To try to explain an Everything Is Terrible! show is to try to describe the most haunting fever dream that has ever rolled through your brain: It’s like the terror of sleep paralysis, but with a weird comedy aftertaste. The artists behind EIT!, led by the mysterious shadow figure of…
What does the world sound like when you’re Brian Wilson? When you’ve made a record that sounds like cirrus clouds look — as Wilson did with the Beach Boys’ small modern miracle of harmony, 1966’s Pet Sounds — all bets are off when it comes to the way ordinary aural…
Literary events in the metro area this week will take you from the silly to the sublime: Play a round of “Where’s Waldo” with Momo the dog or fall under the spell of a novel rooted in the Canadian prairie. And if putting words together is your passion, Lighthouse Writers…
In Diva Watch, we’ll profile the passionate, diverse and fascinating performers who light up Denver’s drag community. We’re expanding on our Diva Dozen list from earlier this year by asking a series of questions to get a peek underneath the make-up. Meet Valerie Shearz, a Denver native who’s honed her…
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. Marla Keown joined the Army Reserves before 9/11, “when the thought of…
Summer is here at last —- or at least it will be before the month is over. That means that it’s time to get outside, even for geeks! No, there aren’t any camping events on this month’s list of great geek events, but there are a few that might require…
Wonderbound is about to launch a new season of Mixology, a summer series of dance classes led by members of the dance company. If you want to dance but don’t have much — if any — formal experience, Mixology will offer you a chance to learn from professionals in a…
June is here, and it’s brought plenty of fun — much of it free. This week you can watch movies, look at art or get sporty in the mountains…and that’s just the start of the bargain entertainment. For more options, check the online Westword calendar — and let us know…
And the skies broke and the sun emerged as if to tell us all “It’s June! And these summer movies aren’t going to watch themselves!” Whether you’re planning on camping out at the multiplex for the finest Hollywood fare or squeezing as many classic, arthouse and foreign films into your…
When Tran Wills opened her latest business venture, Base Coat Nail Salon, in 2013, the concept was simple: offer customers and employees a safe, non-toxic beauty experience in a charming, art-minded environment. But less than a year after the longtime Colorado entrepreneur’s shop had found a home on Tennyson Street,…
At Denver galleries and art museums this weekend, you can say hello to a budding artist or symbolically say goodbye to an exhibit honoring the faceless ranks of the Chicano movement. Another new show looks at how skyrocketing rents and development in fringe neighborhoods are putting the squeeze on artists…
The Shaken Baby Syndrome campaign has been one of the most successful public-service pushes of the last few decades – the warning to “never shake a baby” can be recited by many adults and children on request — but what hasn’t been communicated is the lack of science behind SBS,…
There is so much more to Colfax Avenue than what appears on its often misunderstood surface. As an advocate for the 26-mile drag and its unique history and culture, local non-profit 40 West Arts set out to collect information about Colfax — West Colfax, in particular — through a survey…
Details matter in fashion. At Broadway and Ellsworth, we spotted Joli Castor, an Art Institute high school representative and world fusion belly dancer with Bale Fire, wearing a pair of mint-green leather platform heels. “Fashion is an expression of who we are on the inside at any given moment in time…
If you haven’t seen the Edge Theater’s production of <em>Jerusalem</em> yet, this weekend is your last chance — and you don’t want to miss it. Keep reading for a capsule review of that show, as well as two more on local stages. Detroit. Detroit is intelligent, absorbing, lively, surprising and…
May is just about a wrap. The month flew by with all kinds of fun things to do in between the thunderstorms. But you can say goodbye in style by LOLing at various Crom Fest events, diving into the pool, and checking out photography for an amazing cause, among other…
If you’re a fan of the Broken Lizard comedy troupe and its film Super Troopers — and plenty of you are, since the Indiegogo campaign for the film’s sequel was complete in a matter of hours — then you may already have your tickets in hand for the June 2 Film…
Maybe we contain multitudes, and maybe we contain a couple great splashes of primary color. With one arm stretched high above his head, puppeteer Caroll Spinney has spent the last decades embodying the warmest of yellows and grimiest of greens, playing — in every sense of the word — Sesame…
In the decadent 21st century, the summer movie season now sprawls from March through December. (Star Wars: Episode VII is due to awaken the Force December 18; every prior Star Wars picture has come out Memorial Day weekend.) But I’ll stick to tradition and call Memorial Day the start of…
Summer is here, at least unofficially, bringing popular fare back to Colorado stages. This weekend you can go back in time with musical Victoriana, get started on a season of repertory theater in the high country or take a risk on the cheap seats at the return engagement of a…
In 1969, kids around the globe met the wide-eyed Big Bird and cantankerous Oscar the Grouch when they turned on their televisions and encountered Sesame Street. Generations of children have since grown up with those lovable felt puppets, and so has the man who’s played both characters since their creation:…
Ronda Rousey, the reigning UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion, was a Judo bronze medalist in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games; she’s also an actor and author with the charisma and wit to match her athletic ability. On Friday, May 29 she will be at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove to sign copies of…
