Anyone who’s familiar with the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby with Robert Redford should recognize the scenes and shots from trailers for the 2013 version, which opens Friday with Leonardo DiCaprio. Here, in animated GIFs, are shot-by-shot comparisons from the 1974 version and the 2013 version — which will…
Less than four months after it opened inside Loveland’s Suede Events Center, Wildflower Cabaret was forced to pack up its programming after a falling-out with the owner of the space. Wildflower founders John Seaberry and Sky Cash walked away with heavy hearts and a serious financial loss. But the couple…
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…
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…
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…
The dancers at Wonderbound — the company formerly known as Ballet Nouveau Colorado — are breathtakingly talented, as anyone who’s seen one of their shows can attest. But dancing is just one facet of their skill. Several of the Wonderbound dancers are also interested in choreography, and the upcoming Industrial…
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.
As members of Burning Man’s Fire Arts Safety Team, DaveX and Eric Smith are combined experts in the fields of pyrotechics and flame effects. Together, Smith, chief inspector for the state of Nevada LP-Gas Board, and DaveX, licensed California pyrotechnic operator, saw a need for safety education in the design…
“Normally, whenever I’m doing a show, I like to find out what people do for a living. Should there be a zombie apocalypse — which there will be — I want to find out if their skills are applicable,” comedian Chris Hardwick told his Comedy Works audience last night after…
No need to fear a future full of talking machines that are smarter than humans — that future is already here. Local company Gamma Two Robotics specializes in artificial intelligence, and you can explore its world of wonders at a free open house tonight. But if wandering a room full…
Namaste Salons is collaborating with Western Resource Advocates to deliver Earth, Wind and Hair, a one-of-a-kind fashion-slash-hair show, benefit and bash tomorrow night that’ll blow you out of your seat with more force than one of those new Bio-Ionic hair dryers. See also: – Photos: Rock & Runway combines sound…
Ray Tollison and his twin twelve-year-olds, Ben and Sam, are men who make monsters. That’s right: Together, the handy trio created their own monster-making company, A Monster to Love. They stitch together each adorable stuffed creature by hand, and the twin theme carries over into the charitable side of the…
At this point, the zombie genre has seen it all. Fast zombies. Slow zombies. Smart zombies and stupid zombies. Zombie love stories. Animated zombies. Hell, there’s even a zombie musical or two. But just when you think there’s nothing new under the undead sun, someone finds a fresh twist on…
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,…
The idea for The Body Electric Poetry Film Festival began when poet and filmmaker R.W. Perkins realized he was the guy who could make it happen. “I’m a video poet and had a lot of success with my stuff overseas — I was noticing a lot of really talented filmmakers…
#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…
Art critic Michael Paglia visits Plus Gallery and Spark Gallery in this week’s Westword, taking in works by four artists. The large show at Plus focuses on Colin Livingston and his dynamic brand of conceptual art, while Spark features three separate shows by Roland Bernier, Sue Simon and Madeleine Dodge…
Good things sometimes come in small packages, and that’s certainly the case with Westword MasterMind Johnny Morehouse’s long-running Five Minute Film Fest, a showcase of short shorts that pack a lot of punch in five minutes or less. Its latest incarnation has found a home at Deer Pile, and because…
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…
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…
Though conceptual art has been kicking around for a hundred years, it really didn’t resonate with more than a handful of artists until the rise of pop art in the second half of the twentieth century. Now, in the twenty-first, conceptual art is one of the main courses in the…
Over the course of its first sixty minutes, Ken Loach’s The Angels’ Share proves a testament to its director’s enduring reputation as a master of British cinema and the social-realist form, articulating the frustrations of Glasgow’s working class with clarity and sophistication. Robbie (non-actor Paul Brannigan) is a brash ne’er-do-well…
