After October ends, the next holiday on the calendar is Thanksgiving — and there are many reasons to be thankful for being a geek here in Denver. November may lack the nerd cred of October — Thanksgiving is a pale substitute for Halloween, even if you include an MST3K Turkey Day…
Fall is finally in the air, and it’s time to celebrate the season with good food, kid-friendly scares, corn mazes and lots and lots of pumpkins! Here are ten of our favorite October events in Colorado. 10) Harvests and Contests at the Market at Union Station Harvest Market October 10, with…
Halloween falls on the weekend this year, which means it’s going to be extra nuts. Try a devilish beer, check out the ghost of Kurt Cobain and party in general over the next few days. Click on the Westword calendar for more spooky and scary events, and drop us a…
The summer theater season is ending, but there are still a few shows to see this weekend. Here are capsule reviews of two productions on local stages this weekend. Relatively Speaking. Witty, surprising dialogue as tangled and twisty and as continually knotting and unfurling as a ball of wool between…
It’s that time of year again! Halloween costumes say a lot about the type of person you are: You can dust off your old witch hat and take the easy route, or try something new and daring. But be careful: It’s easy to make a mistake that could haunt you…
It’s no secret that some of the best ideas and inventions are cooked up right in sunny Colorado. In this series, we’ll be exploring the latest products coming from the state’s makers, builders and innovators. One in eight couples struggles with infertility, according to some estimates. And it’s often a…
The annual Shining Ball at the notoriously haunted Stanley Hotel celebrates the building’s ties to the Stephen King novel and Stanley Kubrick film. In 1974, King stayed in room 217, where he allegedly was visited by spirits while he was sleeping. According to hotel staff legend, the horror writer was…
The most wonderful day of the year is almost here! Halloween will be here — and gone! — before we know it, but there’s still time to go hard on the holiday’s best tradition — spooky movies. Since I typically spend the entire month of October binging on horror movies,…
Before Anthony Bourdain published Kitchen Confidential, in 2000, mere mortals who simply eat in restaurants had little idea about the drinking, debauchery and drug use rampant among the folks responsible for getting their fettuccine Alfredo to the table. The book was eye-opening if true, and a rambunctious, vicarious pleasure even…
The Colorado Photographic Art Center’s annual benefit event Fashion/Culture 2.0 brought live music, Tivoli Brewing Company beers and an eye-candy fashion show inspired by icons of fashion and music to the Tivoli Turnhalle on Saturday, October 24. All photos by Ken Hamblin III. Now see the full Fashion/Culture 2.0 slide…
I grew up in a not-very-big house in Virginia Village where I shared a room with one of my siblings for most of my childhood. Even though we had pretty tight living quarters to begin with, my parents still opened our little home to anyone who needed it — throughout…
For its fall offerings, the Arvada Center is hosting three shows connected not by style or theme, but in how the works included in each were made. The subjects of the three shows — unified under the banner of FIRED — are iron, ceramics and glass, with the iron having…
When Uncalled Four began, few people would have guessed that a bar show featuring Denver comics riffing on Cards Against Humanity-style prompts would grow into one of the scene’s most popular nights. The show, which pits comedians against one another in a race to the gutters of irreverence, has been featured…
Scary stories about madness, S&M and the ghosty tales of our youth are popping up on stages all around town. ’Tis the season for indoor entertainment with maybe a touch of the spooky. Trick or treat: Here are three new shows this weekend: Equus Avenue Theater October 29, through November…
Being a parent to a preschooler is never easy, but it’s even harder if your job and creative outlet terrifies your poor offspring, as local cartoonist Stan Yan discovered when his son was three. “I have all this zombie art hanging from the walls [in the basement] and our laundry…
Thanks to the Denver Center Theatre Company’s New Play Summit, we had the privilege of seeing Samuel D. Hunter’s The Whale — which had a reading at the DCTC in 2011 and earned a full production by the company a year later — before it became a major success in…
The most effective scene in James Vanderbilt’s brisk, outraged Truth is one that will be familiar to anyone who has ever sat in a room where editors and reporters are breaking down an investigative story. The reporters — here, 60 Minutes researchers played by Dennis Quaid, Elisabeth Moss and Topher…
Thirty-six-year-old Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva, the writer-director and star of the comedy Nasty Baby, is himself an enfant terrible. In eight years he’s made six eclectic films, his own wicked twists disguised in what looked like the usual arthouse tropes. The Maid, his American breakthrough, looked like a benign Latin…
Sci-fi nerds of every stripe turned out last weekend for Denver’s oldest and most literary sci-fi convention, MileHiCon. Photographer Danielle Lirette was there to capture all the action — and the costumes. Now see Westword’s full MileHiCon 47 slide show…
This is my fiftieth post — after one year, two months and about seventeen days of building the tiny house. The structure is now finished, and the next step is the stairs and siding. To mark this milestone (and because I am working on a large-scale commission with an insane…
#6: Michelle Ellsworth Michelle Ellsworth ushers performance beyond the 21st century with a multimedia flourish that’s distinctly her own. Movement, installation, video, text and web design are among the tools she wields in producing fascinating, funny, sharp-witted works that dissect modern problems. A professor in dance and interdisciplinary arts at…
To paraphrase Tolstoy, all happy families are alike; each dysfunctional family is dysfunctional in its own way. The family at the center of Nina Raine’s Tribes is dysfunctional in a highly verbal, entertaining and also dismaying way. Father Christopher is a writer and critic whose loud carping spills over into…
