Perhaps you’ve lost faith in movies about amusingly digressive criminals. Maybe you believe it’s no longer possible to be pleasurably jolted by inventive swearing, from-no-place head shots, and post-everything structural flourishes. Certainly you have no reason to expect blood-splattered poetry or throat-clearing laughter from yet another movie in which Los…
Perhaps more than any other male American star of his generation, Ben Affleck understands the narrative advantage of having Hollywood on your side. The Good Will Hunting co-screenwriter and co-star won an Oscar at age 25 in large part because he and collaborator Matt Damon, as struggling actors who created…
There are messengers all over Shakespeare. They fetch and carry, run on and off with news — but no one gives them much thought, despite the dangers of their profession. There are exceptions, of course: Someone occasionally flings a messenger a coin; at other times messengers are hit or killed…
Ben Dicke, a local actor and director, was inspired, astounded, knocked out, when he saw Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson in New York last year, and he decided it was a show that Denver audiences had to experience. The musical tells the story of our seventh president, set to propulsive emo-rock…
The Great American Beer Festival runs from October 11-13, bringing with it 580 breweries, 2,700 beers, 49,000 thirsty beer lovers and all the pomp and circumstance associated with what is the biggest, best beer fest in the world. But it also brought a lot of headaches, as not everyone who…
Though the old mining towns of Cripple Creek, Central City and Black Hawk adopted gambling as an industry, Victor didn’t. Instead, the town, which once boasted 20,000 residents, remains as an inhabited ghost town with a population of 400. It’s the perfect spooky setting for the first-ever Spirits of Victor…
Snowboarder Jeremy Jones is bringing the harrowing second installment in his Deeper, Further, Higher film trilogy to the Oriental Theater tonight and to the Boulder Theater tomorrow night as part of the run-up to the season. “The most terrifying moment making this film was when I was hiking a face…
“There’s no one way to be blind,” says Karen Karsh of the American Council of the Blind of Colorado. “We are all individuals.” And today’s Raisin’ Cane walk is all about identifying and supporting those blind and visually-impaired individuals while raising awareness for eye health, accessibility and other issues. National…
Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Big Love, Milk, J. Edgar), one of the most recognizable names in the LGBT-rights movement, is once again using his storytelling prowess to teach a history lesson, this time about the 2011 courtroom drama that overturned California’s gay-marriage ban, Proposition 8. The documentary play, called 8,…
There’s nothing like the crisp fall air to pump up a great run, and that will definitely be a plus for today’s Run the Rocks 5K. The sixth annual autumn race — which follows the paved-road trails surrounding Colorado’s picturesque Red Rocks Amphitheatre — offers a chance for participants to…
Much like political ads and zombies in October, found-footage flicks are starting to get old, but now and then comes a twist that makes the trend relevant again — even the second time around. Just in time for the witching season, Grave Encounters 2, the second in a series of…
It’s been 25 years since Gabby Gourmet Pat Miller and the late Noel Cunningham co-founded the Taste of the Nation, one of the city’s oldest and best-attended foodie events, featuring up-close sessions with top chefs and mountains of great local food and drink for charity. That alone makes tonight’s annual…
Not many emerging playwrights would take on a New York Times critic, but Kristoffer Diaz, author of the Curious season opener, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, had no qualms about rebutting a blog post by Charles Isherwood. Isherwood had complained about the number of contemporary plays where characters break…
With artists working in so many mediums on campus at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, it’s hard to create exhibitions that appeal to everyone. That’s why curator Cortney Stell has focused on something that all of the artists can relate to in her latest show: the human…
Local artist Ravi Zupa’s large-scale paintings of rabbits, bison and other prairie critters have adorned the walls at WaterCourse ever since Denver’s vegetarian mecca relocated to its current spot at 17th Avenue and Emerson Street, lending an earthy, mythical feel to the space and hinting at a larger narrative that’s…
New science suggests that when women and men face danger, their brains are hardwired to produce very different reactions. Men do the traditional fight or flight, but women move toward danger to tend to or befriend it, says author Alexia Parks. “They diffuse conflict. So if you want leadership in…
When playwright Mark Jackson was paging through Shakespeare A to Z, a book that lists all of the characters from every one of the Bard’s plays, he was struck by the vast number of nameless messengers that exist in the catalogue. From this realization came the play Messenger #1, an…
If you tried to count the number of artists who also have day jobs, it’d be like counting stars in the sky. Within the governmental agencies of Denver and Colorado, there’s a similar microcosm, and that’s the whole reason for the annual On My Own Time art exhibitions curated through…
Welcome to Hogwarts, post-Voldemort: The mythical school has been rebuilt, and the children of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Draco Malfoy are now learning about wizardry and witchcraft themselves. This is the setting for Bovine Metropolis Theater’s latest series, a futuristic fan-fiction parody called The Heirs of Hogwarts: An Improvised…
People who are truly fashion-forward are often forward regarding things other than street-style, too. This week we focus the spotlight on Malarie Parks, a young woman from Fresno, California, and a former Rocky Mountain of College of Art and Design student who puts all of herself out there — and…
Today at the Denver Art Museum, employees uncrated and hung a very special piece by Vincent Van Gogh. In this particular painting, “Edge of a Wheatfield with Poppies,” Van Gogh lightened up his palette considerably, using magentas against indigo with crisp reds. The piece will join more than seventy others…
Update: Congratulations to asya92 and Cerealluna! You have both won tickets to these area haunted houses. Thanks for reading! Original post: Those of you who are not willing to a) cry in public, b) scream until even strep would be better, c) bring an extra pair of pants, or c)…
