The hoopla at the Denver Art Museum this summer is mostly focused on fashion and Yves St. Laurent. But another small show, Abstract Angus, featuring works by contemporary Western painter Theodore Waddell, opened at the DAM over the weekend, offering museum-goers a completely different artistic point of view. The show…
Time magazine started the whole thing, with a cover that featured a toddler smirking like a teenager while latched onto his mother’s breast. The cover story, on attachment parenting, inspired a response from both Westword writer Jef Otte, who thinks attachment parenting sucks, and local comic Andrew Orvedahl, who doesn’t…
Kevin Curry: Between Chaos and Order is a smart-looking solo at Rule Gallery that’s dominated by conceptual abstractions which the artist, Kevin Curry, made from reclaimed materials. Curry moved to Colorado in 2009 and has since made something of a splash. I first encountered his work in the Faculty Triennial…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist. Clyfford Still: Inaugural Exhibition 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…
This entry in the “hot young opposites attract over the course of one long night” genre takes place at Scotland’s muddy summer counterpart to Coachella, T in the Park. Adam (Luke Treadaway), the skinny-jeans’d frontman of a famous Brooklyn electro duo, gets in a squabble with Morello (Natalia Tena), a…
Can any one of the millions of Americans who saw Men in Black 2 in 2002 describe its plot today? A single scene? I saw both MIB movies upon their release and have as little memory of the experience as if I’d been mind-wiped with one of those “neuralyzing” flash…
Alex Ross Perry’s The Color Wheel deals in binding family ties and the sterility of the comfortable classes. The New Yorker’s second feature, shot in 16mm black and white, the film is an offhand, picturesque road-trip movie with a mock-epic Northeastern itinerary. It’s also a cage-match brother-and-sister act, revolving around…
The 11 Minutes Theatre Company has revived Fuenteovejuna, a seventeenth-century play by Lope de Vega based on a historical incident that took place in 1476. Fuenteovejuna is a small village that has come under the control of a violent and amoral commander. The play begins by celebrating the joyous innocence…
Derby Baby: A Story of Love, Addiction and Rink Rash, the long-awaited roller derby documentary from Denver-based filmmakers Robin Bond and Dave Wruck, will get its local premiere on June 16 at the Denver FilmCenter with screenings at 2:30, 5 and 7:30 p.m., all presented by both the Rocky Mountain…
Eggs Benedict is a notoriously hard dish to pull off. I wasn’t even intimidated, though, when my girlfriend told me that’s what she wanted for breakfast — even though I had never made it before, I’m basically like the King Midas of victory, and I made that Eggs Benedict, and…
With its accentuated curves and ability to look good in almost any color, the Volkswagen Beetle was made for customization. Until 2003, the Type1(the beloved and ubiquitous “vintage” model) bug had remained in production with few cosmetic changes for close to thirty years. Though the car has since seen a…
My taste in popular culture is inherently gay. Not “gay” in a derogatory sense — I mean, “gay” as in I often find myself liking stuff only my gay dude friends like. Knowing nothing about her work, I signed on to see Kristin Chenoweth’s performance at the Ellie Caulkins Opera…
Definite trend: Drink and Draw, Cocktails and Canvases. No matter what you call the combo, it translates to knock back a few back while making art. And tonight at PlatteForum, the award-winning, innovative community art center that pairs underserved youth with artist-mentors, that’s just what you’re invited to do…
The movies for the 2012 Film on the Rocks summer lineup at Red Rocks Amphitheatre — many of them picked by the people, for the people — were announced Friday night, and don’t blame the Denver FilmCenter if you don’t like The Notebook. “It wasn’t just because this seems to…
Update: Two corrections have been made: Tropic Thunder is now the only June 18 film, and viewers can vote on which film they’d like to see on July 16. It’s finally here. The 2012 Film On the Rocks summer line-up at Red Rocks Amphitheatre was announced this evening, and many…
Although the Denver Roller Dolls and Rocky Mountain Rollergirls are often billed as crosstown rivals, their traveling all-star teams hardly ever skate against each other: The last time DRD’s Mile Club and RMRG’s 5280 Fight Club competed directly was at the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Championship tournament in…
Does anyone ever want to wake up early on a Sunday? May 20 could be the day to try. The Kaiser Permanente Colfax Marathon will hit the street for the seventh year in a row this Sunday, and even if you’re not joining the hordes of runners, there’s plenty of…
As it turns out, a good Twitter account doesn’t necessarily make a good television show. Nonfiction funny man Justin Halpern learned that lesson the nationally televised way when real-life anecdotes from his hilariously crabby father translated poorly from social media into a cheesy, laugh-grabbing sitcom starring William Shatner. (Captain Kirk…
The evenings are getting warmer here in the Queen City of the Plains, and that just means that more and more events are popping up. It’s easy to go out on a budget this weekend, whether you enjoy biking to an adult prom, seeing surf-themed burlesque, or dancing at a…
Jacquie Van Horne believes that artists who are mothers, too, need to stick together, because — as she writes on her Facebook page — “Motherhood is not the time to put the paintbrush down.” That’s why she created Artistic Mamas, which is as much a celebration of mothers who paint…
.Creeped out by last week’s TIME cover story about attachment parenting, Jef Otte penned an essay for the Village Voice about how much attachment parenting sucks and posted it to his wall. As it happened, local comic and 2012 Westword MasterMind Andrew Orvedahl had penned his own essay on how…
The first Denver Cruisers ride of the season went down on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 with the “Back in Black” theme. Photos by Jim Wills for Westword. View the full Denver Cruisers slide show…
