The big nerd news of the week, in case you just crawled out of a cave, is the imminent return of The X-Files. I don’t want to jump to any conclusions here, but I did make a case for its return just a little more than six months ago, and here we…
After wedding photographer Dylan Burr fell in love with the nineteenth-century art of wet-plate collodion portraiture, he sought a platform wherein he could continue to experiment with the old-school images, but for a humanitarian purpose. He found one in the Neighbours Project, a collaboration with Denver homeless shelter the St…
Since the late ’70s, the work of Gary Panter — painter, comic artist and designer — has been a fixture of the counterculture. From creating the iconic logo for punk band The Screamers and illustrating album covers for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Germs and Frank Zappa to designing…
The Voices: Women + Film Festival concluded its fifth year this past Sunday, after a week of films, guests and discussions celebrating National Women’s Month at the Sie FilmCenter and presented by the Denver Film Society. Today, the festival’s organizers announced the winners of their audience voting for Best Narrative…
R. Tyler Christopherson’s upcoming exhibit, The Good ol’ Days, celebrates – and complicates – our collective desire and nostalgia for “good times”: periods of comfort, security and satisfaction that may exist more in our imaginations than in reality. Christopherson will employ an interactive mixed-media installation to evoke and link three…
Boulder Arts Week will bring bold fare to venues around that town this weekend, from a homegrown, one-man tour de force at the Dairy Center for the Arts to a complex and completely original performance-in-progress at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Meanwhile, Town Hall in Littleton just wants to…
While cross-country tours are a cornerstone of comedian’s dreams, they require a bit of quixotic insanity to attempt. Comedy competitions, a rare chance for fledgling comedians to stand out from their peers, are similarly stressful. So combining both the delirious highs and spirit-crushing lows of a tour and a contest…
AnomalyCon, Denver’s home-brewed steampunk convention, will kick off its fifth year on Friday at the DTC Hyatt Regency. The three-day celebration of anachronistic science fiction and alternate history includes everything from an interactive murder mystery to a grand ball, not to mention guests like famed Boing Boing blogger and science…
There’s a lot more than drag-queen bingo and karaoke on the entertainment menu at Hamburger Mary’s; at the end of each month, the bar is transformed into a space where members of the deaf community can perform in front of a live audience for ASL SLAM. This Saturday, March 28,…
Get Hard, Etan Cohen’s comedy about a white stockbroker who hires a black man to prepare him for a ten-year stretch in San Quentin, is like a spoon that’s almost-but-not-yet sharpened into a shiv. With just a little more effort, it could kill. Judging by the poster, in which star…
Some years ago, I went to see Tom Jones perform. He sang all the hits, but I was unnerved by his new walnut-brown goatee. It looked freshly trimmed and fake, like he’d ripped it off Evil Spock backstage. Superstars aren’t allowed to change. Even the fans who love them insist…
It’s 2015 and it seems we should be long past having an opinion on selfies — taking pictures of ourselves has existed as long as the technology has been available. Really, this is nothing new. But because our behavior has been under the microscope of the Internet via social networks…
Noah Baumbach has always had a dash of hypochondria, but in the last few years, his doctor’s visits have changed. “If you’re a worrier like I am, or Ben,” he says, referring to Ben Stiller, the star of his 2010 movie Greenberg, “you’re used to going, ‘Is this something that…
No matter how you end up feeling about it, there sure is a lot of movie in Mommy, Xavier Dolan’s exuberant melodrama about an emotional firecracker of a teenager who, after being kicked out of a specialized school for setting the cafeteria on fire, goes home to live with his…
Denver’s hemispheric Biennial of the Americas is always catching flak in retrospect, but the team programming this year’s event, now in its third incarnation, have already been hard at at work for the past year conceiving a Biennial with lasting power and a theme that couldn’t be more relevant: Now!…
The central question at the root of everything I’m doing now: What is a home? This question raises others: What does it mean to have a home? To build a home? What does one need to live? When I first conceived of building this tiny house and taking off on…
“Boulder is a beautiful city that is focused on the outdoors, and beer, and food. And there’s a lot of really great people who don’t know how much really great work in the arts there is to go to in their town,” says Emily K. Harrison, who is spearheading Boulder…
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. Technically, Andrew Ferdig’s real trade is classical percussion — that’s what the…
This week’s book events will take you to climes both exotic and dangerously extreme, but also deep into the depths of the human heart at a talk with one of the planet’s most esteemed modern novelists. The details follow. Bill Giebler The Best Travel Writing, Volume 10: True Stories from…
Renowned independent filmmaker Noah Baumbach has often been compared to his peer Wes Anderson, and even co-wrote two of his adventures; The Life Aquatic and Fantastic Mr. Fox. But where Anderson presents a twee trajectory that edges on fantastical, Baumbach has always kept his dramatic comedies rooted deeply in harsh, but…
This is the first week of spring, and free entertainment is blooming all over town. You can check out some rad sounds, test your hip-hop IQ or put life on trial without ever opening your wallet. For information on even more events, check the Westword calendar — and if we missed…
One of the most auspicious filmmaking debuts in decades was Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides, the 1999 film that quickly established Francis Ford Coppola’s daughter as an expert in cinematic renderings of little girls lost. The haunting film, which screens Monday, March 23 at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of…
