For its fourth fun and foot-cramping year, the Running of the Gays returns with a three-block “marathon” open to anyone brave enough to don heels for the cause. A benefit for Art From Ashes, an organization that empowers youth through poetry workshops, the Running of the Gays is a collaboration…
You won’t need to raise money with Walter White-style drug-manufacturing in order to have fun in Denver this weekend. From a celebration of the gritty meth drama Breaking Bad (and a TV show-inspired art show) to a public art tour to the third annual Denver County Fair, there’s a lot…
The final eight episodes of Breaking Bad will begin Sunday. Over the course of five seasons, the series has established itself not just as one of the best shows now on TV, but as one of the best ever — maybe the best ever. On the eve of this final…
Germinal Stage Denver is leaving the building: Late last year, Germinal Stage founder Ed Baierlein announced that after 26 years in the now-crumbling north Denver theater at 44th and Alcott, he was selling the property and the forty-year-old company would vacate the space after one last golden season. See also:…
Civic Center Eats will sport a very tasty addition today: DPL Connect, a tricked-out trike that peddles (and pedals) a collection of free books (tomes being purged from the collection) and also serves up a wi-fi hot spot. The book bike made its debut yesterday on the Garden Block of…
For ten years, The Room has been confounding and entertaining audiences. The film’s strange blend of inept performance, oblique writing and haphazard direction has earned it an ever-growing cult audience that can’t get enough of the movie’s unique charms. Sure, by most standards it a “bad” film, even a terrible…
Next stop, Alameda. Scott Donahue says he designed “Hand Up” to express ideas about history and multi-cultural issues. He recently took a few minutes to talk about this sculpture that enlivens the Alameda light-rail station. See also: – RTD art: Brian Swanson’s chess pieces at the 16th and Stout streets…
As part of a collaborative group of filmmakers working hard under the name No Coast Artists, Andrew Schneider sees the world of cinema as a place where movies are art made by and for everyone. When the Fort Collins-based group set out to create its first major film production, Whensday,…
Welcome to a new column called Geek Speak, in which we take on an aspect of geek culture each week. There is nothing quite like The Room. It’s one of a handful of movies considered “the worst movie ever” that has somehow managed to find an enduring audience. For those…
#54: Laura Shill Laura Shill calls her work “a collision of collecting, costuming, performance, installation and photography,” and as you might expect, it’s always intriguing: The many-faceted artist, currently a studio resident at RedLine, is known of late for labor-intensive stuffed fiber installations that envelope and shelter the viewer with…
If you thought the fall was prime time in the art world, think again. This summer has seen an unprecedented exhibition season in the Denver area, and, as might be expected, the big players are predominating. None is bigger than the Denver Art Museum, currently featuring the third in a…
Catalyst. The beautiful grounds of the Denver Botanic Gardens are the ideal place to mount an outdoor sculpture show, and over the past few years, there has been one such presentation after another. This year, the theme is contemporary sculptors in Colorado. The pieces are picturesquely sited throughout in clearings…
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). The Colorado Shakespeare Festival staged a pretty good version of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)five years ago, so we’re not sure why the CSF decided to bring it back this season. The show, written in 1987 by Adam Long, Daniel Singer…
There are twists aplenty but few surprises in Wasteland, a warmhearted but routine heist drama from first-time writer-director Rowan Athale. After serving time for crimes he didn’t commit, 22-year-old Harvey (Luke Treadaway, terrific) returns to his Yorkshire, England, home town intent on revenge against Roper (Neil Maskell), the neighborhood drug…
When David Gordon Green introduced Paul Rudd to Emile Hirsch, the two actors didn’t click. It was an awkward seafood dinner. “Emile just started talking about something — girls, maybe — and I was doing a piss-poor job of trying to follow along,” recalls Rudd. “And when Emile got up…
Movie stars shouldn’t be subject to the rules of gravity, as we mere mortals are. One of the great pleasures of watching actors is to see them move, and when yesterday’s youngsters start creaking, we feel it in our joints. That’s not to say actors can’t age gracefully, or that…
If there’s one nuance mainstream comedies have yet to learn, it’s that “empathetic” need not mean “likable” — audiences can feel for characters they don’t necessarily want to be. The hit black comedy Horrible Bosses, which had three angry underlings plotting murderous vengeance against their you-know-whats, should have been a…
The Phamaly production of Fiddler on the Roof did something miraculous: It made me forget all the hackneyed productions I’ve seen over the years and reminded me of how great the music is, how evocative the story. “Sabbath Prayer” brought an image of my mother — now long gone —…
“Poets used to be national heroes,” says Charly Fasano. Somewhere along the way, though, their art form became elitist and institutionalized. In an attempt to bring accessibility back, Fasano is releasing Not Good With Names, a poetry-based combination of illustrations, written word and audio published by Fast Geek Press. The…
Started in 2004 as an open-mic night, Cafe Cultura is now a full-fledged nonprofit, and the Art in the Park monthly summer series is just one of many events the youth-oriented organization puts on each year. Tonight’s installment includes an open mic for the community, along with performances from national…
Merry Widow’s Artisan Operetta is so named because each show draws its theme from a different artist. “I started out doing really classical burlesque, so originally it was pre-1960s artists,” says Tamara Pidhayny (aka Merry Widow). But then she started branching out, incor-porating more modern inspiration — all of which,…
For ten years, The Room has been confounding and entertaining audiences. The film’s strange blend of inept performance, oblique writing and haphazard direction has earned it an ever-growing cult audience that can’t get enough of its unique charms. By most standards, it’s a “bad” film, even a terrible one, but…
