When Pesha Rudnick’s Casey Middle School class learned that CBS had named Boulder the happiest city in America, the students were very surprised. So with the guidance of playwright-in-residence Rudnick and language arts teacher Val Wheeler, the eighth-graders used Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town, as well as the CBS statistic,…
In just its second year, Denver Comic Con is poised to take the pole position among the region’s many fandom conventions. Sporting a stellar lineup of geek-culture icons, including Wil Wheaton, George Takei, Colin Baker, Chris Ware and last-minute guest William Shatner, as well as hundreds of panels, cosplay, an…
Update: Congrats to JamesB7! Check your email with details on how to claim your prize. Original post: Have you seen the lineup for Comedy Works this summer? The schedule includes Drew Carey, Jim Belushi, Dave Attell, our own Josh Blue and more big names than we’re going to list inside…
Michael Paglia visits the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Arts and Goodwin Fine Art in this week’s review, taking in work by two different artists. The show at the Kirkland Museum contains works by Phyllis Hutchinson Montrose while the exhibit at Goodwin Fine Art focuses on pieces from Monique…
#65: Amber Cobb We asked artist Amber Cobb to answer the 100CC questionnaire as a tie-in to a couple of shows the Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design instructor and current RedLine resident has coming up this weekend, but she was a little late getting back to us with…
Coworking spaces are hot right now. Denver has a network of such spaces, places with names like Creative Density and The Desk. These are converted houses or rehabbed industrial buildings that offer shared workspace to entrepreneurs, nonprofits and startups. Members work side-by-side in a cubicle-free environment, sharing office equipment, food…
When Film on the Rocks announced its 2013 summer line-up and The Big Lebowski was nowhere to be found for the second year in a row, fans were upset. But the Denver Film Society has saved the best for last: The non-profit announced last night at the season opener of…
Despite the many stylistic revolutions of the last century, the old hidebound pursuit of the depiction of external reality has persisted. In some cases, the rendering of external reality is conservative, as in neo-traditionalism, which occupies its own world. In others, it’s employed in what used to be called vanguard…
Ania Gola-Kumor. One of Colorado’s greatest abstract painters is the star of Ania Gola-Kumor: Moving Paint, at Sandra Phillips Gallery. These large oil paintings, along with small works on paper that were done in oil stick and oil bar, represent both a continuation of Gola-Kumor’s longstanding interests and a new…
God of Carnage. Let’s start with the setting, so pristine, white, minimal and tasteful — chairs with gracefully curving legs, a glass table on which art books are meticulously arranged, a vase of white tulips, nicely grouped, with just one flower swaying slightly out to the side. Even if you…
Jean-Luc Godard said, “All you need for a movie is a girl and a gun.” But really, all you need is a girl, preferably a charismatic one with a secret in her heart. Director and actress Sarah Polley has found that girl: her own mother. Polley’s documentary, Stories We Tell,…
At last! A documentary about that underexposed group: the 1 percenters in their lair. In Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf’s, the storied store is presented in cinematic terms as ex-screenwriter Matthew Miele watches decorator David Hoey madly creating window displays of phantasmagorical “installation art” that moves. The film’s climax is…
“Least you got to see a motherfucker crucify himself,” Richard Pryor spits in the most surprising footage director Marina Zenovich has unearthed for her new documentary Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic. The scene is of Pryor’s last great cock-up, just before his last, great comeback. Pacing restlessly before a Hollywood…
The surprise twist in the new M. Night Shyamalan film is that the film is directed by M. Night Shyamalan, a fact that the movie—like the posters and commercials—won’t admit until after you’ve already sat through it. While at heart a Pinkett-Smith family bonding project, the kind of sci-fi play…
Wait, you didn’t know that After Earth, the Will Smith–Jaden Smith sci-fi adventure hitting theaters this weekend, is the latest from Shyamalan, he of The Sixth Sense fame and Lady in the Water infamy? Columbia Pictures has done everything in its power, in both trailers and print and TV advertisements,…
After completing five months of principal photography on The Avengers, Joss Whedon flew back to Los Angeles and threw himself a welcome-home party. As the guests circled his pool, he asked friends like Firefly’s Nathan Fillion, Angel’s Amy Acker, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s Alexis Denisof if they were busy…
Sex stories are almost always funny. But what if the sensual yarn involves characters from The Facts of Life, or Jeopardy — can that be funny? The brain behind Nerdist Theater’s Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction comedy show thinks so. “It’s just a good subject to make an audience uncomfortable,” says…
The social upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s were fueled by a potent blend of sex, drugs and rock and roll, but only a few select groups elevated that combination to a religion. The Source Family, a documentary directed by Maria Demopoulos, reveals one such group and spotlights one of…
Once summer is no longer marked by the end of the school year, what’s a grownup to do? Tonight’s Summer Camp With Adult Drinks at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver aims to answer that by inviting guests to unwind on the museum’s rooftop deck with hand-crafted cocktails, live music,…
Nerds aren’t known for their extroversion and spontaneous wit, but over this Comic Con weekend, Impulse Theater will cast of spell of dork dominion over its monthly improv show, bringing in two stars from the gamer-comedy web series The Guild to perform some insider humor for the Orcs, Ewoks and…
Now that food trucks have become a permanent part of the landscape, are you ready for rolling boutiques? Denver is popping up with more than one of these retailers on wheels this summer, including Brick & Mortar General Store, the design-savvy entrepreneurial venture of business partners Tran Wills and Allison…
While some may prefer the fantasy, sci-fi or superhero aspects of Denver Comic Con, which wraps up today, you can’t totally geek out without a bit of blood-bursting horror. “I tend to think that comic-book and horror fans are often one and the same,” says horror comic artist Dan Crosier…
