Repertory Cinema Wishlist: O Lucky Man!

Forty years after it was made, viewers are still split over Lindsay Anderson’s 1973 picaresque O Lucky Man!, the second of three films the British satirist made with Malcolm McDowell, who’d already garnered recognition for handling a difficult role as the sociopathic hooligan Alex in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange…

Benjamin Percy’s Red Moon elevates werewolves to literature

With Red Moon, noted author Benjamin Percy dives into genre fiction with a story about werewolves that live among us, feared and reviled and relegated to the fringes of society. The book fuses literary muscle to a skeleton of horror to create a rare breed of werewolf novel that offers…

3 things to do for free in Denver this week, May 6-9

Experience jaw-dropping emotions without dropping a dime this week. From learning to be a more productive worker and eating free pastries at Denver Coworking Week events to appreciating art and delving into nature at PlatteForum’s newest art offering to terrifying yourself at a screening of the original Texas Chain Saw…

Westword Book Club: Brandi Shigley focuses on the essential and eliminates the rest

This week, Westword asked fashionista Brandi Shigley about her favorite books. The interview was fittingly conducted in front of an adorable lofted book shelf, which Shigley refers to as her treehouse, at Fashion Denver, her combination boutique, studio, consulting office, and mini roller-skating rink. After years of a Sisyphean effort to bring boutique fashion to Denver’s polar-fleece-clad hordes, Shigley has sharpened her focus on helping others accomplish their goals in her Do What You Love seminars.

The five best Kentucky Derby parties in Denver

You’ve picked your horse, you’ve dusted off your largest hat, and you’re ready for your annual guzzling of mint juleps — but if Churchill Downs isn’t in your weekend travel plans, where shall you go? Westword has compiled a list of the best derby-themed parties taking place in parking lots,…

100 Colorado Creatives: Norman Broomhall and Jean Albus

#73: Norman Broomhall and Jean Albus Norman Broomhall raises chickens, sells vintage objects and mirrors antiqued by hand, plays the guitar and takes photographs; Jean Albus is a photographer, as well. Both are inspired by the call of nature and, together, they’ve created Into the Within, an installation that’s been…

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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…

Looking back at Shane Black

Iron Man 3 opens this week. For some viewers, the film’s appeal isn’t the eponymous superhero, but the sarcastic-yet-sensitive hero behind the gravity-defying, repulsor-ray-shooting suit of armor. I refer, of course, to Shane Black. Iron Man 3’s co-writer–director recharged the buddy-cop flick in the ’80s with his screenplay for Lethal…