#71: Andy LynesAndy Lynes toiled behind the scenes at MCA Denver for seven years, eventually overseeing the art museum’s visitor services and managing its super-cool shop. And for the last few years, he also presided at Black Sheep Fridays, MCA’s silly Friday-night series of adult activities, ranging from an annual…
On this week’s episode of the Voice Film Club podcast, Voice film critics Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek, along with L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson, discuss rom-com Begin Again (2:26), starring the always-interesting Mark Ruffalo. They also talk about the biting rom-com parody They Came Together (15:47), which might…
On Saturday the Alamo Drafthouse is showing the cult-classic horror film Basket Case. Given that the movie was made for around $35,000 with a largely amateur cast and crew, it’s hard to imagine a film less likely to still be showing in theaters more than thirty years after it was…
Coloradans like to celebrate their state almost as much as they like to live in it. Longmont’s second annual Front Range Film Fest, running Thursday through Saturday, “Connects the Front Range to Film,” with three feature-length films and a series of shorts, most of which are by local filmmakers. “Our…
Sheila Hydle embarked on her new venture after the death of her father. “I wanted to use my inheritance to start something I’m passionate about,” she explains. “I decided to do something different. Glass-cutting was the first thing that I felt passionate about. If my dad was here, I would…
In January 2013, an incandescently brilliant American political activist and computer programmer named Aaron Swartz was hounded to suicide by the overzealous U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, Carmen Ortiz. Anyone who argues differently has a desk drawer full of government pay stubs. Brian Knappenberger’s The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of…
Romances are Hollywood’s most anxiety-inducing fantasy. Like superhero flicks or horror films, they exist in a phony world of big scenes and breathtaking climaxes. But while audiences know that geeks can’t meld with spiders and that the bogeyman isn’t real, they still hope to fall in love, and, boy, it’d…
Although it’s full of information, the documentary Ivory Tower at its core poses a question: Is the price of college worth it? The film touches on a host of issues beyond finances, including the party culture at some schools, the unique value of historically black colleges, and experimentation with online…
I Hate Hamlet is a bit like the curate’s egg: hilariously funny in parts and in others so idiotic that you’re embarrassed for the actors. Why is the radiant Jamie Ann Romero wasting her talents wafting about as Deirdre, a stagestruck 29-year-old virgin who’ll have sex with boyfriend Andrew only…
While checking out the scene in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this past March, Bobbi Walker, director of Walker Fine Art, realized that her planned June slot had come apart and that she needed to come up with somebody quickly to fill the position. While she was looking, she came across…
Gildersleeve, Balas, Bumiller, Judd. Commanding the large front spaces at Robischon Gallery is Allison Gildersleeve: Within Earshot, which includes a selection of paintings in which the artist employs the methods of abstract expressionism but uses them to convey representational subjects. In the small space beyond the Gildersleeves is Jack Balas:…
I Hate Hamlet. I Hate Hamlet is a bit like the curate’s egg: hilariously funny in parts, and in others so idiotic that you’re embarrassed for the actors. Why is the radiant Jamie Ann Romero wasting her talents wafting about as Deirdre, a stagestruck 29-year-old virgin who’ll have sex with…
Believe it or not, during Transformers: Age of Extinction, Michael Bay’s fourth rattling of the toy box, I felt one moment of near transcendence. Three-fourths of the way through the punishing 165-minute runtime—and fifteen minutes after my seatmate took off her 3-D glasses in exhaustion—my brain left my body, crying…
“Coffee’s not what you think it is,” says Brandon Loper, director of >A Film About Coffee, a new documentary about the ubiquitous beverage screening tonight at the Mayan Theatre. Moving from the places where coffee’s grown to the places where it’s served and all points in between, Loper’s film examines…
In a culture frozen by the social mores of the Cold War era, Neal Cassady — a Denver boy who was the inspiration for Jack Kerouac’s On the Road — burned bright. Allen Ginsberg branded Cassady an icon of the Beat Generation, a movement that Cassady’s wife, Carolyn, derided as…
Suzie Ahlers, boardmember of the Rotary Club of Five Points Cultural District, has wanted to throw an event with food trucks ever since the food-truck scene exploded in the city a few years back. So in some ways, tonight’s Final Friday Food Truck Fiesta is a dream come true for…
Now that the Outdoor Handmade Homemade Market is in its third year, it’s easy to forget the event’s humble origins — as a bartering party for crafty folk. “It came out of somebody’s living room and back yard,” notes Handmade Homemade’s Stephen Toma, “and it was an opportunity for people…
It all began with Irish drinking songs. “I had learned all of these songs playing pubs in Europe,” explains musician Adam Goldstein. “When I came back from living abroad, I thought I would never find a place to do these songs in Denver, somehow I did.” Goldstein is the man…
Reduce, recycle, reuse and get a taste of local art today at the Aurora Arts Festival. This growing celebration of music, theater, visual art and community collaboration takes over Fletcher Plaza and explores Aurora’s rich art scene through the eyes of reclaimed-materials artists. As part of the “Recycle and Upcycle…
It’s been just over a year since the Denver Actors Fund — John Moore’s project that offers cash and assistance to members of the theater community facing medical crises — became a formal thing, and it’s grown exponentially in that time to include a board of directors, sixty volunteers on…
In May 1974, bombs exploded inside two separate cars in Boulder, 48 hours apart. The blasts killed six Chicano activists and seriously injured a seventh. Cuarenta y Ocho, written and directed by Su Teatro artistic director Tony Garcia, is a suspenseful thriller that explores the 48-hour period between the attacks…
Denver is experiencing a creative surge, say Timothy Arguello and Stephen Jones, the brains behind the Denver Taco Festival. “Denver’s culture is a melting pot of all these cool things happening from the coasts,” Jones says, and their street party will be no exception. Revelers will chase tacos with tequila,…
