October brings many things: seasonally-spiced hot beverages, the social acceptability of wearing a Halloween costume everywhere, activities that move indoors. And there’s plenty to do this week inside, from getting a start on spookiness with a French horror film to visiting the Children’s Museum for free to catching a presentation…
As much an icon of African-American comedy as Richard Pryor or Eddie Murphy, Keenen Ivory Wayans pioneered a new style of televised sketch comedy with In Living Color, introducing mainstream Americans to the stylish humor of early ’90s black culture. The show also launched the careers of Jim Carrey, Jennifer…
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…
As a wedding photographer and hair and makeup specialist, Jewels Gray was tired of seeing the same old routine play out in the wedding industry. But it wasn’t just the traditional wedding themes that bored her; it was what she saw as the “Mason jar” wedding. “One of the things…
We know who you are. You will let a total stranger touch them. You can tolerate a little pain if it makes them look sexy. You’ll take them any way you can get them: pointed, flat, two-tone or thigh-high. Clearly you have a problem — but the first step is…
With two Halloween events, three filthy shows and three comedy contests, October humor is shaping up to be scary, sexy and heavily competitive. After a summer of record-breaking comedy festivals, you can fall into the autumnal weather with some bone-chilling monologues of creepy copulation with Bob Saget and Competitive Erotic…
The Grawlix dudes are back! The Denver comedy trio has been out doing big things on the national stage lately, but tonight, Adam Cayton Holland, Ben Roy and Andrew Orvedahl bring their ridiculous monthly show back to the Denver — and for a bargain price. If comedy is not your…
This weekend, Breaking Bad comes to an end. No more Walter White. No more Heisenberg. No more Jesse, Saul or Todd. No more of television’s best drama. That’s going to leave a gaping hole in fans’ hearts, but one lucky — and wealthy — superfan has the opportunity to own…
When Taylor Boylston was working on setting up the next art show for her backyard gallery, The Inca House, she went straight for her favorite artists. “I just had an idea and sent an e-mail and now we’re having a Daniel Johnston,” says Boylston straightforwardly. But the exhibition comes with…
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…
Aly Barohn landed in Denver this summer after living in many cities across the country. And everywhere she’s been, she’s collected pieces of vintage clothing that she would then sell on-line. But now, after five years of running a virtual shop, she finally has a brick-and-mortar location — right above…
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…
Apple-picking is the quintessential way to celebrate the coming of fall. The chilly mornings and sun-filled days make this a perfect time for a stroll, whether around your neighborhood or through your favorite apple orchard. Here, in no particular order, are our five favorite you-pick-it orchards. See also: Boulder Farmers…
Fanboys (and girls!), start your engines — Joss Whedon is back on TV, and this time he brought the Marvel Universe with him. Hot off the massive success of The Avengers, Whedon has taken the helm of its spinoff series, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. The show launches him once more into…
Written, produced, directed, and edited by Rena Riffel, who also reprises her role as Penny from the original Showgirls, Showgirls 2: Penny’s From Heaven has been available on VOD for at least a year, but is now being released on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing, thus conferring onto it the…
For nearly a century, Western art was dismissed in favor of international modernism. But then a funny thing happened: In the late twentieth century, the market for Western-themed paintings and sculptures soared, forcing institutions like the Denver Art Museum to scramble to catch up as prices skyrocketed. (This is why…
Al Wynne. As many know, the Black Forest home and studio shared for more than sixty years by the late Al Wynne and his widow, Lou Wynne, was utterly destroyed by fire this summer. The conflagration took some 400 works by Al in the form of watercolors and drawings, constituting…
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…
James Gandolfini’s charisma wasn’t something turned on at will, but rather a vibe that radiated from deep within: It’s in the timbre of his voice, his rolling carriage, the way he’s always just one flirtatious millisecond behind the beat. Part of what Gandolfini does in Nicole Holofcener’s Enough Said is…
To paraphrase the Bee Gees, Joseph Gordon-Levitt should be dancing. He’s already done it in (500) Days of Summer, where he led an exuberant ensemble routine that out-Dr Peppered any Dr Pepper commercial. Then there was his smashing Saturday Night Live re-creation of Donald O’Connor’s “Make ‘Em Laugh” — like…
It was 1976, a year when all the groovy girls were traipsing around in tiny suede skirts and all the cool guys had Badfinger hair. One of those guys was English racing driver James Hunt, the charismatic rapscallion who won that year’s Formula One World Championship. (The embroidered badge on…
You wouldn’t expect this production of The Full Monty at a dinner theater — not so much because of the script, but because of the daring with which it’s staged. Places like Boulder’s Dinner Theater are kept alive in large part by church groups and Rotary-type clubs, and they need…
