You might think he’s just another Internet wonder, but teen comedian/musician Bo Burnham is determined to prove he’s for real… and he’s doing it in the flesh. The fresh-faced performer, who first garnered mass attention (to the tune of two-million hits) for his YouTube video “My Whole Family Thinks I’m…
Denver cultural mover and shaker Deborah Jordy has known Henry Lowenstein since she was a kid, enamored even then of his many quality children’s productions at the city’s fêted Bonfils Theatre on East Colfax Avenue. And she grew up a true believer in the magic Lowenstein, who was the creative…
Adam Helms. This solo in the MCA’s Paper Works Gallery is the New York artist’s first museum show anywhere. In his works on paper and in a monumental sculpture that conjures up a shooting blind, Helms explores political themes, especially armed struggle. He takes images of different radical and extremist…
For as long as it forges ahead without explanations, The Unborn works in its way, as a series of snap-cut gotchas introducing each new contestant in its pageant of cold-sweat set pieces. Often, this involves starlet Odette Yustman approaching some obscured, inevitably terrifying figure from behind, very…very…slowly. Yustman plays Casey,…
Ari Folman’s broodingly original Waltz With Bashir is a documentary that seems only possible, not to mention bearable, as an animated feature. Folman, whose magic-realist youth film Saint Clara was one of the outstanding Israeli films of the 1990s, has created a grim, deeply personal phantasmagoria around the 1982 invasion…
Set in 1964, when the Second Vatican Council was convening, Doubt tells the story of a priest who may have molested a twelve-year-old boy — who just happens to be the sole black kid in the predominantly Irish and Italian school where the priest teaches — and the nun determined…
The Wrestler may be plenty visceral, but it’s no more a sports movie than professional wrestling is a competitive sport. Chronic over-reacher Darren Aronofsky’s relatively unpretentious followup to the ridiculous debacle that was The Fountain is all about showbiz. It’s also a canny example. You want to make a comeback…
Perhaps you spent too damn much money this holiday season. Or maybe you didn’t, and it’s driving your shopaholic soul crazy. It could just be that you’re already committed to the newfangled concept of renewable shopping and plan to start the new year off by doing it more conscientiously than…
It’s a new year and a new season. Time to learn from the past, pick up the stick and score! It’s Mammoth Lacrosse time! Tonight’s home opener against the Portland LumberJax is sure to be full of sparks as the team welcomes some veterans and some newcomers, like Gee Nash…
Thirty-three years ago, a group of guys trying to figure out what they could do with their Jeeps during the winter months came up with racing – on ice. Today, Our Gang Ice Racing has become a Georgetown Lake staple on weekends in January and February. Club president Jean Denny…
Not religious but like to mooch occasional holiday cheer in the form of Christmas music and fuzzy lights? The 2009 Festivus Film Festival, which opens tonight and continues through January 11, provides a similar outlet: No need to follow independent films religiously to enjoy what this festival has to offer…
Westword art critic Michael Paglia is one of Denver’s go-to guys on the subject of regional modern art: He not only flat-out loves it more than almost anything, but he’s also a walking reliquary of regional art history and an up-to-date encyclopedia of who’s who in the present. There aren’t…
PHAMALY continues its inspiring work tonight with Steel Magnolias, performed by the company’s physically and/or developmentally disabled actors. “People who love the movie will not be disappointed,” says spokeswoman Gloria Shanstrom. “All the characters are there, most of the famous quotes are there, the whole ‘love you more than my…
If you ask me, a person would have to be nuts to willingly get on the back of a red-eyed, one-ton boy bovine with smoke coming out of its ears and go for an eight-second joy ride. But that shows how much I know. For one thing, there’s a saddlebag…
From John F. Kennedy’s blonde ambition to Bill Clinton’s cigar, Larry Craig’s bathroom footsie and Eliot Spitzer’s golden call girl, politicians across all ages, sexual orientations and political affiliations are renowned for their indiscretions and infidelities. But whether it unfolds in the 24-hour news cycle or in the privacy of…
If you like your beer big or bad or Belgian, then Vail is where you want to be today. The city is hosting the ninth annual Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Festival, highlighting an international selection of 175-plus beers, many with more than 7 percent alcohol by volume. These include…
Tribute bands typically face some creative constraints. After all, people go to see the tribute group to hear live music that sounds exactly like the band of honor. In the case of the Rocky Mountain Grateful Dead Revue, that presents a bit of a quandary, because the Dead were known…
Time to burn off all those beer-guzzling, turkey-eating, Christmas-cookie calories. But instead of hitting the gym, how does snowshoeing in some deep powder sound? If you like being outdoors better than sweating on a treadmill, then head to Echo Lake for free snowshoeing lessons during the fun annual Winter Trails…
It’s about to get warm in a very cold place. The Breckenridge Mountain Rotary Club is organizing the second annual Chilly Chili Cook-Off today from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Riverwalk Center, 150 West Adams Street in Breckenridge. DJ DC will be spinning as people compile their best spicy…
Since 1994, the Ouray Ice Festival has been the pinnacle of ice climbing events, and it happens in a town that considers itself the Switzerland of the U.S. The festival takes place at the Ouray Ice Park, which was inspired when a leaky pipe from the Uncompahgre River diversion dam…
Tonight’s Central Hockey League All-Star game doesn’t follow the usual format. Rather than collections of all-stars facing off against each other, a single all-star squad will take on your Colorado Eagles. According to J.P. Puma, the Eagles’ manager of communication, this approach is so old that it’s new. “The idea…
Charles Barkley, the 6’ 5” former power forward for the Phoenix Suns and Houston Rockets, made a name for himself by being outspoken and irreverent. Currently a TV basketball analyst, Barkley has also considered running for governor of Alabama, first as a Republican and now as a Democrat. His conservative…
