Elijah: An Adventure starts with an arresting visual image: a group of people posed on a dock in attitudes of farewell while a great liner prepares to head out to sea. On the deck stands Elijah, a Jewish kid from Brooklyn, seventeen years old and about to embark on a…
The fall art season is fully under way, and in this week’s review, Michael Paglia visits Rule Gallery, Edge Gallery and Space Gallery. Two of these galleries are offering solo shows by local abstract artists; the third is a group show also featuring abstracts by mostly local artists. All three…
With fall in high gear, certain colors stand out on the streets. One of them is maroon — or burgundy, deep red or brick. No matter what you call it, though, this color is definitely happening for autumn, as are rust and burnt orange, neutral browns and leaf-like hues. We…
Although 16th Street hasn’t always been a pedestrian mall, for at least the last hundred years of the city’s history it has been a Denver destination, a favorite for parade routes and other special events as well as a focal point for much of this city’s day-to-day business. These pictures,…
If your plan is to drink 47 shots every time Barack Obama chides Mitt Romney over his “47 percent” remarks during tonight’s presidential debate, you’re going to have more immediate problems than the latest jobs report. For an alternative to debate-night drinking games that will absolutely be better for the…
Last night I had the honor of serving as one of ten judges on the selection committee for the Something Independent 2012 Entrepreneur Award, a $1,500 prize designed to showcase the next wave of Colorado business leaders. After viewing 90-second video pitches from 23 semi-finalists, we narrowed it down to…
Mixing steampunk with the surreal and combining opera, theater, dance and circus arts, Luminous Thread Productions wants to give Denver a kind of show that the city has never seen before. That’s what Mary Lin and Ben Sargent had in mind when they began dreaming up their unique production company…
It’s going to be a Gorey October at Bovine Metropolis Theater. Edward Gorey, that is. Every Wednesday this month, the theater company will be performing an improv show based on a peculiar play titled The Helpless Doorknob by the macabre author and illustrator. But unlike a standard theater production with…
It won’t be easy for some folks to get to tonight’s Logan Lecture at the Denver Art Museum, with a stretch of I-25 closed during the presidential debate at the University of Denver. But it’s worth braving the urban jungle to hear Lucas Reiner, who’s known for, among other things,…
Just in time for Denver’s closeup in the international press, “I See What You Mean,” aka the Big Blue Bear, has gotten a facelift. But by simply sprucing up the sculpture outside of the Colorado Convention Center, Denver missed a bet. So last week, we offered up several more meaningful…
Some sports fans and barflies are going to be very unhappy tonight. That’s when many of their favorite bars will switch channels from whatever game is on to the first of the three presidential debates, which will be happening right here, at the University of Denver. Those tickets are impossible…
It’s almost time: Depending on your political alliance and your favorite beers, chances are you’ve already chosen who you’re going to vote for in the upcoming presidential election. But have you chosen where you’re going to watch the debate? Stayed tuned to Westword for our upcoming list of the best…
“I hate Republicans.” I don’t know how many times I’ve uttered those words during this election season (though more so when Perry and Santorum were still campaigning, because my uterus was screaming in unison with the rest of me). But really, as a bleeding-heart liberal who believes in education, health…
For Now Showing, our fall arts guide inserted in the September 27 issue of Westword, we asked dozens of luminaries on the local arts scene — including winners of the Westword MasterMind awards — to take a survey about the state of the arts. We published many of the responses…
If you were watching the season premiere of The Amazing Race Sunday night, you may have noticed a team of long-haired, heavy-metal-looking guys. Mark “Abba” Abbattista is an entertainment lawyer who currently lives in Golden, and he partnered up with longtime friend and musician James LoMenzo — former member of…
The big presidential debate is tomorrow night, but political fights are breaking out all over town — on street corners, in bars. And tonight, there should be a doozy at the Fillmore Auditorium, where political heavyweights Glenn Beck and Eliot Spitzer will go head-to-head in a battle of ideas. The…
Should Aurora’s Century 16, the complex that includes the theater where thirteen people were shot to death on July 20, reopen? That’s what Cinemark, the owner, has decided to do, and when the City of Aurora posted a survey on Facebook asking what should be done with the complex, the…
“Holy shit, that was so fuckin’ radical!,” proclaims Mike Paproski, a skateboarder with a POV camera who saw Ryan Vitale, one of his fellow competitors, collide with a deer during a practice run at this weekend’s Buffalo Bill Downhill Bloodspill race on Lookout Mountain. (We posted the video this morning…
History teachers come in all shapes and sizes. Stan Ellsworth’s form just happens to be bigger, scruffier and more charismatic than most. The brawny intellectual is just one of many reasons to check out American Ride, a television series that highlights the best stories you may have missed in high…
I hit the 13th Floor over the weekend, and I can sum up the experience with this: I came, I saw, I almost whizzed my drawers. I’ve trotted through miles of haunted houses over the years, but this one is by far the scariest, trippy-est, most off-the-chain that I’ve ever…
HGTV’s All American Handyman competition tests the skills of handymen and women throughout the country, and the winner gets a development deal with the network to star in a show. This time, three of the ten contestants were from Colorado — and Aurora resident Sonne Shields, 32, was ultimately pronounced…
Temperatures have begun to drop — and so have inhibitions. It’s that ghoulishly glorious time of year: haunted house season. Westword photographer Christopher Morgan stopped by the 13th Door & Slaughterhouse on its opening night this past weekend to capture the behind-the-scenes magic of creating serial killers, zombies and haunted…
