We admit it: The competition wasn’t steep in the Best of Denver 2016 category for Best Civic Olympics. But Stompin’ Ground Games, the latest venture by Denver’s Warm Cookies of the Revolution, a civic health club started by Evan Weissman, was definitely a winner. Starting last September, Warm Cookies of…
Leather lined the Holiday Inn Lakewood over the weekend during Colorado Leather Fest 2016, a three-day gathering of the local leather-loving kink community that featured a vendor mall, leather-centric seminars, a bootblack contest and the all-important Colorado Master/slave competition. Photos by Ken Hamblin. Now see the full Colorado Leather Fest…
The spring offerings at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver cover a lot of ground, with four impressive solos on view right now. Occupying the spaces on the main floor is Arnie Svenson: The Neighbors, a body of color photos depicting the New York artist’s neighbors as seen through their…
What do you get when you make a superhero movie with a male lead but keep your female audience at the forefront in your decision-making? Apparently a box office hit. By now, you’ve probably heard about the wild success of the little superhero film that could: Deadpool. Nobody expected much…
The Chet Baker portrayed by Ethan Hawke in Robert Budreau’s misty biopic Born to Be Blue is midway between beauty and ruin. Behind him are the 1950s, when his easy virtuosity and matinee-idol looks swiftly took Baker from Charlie Parker’s sideman to major player on Dick Bock’s Pacific Jazz label…
Here’s a question faced by the creators of almost every superhero adaptation: How do do you pull this off without copying Frank Miller’s Batman? Too many modern superhero dramas — including the Dark Knight films, Arrow, Daredevil and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice — either ape the dour realism…
Hardcore Henry screened as a midnight movie at last September’s Toronto Film Festival, and was so ecstatically received that a distributor bidding war ensued. Six months later, the film has hit theaters nationwide and fallen flat, thanks to intensely negative reviews from critics upset by its unceasing violence. It didn’t…
Here’s about as convincing an argument as I can imagine for the existence of the modern Hollywood blockbuster. Disney and Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book reinvigorates an oft-told tale with star power, technology and calculated charm. It’s been billed as a live-action remake (it’s too good to be called a…
The seventh annual Performance Art Week, spearheaded by Rian Kerrane, a sculptor who also teaches at the College of Arts and Media at the University of Colorado-Denver, kicks off tonight at Emmanuel Gallery. For this year’s PAW, Kerrane is pulling both artists and the public into situations characterized by the immediacy…
When Philip Spangler and I were trying to figure out how to fit a set of stairs onto a 20’ trailer, our original design required some accommodations. The shorter a set of stairs are, the higher the rise – and the harder to climb. With my bad knees thanks to…
#86: Jaime Carrejo Fine artist, mentor to students at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design and former RedLine resident Jaime Carrejo grew up in the borderlands of El Paso, a region — and state of mind — that he still explores explores conceptually in interdisciplinary work that’s been exhibited…
Every now and then, an artist — or, in the case of Buntport Theater Company, an artists’ mind meld — seems to pass through a metaphorical doorway. For more than a decade now, Buntport has been one of the bright lights on the local theater scene. With their company-created original…
Scream Screen, our Best of Denver 2016 winner for Recurring Classic Film Series, hosted and curated by Best Bloodthirsty Host Theresa Mercado, will return to the Sie FilmCenter in May with a big-screen tribute to horror master John Carpenter. The event kicks off at 10 p.m. Saturday, May 28, with a special…
Last year’s inaugural SeriesFest brought a week of TV-centric events to the Sie FilmCenter that celebrated the past, present and future of storytelling on the boob tube. Now get ready for season two. SeriesFest announced today that talented Grammy and Golden Globe award-winning singer/songwriter/producer Sia will kick off the second SeriesFest…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Multimedia artist Aimee Fink’s Year of the Buffalo – on display at Kaladi…
This week on the Denver literary scene, you can get up close and personal with a world-class journalist and champion of the West, a writer whose work is infused with Zen philosophy, or a sci-fi author who appeals to video-gaming lifers. Grab your joystick— or your intellect — and check…
Life in Denver is getting hairier by the minute. There are beard oil companies popping up left and right, and the I Heart Denver store even unveiled a Keep Denver Beard shirt just in time for Opening Day. But keeping those beards in order isn’t easy, which is why shops…
There’s plenty of free entertainment around town this week — but don’t forget that truly free activity: a stroll. From central Denver, you can walk to any of the three events we’re highlighting this week: a party with rockers, a documentary focusing on indigenous people in America, and a cool…
Last night the 16th Street Mall was packed with people heading to and from the ball game, people heading to and from the theater, people heading to and from restaurants…and some people just hanging out. Still, the Downtown Denver Partnership and Downtown Denver Business Improvement District would like to add…
Kneeling on the floor of his Steamboat Springs shop, Atlas Tattoo Studio, artist/owner Milo Alfring wades through pages of slightly crumpled, brightly colored drawings. The images, usually residing in an unassuming black filing cabinet, now spread almost halfway across the floor. “I don’t usually get to look at these,” Alfring…
Rising stars and established mentors in the regional arts world will be on display this weekend at local galleries, and if you’re into tattoos — and who isn’t? — there’s a show for that, too. Theresa Anderson and Dayana Ruiz: Plus Two Dateline Gallery and Phillip J. Steele Gallery April…
While spring may be the season for vibrant colors and floral prints, classic menswear is always in style. We spotted Charlez Sain, who works security for the Colorado National Bank building, downtown on 17th Street. “I like to dress up four days a week,” says Sain, who is originally from…
