In Drive Angry, Nic Cage plays a man who broke out of hell to make things right, and now he’s got one last chance at redemption. Now, read that last sentence again in the gravelly voice of the “In a world… guy and note that Nic Cage also drives a…
If you’re a regular reader of Westword, the that headline should’ve tipped you off that now — right this very second — is prime time to vote in our annual Best of Denver Readers’ Poll, the populist sidebar to our own picks of our favorite people, places, songs and inanimate…
Even though we’re well aware that February is a short month, it’s still hard to imagine we’ve already reached the final weekend of it. With rent and bills on the horizon, chances are you might be strapped for cash this weekend, but we’ve got you covered. Well, that’s provided you…
When you’re talking about a silent sci-fi-parody movie based on the 1971 concept LP Bark, commonly regarded as one of Jefferson Airplane’s worst albums, it pretty much only makes sense that it would be set on the moon in the 26th century and prominently involve buffalo. Also that the narrative…
Traditionally the calm before the storm before Spring Break mania takes over in the mountains, the last weekend in February has become a storm of its own, with challenging events at just about every ski area in Colorado. Here’s a preview of the top five ways you could be busting…
Nothing like a flat bang of an episode opening–finally, Snooki has gotten hers (well, again.) But as soon as this dude is in, he’s out–he won’t cuddle. After Snooki tells him to head out, she gets on the duck phone to call up an old flame. Meanwhile, Ronnie’s dad comes…
As far as fictional characters go, there is maybe no archetype so boring as the Hero, that figure of unwavering nobility and poise. Whether that hero is deftly vanquishing foes like Superman or valiantly overcoming adversity a la Odysseus, the construct is the same: The Hero represents the David-like ideal…
Apple introduced its Facetalk app in the computer App Store today, charging $0.99 for it’s video chat platform. Google, meanwhile, is in the midst of a contest where users create video demos of the company’s apps and users vote on the winners. Both companies continue to stride into overlapping territory…
When Matt Vogl and Harrison Rains started Mile High Sci-Fi five years ago, Vogl says, “We agreed never to watch Mystery Science Theater 3000 ever again.” In many ways, their show’s premise is the same — screen terrible movies and make fun of them — but Vogl and Rains also…
We are well aware that graffiti is not subject to the strict grammatical rules imposed on other art forms that, you know, involve words. But this proclamation found on the corner of Yale and University recently had us perplexed. Whoever scrawled these four choice, punctuationless words on a utility box…
We generally don’t think much about who is narrating our stories, but in the case of Benjamin Hale’s new novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, we have to. Mostly because the narrator is an ape. Hale, who grew up in and around Boulder but who currently lives in New York,…
#99: Ratha Sok Ratha Sok just couldn’t stop tagging. Growing up in the projects of Westwood, he found his young voice in a spray can. Graffiti was the only art he knew. And eventually, he got caught. Ratha spent two months in Juvie, and that’s where things started, slowly, to…
Back in the day we had to ski to school uphill in both directions. Okay, maybe not, but you can still get an earful of old-school ski stories when representatives from Arapahoe Basin, Breckenridge, Keystone and Copper Mountain get together tonight to reminisce about the good ol’ days for the…
It’s well known that Philadelphia is a cultural armpit that has never produced anything of value except for Gilbert Lewis, but the town’s community of second-rate trivia geeks is apparently up to speed on random facts as posed by a cross-section of obscure Philadelphia celebrities. Last weekend, a crack trivia…
Journey to the Stars is the first new planetarium show at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in almost two years. Developed by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Journey takes the audience on a tour from a sunset in Central Park to the farthest…
The holiday decorations at the Denver City and County Building weren’t always such an orgy of bad taste. Back in 1935, just three years after the grand building was completed, the city hired muralist Louise Emerson Ronnebeck to create a 76-foot-long Christmas painting — a Nativity scene that fit into…
Plenty of theater-goers, feminists and activists know about Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues, which has been presented in venues of all sizes and shapes around the world. But if you’ve seen that hardly subtle production, you might be surprised by Ensler’s “other” play, The Good Body, which covers similar territory —…
Although he argues that Peter Shaffer’s Equus is a theater classic on a level with Death of a Salesman or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Craig Bond, director of Vintage Theatre’s upcoming performance has an explanation for why it isn’t staged all that often. “The play won’t give you…
The Banff Mountain Film Festival celebrated its 35th anniversary in 2010, and now brings its world tour to the Boulder Theater tonight and tomorrow at 7 p.m. ($19.50 per day, tickets at www.bouldertheater.com), then to Denver’s Paramount Theatre March 3 and 4 at 7 p.m. ($15 per day, tickets at…
The unexpected confluence of two seemingly unrelated ideas has always been the theme of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver’s Mixed Taste lecture series, where the MCA brings in a pair of experts to tag-team-discuss two disparate topics. But in its new Mixed Taste on Ice winter series, says programming…
Mina Samuels turns a tired old playground taunt into an empowering command in her book Run Like a Girl: How Strong Women Make Happy Lives. After discovering the power of running and other sports in her own life, Samuels interviewed nearly 100 female athletes — including Kim Walker, owner of…
Maybe, like a lot of people these days, you’ve picked up a needle and thread to sew or repurpose your own clothes, beguiled by the whole DIY craft movement. And maybe, like a lot of those like-minded folks, you’ve hit a wall. The Art Salon’s in-house professional seamstress/designer, April Hoy,…
