From 4 to 7 p.m. tomorrow, September 8, Denver Urban Gardens and Art Farm will join forces for the sixth annual Harvest outdoor community art show and garden gala, held at the West Washington Park Community Garden located at 201 Grant Street in Denver…
Need to check in with your physical and mental health? Tomorrow, September 8, the Whole Man Expo invites men (and women) of all ages to sit in on lectures regarding male well-being at the Cable Center. Coincidentally, just a few blocks away at Porter Adventist Hospital, the Women’s Expo is…
At Aiden Sinclair’s magic show, you won’t see any bunnies pulled out of hats or ladies cut in half. Sinclair describes From a Padded Room: An Evening in Colney Hatch Asylum, which plays at 7 p.m. Saturday, September 8, at the Tattered Cover LoDo event hall, as an empathic journey…
With the last two weeks of summer on the horizon, it’s time to get in all the outdoor fun you can before the air becomes chillier and you want to hibernate. This weekend is full of summer fun — from a garden gala to outdoor film, from a silent disco…
When it comes to artists decorating objects for charity we’ve probably seen it all by now — giant cow statues, guitars and violins, skateboard decks, fiberglass cats and even those hideous masks that seemed to start it all. But we’ve never before seen the likes of Breasts of Colorado, at…
The comments keep coming about the disgruntled fellow who moved to Denver in July and doesn’t like it: “It is very Yuppified and tries to be all in the now, when it is really stuck somewhere in the 90’s and is about as fake as a city as a city…
Peek into the partially real, partially imagined world of Barkley Towers at artist Sara Guindon’s new show that opens Saturday night. The artist creates beautiful, cartoon-like depictions of characters in everyday situations that all revolve around an apartment complex she lived in when she was growing up in Ontario. The…
Curious Theatre Company opened its new season on September 1 with the regional premiere of Kristoffer Diaz’s The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, which is both a pure adrenalin rush and a significant aesthetic experience. Chad Deity breaks through the fourth wall like a hurricane and has the audience yelling…
Colorado-grown Design OnScreen, a non-profit working for the preservation of modern architecture through film, has been hard at work. Just back from the Biennale Architettura in Venice in late August, the organization is now hosting its fourth annual Architectural + Design Film Series, a month of movies celebrating several eras,…
“I’m really interested in finding the ways that past and present can naturally collide,” says Ballet Nouveau Colorado choreographer Garrett Ammon of his new production, Carry On. “And this relationship with Paper Bird has worked so well because their music is incredibly respectful and reverent of the past without being…
“The human body — male or female — is a work of art, especially with athletes,” says Boulder-based mountain bike pro endurance racer Sonya Looney, the latest local rider to strip down for Cyclepassion, the infamous German Calendar of International Cycling Stars often disparaged/celebrated as bike porn. “We work hard…
Denver will be all about fashion during today’s Fashion’s Night Out. But as we continue to move toward fall, more and more people are bringing out new fashions every day. Here for your viewing pleasure is a double dose of menswear that emphasizes the DIY punk-rock aesthetic. Meet Slug and…
The DocuWest Documentary Film Festival, a Westword Best of Denver recipient, will continue to champion nonfictional film when the tight little fest returns to the Foothills Art Center and other satellite locations tonight. Nearly forty films of varying lengths, many of them Colorado premieres, will be shown over a five-day…
A reader who moved to Denver in July is ready to leave — and none too soon, judging from both his comment and the dozens that have been posted in response. Among greylopht’s complaints? There’s “no culture.” Denver is… Extremely consumer oriented. Strip mall on every corner with the same…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist that starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with some odd takes on…
When I first heard about a pair of shows at Ice Cube Gallery and another at Pirate: Contemporary Art that were going to deal with feminism, I honestly thought, “Gosh, hasn’t that battle been won? Aren’t women now regarded by one and all as having full equality?” Then, of course,…
Spike Lee returns to the Brooklyn neighborhoods of his most famous works — including his celebrated debut, Do the Right Thing — with Red Hook Summer, and an early, sustained single take, tracking his protagonists as they navigate a courtyard in the projects, suggests that this trip home has reinvigorated…
Remember back when Bridesmaids was released, and Manohla Dargis referred to it as “unexpectedly funny”? It’s amazing what still survives the editorial gauntlet at the New York Times; it’s like the Whig Intelligencer-Tribune over there. And then a couple of months ago, podcast host Adam Carolla cast his douchey feelings…
Weddings make such bitchin’ film scenarios because the stakes are believably high: If anything goes wrong, social opprobrium, the loss of your beloved or both can ensue, right in front of your disdainful parents, the clergy, and probably Vince Vaughn. Directors have placed every obvious symbol of holy union in…
“I’ve made six movies, and I feel like I’m only just finally figuring out how this business fucking works,” Paul Thomas Anderson says on an unseasonably mild August afternoon in the Astoria section of Queens, where later tonight he will preview his latest film for an invited audience at the…
The story goes that while filming in Tunisia in the summer of 1980, Steven Spielberg avoided the dysentery that afflicted most of the cast and crew of Raiders of the Lost Ark by holing up in his hotel room with a suitcase full of SpaghettiOs. Like most studio-approved behind-the-scenes errata,…
All the way from New York City, Fashion’s Night Out makes a scene in Cherry Creek North tonight. This event, which was started four years ago by industry icon Anna Wintour, encourages cities across the U.S. to bring designers, retailers and fashion fans together to celebrate all things couture. “We’re…
