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. RiseUp Community School, a ten week-old charter school at 1801 Federal, is…
This week you can shake the hand of a Clinton, sharpen you own writing chops with colleagues at the library, or bring your pooch to the Tattered Cover for a dog-friendly, outdoor book signing. There’s something here for everyone — read all about it. Chelsea Clinton, It’s Your World: Get…
This November, let us give thanks for the cornucopia of Denver comedy overflowing with imported and locally-sourced bursts of mirth. Though games of sport typically dominate the autumn entertainment landscape, stuffing comedy into the locker of obscurity like some schoolyard bully, the bounty of joke shows this month is burly…
T The John Cassavetes Award, established in 1989 in collaboration with Cassavetes’s widow, Gena Rowlands, is presented annually to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the world of filmmaking and whose work reflects the spirit of the late filmmaker. The award was first presented to Steven Soderberg;…
Ski resorts started opening last week, so it’s all downhill from here! But there’s also plenty to do in town this week, when you can support a girl’s right to rock and also swap punk records. Check out the Westword calendar for more events, and drop us a comment if you…
Out with the creeps and crawlies of October: November opens the floodgates to all those movies you’ll see advertised as “The Best Film of the Year!” To counter all those new, end-of-the-year releases from the studios, our favorite repertory houses have come up with some great programming of classics and…
Say goodbye to October at galleries around town with shows that celebrate film, double as benefits, dress up for Halloween or prep viewers for a blockbuster coming to the Denver art Museum in November. Where will you end up? Black Light Art Show Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1 6…
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…
