15 Colorado Artists. The Kirkland Museum is presenting a historical show that tracks the beginnings of post-war modernism in Denver using the artist group 15 Colorado Artists as an index. The story goes that the Denver Artists Guild was hostile to modernism at the time. This led to a split,…
Cats. There’s not much of a plot to Cats. You meet the Jellicles, with their cheerful faces and bright black eyes, who dance “under the light of the Jellicle moon”; the Ming-vase-smashing cat burglars, Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer; fat, elegant, gentleman’s club-haunting Bustopher Jones; and contrary-minded Rum Tum Tugger. The show’s…
“Suburban malaise,” they call it, and it’s the reason that Long Island dental hygienist Laura (Jenna Fischer) self-soothes with afternoon Budweisers, jealously stews over her disparaging, workaholic husband (Chris O’Donnell) and lets her twelve-year-old son (Daniel Yelsky) — a chubby ball of hormonal rage — walk all over her. An…
Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Marvel Comics in 1941, Captain America was among the first American comic books intended as an explicit work of patriotic, political propaganda: The cover of the first edition, available months before Pearl Harbor, famously featured the titular costumed hero punching out Adolf…
An early Shakespeare play based on a Roman comedy (Plautus’s The Menaechmi), The Comedy of Errors utilizes a lot of plot devices that were hoary even in Shakespeare’s time — although naturally, they’re at least used deftly. As the play opens, Egeon, a Merchant of Syracuse, has been captured in…
Summertime and the living is easy…not. Here are five ways for local artists to stay busy during the dog days. Because — wink, wink — we know you’re all lying around the pool sipping lemonade all summer long…
While it may be true that the two reviews we’ve run on the Sarah Palin documentary The Undefeated have not been favorable, we didn’t mean to make the Teabaggers and Palin-supporters who have deluged us with angry comments so furious — we just thought the fact that Palin’s movie sucked…
For a group that made its name pulling such dumb pranks as sending “Justin Bieber syphilis” to the top of Google search results and collectively lowering the rating of Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger’s signature Gibson, Anon’s been getting awful serious lately. Well, at least a faction of Anon is. After…
With the dearth of new releases this week, it seems like the media industries think we should all get out of the house a little in the summer, or they don’t like releasing anything new. What they don’t know is that it’s too damn hot outside, and nobody with any…
When he’s not crashing somewhere in Denver (he’s a former resident of the DIY venue/house Rhinoceropolis), this weirdo jet-setter is all over the country (and Europe too!) performing his otherworldly jams. But beyond his musicianship, Pictureplane is also a prolific tweeter, sharing all of his inner musings and interactions with…
It’s going to be hot today in Denver. Damned hot. Too hot. Thinking of going for a run today? Forget it, you’ll kill yourself out there. Thankfully Aquaman is coming to the rescue. “Aquaman, here in landlocked Colorado?” Yes, Aquaman…
Normally, the Westword name would be enough to score press tickets to any movie screening you please — not with the Sarah Palin camp, apparently. It was perhaps on account of our reputation that our requests for tickets to the premier of The Undefeated went ignored, but on the positive…
It’s easily the most pointless fad since pole-sitting, and we’re proud to now be in some way affiliated with it. We came into possession of this awesome photo via local drag performer Felony Misdemeanor, who posed and then posted it to our Facebook wall, thus affording us our new official…
It was after sitting through about 90 percent of the movie that I decided Sarah Palin’s The Undefeated was 49 percent PBS-style documentary on how great Alaska is, 50 percent “Palin pal posse” circle jerk, and 1 percent Ronald Reagan references. Or perhaps a more accurate summation of this one-hour,…
The Sci-Fi Film Series kicked off last week and will be running science fiction films, classic and new, every Wednesday for the next four weeks. The series’ goal is to offer viewers a chance to talk with and hear a short lecture by an actual scientist about the scientific origins…
Everybody knows that, in this town, if you’re riding your bike around during the day and you’re not decked out in blaring, full-body lycra, you are doing it wrong. At night, though, all bets are off. This weekend, the Kaiser Permanente Moonlight Classic once again took off from the state…
If you know retro — and particularly mid-century — you know retro geek Charles Phoenix, a child of the endless car lots and fast food restaurants of Southern California who is famous across the nation for his mid-mod slide shows and modernist expertise. And you might even know about his…
The sun finally came out this weekend after a long run of wild summer weather — remember the hail and flooding last week? And yes, the wait was worth it. So what better way to spend a hot Saturday than at the pool? By going one bigger: Water World. Apparently…
You don’t want to go up against a local in a race like the Xterra Mountain Championship at Beaver Creek: On Saturday Vail’s Josiah Middaugh set a new course record on his way to winning the triathlon with a 19-second lead over Scott Wealing (Boulder) and Brian Smith (Gunnison), making…
God only knows what we did here to deserve the honor, but The Undefeated, the much-hyped 90-minute info-mercial for Sarah Palin, made its debut right here in little old Denver on Friday — well, actually Highlands Ranch, but, you know. At any rate, given the maniacal fervor Palin inspires in…
When I arrived at the Oriental Theater Saturday afternoon, I was put to work stapling together the zines the girls made throughout the week. I then went to work at the door handing out programs to parents of the budding rock stars as well as people in the community who…
Three weeks and change after Colorado State Parks issued its long-awaited approval of the artist Christo’s proposed “Over the River” (not to mention several more years of infighting and bureaucratic hoop-jumping), the project, which would suspend some 5.9 miles of fabric panels over a stretch of the Arkansas River between…
