowned choreographer Karole Armitage is recognized for bringing non-traditional elements to the stage with her radical modern dance pieces. The performance tonight at Macky Auditorium will be no exception, as the dancer and her company, Armitage Gone! Dance, present Fables on Global Warming. Using costumes, puppetry in the traditions of…
When Jim Mickle took on the task of remaking Jorge Michael Grau’s We Are What We Are for American audiences, the last thing he wanted to do was film a strict remake. So his version of the cannibal-family drama ditches the urban setting and most of the plot points for…
For this year’s Now Showing, Westword’s fall arts guide (you’ll find it tucked into our September 26 issue), 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…
Adam Milner wants you to spend the night with him. He wants to take your picture. He wants to record Internet chats with you and, more important, he wants to talk to you. Milner’s latest show, Wave So I Know You’re Real, is now on display at the Emmanuel Gallery…
Justice Kwesi Kwarteng is smartly dressed and educated. Perhaps most important, the founder and creative director of Colorado Fashion Week, which starts today, has a quiet disposition. And that’s good, because with multiple events happening this week, the entity he created can become quite chaotic. See also:Colorado Fashion Week behind…
