Prom is an important part of teenage life — and also a costly one. Saturday’s Prom Dress Exchange, in the suite level inside Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, wants to change that. Headed up by Prom Dress Exchange coordinator Laura Bauer, a handful of volunteer seamstresses and helpers will organize hundreds…
The studio community at Wazee Union, peopled by artists and creatives of all kinds, shows off its diversity to the rest of the world on Second Saturdays — often with fundraisers that showcase the building’s talented denizens. Unfortunately, last week’s Lucky Dog Art Show got snowed out — but it…
The Denver School of the Arts Jazz Workshop Orchestra is among the twelve top high school jazz bands in the country – and the only one in Colorado — chosen to participate in the eighth annual Swing Central Jazz Band Competition & Workshop in Savannah, Georgia. From March 27 through…
Grouper, which launches in Denver today, is the latest social networking site that aims to connect people with similar interests in a possibly romantic way. But Grouper founder and CEO Michael Waxman insists it’s not a traditional dating site; this “social club” tries to keep the Internet part of the…
The nineteenth annual Westword Music Showcase is coming up fast. If you’ve already snagged your tickets, good on you! Obviously you know what’s cracking, which is why we just know you’re going to jump on this like a fat guy on free pizza. Tomorrow through Sunday, you can get GA…
Valerie Savarie’s Me, Myself and You, which opens Friday, March 15, at Zip 37, is an exploration of the artist’s relationship to the viewer. For this participatory show, Savarie is asking gallery visitors to share their reactions to her work, good or bad, on postcards that she plans on mailing…
Comedy Central’s The Jeselnik Offensive ran its fourth episode Tuesday, characteristically taking on the politically sensitive news of the day with an irreverent send-up of Adam Strange, a recent victim of a shark attack in New Zealand. “Was he killed? You bet your sweet ass he was,” Jeselnik laughed. “And…
At The ABCs of Death, in its final night at the Sie FilmCenter, you’re going to get the equivalent of horror tapas — one short, punchy tale for each letter of the alphabet, each delivered by a current or rising star in the genre. It’s a tasty appetizer that can…
Dutch photograph-collage artist Sebastiaan Bremer joins the citywide Month of Photography tonight when two of his works are displayed at the Dikeou Pop-Up Space. The public display of Bremer’s images — brought to Denver by the Dikeou Collection — adds an exciting element to the month-long celebration of both local…
In the 1970s, when she was in her nineties, Georgia O’Keeffe was rediscovered in a big way, as images of her paintings became ubiquitous in reproductions on posters, greeting cards and prints. This was the result of the confluence of three independent factors. First, there was new interest in looking…
Art of the State. This juried effort at the Arvada Center has been attracting crowds, to say the least. The two-person jury comprised Collin Parson, Arvada’s exhibition manager and curator, and Dean Sobel, who, as director of the Clyfford Still Museum, is an art-world celebrity. Because of the curators’ stature,…
It doesn’t matter how many droopy sweaters you put Kirsten Dunst in — and in Upside Down, she wears quite a few — she always looks luminous, as if she’s just slid down to Earth on a sunbeam. Actually, that’s an image writer-director Juan Solanas could have run with in…
Steve Carell’s gift is for men who might drown in their own obliviousness. Like his Daily Show reporter, or The Office’s Michael Scott, his forty-year-old virgin lived in terror that someone might catch on to the fact that he knows nothing about subjects he purports to have mastered. When his…
Puberty is sex and sex is murder in Stoker, a Hitchcockian stew of hothouse familial jealousy, sadism and psychosis all tied together by one teenage girl’s homicidal coming of age. Psychosexual imagery permeates every inch of renowned South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s stateside debut. A blood-tipped pencil or water dripping…
With the regional premiere of The Brothers Size, Curious Theatre has given Denverites their first chance to experience the work of Tarell Alvin McCraney, an African-American writer barely out of his twenties who’s been hailed on both sides of the Atlantic as an important new voice in theater. McCraney grew…
The story of Bat Boy originated in the now-defunct Weekly World News tabloid, which announced that a scientist had found a creature that was half boy, half bat in a West Virginia cave. Many adventures followed: Bat Boy was captured for science experiments and escaped, captured by the FBI and…
Elisabeth Moss’s face is far from the only reason to savor Top of the Lake, Jane Campion’s smart, bracing, hugely enjoyable mystery rural noir Top of the Lake, which premieres on the Sundance Channel on Monday, March 18. But that pale-to-radiant instrument of hers — a mouth that suggests her…
Unlike many fledgling web series that use broad comedic strokes to up the laughs per second, faux-vlogging gem My Bastard Son combines the naturalistic acting of shows like The Office with absurd circumstances and very specific characters. The grainy, five-minute video shows James Urbaniak (American Splendor) trying to connect with…
Once upon a time in Chicago, Chris Buske attended a benefit that featured a caged artist creating a work in a single day. “At the end of the day, somebody bought the piece,” he recalls, and that’s what inspired Buske and the Denver Art Society to host Exposed: Observing Artists…
Fashion, art and fun will collide tonight when the Fake Fendi Social Bazaar takes over the Oriental Theater. This monthly dance party is all about breaking out of nightlife norms, with a marketplace — pop-up shops from design house UXU, pop artist Kasey Orr, accessory creators Broken Revolt and more…
There is only one true Irish step-dancing burlesque performer in Denver: GiGi DeLovely, a bona fide Irish lass who can take her clothes off while demonstrating moves from Riverdance. And if you want to see her do her thing tonight, there’s only one place to be: Cora Vette’s St. Pastie’s…
What would it be like to live next door to one of history’s most notorious serial killers? That’s just one of the questions answered in The Jeffrey Dahmer Files, a documentary that goes directly to sources with the most insight on the Milwaukee murderer. Testimonials from his next-door neighbor, the…
