At only 31 years old, filmmaker Ti West has quickly made a name for himself by challenging audience expectations and assumptions about the horror film genre with movies like 2009’s the House of the Devil. His latest film, The Innkeepers (read The Innkeepers movie review), opens Friday at the Denver…
Three weeks after the T.Rex Encounter exhibit vacated the gallery, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science is already featuring a new exhibit (free with museum admission!), Lizards & Snakes. It first launched at the American Museum of Natural History and includes live animals — sixty of them (Including the…
What is it that makes us find Victorian murders so juicy, fascinating and macabre? And also so irresistibly funny? The Catamounts, a relatively new company, has resurrected yet another Victorian murder story with The Three Faces of Doctor Crippen; judging by this lively, cheeky production, the company will be a…
Ben Vereen, who was inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame earlier this week, will be at the Newman Center at 7:30 p.m tonight in a benefit for Rocky Mountain PBS. The show, titled “Steppin’ Out With Ben Vereen,” features the Tony Award winner and Broadway legend paying tribute to…
Where is art happening? Many of the most contemporary trends are coming from urban Asia — Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul — where technology wraps itself around ancient aesthetics with bold results. There are plenty of Korean artists riding that wave, and eight of them are featured in Keeping It Real: Korean…
John Waters is the guy who came in from the cult. In advance of his visit to Denver next month — for an event aptly titled An Evening With John Waters — we’ve been wondering what questions to ask him about his formidable movie career. So we asked readers to…
If you’ll be sad to see the Art of Winter exhibit downtown conclude when it comes down on February 6 you can still get in on the auction of one-off artist works and brand gallery items from the show, including original work by 20 local artists as well as skis…
When talking to Britt Madden about her show opening this Friday at Kaze Gallery, Diversions, which features eight pieces of iPhotography, she reminded me that not too long ago, photographers, “real” photographers, wouldn’t have anything to do with digital photography. “There are the guys saying iPhotography isn’t art,” she says…
It opened with a differently-abled World of Warcraft avatar and ended with fat-kid pedophilia, and there was an impressive amount of homeless people in between. Needless to say, then, the Funny Final Four at Comedy Works downtown got off to an excellent start last night. And if nothing else, this…
You might have noticed that Jason Mewes didn’t utter a single four-letter word when we interviewed him about Kevin Smith: Live From Behind, a live recording of the duo’s podcast, which select movie theaters across the country will screen tonight. Find more details in our online calendar listings. We had…
What do you get when you combine yoga, dance, plyometrics and athletic conditioning? One word: BUTI. Former fitness competitor and competitive skier Bizzie Gold created BUTI (yes, it’s pronounced ‘booty’) after years of training and athletic conditioning inspired her to fuse multiple workout styles into one 90-minute routine. Gold brings…
Why do photovoltaic cells have p-type and n-type layers? * What causes stars to twinkle?* If you know the answers to these questions, you might qualify for the winning team of the Colorado Science Bowl. You might even be smarter than a Cherry Creek High school student!…
At least two Santa Fe Drive venues are beating First Friday to the punch by opening shows tonight. At Metropolitan State College of Denver’s Center for Visual Art, the high-profile group show Out Figured offers a contemporary and anything-but-cliched look at figurative art. The reception is from 7 to 9…
I fly fish. I’ve only been going for about three summers, I’m self-taught, I’ve caught exactly two fish and I don’t know how to tie my own flies. For those of you who have no clue what that means, it means I’m an amateur. And that probably I suck. But…
Impossible Winterbourne knows the importance of public art. “It gives the public a voice, inspires people, makes people happy, makes rundown buildings beautiful, and does all this while asking nothing in return,” he told Tiffany Fitzgerald for this post. And this Denver artist is putting up his unauthorized, steampunk art…
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Bert and Ernie. Frodo and Sam. Pop culture is laden with dynamic duos, buddies who balance one another. And ever since Kevin Smith’s underground film Clerks became a smash hit in 1994, no duo has encapsulated the Generation X/Y/Z experience quite like Jay and…
The Montreal-based Adventure Club is a production ouftit / DJ duo formed by musicians Christian Srigley and Leighton James in early 2011. After a blitz in the studio, they released five tracks and have an EP in the works, including remixes ranging from 1950s classics, post-hardcore rock to electronic. Thu.,…
UPDATE: This event has been postponed due to the weather. “A Tigalo is what happens when a tiger and a buffalo get funky together,” explains Matthew Brown, owner of Fancy Tiger Clothing and Fancy Tiger Crafts, both of which just settled into new digs on Broadway alongside Buffalo Exchange, which…
The sequined masks will come out tonight when Primos Hardcore & Wrestling unveils its new league of talented ring fighters for the inaugural edition of Primos REVoLUCHA. A fusion of the exotic wrestling style of Mexican lucha libre and Primos’ patented high-flying, body-slamming fights, REVoLUCHA promises the best of both…
Young Neal Cassady kept busy in Denver, tailing his father to Larimer Street dives, stealing cars and serving time in the Colorado State Reformatory. Cassady’s adventures left little time for formal education, which is why he dropped out of East High School after a short stint in the early 1940s…
“If you’ve ever wanted to be put in a trance by millions of images of dogs, now’s your chance,” says Denver FilmCenter programming manager Keith Garcia. Everything Is Terrible!, the collective of video editors that has been bringing bizarre VHS footage to the Internet since 2007, is showcasing its newest…
Nobody knows what it’s like to be disabled more than the people who actually live with disabilities. That’s why a new production of Bernard Pomerance’s The Elephant Man, presented by the Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League, is certain to have added depth: The play is based on the…
