The world-famous Sundance Film Festival and its film-incubating Sundance Labs are kicking off the sixth year of Film Forward, a touring program of indie films and filmmakers, in Denver with the Denver Film Society, which will host two free screenings on February 22 and 23 at the Sie FilmCenter. Sundance…
Arcade. There’s no single word that can trigger more nostalgia for people of a certain age — my age, as it turns out. For those of us who grew up in the era, arcades (and arcade games) are our analog to Proust’s madeleines: Running into a favorite machine from the…
Folks showed up wearing next to nothing last weekend at Syntax Physic Opera, with donations of underwear and toiletries for the Urban Peak youth services organization in hand, for a full-on party with live music Church Fire, the Milk Blossoms, Crush Craze and the Hang Rounders and a giving spirit…
Over the past several years, Denver artist Nicole Banowetz has been getting attention because of the unusual medium she employs: inflated cloth. Banowetz is a member of the Pirate co-op, and her work is the subject of Gentle Infestation, now on display at the gallery. While the exhibit marks the…
Denver has a winning reputation — and not just because of the Denver Broncos. This city’s arts scene is renowned across the country, and for our annual Winter Arts Guide, inserted in this week’s edition of Westword, we asked a dozen people intrinsic to that scene a few questions about…
In order to capture the often-unseen moments of struggle when people try to survive colder weather in the inner city, Denver photographers Armando Geneyro and Blake Jackson used Instagram to invite photographers from all over the world to share what they saw. The resulting black-and-white images will be shown in…
A laugh comes at last just before the end credits of Robert Eggers’ lit-class horror-bummer The Witch: a boastful note attesting to the documentary truthfulness of the dialogue in the movie we’ve just seen. Over 90 minutes that prove shriekiness is no impediment to ponderousness, we’ve beheld the harrowing of…
Dan Jacobs, the director at the University of Denver’s Vicki Myhren Gallery, used to be a high-ranking staffer at the Denver Art Museum. As a result, he has brought museum-like programming, like the current exhibit, Learning to See Color, to the Myhren. Jacobs and co-curator, Jeffrey Keith, a well-known Denver artist and…
Photographer Mark Sink helps keep Denver’s art scene in focus. He made his own mark on the city decades ago, with his early Diana toy-camera shots, and today he continues to experiment with the medium, using the analog alchemy of collodion wet-plate photography, his current method of choice. But his…
Grown-ups may wince, but Paul Dalio’s earnest, ambitious manic-poet romance Touched With Fire is a gift to the young and passionately creative, to the brains-a-poppin’ kids caught up in invention and each other and the invention of each other. You don’t have to be bipolar to get caught up yourself…
The faster old Denver gets torn down and discarded, the longer our lists of long-gone Colorado monuments and landmarks becomes. We’ve already shared lists of monuments that include a comedian’s arm and a plaque dedicated to the other Columbine massacre. Now here are ten more weird and wonderful Colorado landmarks you…
Hey, hey, LBJ/How many kids did you kill today? I remember chanting this with hundreds of other demonstrators as we marched against the war in Vietnam. We knew the war was a vicious travesty and that the president’s lies had forced us into it. When a weary-looking Lyndon Baines Johnson…
For the first year, anime lovers assembled at the Renaissance Denver Stapleton Hotel for the Colorado Anime Festival on February 13. This event was a dream come true for its creators, with over 85 cons experience cumulatively, they finally were able to bring a proper anime fest to Denver. Photographer…
Caution: Neon may be blinding. Things got totally tubular on February 13, when Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum hosted an ’80s Dance at the Hangar. Although leg warmers were not required, there was plenty of big hair on display… and could there ever be a spot more appropriate…
Surrounding states may be more popular places to film movies, but Colorado has one of the biggest, most burgeoning film scenes around. Not only do we have the chance to watch great films every day, but there are dozens of festivals in the Denver area and around the state dedicated…
Denver Comic Con has brought in some big names in its short history, but for year five it’s going straight for the top shelf. Comics legend Stan Lee was already on the roster for the June event when the announcement came late last week of the addition of a member…
Shout out to the dead presidents for giving some people day off this week! You can use the extra time to head to Boulder for a special program on a pair of raunchy, rowdy filmmakers tonight, or just finish some tasks so that you can enjoy other fine freebies this…
There are so many reasons to love artist Gary Sweeney, who definitely made his mark on Denver. His “America, Why I Love Her,” an homage to family road tips complete with old postcards and Sweeney photos, continues to amuse travelers at Denver International Airport, two decades after it was installed at…
There were so many amazing moments captured on social media during the Super Bowl 50 win and subsequent Broncos parade that we just had to share some of the love. Photographers captured kids playing hooky, dogs playing hooky, adults playing hooky… well, you get the picture. Thanks to all of…
When you write about development in Denver, readers respond — whether they’re commenting on a story about Goed Zuur, a new taproom devoted to sour beers opening on Welton Street, or on one of Teague Bohlen’s columns about what makes residents of certain neighborhoods mad — mostly recently, residents of Five Points…
Are you “Crushing on Colorado”? Downtown Colorado Inc., a nonprofit membership organization committed to building communities in this state, has launched a campaign for Valentine’s Day that celebrates a love of Colorado people, places and things. DCI wants you to share your love for Colorado by snapping a photo “crushing”…
On the surface, there isn’t much to object to in How to Be Single. Look, it says! No matter how fabulous their lives may seem, everyone wants to be happier and more fulfilled. Everyone is looking for something more, just like you! And really, Christian Ditter’s film (based on the…
