Naropa grad Seth Lepore will bring his newest one-man show, SuperHappyMelancholyexpialidocious, to Boulder this weekend. The new show targets the happiness movement, humorously critiquing everything from Oprah Winfrey to those Texas megachurches that all insist we need to be constantly chipper. We recently spoke with Lepore about the happiness movement,…
I started writing this piece by reiterating my usual spiel about why I’m a late-blooming feminist and why it’s important for all people to be feminists. But no one wants to hear that. No one likes to be told what they aren’t doing, even if asking that all humans to…
Several nationally renowned artists and musicians are Denver natives: Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind and Fire graduated from East Denver High School; The Fray’s Isaac Slade and Joe King were schoolmates at Faith Christian Academy. Now Denver’s First Lady Mary Louise Lee wants to promote Denver’s notable cultural legacy with…
And the kudos keep coming in for Dominique Ashaheed, the Slam Nuba member who just won the 2012 Women of the World Poetry Slam, held in Denver…
To make a sweeping generalization, all art has to do with nature, because it is, at its core, an extension of the human hand, eye or brain. But some artists go further in expressing this underpinning by either literally or figuratively referring to natural processes or settings. This is what…
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…
If I said “Eskimo hip-hop crime tale,” would that send you running to the nearest sunny beach? Shot on location in far northern Alaska with a native cast and writer/director (Andrew Okpeaha MacLean), On the Ice is a marvel of concentrated, classical storytelling. The flat, snowy landscape strips away all…
The television show 21 Jump Street, about cops who go undercover as high-schoolers, debuted on Fox in 1987 — one year after the network premiered — and ran until 1991, launching the career of Johnny Depp (who cameos here along with former castmate Holly Robinson Peete). As a sign of…
It’s obvious that Jason Segel has a face for comedy. He’s got a lumpy, sad-sack mug with a dozen inflections to register disappointment, confusion and self-doubt. But as the basement-dwelling hero in the Duplass brothers’ new quest movie, Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Segel works his entire posture for laughs…
The role of the Man in the Chair is the spine for The Drowsy Chaperone, and it’s the primary reason that this lighthearted, inconsequential and very silly show is so much fun to watch: Without him, it would just float off into the ether. But with him, we’re invited in…
Seven of Colorado’s most colorful sports personalities could be headed for the White House if representatives of Team USA Roller Derby — the 2011 Roller Derby World Cup champions — get their way. Over the weekend Team USA issued a call to action asking President Obama to honor the team’s…
If there’s any winner in the Women of the World Poetry Slam, it’s Denver, first figuratively and now literally. The international championship, in its fifth year and Denver’s first as the host city, kicked off Thursday and held its second preliminary round on Friday before ending with two X chromosomes…
Amanda Willshire is busy. Really busy. She works as a graphic designer and website developer and she’s currently getting ready to help one of her clients promote herself during the upcoming season of Dancing With the Stars (she’s keeping her lips sealed about who her client is). Willshire is also…
On Saturday night, March 10, Wazee Union was filled with comics, art, artists, music, open studios, beer from Breckenridge Brewery and music from Little Fyodore and Black Out Beat. Photographer Javid Rezvani brings back photos from the free event at the RiNo space. More photos are below…
Denver’s frugalistas flocked to the Curtis Hotel Saturday night to get rid of old looks and find new favorites at the And Then She Saved accessories swap sponsored by Denver’s own Handbags.com. “I really wanted new clothes but I didn’t want to pay for new clothes, and I’d heard about…
The Lobby is only one of the venues that have relied on Denver art curator and 2010 Westword MasterMind Eric Matelski to organize a rotating series of art shows for their walls over the years — the Lobby is the only venue he’s curated its doors first opened to the…
Poetry will win! That was the prediction of queencityslamster on Saturday, before the twelve finalists competed in the last round of the Women of the World Poetry Slam at the Denver Art Museum that night. But poetry wasn’t the only winner: Denver came out a champ, simply for hosting the…
Half the fun of John Waters fan-dom is initiating newbies into the dark, sexually inappropriate cult of worship. The other half is watching Waters virgins become violently ill and/or mentally unhinged. But we don’t want you poor, deprived noobs going into a John Waters-fest with a completely empty toolbox, so…
Last night, the Denver poetry scene was reintroduced to the national stage with the first preliminary rounds of the Women of the World Poetry Slam. With two bouts each at Mercury Cafe, Eden and Leela European Cafe, the night ended with the first scores for 72 international competitors. Hundreds of…
The root of theater is storytelling, and Stories on Stage has made a practice of matching expressive words with talented actors for many years. The March 11 offering, Distant Voices, features Sherman Alexie’s short story “War Dances,” about a young man afflicted with a mysterious partial deafness who’s visiting his…
Last night on Project Runway All Stars, the challenge for the four remaining designers was to create a ready-to-wear outfit for designer and guest judge Nanette Lepore’s line that was “irresistible, feminine and timeless.” The winning design would be featured on the Nanette Lepore label, and profits from its sale…
“When you put something up on the wall in a gallery everybody looks at it and is puzzled and critical,” explains kite-maker Melanie Walker. “But you put something up in the sky and everybody immediately is enthusiastic and looks and points and says ‘Wow! Look at that!'” Walker and her…
