This week on stages in metro Denver, moments in American history will be recounted and reimagined, while opera singers and Shakespearean actors throw their lots together for a fun night of poetry and song. Here’s how to play along. Black Elk Speaks Aurora Fox Arts Center March 18 through April…
Marsha Norman’s Getting Out, first produced in 1979, portrays the grim dilemma of a woman just released from prison. Arlene has been driven to her bare-bones Louisville, Kentucky, apartment by a prison guard, Benny, who actually retired from his job for the chance to be with her — though his…
Shiny locks flew as kind-hearted good sports took the challenge and got their heads shaved Friday at the annual St. Baldrick’s Day cancer-research charity event at Fadó Irish Pub. Photographer Ken Hamblin captured the spirit of the day in these images from the party. Now see the hair fly in…
Lewis Black is a thoroughly astute political satirist. Assuaging righteous outrage with laughter is every comedian’s noble goal, but Black rises above the majority of his peers (at least those without their own eponymous television programs) with his keen analysis of social ills. Star and co-creator of Comedy Central’s dearly missed…
Mayor Federico Peña inspired me as a young Denverite with his call to “Imagine a Great City.” Though I often dreamed of moving to New York, my mother’s three bouts with cancer and other familial obligations kept me here, so I decided long ago that if I couldn’t be in…
#92: Tim Roberts Writer, editor, thinker: Tim Roberts is all of these things in his capacity as the day-to-day mover and shaker at Counterpath, the nonprofit literary press and event space that he runs with partner Julie Carr, earning a Westword MasterMind award along the way. As Counterpath starts a new…
Elliot, a Marine, is back from Iraq with a Purple Heart and a serious leg injury — though it heals well enough to allow him the choice of either returning to combat or getting a job at a Subway shop. While sorting through all of this, Elliot gets the full…
Glowing, molten metal and the primal genesis of art-in-the-making kept crowds spellbound over the weekend at the Iron Art Festival VI Iron Pour, presented by the University of Colorado Denver’s College of Arts and Media Sculpture Program on the Auraria campus. All photos by Brandon Marshall. Now see the full…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we look at local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Samuel Prudden wrapped up his debut Denver exhibition at La Cour Art Bar on March 3;…
This week on the literary scene, you can cheer on youth competitors as they step up to the mike for dramatic poetry readings, learn to look at “different” kids with new eyes, or learn a thing or two about writing fiction from contemporary master Michael Ondaatje. Get out your datebook…
U.S. News & World Report recently named Denver the Best Place to Live in the U.S., an honor we celebrated with our list of Twelve Reasons Why Denver Is the Best Place to Live. But Mike thought that piece was overly positive — in fact, he wondered how much Governor Hickenlooper…
It’s mid-March and the bargain fun just don’t stop. This week you can watch comedians play video games, meet a local legend and experience a whole new adventure. Let us now of any bargains we missed, and check out the Westword calendar for even more to do. Sexpot Comedy Presents…
Smash returned to Denver last Wednesday with a can’t-miss combination of ping pong, Jenga, giant cornhole and vintage video games on a wall-sized screen at the Exdo Event Center. The game-oriented club night, which features spins by DJ YoHuckleberry, will be featured every second Wednesday of the month at Exdo…
In the fifth stop on his series on Denver’s neighborhoods — and what riles up their residents — Teague Bohlen recently visited the Baker District, which is booming, with plenty of new businesses along Broadway and prices rising fast on the historic bungalows along the streets of the neighborhood —…
It’s a beautiful sunny day in Denver, and people will be flocking downtown for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, one of the largest in the country. The weather and celebrations such as this (and the recent Broncos parade) helped earn Denver top ranking in U.S. News and World Report’s…
The Denver Film Society’s Women + Film Festival has set its course for another memorable trip into cinema that starts Tuesday, March 15 at the Sie FilmCenter. The festival’s focus on films “by, for, and about women” will bring everything from narrative features about women at various stages of life…
Do you like to go against the grain? First Friday is already old news, so here are three Second Saturday openings to keep your March art agenda rolling. Escapism: Works on ePaper by Tim Schwartz Leon Gallery March 12 through April 24 Opening reception: 7 to 11 p.m. Saturday, March…
Fashion and art go hand in glove. At Michael Sullivan’s Gaia fashion show at Denver Art Society, we ran into local painter and fine artist Garrett Suydam, who embodies that theory in both his style and his work. Suydam was born in Northern California, near the Bay, but has lived in…
This weekend is all about variety. Over the next couple of days you can see legendary local music acts, make friends with arachnids and binge on improv. Keep reading for ten picks each under $10, and check out the Westword calendar for even more to do. Quetzal Books Book Launch…
Denver has more than one winning team: The Denver Broncos may be the national champs, but this city’s artists and arts organizations keep scoring with audiences not just in Colorado, but around the world. And while the football season is over, the 2016 arts season is just beginning, so we’ve…
In one key way, the kinda-maybe sequel 10 Cloverfield Lane might be the purest example yet of the J.J. Abrams house style. Directed by first-timer Dan Trachtenberg but produced by Abrams (Super 8, Lost, Alias, Cloverfield, etc.) the thriller is yet another of the fannish wunderbrand’s mystery boxes, a genre…
This weekend on local stages, Su Teatro transforms a Chicano literary classic through drama and dance, LOCAL Theater Company gets the public involved in play-making, and Vintage Theatre turns on the tear machine with a story about the breakdown of intimacy in the face of tragedy. Bless Me, Ultima Su…
