The 2013 Best of Denver issue is on stands now, and in its 196 pages you’ll find Westword’s picks for the best people, places and services in Denver. Along the way, though, we asked you, our readers, to nominate and then vote for your favorites online, on paper ballots and…
Women’s wear is often defined by femininity — dresses, skirts and timeless silhouettes that complement the female form. This makes it rare to encounter people who challenge these standards by adapting pieces of men’s wear into women’s wear. But we recently spotted Samantha Kill, a Brookstone manager and Colorado Film…
With her blog Violet Against Women, Los Angeles-based artist Ellina Kevorkian explores how she informs and presents her own identity through online curation. Kevorkian, who was commissioned by MCA Denver to expound upon Violet Against Women: Confronting Notions of the Feminine, a collection of live performances that she presented in…
In just a few days, The Walking Dead will close up shop for another season. The finale airs March 31, and whether you’re watching at home alone or attending one of the watching parties (like Not Quite Dead Sundays at Jake’s Food and Spirits), it will be the last last…
For fifty years, fans of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, an ecstatic recount of crossings and recrossings of North America in the late 1940s that provided a road map for the Beat generation, have been waiting for a movie of the book. Fans in Denver have a particularly interest: Muse…
When we think of photography and American Indians today, the first images that come to mind — ironically and invariably — are the famous, early twentieth-century photogravure portraits by ethnologist Edward S. Curtis. A century later, Navajo photographer and installation artist Will Wilson decided it was time to update the…
At first, it’s unnerving just how much writer-director Derek Cianfrance sounds like Dan, the character he wrote in Blue Valentine, as played by Ryan Gosling. It’s a sign of the close synergy between director and actor that marks his approach to films like his latest, The Place Beyond the Pines…
Last night, during the grand opening of Colorado’s first Alamo Drafthouse movie theater, Pam Grier got personal with an audience of cinephile strangers. Grier, a Denver native, is a funny and engaging public speaker who spoke freely on a wide array of topics, ranging from moving accounts of her personal struggles and tragic early victimhood as well as lighter subjects like shooting women-in-prison exploitation films in the Philippines and famous exes such as Kareem Abdul-Jabar and Richard Pryor. Host Devin Faraci of Badass Digest guided the evening, screening clips and trailers from highlights in Grier’s filmography.
Before I explain why last weekend’s Treefort Music Fest was amazing, I have to say that I hate big/corporate/non-DIY music festivals. Most of those events are just a bloated excuse for bloggers, record-label people and other industry assholes like myself to get drunk in public for days on end, while…
Last Friday, the news broke that one-time tween-dream Fred Savage will direct Charlize Theron in the upcoming female buddy-pic Ladies Night. The film is being described as Bridesmaids-esque, which means it will most likely be another mildly funny, wholly predictable rom-com attempt at proving that women can be just as…
#81: Terri Bell Terri Bell has been busy in 2013, changing hats constantly as an artist, photographer, curator and gallerist. But that’s all part of being Terri Bell, whose middle name could easily be “Industry.” This month alone, she’s participated in Month of Photography 2013 in just about every way…
When the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema’s Tough Guy Cinema presentation of RoboCop hits on Monday, April 8 fans of the film are in for a treat. Not only do they get to see the finest dystopian sci-fi action film ever made on the big screen — complete with live, in-theater pyrotechnics!…
Space might be the place, but earth is home, sweet, home. And for that reason, tonight’s installment of Deer Pile’s monthly space-nerd evening, Space in Your Face, will turn its telescope on the place where we live, approaching the planet from a dizzying variety of angles, both scientific and out-of-this-world…
This weekend was filled with snow, which meant the few people who were out and about bundled up. Now the time has come for some to commence their work weeks and others to take off on spring break. During these white-washed early days of spring, we spotted Daniel Barrett, a…
It’s fair to say that the fans who stuck it out at Friday night’s FIFA World Cup qualifier match at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park were the diehard variety. During the game between the U.S. men’s soccer team and Costa Rica, Mother Nature covered the field in layer upon layer of…
Endless runners — if you’ve played Temple Run or Jetpack Joyride, you know the routine: Collect coins, jump over stuff, die, rinse and repeat. Jones on Fire, made by Denver-based developer Glass Bottom Games for iOS and Android, is a little different. Its low-fi graphics and little blocky kittens scream…
In our preview of the Concoctory’s impending arrival, owner Mar Wiiams described the new South Broadway shop as, “a fusion of electronics and arts,” and our visit to its grand opening cemented that sentiment with a fun and friendly DIY experience. Photographer Danielle Lirette stopped by the new spot and…
I’m among the petulant grumblers about super-popular movies getting prequels, gaining sequels and being retrofitted to appeal to current fans while grabbing up new fans with sexy, glammy, glitzy things like turbo-hottie actors and actresses and the expensive magic of CGI. But I grumble because I care, and over my…
Shake off your cabin fever by going out on the town this week — without spending a dime! For starters, you can tiptoe through the tulips at a Denver Botanic Gardens free day, try your luck at draq-queen bingo, or watch Hobo With a Shotgun. For more reasons to get…
Late last week, the Denver Art Museum let the crazy dancers out of the bag: The DAM announced that fifteen out of 120 hopefuls who auditioned for artist Nick Cave last month will perform in Cave’s fantastical Soundsuits in June, alongside dancers from local professional troupes. See also: – Dancin’…
It’s not time for the Denver County Fair quite yet — that won’t happen until August 9-11 — but it’s time to start getting excited about it. To help you with your immediate pie cravings and future funnel-cake dreams, we present this year’s Denver County Fair poster, the third in…
The idea behind the Concoctory Creativity Shoppe was simple: to give people a place to tinker and create without being intimidated by the world of electronics. The venture will debut this Saturday, March 23 in a joint South Broadway Grand Opening Block Party with a new coffee shop, Cafe Crescendo,…
