Caitlin Doughty wrote the book on death: Last year’s Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, whose title references the popular Platters hit and the emotions associated therewith, but also ties to how actual smoke gets in your eyes when you’re cremating a corpse and have to go in there and stir the bones…
Last weekend artists were out in force for the Westword Music Showcase and Denver Pridefest 2015. One of the more eye-catching street styles we spotted was sported by Fort Collins-based electronic and French-pop artist WHITECATPINK, the music project of David Jacoby. Keep reading to find out where Jacoby shops, what subcultures…
Doc Twentieth-century art history often focuses on the Coasts, but here in Colorado a colony of artists, many of them well-schooled abroad before settling in the West, were producing quality — and in some cases, world-class — work. More than fifty of them, including such names as Paschal Quackenbush, Louise…
Best of Denver winner Whorl Shop, which teamed up with Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design on the successful FARMCAD, will launch its own private label, Imprints by Whorl, to be produced at RMCAD this fall. “We are so grateful for the continuous support we receive from our clients, business partners,…
Get up and get outdoors! Whether you’re a seasoned pro who has climbed dozens of Fourteeners or someone who just likes to stroll outside, there’s a trail along the Front Range calling your name. Here are ten of our favorites. Arthur’s RockLory State Park, Bellvue 970-493-1623 $7 for parking pass…
This weekend is going to go from 0 to 100 real quick with a vast array of festivals and events. Pack an extra water bottle because we’re racing bikes, partying (so much partying), and laughing with and at comedians like summer is going to be over tomorrow. There’s an overload…
Despite an evening rain shower, folks of all ages had a roaring good time Tuesday night at the Film on the Rocks screening of Jurassic World, complete with a pre-movie set by the School Of Rock All-Stars. Photographer Brandon Marshall brought back these images of all the prehistoric partying. Now see…
Yoko Ono is a towering figure in the twentieth-century art and music worlds. She was one of the main artists behind the Fluxus movement, and her performance and visual art and sound experiments had made her famous before she ever met her future husband, John Lennon of The Beatles. Lennon…
Well, it’s finally happened — long after I’m spry enough to take advantage of it. The hoverboard is here! Or nearly here. Supposedly there’s more info coming on October 21 (in honor of the day Marty McFly visited the future, natch) and there’s every reason to think it’s all some…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, the LA Weekly’s Amy Nicholson and the Village Voice’s Alan Scherstuhl in New York disagree on just about everything in Ted 2 — except that it has a few very funny moments — but only after revisiting the impressive Inside Out, which is nearly…
Some movies are indefensible, and Ted 2 is one of them. Not only is this a movie about a libidinous, foul-mouthed stuffed bear; it’s the sequel to an earlier movie about a libidinous, foul-mouthed stuffed bear. But I laughed and laughed at Ted 2 — as I did at the…
The Aurora Arts Festival, an interactive, kid-friendly artistic adventure, returns to Fletcher Park on Saturday, June 27, with entertainment ranging from an array of dance, musical and poetry performances to the chance to watch an ambitious, eight-story work in progress by local artists Jonathan Lamb and Michael Ortiz, also known as…
The Sie FilmCenter was flooded with hundreds of television industry types and fans last weekend as SeriesFest: Season One, an ambitious new television and storytelling event, made its debut here in Denver. Programming included the latest offerings from some big networks, and audiences not only got a first peek at…
The year is 1517, the place Wittenberg, Germany, site of a famous university. The world is in turmoil in David Davalos’s play, Wittenberg, with new ideas swirling and old certainties dissolving. Martin Luther, priest and professor of theology, is composing his 95 theses, which challenge Johann Tetzel, a friar who…
The ritual involved blowing into the cartridge, then the console, then the cartridge again, and inserting the cartridge just enough so that it snagged the edge of the console on its way down into to the satisfying springform click of its bed. That was long ago, but Roger Norquist and…
The Denver County Fair made international news last year with the introduction of its pot pavilion, surely a first anywhere in the world. But thrill is gone, and that party’s over – fair organizers today announced that the timely experiment won’t be back at this year’s fifth annual three-day event…
It was a hot evening when I saw Pinter Early & Late at Germinal Stage, and the tiny theater was sometimes uncomfortably warm. The sound in the space is efficient — you can hear every word — but without the clarity and crispness ideal for Pinter. And yet the production…
There has been a lot going on in and around the Denver Art Museum recently — so let’s get started. Last year, William Morrow left the DAM after an extremely short tenure as the Polly and Mark Addison Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art. His departure was seemingly by mutual…
Local stages haven’t taken a summer vacation: This weekend you can go heavy with one of Shakespeare’s masterpieces (and casting to match), relax with a feisty musical or guffaw your way through a laugh-out-loud comedy. Othello Colorado Shakespeare Festival Mary Rippon Outdoor Theatre, CU-Boulder campus Selected dates, June 26 through…
Geoffrey Kent is a busy guy. He’s playing Don Pedro in this summer’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival production of Much Ado About Nothing, and he’s doing a couple of roles in Henry V. And Talbot in Henry VI, Part One. He’s also the fight director for all these shows, making sure…
In May, I wrote about the mundanity of talking about the weather and how we should all just suck it up and deal with the rain and stop complaining. Last week, I finally broke. I took everything I said back and begged for summer to come, praying the afternoon thunderstorms…
Even if you live in the same city or town your whole life, the place you came from is always a distant country: Old trees are cut down to be replaced, one hopes, by new ones; shops and businesses change ownership or, worse, are torn down; landmarked buildings may stay…
