Whether one is speaking about the exhibits or the programs offered there, MCA Denver isn’t exactly known to offer boring fare, and Black Sheep Fridays, a series returning to the MCA Cafe for a seasonal run, is a case in point. The very poster child of edgy community programming, the…
For this week’s art review, Westword critic Michael Paglia focused on feminism in two simultaneous shows at Ice Cube Gallery and Pirate: Contemporary Art. And before even analyzing their art, he offered up this apology: “I was wrong. Apparently, the subject of feminist art is as urgent and relevant now…
Fashion’s Night Out began in New York City in 2009, the brainchild of couture-culture queen Anna Wintour as a way to reignite consumer interest in fashion. Now Colorado is getting in on the party, which has become an international celebration; various boutiques across the state go big tomorrow night, September…
Forge Motion Pictures, NRS Films, and New Belgium Brewing premiered The Elder this week, the final film in director Skip Armstrong’s five-part Of Souls + Water series. Armstrong calls the film “a dreamy, contemplative, non-literal piece” about Rob Elliot, 68, a Grand Canyon river guide with more than 200 trips…
We love our dogs in Denver, but few local pups have stirred up as much heart-thumping love and attention as house corgi Denver Picard Schimek, the I Heart Denver Store’s animal ambassador. His owner (and I Heart Denver entrepreneur) Samuel Schimek says the precious pooch turns one this month. See…
Russell Scott, aka Blinky the Clown, was laid to rest yesterday, with a memory-filled ceremony. “He always said he couldn’t wait to see who was going to be at his funeral,” Shannon Schrum told Michael Roberts. “And one of the requests he had is that everybody wear a red clown…
Young Cherry Creek restaurant Phat Thai offered a strong start to Labor Day weekend. Upper-body strong, that is. Organizers channeled muscle and mettle with a female arm-wrestling competition that featured members of the Denver Derby Dolls and the public pushing up their sleeves and pitching in to raise funds for…
Labor Day weekend packed a peck of pickled parties, but for the holiday outing’s best costumes, look no further than Saturday’s 1950s Tiki-Exotica Ball. Held at the Millenium Harvest House in Boulder, the event featured historic fashion, Polynesian pageantry and vintage music for a night dedicated to the Hawaii of…
I don’t recall my exact age when I started checking my horoscope, but I’m sure it correlates with my reading of the newspaper, a routine that started when I was about eight. (I had been drinking coffee every morning long before that, because apparently, I was a tiny, grumpy preschool-sized…
Spike Lee’s films always carry a social message, but his mastery of aesthetics and storytelling usually transcend any political bias. Yet just like the jazz score in a Woody Allen flick, or obscure pop culture references in one of Quentin Tarantino’s little treasures, there inevitably comes a point in almost…
After eight years in the Army, Clifton Archuleta moved back to Colorado to attend Colorado Film School and get his BFA from Regis University. His thesis piece, Broken Cycle, has earned him recognition at film festivals; he just finished making a short film called Breathe in his home town of…
The late Stan Brakhage, a Denver-born experimental filmmaker, was a pioneer in avant-garde cinema and a notable successor to Maya Deren and the film artists of the 1940s. A professor at the University of Colorado, he’s remembered with an annual symposium and weekly film series — and at least in…
The Book of Mormon has left town, but as Josiah Hesse shows in his pop history of religious satire, the world’s religions have long served as inspiration — whether the mockery involves Mormons or Scientology…
Since etiquette of yore prohibits the wearing of white after Labor Day, be sure to wear all of your white attire on this three-day weekend. And there will be plenty of places to display your duds, from food-truck pool parties to tiny art shows, vintage auto exhibits to free film…
Atom the Amazing Zombie Killer, the debut feature film from Bizjack FlemCo, features zombies, bowling and a seriously weird twist, all wrapped up in a gore-splattered, over-the-top sensibility that should be familiar to fans of Troma. The locally made film will get its proper Denver debut at the Denver Indie…
Paint the town! Local artists registered in the Denver Plein Air Arts Fest have been taking their talents to the streets — and the foothills — painting locations around town.The artists “set up an easel and then they have to paint what they see and they have to finish the…
The local graphics community rolls quite naturally alongside the hipster bike community, which is evident every September when the annual ARTCRANK bike-poster show takes a lap through Denver. This year’s event featuring $40 limited-edition, hand-printed posters by 36 talented artists will be in that RiNo live/work haven, Taxi, to celebrate…
Bree Davies does not think she’s the best bass player in the world. But nor did she think she deserved this sidewalk comment from someone who had just heard her play at last Friday’s Too Much Funstival: “You know, I can play bass way, way better than you can.” Really,…
The Book of Mormon was the brainchild of two Coloradans, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, who first burst on the national scene with South Park. But other locals also got lucky with the musical. Longtime Denver lobbyist Leo Boyle actually invested in it. “It’s one of the few things I’ve…
In the midst of our current zombie renaissance, we’ve just about seen it all: running zombies, Nazi zombies, classic-lit zombies, even singing and dancing zombies. It seems like every day a new wrinkle is added to the zombie canon. Today’s innovation: the zombikini car wash. See also: – Slideshow: Zombie…
Colorado is a key swing state in the upcoming presidential election. In polls, Colorado looks like a toss-up between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, with leads shifting back and forth by the day — and which way the vote ultimately goes here could decide the national outcome. By the numbers,…
In The Revenant, a soldier dies in Iraq, only to awaken back home as a member of the living dead. But this particular undead guy isn’t quite a vampire, and he isn’t quite a zombie — he’s a revenant, a restless spirit returned in corporeal form. From that relatively straightforward…
