Colorado has become the Hollywood of the adventure-film business, and the local ski-porn premiere season will be in full swing by this time next month. But the Colorado-based crews at Matchstick Productions (MSP), Level 1 Productions and Stept Productions have already released tantalizing teasers for their 2012 films. Here’s a…
This Sunday, the most ambitious mission to Mars thus far will land on the red planet. The Curiosity Rover is on a two-year mission to look for signs of life, study its climate and geology and collect data that might help future manned missions. The Denver Museum of Nature and…
If you dream it, Boulder just might build it — that’s what EcoArts Connections and the city of Boulder want the public to know about it’s new Civic Area Project. This Saturday, August 4 at Boulder’s Central Park, anyone is invited to come and share ideas about what the park…
Fancy Tiger’s Matthew Brown loves Denver’s small businesses. “We want to promote businesses that we think have a very positive influence on Denver,” Brown says of his Civilized Living series, a First Friday event curated by Fancy Tiger to feature all the stylishly underground operations our city has to offer…
This weekend is sure to be out of this world. Whether you’re witnessing the newest mission to Mars, browsing ethereal art, or journeying to a Harry Potter world of magic, you won’t need more than a Hamilton to escape reality at these exciting events. Have a blast, get out there,…
It’s First Friday, so there’s plenty to do if you’re up for rushing around town — but maybe you’d rather sit back in the grass and usher in the dusk with one of the greatest sunsets of all: Billy Wilder’s melodramatic showpiece, Sunset Boulevard. See also: – Relax at Film…
It took 1,600 hours and 10,000 pounds of marble for Colorado artist Francisco Sotomayor to create “American Woman,” a monumental sculpture. Reviews are mixed — both of the piece, and of our recent interview with Sotomayer…
Street artist and graphic designer Shepard Fairey is in town right now, painting a mural on the side of the Center For Visual Art building at 965 Sante Fe. Fairey teamed up with local artist, Evan Hecox and Philadelphia- based artist Jim Houser, to make a statement addressing the themes…
Uselma Duncan is not a household name. He was not a world-famous artist or poet, and he wasn’t abundantly wealthy. Uselma Duncan was a dry goods clerk who fought on the side of the North during the early months of the Civil War. He represents a faceless, nameless number –…
The Laugh Track Comedy Festival will descend on Denver tonight, bringing three days of comedy performers and films that are sure to make your sides split. To help you navigate the thirty short films and over forty comedians, festival co-director Evan Nix sent us his top ten picks of events…
Brazilian music and dance are taking over Boulder for the first annual Colorado Brazil Fest, hosted by the Boulder Samba School. The three-day Brazilian culture immersion festival, from Aug. 2-4, will feature music and dance performances showcasing local talent, a variety of workshops, Capoeira demonstrations, and, of course, traditional Brazilian…
Like many twelve-year-olds, Greg Paproski likes to board. But unlike most of those twelve-year-olds, he’s focused on longboarding — and spending the summer competing in races. With the help of his new sponsor, Dregs Skateboards, he’s “hit” (longboard lingo for competed) three races in the North American Downhill Series: the…
Most toilet seats are meant to be sat upon. But once in a while, there comes a throne cover fit to decorate a wall. And that’s the case with the seats going up for auction tomorrow night at the Sh%ts & Giggles Charity Art Show — though event organizer Adam…
Colorado native Francisco Sotomayor has been touring the country with his monumental “American Woman,” a 10,000-pound sculpture he carved from Colorado marble. And at each showing, he signs three-inch chunks of marble from the original block so that visitors can take home a piece of “American Woman,” which he sees…
Though the title, Solitude, might suggest that the summer show at the William Havu Gallery is dedicated to the efforts of a single artist, it’s actually a packed group show. Gallery director Bill Havu has selected paintings and works on paper by more than a dozen artists, all of whom…
Vividly bringing to life the question of whether self-denial is a social responsibility that Don DeLillo poses in Cosmopolis, Lauren Greenfield’s new documentary, The Queen of Versailles, tracks the post-crash lifestyle of rich so nouveau it doesn’t realize its appetites strike others as crude. The titular royal is Jackie Siegel,…
It’s one of the most cherished legends of the American indie: A socially retarded ugly duck, despite making no effort to regulate his glaring emotional hangups, is discovered as a swan by a clearly out-of-his-league girl who loves him just the way he is. Buffalo ’66 (1999) and Punch-Drunk Love…
Joachim Trier has proven to be unparalleled in exposing the foibles and delusions of all the sad young literary men — or of one man in particular. The twenty-something character played by Anders Danielsen Lie in Reprise (2006) finds immediate cult success with his first novel, only to suffer a…
I’d almost describe Driving Miss Daisy as a courtly piece. Written in the 1980s, the play deals with racism, but in a muted, thoughtful way. There’s no big drama, no didacticism, no major political message, just an examination of the changing lives of three people in Georgia as they move…
Summer shows at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre are family-friendly events, intended to hold the wandering (and wondering) attention of children, and this year’s Cinderella is no exception. Created by Rodgers and Hammerstein for television in the 1950s, it’s charming, sweet and slight. Once again — as he did so notably for…
Adam Rose of Fallen Owl Tattoo shop, the recipient of Westword’s Best Good Samaritan Tattoo Joint award this year, thinks tattoo artists sometimes unfairly get a bad rap. But not Rose, who frequently hosts art auctions and fundraisers for local charities, like tonight’s Sh%ts & Giggles Charity Art Show. More…
It’s hard to be a Harry Potter fan these days. You probably finished the final book in the series years ago, while the last movie is long gone from the multiplexes — and J.K. Rowling insists there is no more to come. But that doesn’t mean you can’t still indulge…
