Katt Williams melts down on stage, threatens and spits on a fan

I can’t imagine that I was the only one who felt trapped by the mania of Katt Williams as I sat inside the less-than-half-full Wells Fargo Theatre last night.The first of two Denver shows on his Ghetto National Convention Tour, this was a car wreck from the start. From the…

10 things to do for $10 (7 free!) this weekend, November 2-4

With Halloween over, we’re now officially on to colder weather and anticipating the upcoming holiday season. But there’s still plenty to do this week, everything from Day of the Dead parties to art openings, costume parties and even a dramatic reading of lines from Pretty in Pink. And they’re each…

West meets East at the Denver Botanic Gardens through this weekend

For much of this year, the Denver Botanic Gardens has been an intersection for Asian and American culture. It began with the Kizuna: West Meets East outdoor exhibit, for which bamboo specialists Tetsunori Kawana and Stephen Talasnik created several site-specific sculptures. They were up in time for the June opening…

Local filmmakers tackle zombie culture with Doc of the Dead

Denver has zombie walks, zombie proms, zombie races, zombie car washes and zombie fashion shows, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a pair of Denver filmmakers have launched an ambitious zombie documentary. Alexandre O. Philippe and Robert Muratore, the pair behind the Star Wars doc The People Vs…

Countdown to Denver Arts Week: Muertos Mart at Pirate Contemporary Art

Pirate gallery’s annual Día de los Muertos celebration has been bringing family altars and candlelight processions to downtown and northside streets for close to thirty years. It’s one of several Day of the Dead celebrations taking place in Denver this weekend, which will merge Dead events with the very lively…

Two new solo exhibits tackle abstract art with expressive imagery

The distinction between recognizable imagery and abstract imagery is one of the key dialectics that has run through the modern and contemporary art worlds for the past 150 years. It’s not the only one — others include linear versus formal, narrative versus non-narrative, and on and on — it’s just…

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Andy Berg. A neo-abstract expressionist from Golden is the star of Andy Berg: Dialogue with the Unconscious at Rule Gallery. Though Berg got his training in the 1980s at the Kansas City Art Institute, life took him in other directions until 2009, when he began to exhibit his paintings again…

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The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. The opening moments are pulse-poundingly exciting — music, live wrestling, flashing lights, tons of adrenaline from an already hyped-up audience. But the actual scripted beginning of the play is quiet, as a Puerto Rican kid called Mace describes his lifelong fascination with pro wrestling…

Smashed is as much about recovery as it is about addiction

Movies about drugs and alcohol may be a dime(bag) a dozen, but James Ponsoldt’s Smashed is as much about recovery as it is about addiction, with Ponsoldt successfully making the case that the twelve steps can sometimes be more difficult than whatever necessitated them in the first place. Kate’s main…

Buntport’s dazzling Sweet Tooth hits the spot

The opening scene of Sweet Tooth is mesmerizing: a bare stage, a woman in a fur coat standing in front of a white sheet and singing “It’s cold.” A hand appears from behind the sheet offering a glass, sprinkling water on the woman, and then the sheet is removed to…