For a brief and beautiful moment in time, I lived in New York City. During that year of boot camp for life, I learned a few things — like, there is no such thing as privacy, the only scary part about the subway is that sometimes it smells like human…
Most of us here in Colorado can relate to the rush of skiing down a mountain of fresh powder. But that rush is nothing compared to the heart-stopping, breath-seizing thrill of entering a tornado’s destructive vortex of violently rotating winds. But for the past eight years, that was the mission…
Revisit the glory days of The Real World: Denver tomorrow night, when Tyrie Ballard, one of the cast members of the eighteenth incarnation of the reality show that held LoDo hostage five years ago, is featured in the opener of Real World, the Challenge: Battle of the Exes. In the…
Hundreds of fans lined up to buy The Book of Mormon tickets on Sunday, since the musical written by hometown heroes Trey Parker and Matt Stone will start its road tour here in Denver next August. For those who managed to snag seats, Jenn Wohletz, who spent several years in…
One of the most important curatorial departments at the Denver Art Museum (100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, 720-865-5000, www.denverartmuseum.org) is Modern and Contemporary, headed by Gwen Chanzit; a major portion of the Hamilton Building’s third and fourth levels are given over to it. Though paintings and sculptures are the stock…
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…
9 Circles. On March 12, 2006, five soldiers stationed at a dangerous traffic checkpoint in an area of Iraq that the military called the Triangle of Death entered the nearby home of a fourteen-year-old girl named Abeer Qasim Hamza. Steven Green, a private, took her parents and six-year-old sister into…
The hero of the red-herring heist flick Man on a Ledge draws two reactions from the Manhattan throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a Midtown hotel. The first, of course, is the predictable “just get it over with” impatience of New Yorkers impeded by police barricades. The second is unlikely…
Playwright Steve Dietz never bores me. His dialogue is usually smart and his imagination fresh. He likes to come up with intricate plot twists, bend theatrical form and refuse the audience a satisfyingly tied-up — or even entirely comprehensible — ending. Becky’s New Car is the lightest of his works…
Fulfilling a mission that has consumed her for almost two decades, Glenn Close — as producer, co-writer and lead — brings to the screen the titular character of Albert Nobbs, a woman who passes as a man in 1890s Ireland, a role for which she won an Obie in 1982…
It takes guts and ingenuity to write a play in which the protagonist is a morbidly obese man, constantly on stage and essentially tethered in one place. Charlie is dying of his own weight. He sleeps on the sofa — propped up so he can breathe — and spends almost…
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who created The Book of Mormon , are hometown heroes — and that alone is reason for a “Glory Hallelujah” all around. Tickets for the musical sold out in record time yesterday; for those lucky enough to have snagged them, there are a few things…
It was a big weekend for Colorado athletes on the Winter Dew Tour, with Breckenridge snowboarder Eric Willett and Aspen skier Torin Yater-Wallace each topping the podium at the Pantech Invitational in Killington, VT. Check out the highlight reels after the jump…
The online rush to buy tickets for The Book of Mormon nearly crashed the Denver Center for the Performing Arts servers and the show sold-out in five hours. But for those willing to brave the February cold, the wait for the highly anticipated show — of which Denver is the…
Supporting the arts is just good business. That’s the basic message of the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts, which was founded in 1985 and has grown to over 130 members, just announced the finalists for the 25th annual CBCA Business for the Arts Awards. And not only does this…
It had been far too long since any literal juggling was done in the Westword conference room, so when the offer came down to see Cirque du Soleil Dralion juggler Vladik Miagkostupov perform in person, we welcomed it with open, uncoordinated arms…
I have an adult niece in San Francisco who’s into theater on the fringe; she’s been a stage manager and a world traveler to various festivals, writes about theater for a Bay area newspaper, and every so often, hosts lives theatrical performances in her living room, sort of like a…
Denver is full of amazing artistic visionaries who are changing the cultural landscape of metro Denver. And each year for the past seven years, we’ve been awarding five of these creative geniuses with MasterMind awards. Members of each class of MasterMinds have done amazing things with their awards, frequently using…
The Wildlife Experience’s Extreme Screen Theater is one of two advance screening locations for The Grey, the film opening nationwide on January 27 in which Liam Neeson plays an unlikely hero who leads a group of roughnecks in their fight to survive after their plane crashes the remote Alaskan wilderness…
After Los Angeles-based graffiti artist David Choe finished his murals for Denver International Airport’s Terminal Kings project, he did what any street artist would do: He went and found a blank wall in the city where he could leave his mark. That wall happened to be at 13th and Champa…
We’re in the middle of “Stomping Week,” the lead-up to the International Snow Sculpture Championships hosted each year by Breckenridge. The Riverwalk Center is being adorned by giant blocks of snow to be hand-carved into works of art by numerous teams from around the world; the sculpting will begin on…
So by now you’ve given up on your New Year’s resolutions, right? Of course you have. It’s time to stop going to the gym on a Friday night, you tourist, and get back to having fun. There’s plenty going on this weekend, whether you want to watch dudes wrestle in…
