The Centennial State is known for more than a few things: great skiing, the beauty of the Rockies (the mountains, certainly not the ball team), the current Super Bowl-champ Denver Broncos and, yes, legalized pot, to name only a few. What Colorado isn’t widely known for is a relevance to…
August is officially Admit You’re Happy Month, and that’s not going to be hard when there are so many terrific free events this week, including a morning concert with Wheelchair Sports Camp, walking tours of public art in Five Points and a sexy cosplay lesson. Check out the Westword calendar for…
“It’s bigger than the World Series, it’s bigger than the Super Bowl, it’s bigger than Wrestle Mania, it’s bigger than whatever the golf one is!” It was the Denver Air Sex Championships, which founder Chris Trew introduced with that description at the Oriental Theater on August 2. After assorted gyrations…
In 2014, Missouri passed a law that requires women to wait at least 72 hours between an initial doctor’s appointment and having an abortion. Today, Missouri is one of the hardest states in the country in which to obtain [changed “get” to “obtain”] the procedure. That’s great news for anti-choicers…
“It’s bigger than the World Series, it’s bigger than the Super Bowl, it’s bigger than Wrestle Mania, it’s bigger than whatever the golf one is!” So began host Chris Trew’s introduction to the 2016 Denver Air Sex Championships, held at the Oriental Theater on Tuesday, August 2. Trew, founder of…
Even as the summer nights cool down, the Denver fashion scene keeps heating up. August is filled with fashion shows, flea markets and launch parties; here are the ten best fashion events this month, in chronological order. 10. Superposition Fashion Show 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, August 5 RedLine Gallery 2350…
This summer has been too damn hot to do much of anything outside. That makes it the perfect time to stay inside, pour yourself a lemonade (maybe with some coconut rum), curl up by the air-conditioner (if you have one) and read a book. To make your session seem more…
It’s summer! Go outdoors! Have your art and your sport and entertainment, too, at some unorthodox arts experiences this weekend. And sandwiched in between, help Rule Gallery move on from its current space at one last show. Summer Games 2016 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art 5 tp 8 p.m. Friday,…
You can hear the barking of the dog days of summer as we move through August, and fans of Adult Swim — the Cartoon Network’s popular late-night block of edgier animated fare — have a big date to mark on their calendars: On September 10, the Adult Swim Drive-In is…
Hot times, summer in the city. This weekend you can explore different neighborhoods, launch into space and generally rock out all over town. Keep reading for our ten favorite events that cost $10 or less; find more activities on the Westword calendar. First Friday Parking Lot Concert with Selasee & The Fafa Family…
Graffiti purist, occasional tattoo artist, REBEL8 clothing designer and fine artist Mike LeSage, better known to the world as Mike Giant, came of age in the Albuquerque skateboard culture, a milieu he absorbed into his professional life. In the Shepard Fairey mold, he leads a double creative life, leaving his…
The Colorado Shakespeare Festival wraps up its 2016 season this weekend on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. To see if you can still score a ticket, call 303-492-0554 or go to coloradoshakes.org. Read our capsule reviews of three of this season’s shows, all still playing. The Comedy of Errors. Egeon…
The diminutive Sid King was the giant personality behind Sid King’s Crazy Horse Bar, a famous strip club that graced East Colfax Avenue for more than 35 years. This Saturday, August 7, at the Studio Loft of the Ellie Caulkins Opera House, King’s son Mike will present The Fifth Dentist…
Mike Birbiglia’s Don’t Think Twice stands as the best, most revealing film about comedy people and one of the best about artistic collaboration. It’s a boisterous and sensitive work of many facets: tender group portraiture, bang-on media satire, low-key romance, evenhanded inquiry into the ethics of selling out. Above all…
You can have your houses of cards, your Jessica Joneses, your wet hot American summers. The Netflix original with its finger firmest on the pulse of our fraught current moment? It comes from Germany, comprises three feature-length “episodes,” and commences its tale more than a quarter-century ago. NSU: Germany History…
Just over a minute into the third season of the Netflix animated comedy BoJack Horseman, an entertainment-news interviewer asks our hero, “What would an Oscar nomination mean for BoJack Horseman?” The rest of the season is dedicated to answering that question, tracking BoJack (voiced by Will Arnett) from press junkets…
On both an emotional and narrative level, a Hirokazu Kore-eda film pulls you in slowly, almost unexpectedly. The acclaimed Japanese director, whose works include After Life (1998), Still Walking (2008) and Like Father, Like Son (2013), makes movies about things like loss, abandonment and death, but his distinct touch —…
In his latest family portrait, Our Little Sister, Hirokazu Kore-eda chronicles roughly a year in the life of the Koda clan — or what’s left of it. When, years ago, her father left for another woman and their mother subsequently abandoned the family to live her own life, Sachi (Haruka…
“The world changed when Superman flew across the sky,” Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller says early on in Suicide Squad. “And then it changed again when he didn’t,” she continues, over somber images of the Man of Steel’s funeral following his (non-)death at the end of Batman v. Superman. Luckily, that…
In August, many people escape the city for one last summer vacation — but here in Denver, you can escape your everyday life by simply spending a night at the theater. Here are three new options: The Greater Good Three Leaches Theater at Spark Theater 985 Santa Fe Drive 7:30…
While exploring what makes Colorado cool, we checked in with Steve Turner, the state preservationist who was named director of History Colorado this summer; he has a vast appreciation of Colorado’s past and present, while also looking to the state organization’s future. Asked for some of his favorite spots, Turner…
This summer, the Denver Art Museum is presenting several exhibits devoted to dance; DAM curators are mounting shows within their specialties that somehow touch on that topic. Though it might seem like a stretch for Darrin Alfred, the curator of architecture, design and graphics, to come up with something relevant…
