If all of Cannes isn’t it love with Channing Tatum right now, it should be. During the photo-call for Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher on Monday afternoon Tatum — relaxed, affable, light on his feet despite being seriously built — turned toward the press and took a few photographs of the corps…
Cannes, on festival weekends, is wild: Every night is busy on the Croisette, the long boulevard that winds along the shore and past the Palais des Festivals, the large complex where most of the festival action — including screenings, premieres, and red-carpet walking — take place. But the crowds swell…
Let’s rewind twenty years, to the summer of 1994. O.J. Simpson has been arrested for murder, the World Cup is in America and being ignored, and the biggest hits at the multiplex are Forrest Gump, The Lion King, True Lies and Speed. Notice anything odd about those movies? There’s not…
Nobody knows better than Tracy Weil, who’s been there from the start, how much the River North Art District has grown and changed in the past ten or so years. But most people who now come to RiNo to enjoy its bountiful galleries, restaurants, breweries and watering holes don’t know…
One reason Westword awarded last summer’s inaugural Valverde Bazaar the Best New Flea Market designation in our 2014 Best of Denver issue is the fact that it’s so hard to pin down, and that keeps us all on our toes. Like a labyrinth of earthly delights, the Valverde is a…
“A lot of people put belly dancers in the same category as strippers,” says Melissa Brandhorst of Shimmy Mob, a national organization that raises money for women’s and children’s shelters with flash-mob-style events. “But it really is an art form; it takes years of practice and muscle memory and dedication…
Sex later in life is a subject many people try not to think about, but retired English teacher Jane Juska opened up a whole discussion on the subject when she serendipitously placed this personal ad in the New York Review of Books: “Before I turn 67 — next March —…
In 2009, Dr. George Tiller, one of only a handful of doctors in the country who performed late-term abortions, was fatally shot while at-tending church services in his home town of Wichita, Kansas. Tonight, Physicians for Human Rights Colorado is partnering with the Sie FilmCenter to present After Tiller, a…
When The Advocate published the 2008 article “Gay Is the New Black,” they “pissed off a lot of people because of this feeling that it was saying that the civil-rights movement is over and done, and now it’s the gay-rights movement that’s ascendant,” says Yoruba Richen, director of The New…
Evan Weissman’s Warm Cookies of the Revolution is going strong into its second year, as more Denverites find their way to his unique civic gatherings. Tonight’s GLBTQ Intergenerational Show and Tell Mix Tape will focus on the presentation of personal stories through favorite songs. An all-ages panel will share their…
The annual Chautauqua Summer Silent Film Series begins tonight with an unlikely choice: Duck Soup. And fans of the 1933 Marx Brothers masterpiece will understand the problem immediately, since the absurdist political comedy is actually a talkie. But programmer Tom Hart explains that he wanted the series to start off…
If you’ve ever wanted to own an action-figure version of yourself, Geekshow II is your chance to make that happen. “We’re bringing a full-body 3-D scanning booth that we built,” says Mar Williams, chair of the Concoctory Hackerspace. “You stand on a turntable and it rotates you around, and we…
Ivar Zeile of Plus Gallery says he’s never hosted an MFA thesis show before, though he’s undoubtedly had the opportunity. But there was something about the work of University of Denver grad student and adjunct professor Kristin Stransky — a combination of 3-D printing technology, digital imaging and interactive projects…
Boulder photographer and painter Chuck Forsman is like the Ansel Adams of the ordinary, and it’s worked very well for him, as in the series Western Rider, for which he snapped plain but skillful landscapes from a car window, or Walking Magpie, where he observed with the lens while walking…
Ian Kennedy’s eye for style is in his genes. His family was in the antiques business, and as a child he’d go to auctions with his grandparents, seeking out items for their Native American and vintage store. Though that spot closed long ago, Kennedy has revived it through Ruby +…
Earlier this week, twenty handpicked local artists, each representing a different Denver restaurant or bar, gathered at the McNichols Building, where they’d been invited to participate in the touring “Red Bull Curates: The Canvas Cooler Project,” a contest that could take two of them all the way to Art Basel…
Climbing a Fourteener can be tough — but in developing countries, people face hardships just getting through the day. That’s why the Boulder-based nonprofit Second Mile Water has created the Colorado 54, an event in which participants will collectively summit every Colorado Fourteener in a 24-hour period, while also raising…
Denver Cruiser Ride big wheel Brad Evans continues to find ways to keep the weekly, costumed bike crawl on a roll. So when the first ride of 2014 — with a “Reds and Robes” theme — starts tonight at five bar locations, the shared destination will be a bona fide…
Denver-based Zumba instructor Brittney Rae Reese danced her way to national attention on CBS’s Let’s Make a Deal — where, unfortunately, she was “zonked” on an episode that aired recently. Reese was visiting a friend in California last Halloween when she was surprised with tickets to the popular TV show…
Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson recommend Neighbors (Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Zac Efron) and Godzilla (Bryan Cranston, Godzilla) and are joined by special guest, James Beard Award-winning L.A. Weekly restaurant critic Besha Rodell, who discusses the highs and lows of Jon Favreau’s…
I complain about the bulldozing of Denver’s sometimes tacky but often unique cowtown-ish architectural history a lot. It wasn’t that long ago that we weren’t very cool; in my salad days of the early 2000s, I rented a sprawling two-bedroom apartment in a beautiful ’40s-era building on Cheesman Park for…
#83: Andy Berg Andy Berg sees painting as an inner calling, and offers no conceptual mumbo-jumbo when explaining what he does: He paints. His large abstract canvases are imbued with the mystery of invention and the creative process, and almost paint themselves — using Berg and his armory of brushes…
