Ever wonder what sorts of things unnerve the folks who make a living scaring their readers? We polled a few of our favorite local horror authors for the most spine-tingling October attractions, events, sites and sounds — and, some of their answers were as unexpected as the plots twists you’ll…
This week delivers a historical pop-culture references we’ve been waiting on for 26 years—we’re going back to the future. In addition we have art openings to check out and cereal to eat with comedians. Check out the Westword calendar for more events, and drop us a comment if you know…
Twenty-year-old Josh’s (Josh Thomas) world explodes twice in the Please Like Me pilot: first when he realizes he’s gay, and again when his bipolar mother, Rose (Debra Lawrance), attempts suicide. Josh takes both revelations in stride, though he dreads having to explain to his mom, whom he’ll be living with…
We’re in the spooky season, full of haunted houses, zombie crawls, scary movies — and next year could be even spookier. The announcement trailer for Friday the 13th: The Game was just released, and it hypes what looks like the scariest survival horror game yet, coming next fall. The asymmetrical multiplayer…
Here’s a scary story for you. Somewhere in Hollywood, a cabal of producers are forever zombie-ing up the corpses of long-dead licensed properties, ever hopeful that you will continue to throw your money at familiar trademarked characters even as they eat your brains. Sometimes, when a silver moon shines just…
The Denver Botanic Gardens is always cooking up new ways to bring folks inside its gates, and Glow at the Gardens might be one of the best: For three Wednesdays in October the temple to growing things is hosting the family-friendly after-dark event, which features activities for all ages, artistic…
Blue hair is all the rage these days, and the azure locks of Atomic Sean, a hairstylist apprentice at Babooshka, caught our eye when we spotted him waiting for a bus at 11th Avenue and Broadway. Sean is originally from Pennsylvania and New Orleans, and has lived in Denver for…
This weekend in Denver, find art derived from life experiences at Hinterland and a body of work from an unexpected source at David B. Smith Gallery. And then there’s this: Sally Centigrade will offer shelter — and limited-edition prints — to wandering mall zombies hitting downtown Denver for the Zombie…
A lot of ink (most of it negative) has been spilled discussing the cinematic oeuvre of Tyler Perry, whose gospel-infused morality tales leave critics cold but do so well with audiences that they’ve afforded Perry the chance to be an auteur — a creative who has absolute control over every…
Things are looking good in our fine city. The leaves are changing, the sun is setting earlier and the zombies are coming. And coming, and coming. Besides that invasion, the next few days will be filled with outdoor markets, live music and gear-swapping. Here are our top ten choices for…
If you keep up at all with Denver street art, you’re familiar with Gamma Acosta, who paints walls here, across the nation and even abroad. He can often be seen painting and repainting murals on the wall at Bella Vista Mexican Restaurant on the edge of downtown Denver (his latest…
It’s no secret that some of the best ideas are cooked up right in sunny Colorado. In this series, we’ll be exploring the latest products coming from Colorado makers, builders and innovators. After graduating from the University of Colorado Law School, Colorado native Deanna Seery moved to California to practice…
There’s really nothing scary about zombies when they’re solo. They’re slow. They’re stupid. They’re not much stronger than a normal person, and they’re a hell of a lot less coordinated. It’s like being confronted by a really drunk guy who wants to hug it out, and maybe bite your face…
The good news about the Richard Gere drama about the bad news of New York’s enduring homeless crisis? Time Out of Mind, written and directed by Oren Moverman, is stubbornly, respectfully unflashy, Manhattan neorealism steeped more in reportage than in the clichés of prestige films. A prideful man slow to…
Here’s a hair-raising assignment: Imagine you’re tasked with capturing the social and psychological complexities of a nation’s crackup within the framework of popular moviemaking. What if Gone With the Wind tried, in its swooning romance, to explicate Scarlett O’Hara’s slow-to-dawn realization of the hopeless immorality of the world she has…
This fall’s blockbuster at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty, is an orgy of visual experiences, a spectacle comprising scores of works, many of them monumental and all of which could be described as either pretty or dirty or both — just as the show’s title warns…
Whiskery and restless, grooving and grotesque, the documentarian Les Blank’s long-suppressed film A Poem Is a Naked Person plays like your memories of some mad, stoned last-century summer. Commissioned by the boogie-woogie piano bluesman Leon Russell, who is more this roaming doc’s fitful center of gravity than its star, A…
Mia Wasikowska is proof of reincarnation. The Australian actress must be possessed by the spirit of Lillian Gish. At 22 — the same age that Gish starred in Birth of a Nation — Wasikowska became a bankable name, playing the lead in Tim Burton’s garish Alice in Wonderland. In the…
The people at CU-Boulder’s Fiske Planetarium are stoked, to put it mildly. On Monday, October 12, they learned that NASA had awarded them a cool $1,000,000 with which to make movies. “We are getting hammered with proposals already,” says Thor Metzinger, the planetarium’s video producer. The plan calls for the…
My best friend is a funeral director. We talk about death — a lot. Over the last decade of our friendship, I’ve watched as she expertly moves through social situations, carefully choosing to reveal (or not reveal) what, exactly, it is that she does for a living. For all of…
Stories about family life, the Internet and sex all take the stage this weekend in local productions, from Edge Theater’s Alan Ayckbourn comedy Woman in Mind, to a titillating installment from Denver’s dramatic reading staple, Stories on Stage. Here’s how to get all hot and bothered — or enjoy a fresh new…
Five years ago, the Denver Film Society moved into a new theater space at the Lowenstein Arts & Culture Complex on East Colfax. After settling in to the space’s nooks and crannies, the Sie FilmCenter is finally ready for its closeup, and hosting a fundraiser to celebrate its status as…
