We begin this week’s Voice Film Club podcast with a strange story about Giles Corey, who famously said, “More weight!” as stones were laid upon him during his witch trial. The end of the year is sort of like that for film critics, who are pressed upon with all the…
Editor’s note: It’s time to put 2014 into the history books and look forward to 2015 — but not before one last bash to kick off the transition in style, something you can plan with our New Year’s Eve Guide listings. Do you have even bigger plans for the coming…
What kind of circle is time again? A year after blowing the doors off our annual critics’ poll, golden boy Matthew McConaughey won just a single vote for his turn in the loudest movie of the year, Christopher Nolan’s tears-in-space effort Interstellar, which has tied with the unprescient Transcendence as…
In the 1944 musical Meet Me In St. Louis, Judy Garland (of course) introduced the world to the song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” which features this line: “Make the yuletide gay.” This could have been a watershed moment in homosexual pop culture, inspiring millions of people to turn…
It’s never too late to find everything from original art to lovingly handmade confections and cheeses, so don’t lose hope if you haven’t finished your shopping. Read on for a list of the best places to do it in style. See also: The Night Fair Before Christmas…
Next week is a short one for most of us because of Christmas, and if you’re lucky enough to have the whole thing off, we’ve got plenty of ways to get the party started. Over the next couple of days, you can don your ugliest sweaters, say farewell to friends…
Tsigereda Gugia has been designing since she was a seven-year-old girl in Ethiopia. She moved to the United States for college, and now will showcase her latest designs on Saturday, December 20 at Gazelle Model’s Dress to Impress fashion show and clothing sale at the Cherry Creek Hilton Garden Inn,…
The funniest and most incisive show on television is ending this week — so let’s look back at how it began. On October 17, 2005, a power-suited Stephen Colbert furrowed his eyebrows and showed off highlights of his new set. Red letters above him shouted, “The Colbert Report.” The title…
When creativity sparks in a young person, it tends to get extinguished by societal — and often parental — pressures to join “the real world” and get a “real job.” But the people behind Madelife want to fan that flame. “A lot of young people are told or just feel…
To know the story of Colfax is to truly understand the personality of the Denver metro area. The gravel-and-tar artery that once ushered visitors in from the open road now hosts a variety of people and cultures along America’s longest main street. Westword is taking a look at Route 40’s…
Have you ever received an obscene phone call? Deep breathing, moans or lewd suggestions intruding on your otherwise unremarkable day? I have, and it is fucking creepy, even for a guy. My obscene caller was a woman, and she propositioned me for some pretty weird shit, in graphic detail. Despite…
Josh Blue is truly a singular talent with an undeniable facility for hilarious riffs that seem casually tossed off. He has an uncanny ability to be instantly likable from the moment he grabs the mic, even as he doesn’t shy away from challenging suspects. Blue has been a pillar of the Denver comedy scene for several years now, but he first broke out nationally when he won NBC’s Last Comic Standing in 2006. Throughout his illustrious career, Blue has found triumph mining his cerebral palsy diagnosis for comedic gold. A man of multitudes, Blue is also a skilled athlete who played on the U.S. Paralympic Soccer team.
Blue is closing out a pretty stellar 2014 at the home club where he developed his skills. Aside regularly performing in state and across the world, he also appeared in a prominent role in the baseball comedy 108 Stitches.
No matter how big the TV your Xbox is plugged into, it can’t compete with the grandeur of a full-sized movie theater. But from noon to 6 p.m. this Saturday, Denver gamers will have the chance to play their favorite titles on Sie FilmCenter’s larger-than-life screen at the Colorado Video…
Sony assumed that North Korea would hate the movie. The question was: What would it do? Pyongyang had just tested its atom bomb and threatened “preemptive nuclear attack.” And the Supreme Leader with his finger on the trigger was barely over thirty, with less than two years of experience. But…
The biggest laugh I heard from the audience at my screening of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies came from seven words in the end credits: “Based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien.” Just picture that tweedy Oxford philologist nodding in pleased approval at this adaptation of his…
If we’re honest, most of us who relish a good horror film don’t actually hope to feel something like horror. Instead, the appeal is that of shock and surprise, all candied up, the crowd-pleasing bits staged with the kind of extended setup/payoff patience that the makers of comedies have long…
Quick: Name the most expensive housing market in America. If you said New York, Los Angeles or San Francisco, you couldn’t be farther from the truth — literally. Each is more than 1,500 miles away from Williston, North Dakota. In four years, the population has doubled as newcomers gold-rush to…
Ann Hamilton and Jae Ko et al. For Ann Hamilton: Selected Works, the initial enfilade of spaces at Robischon Gallery is taken over by works on paper by this noted conceptualist. The first group is from her “visite” series, the name of which is taken from the term “carte de…
Anything Goes. Anything Goes premiered in 1934, after a hasty rewrite: The original plot concerned a shipwreck, and shortly before the scheduled opening night, a fire broke out on a cruise liner and 137 passengers were killed. By then the writing team, which included P. G. Wodehouse, had moved on,…
Editor’s Note: Sony has officially canceled the theatrical release of The Interview following terrorist threats against theaters and the announcement that several major theater chains had opted not to exhibit the film. The following review was written before Sony pulled The Interview– and stands as a reminder that world-shaking art…
TV continued to unmoor from its origins and transform into something else this year. No longer tethered to a specific appliance, a particular kind of storytelling, or even commercial concerns, “television” now feels like an increasingly obsolete word. But that’s a discussion for another time, for we’ve come to celebrate…
Every year, the Colorado Hebrew Chorale’s annual Festival of Lights illuminates the traditions of Hanukkah for people of all faiths. This year’s celebration lands on the third night of the holiday, and the BYO menorah party’s repertoire of both conventional and modern hymns will range from a doo-wop version of…
