Think back on last night — or even better, last weekend. How did you spend your Halloween? Was it wild? Wonderful? Just weird? Chances are you probably invoked a bit of all three holiday spirits during your costumed festivities, and maybe you attracted some attention along the way. These people…
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…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Here, he shares his take on this evening’s Opening Night film, A…
The Rocky Mountain Women’s Film Festival, now in its 25th year, brings a strong, diverse selection of films to the region this weekend for viewing, discussion and celebration. The longest-running women-centered film festival in North America, it will showcase both fiction and non-fiction work starring, written, directed and filmed by…
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…
El Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a holiday that honors the dead through altars, offerings, sculptures and dances. For the Aztec, who had been celebrating this tradition for more than 3,000 years before encountering travelers from Spain, death was not the end but the continuation…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The yammering about “Oscar gold” and Denzel Washington’s potential three-peat will soon reach a deafening pitch, but such noise can only embarrass a fine character study like Flight, whose prevailing tone is a heavy, elemental melancholy. The mood is there from the opening pan across the Orlando airport under gray,…
It’s hard out there for a video-game villain: always being attacked, never given the benefit of the doubt, and forever pigeonholed into a role no one wants to see you escape. Such is the fate of Wreck-It Ralph (John C. Reilly), the bad guy in an old-school arcade game called…
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…
Molly Ivins was a familiar figure in Colorado. For a while, she was the Rocky Mountain bureau chief for the New York Times. The staid gray lady had hired her away from the Texas Observer to spice up its pages, but the editors decided fairly rapidly that they didn’t want…
As soon as all the fever over zombies and the presidential election dies down, much of the populace will most likely shift its wide-eyed gaze toward the Mayans’ December 2012 end-of-the-world prophecy. RedLine Gallery has decided to mix all three themes together in a multifaceted fundraiser/costume party titled The Democalypse:…
Since stepping into the spotlight more than ten years ago as character Money Mike in Friday After Next, comedian and actor Katt Williams — appearing tonight and tomorrow at the Wells Fargo Theatre — has developed an unwavering following. A decent actor but an unparalleled comedian, Williams’s success is partly…
Denver is still recovering from the Great American Beer Festival, but there’s no hangover in Colorado Springs, a serious beer town in its own right. Our southern neighbor will play host to the annual All Colorado Beer Festival today, featuring forty breweries from around the state. “What’s good about this…
In Adam Bock’s Obie Award-winning black comedy The Thugs, everyone works in a cubicle (in this case, at a law firm) and lives in a world where anything could go wrong at the drop of a hat. And in the intimate fifty-seat performance space at We’re House Performing Arts Center…
Avid newspaper readers can find the work of French illustrator Serge Bloch during the week in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, New York Times and the Los Angeles Times; his work also appears in Time and New York magazines. Bloch has illustrated more than 300…
“Now that some of the ski areas are open and we’re getting our first snows of the season — with more expected this week — we’re right in that rush of anticipation: Winter is here,” says Joan Christensen, spokeswoman for the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Expo, which turns 21 this…
In anticipation of unveiling an expanded Japanese garden and neighboring Bill Hosokawa Bonsai Pavilion and Tea Garden this spring, it made perfect sense to the folks at the Denver Botanic Gardens to celebrate with an outpouring of Japanese culture, from summer camps and classes to art exhibits and special events…
