Thomas Hornsby Ferril’s “Two Rivers”: Poem on the Range

In this week’s cover story, “Water World,” Westword writers explored the South Platte, the river that runs through Denver and is showing new life. Our favorite spot on the Platte, though, could well be my favorite spot in Denver: the point at Confluence Park where the past and the present…

Reader: Star Trek outfit at a Star Wars party? Fail!

“Comics and sci-fi are the new archetypes of our culture; we relate to Star Wars and Stan Lee’s characters, and we’ve created new mythologies through them,” says Dan Landes, restaurateur and self-confessed sci-fi geek. And on May 4, Landes’s City, O’ City hosted a full-on orgy of nerdness with the…

Where will you find your RiNo rhino during Create Denver Week?

Create Denver Week, which began with a party last night, gets down to some heavy business with tonight’s Urban Encounters and tomorrow’s Create Denver Expo. But you never know — they might be saving the best for last: On Sunday, the whole city is invited to the RiNo Art District…

A Bag of Hammers is this week’s most ridiculous trailer

If there’s anything we can learn from A Bag of Hammers, it’s that you can’t judge a movie by its title — because if you could, the trailer for A Bag of Hammers would be about twenty times badasser. As it is, though, it’s yet another low-key-indie-humor Buddy Comedy not…

Ten things to do for $10 this weekend, May 11-13, 2012

Going out doesn’t have to mean going for broke — seriously. This week there are plenty of inexpensive entertainment options, from karaoke on the 16th Street Mall to a food-themed photography show to a Mother’s Day concert. Celebrate art, see a silent movie in the park, and get out there…

Reader: CREEP! shows the creep of Kickstarter

Is everyone using Kickstarter to push a movie project? Some days it seems like that. The crew behind CREEP!, a movie about making the worst horror movie ever — 1964’s The Creeping Terror — is in the last days of an attempt to raise $65,000 to bring the monster back…

Nanni Moretti takes on the Vatican in We Have a Pope

Suitable entertainment for a Knights of Columbus fundraiser, Nanni Moretti’s We Have a Pope finds the Most Holy Father, wracked with self-doubt about his new position, on a walkabout in Rome. Back at the Vatican, the cuddly cardinals who await his return square off in a round-robin volleyball tournament. The…

Sounds of Silence

On an October night in 1987, Danielle de Picciotto experienced a series of traumatic events that confirmed her decision to leave New York City for Berlin. Memories of that night inspired de Picciotto’s latest film, The Glasshouse, a silent movie constructed from old footage that she saved from that era…

Something’s in the Air

“Let’s be honest: the aerial acrobatic arts do have a certain sex appeal,” says Lynn Coleman, owner of the Denver-based Aerial Fabric Acrobatics apparatus company and producer of this weekend’s second annual Aerial Acrobatic Arts Festival. “There’s a dance element, there’s a gymnastic element, there’s an acrobatic element, and there’s…