The Starz Denver Film Festival’s Big Night has become a showcase for future Academy Award nominees — Juno, Slumdog Millionaire, 127 Hours and The Last Station among them. And there’s little doubt this streak will continue. The odds of The Descendants failing to generate award-season love are essentially nil, as…
Colorado-based photographer Pete McBride’s film Chasing Water, the companion to his book The Colorado River: Flowing Through Conflict, won the Adventure Through Activism Award over the weekend at the 2011 Adventure Film Festival in Boulder, one of two $500 cash prizes awarded this year (see trailer at www.PeteMcBride.com). The other…
It was always kinda, sorta meant to be, but late last week, the official announcement was made: The LIDA Project theater troupe led by Brian Freeland (a member of Westword’s Mastermind class of 2009) and the Control Group Productions avant-garde dance ensemble led by Patrick Mueller are forming a partnership…
The Starz Denver Film Festival offers the chance to hear directly from filmmakers and, sometimes, a film’s subject. An example: The Friday showing of Wish Me Away, a new doc about country singer Chely Wright’s decision to come out as a lesbian. The film was interesting, but better yet was…
This is one in a series of posts in honor of Denver Arts Week that salute some of our favorite people and places on the arts scene. If you’ve been by Lumonics Light & Sound Gallery, 800 East 73rd Avenue, then you already know it’s unlike any other gallery in…
Poet, humorist and writer Jack Collom has been an integral part of the Boulder poet community for a long while, and his work has ranged from traditional books of poetry to CDs of yodeling. Tonight, at The Laughing Goat in Boulder, Jack will be celebrating his 80th birthday with a…
David Sedaris will be talking pretty at the Paramount tonight, and many of his fans did the same when they entered our contest to win two tickets to the David Sedaris appearance. The rules? To enter, you simply had to tell us what you would do “when engulfed in flames…”…
You like beer, right? How about bottomless beer? Or even better, bottomless beer for charity — complete with a beer glass you can take home to commemorate your do-good, bottomless-beer escapade. It’s all yours for the slurping at tonight’s Kegs for a Kause, which starts at 6 p.m. at Renegade…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he shares choices for Friday through Sunday, November 4-6: The Fairy,…
Foursquare, the location-based check-in app for your smartphone that allows that guy down the hall to be the “Mayor” of his office (congrats, buddy), in addition to dozens of other geo-location-based bells and whistles, released today the first “Badge” for Denver…
“It’s a forced near-death experience,” says Nick Polizzi about Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic drink used in the Amazon region to cure everything from depression to cancer. Polizzi the Denver-based director of the Sacred Science, a documentary which takes eight very sick people from the United States and Australia and drops them…
Tonight’s First Friday? It’s off the clock. Galleries all over town are spilling over with shows worth celebrating in Denver Arts Week style. But it also marks what might be the best collection of photography shows and events to come out at once since last March’s Month of Photography marathon…
Keystone and Copper Mountain open today, joining Arapahoe Basin, Loveland, and Wolf Creek. And make sure you smile for the cameras at Keystone, where its parent company, Vail Resorts, debuts the new EpicMix Photo social media app: A small army of professional photographers on the mountain will be snapping away…
This is part of a series of posts in honor of Denver Arts Week, saluting some of our favorite people and places on the arts scene. I didn’t think my childhood was different from that of anyone else who grew up in a working class home — until a slumber…
Adam Leech, who owns Leechpit, a vintage clothing and collectibles store in Colorado Springs, has been obsessed for years by an unusual folk art form called hobo nickels. Starting with buffalo nickels, which were made by the U.S. Mint from 1913 to 1938, hobo nickel artists carve their own caricatures,…
There’s a lot more to Carré Otis’s new book than her famous ex-husband, Mickey Rourke. But he is a big part of her story. The Colorado resident and supermodel will be signing her new memoir, Beauty, Disrupted, Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Boulder Book Store. The book details everything…
Director Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, featured at the 2011 Starz Denver Film Festival, is a feel-bad movie that’s been declared a masterpiece. So universal has been the acclaim that anyone who begs to differ is in danger of being declared an ignoramus or a philistine. But what the hell: I’ll…
Now that Halloween has passed and the the first snows are sweeping across Denver, the events are moving indoors. That doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of great things going on this weekend, including the start of Denver Arts Week, some dead art, a ski expo, midnight movies and more. It…
When Carlos Fresquez teaches young children about Día de los Muertos, the day of the dead, he has a strategy for making the skeletal imagery not so scary: “I would just say, hey, knock on your head. There’s a bone in there. You yourself are a skeleton. And when you…
What is Colorado culture? It’s a good question, and one that is either fiercely debated or laughed off, depending on who you talk to. For example, when Kenneth C. Arkind, a local poet and Hot Congress Collective member, went to New York recently, he overheard a few people talking about…
For every parent out there worried about pedophilia, Doug Stanhope offers a reassurance: In all likelihood, nobody wants to fuck your kid. That bit is up there on the list of incredibly offensive Stanhope material, but it’s by no means all there is; over the course of his twenty-year career,…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Here, he shares his take on tonight’s opener at Denver FilmCenter/Colfax: Melancholia…
