Art and fashion go hand in hand, taking cues from each other. This week we spotted the perfect combination of art and fashion near Colfax and Broadway. Up-and coming artist Jose Roman, who was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, came to Colorado when he was seven year old. He describes his…
Benghazi is a hashtag battle-cry, a call to arms that many Americans don’t understand. Unlike the simplicity of “Remember the Alamo!” a bleat of “Benghazi!” still has people wondering, “Wait, what happened? And why are we mad?” Michael Bay’s 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi has an explanation, though…
Critics rarely receive love from filmmakers. Last year’s Best Picture Oscar winner, Birdman, featured a vengeful harpy of a theater reviewer (played by Lindsay Duncan) hellbent on annihilating a play before she’d even seen it. Birdman was joined in its release year by other unfair portraits of critics in Top…
New year, new ideas: There are plenty of those floating around local galleries this month, and a number of shows with interactive and media-based elements are opening this weekend. And then there’s a double-shot of the late Roland Bernier, offered in companion shows at Spark and Walker Fine Art. Look…
‘Tis awards season again and the Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences has spoken from the mountain top and revealed who they deem worthy of potentially taking home the Oscar, their naked little bald statuette that seems to mean so much to so many in the film industry. Did…
City, O’ City awoke to a surprise yesterday: A mystery graffiti artist had used the west-facing utility box in front of the restaurant at Sherman Street and East 13th Avenue to create this hybrid Lemmy Kilmister and David Bowie wheat-paste piece. And the artist really nailed the culmination of loss people…
The town is united in orange for the Broncos this weekend, but there’s still plenty to do before and after game time. You can spit hot fire, roller skate or find out who’s coming out of the queer comic closet. For even more events, smash that Westword calendar button. Telluride…
Alan Rickman has died at the age of 69. To Americans of a certain generation, he’ll always be Hans Gruber from Die Hard; to those of a slightly fresher vintage, he’ll never not be Severus Snape. But it was his ability to transcend the typecasting of those iconic roles that…
How do we remember our heroes? Colorado was one of the first states to celebrate MLK Day, and on January 18, the annual Marade honoring Martin Luther King Jr. will kick off in City Park. But there are now more Americans born after the death of Martin Luther King Jr…
Rodeo events rock the arena throughout the run of the National Western Stock Show, with bull-riding shows, mutton-busting and the flashy Mexican rodeo, and photographer Brandon Marshall caught a lot of the action during 2016 NWSS opening weekend. But there’s still more to come: Official Pro Rodeo sessions kick off…
In metro Denver this weekend, you can go back back in time to ancient Greece, ride a bus loaded with angels in the 1960s, or lend a helping hand while taking in a Mamet drama. It’s all good, and all an excellent reminder of what the local theater scene has…
Since opening Hope Tank in 2012, founder Erika E. Righter has operated with this motto: Gifts that give back. Every purchase made in the store impacts the community, as customers can choose one of the charities and causes on Hope Tank’s list to receive a portion of the sale. Now,…
I don’t often write about music for this column, but it’s not often that a musical icon steeped in science fiction dies days before I write Geek Speak. I’m talking, of course, about David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust himself, a man whose first hit was about an astronaut who was never…
MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles is gorgeous and lunkheaded, gory and hilarious, sometimes awful and sometimes full of awe. It’s also quite welcome: Just as Terry Brooks tore the pompousness out of Tolkien with his pulpy, brick-thick Shannara novels, the series – executive produced by Jon Favreau – shows your Game…
When someone prominent in popular culture passes away, there’s a surge of their imagery that can be seen everywhere. Notorious humans are immortalized on every surface imaginable — in print, on t-shirts, in public art. It’s often that there is only an handful of already-famous photographs of that person spread…
Jerry De La Cruz was born and raised in Denver and first expressed his artistic talents by winning a coloring contest at the age of seven. Although his solo at the Museo de las Americas, A Road Well Traveled: An Art Life Retrospective: Jerry De La Cruz, doesn’t go back…
“You don’t have to see the shed, I normally wouldn’t get excited by a shed,” says Tim Roberts, co-owner of Counterpath Press, a Westword MasterMind, as he jiggles the key in the lock anyway. Inside are boxes of books: experimental poetry, performance manuscripts, transcripts. Roberts opens a box and digs…
Downtown Aurora Visual Arts started small in 1993 in a vacant storefront, eventually taking over the rest of of the building as other tenants emptied out. The initial space was one where they had to make do, notes DAVA director Susan Jenson, and that’s what they did: The organization’s free art-education…
Are you lethargic, irritable? Unable to get out from under the warm covers and deal with reality? Feeling trapped? Cranky? Congratulation:. You have cabin fever! And we’re here to offer the cure. Turn off the TV; cut out the booze, coffee and high carb/high sugar foods; and gt out and do…
The new year is here — and while there’s snow on the ground, the local fashion scene is gearing up for spring with plenty of hot events. From bridal parties to meet-and-greets, trunk shows to sales, here are a dozen fashion events to put on the calendar for January. 1…
Charlie Kaufman is a cartographer of the soul. You can picture him hunched over parchment, accurately inking each dark river and, off to the side, cautioning that there be dragons. What makes Kaufman cinema’s best psychoanalyst is a contradiction. He sees people for who we are — hurtful, hopeful, lovely,…
A sure-bet time-waster with a clutch of big laughs? A 100-minute brief on Hollywood’s lack of imagination? Grist for future essays about how quickly the idea of Ice “Fuck tha Police” Cube playing a gun-happy hero cop became routine? Whatever you make of Ride Along 2 beforehand is certain to…
