Just in time for the season premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race All-Stars Season 2, gay hotspot Tracks has selected the best of its Ultimate Queen Competition for Denver’s own All-Stars battle, which kicks off on Thursday, August 25, with a wig and a prayer. Over the years, seven scrappy divas…
Whether you’re a reader, a writer or a really good listener, words and stories will jump off the page this week in unexpected ways. Denver’s literary scene is just diverse that way. Here’s where to find your fancy. Mark Beauregard, The Whale: A Love Story Tattered Cover LoDo 7 p.m…
The kids are back in school, the nights are getting cooler, and there are moments here and there when it just plain feels like autumn. That’s right: Summer is almost over, and aside from a lot of binge-watching various Netflix series in front of the A/C unit, you just don’t…
This week is full of free fun. You can enjoy a mini-music fest, a psycho date at the beach and some of the biggest laughs around — which will get you ready for the High Plains Comedy Fest this coming weekend. Check out the Westword calendar for more entertainment opportunities…
Nothing Short of Dying, the first thriller by Erik Storey, the focus of this week’s “Storey Time,” was just released this week and is already garnering rave reviews. In a state eager for more literary stars, Storey could soon shoot to the top — not just as a Colorado author, but…
It’s a beautiful day to get out and see some art in Denver — but you can skip the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. After pipes burst in the building yesterday, the MCA had to close for the weekend. Here’s the message from the museum: MCA Members, Friends & Visitors,…
Third Friday brings a hero of the disabled artist community and a quickie show dedicated to the color red to the Art District on Santa Fe, while Kim Shively’s video about pumas slinks into Forest Room 5 on Saturday. Here’s where to go this weekend to enjoy some artist appreciation…
Fashion can be mysterious…and intriguing. This week we spotted a striking night look sported by Kimberly Kay, owner of the online shop Disco Leaf Vintage. For a concert at the Ogden, she was wearing a silver sequined cardigan. Kay says she loves finding and selling vintage treasures; her favorite materials include…
“I went from being an addict to an entrepreneur,” says Face Pol, who wants to “throw it all out there.” The owner of the new Fit Republic supplement store — set to open Saturday, August 20, in Longmont — tells it like it is. After battling alcoholism and drug addiction, he…
Need some summer reading? While you wait for the release of Nothing Short of Dying, the new book by Colorado author Erik Storey, try an offering from his ten (current) favorite thriller authors. Here’s his description of what to expect from each one: Steve Berry: If you love thrillers infused…
Summer’s not over yet, and there are plenty of hot events this weekend where you can make enough memories to keep you warm all winter long. Check out live performances in Boulder, enjoy musical history by the river and rock out in general. Here are our ten favorite events for under…
The Boulder Fringe Festival is under way, with performances in unexpected places around the town. In fact, tonight you can see the redoubtable Band of Toughs present its adaptation of As You Like It, which is set in the Forest of Arden, as a kind of primitive rager outside the Highland…
Among the unpleasant upheavals predicated by Denver’s current boom are the twin problems of soaring rents and the demolition of existing buildings to make room for new ones. Together they’re forcing artists out of their studios and galleries out of their homes. That’s the case with Hinterland, whose location in…
Late in Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, his unsurprisingly wry, quizzical documentary survey on life inside and beside the virtual world, Werner Herzog stumps two brain researchers with a lyrical question in that instantly recognizable (and often parodied) German accent: “Does the internet dream of itself?” An ever-adventurous…
From its opening image — of a distraught woman battling massive ocean waves on a moonlit night — to its surprisingly ambiguous final shot — of what, I won’t say — Kubo and the Two Strings sears itself into your brain. The stop-motion animation studio Laika has perfected, over the…
In a summer of disappointing reboots, underperforming sequels and rejected franchise bait, Ben-Hur is something rare: a remake no one asked for but weary moviegoers might accept as a small gift for lack of any better option. Timur Bekmambetov’s reimagining of William Wyler’s 1959 epic, itself preceded by two silent…
Anna Gunn actually gets to do things in Meera Menon’s expansive high-finance drama Equity, which is almost reason enough to recommend it right there. The Breaking Bad co-star tears into the role of a rainmaking banker taking a Silicon Valley company public. For once it’s Gunn whose character gets to…
Once, American comedies concerned underdog heroes who challenged the status quo and seized the territory of the upper-class characters who thought they were in control. Slobs vs. snobs. During the wartime administration of the lesser President Bush, the wealthy thoroughly dominated the culture, occupying America the way the army patrolled…
Denver’s slam poetry scene is booming, and it promises to explode next year, when the National Poetry Slam Championships come to Denver for the first time next August. Last year local poet Suzi Q. Smith, the executive director of Poetry Slam Inc., revealed that Denver had been named an anchor…
Landscape painter Joellyn Duesberry quickly became a fixture of the Colorado art scene after she first came west from New York in 1986. Now the artist, who lived in Greenwood Village, has died after a long struggle with cancer. Born in 1944 in Richmond, Virginia, Duesberry became interested in art…
Art has been given new life on the wall of Potager, a garden spot of a restaurant in Capitol Hill. After eight years, abstract artist Andrew Hockenberry returned to Denver from New York City to restore his mural on the north-facing wall of the beloved eatery that Teri Rippeto opened in 1997. Hockenberry,…
Mid-career artist Jason Middlebrook, who lives and works in Hudson, New York, is the subject of an elegant single-artist show titled Drawing Time at David B. Smith Gallery. This is Middlebrook’s first solo at the gallery, but his work has been exhibited nationally for over twenty years and acquired for important…
