The vampires that walk among us — and they do — are not the Twilight kind, or the True Blood kind, or even the Buffy kind. In the world of Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, the director’s most emotionally direct film since Dead Man, and maybe his finest, period,…
Everything in the opening scenes of Jeremy Saulnier’s nerve-racking revenge drama Blue Ruin is the color of a bruise, from the ocean to the bullet-hole-pocked Pontiac Bonneville that homeless near-mute Dwight (Macon Blair) calls home. Dwight has never overcome the pain of his parents’ murder when he was a boy…
The idea of geriatric sex is one of those things that makes people — especially young people — squirm. Old people who are lucky enough to have active sex lives know enough to keep it to themselves. So Jane Juska’s memoir, A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late Life Adventures in Sex…
Back in the 1980s, Philadelphia artist and collector Linda Lee Alter realized that the collection she had assembled was dominated by the works of men. So she decided to sell them off and begin building a collection exclusively dedicated to women. From the start, Alter intended that the collection would…
1959. Dean Sobel, director of the Clyfford Still Museum, is the host curator for Modern Masters at the Denver Art Museum, and he’s done a companion exhibit at his own stamping grounds called 1959: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Exhibition Recreated. (Special tickets allow visitors to see both.) The backstory for…
Animal Crackers. Animal Crackers is a romp, a trifle — full of puns, malapropisms and visual jokes, and utterly, unabashedly silly. The plot is just an excuse for the crazy brothers, nominally playing actual characters, to visit a Long Island mansion and pull off a series of stunts. There are…
Comedian and actor Kevin McDonald is best known for co-founding and performing with the Kids in the Hall sketch-comedy troupe. Through their gleefully absurd premises, non-sequitur endings and wild-eyed commitment to characters, KITH revived sketch comedy in the 1990s and kicked off a new golden age of sketch shows like…
Over the past year, Andrew Elijah Edwards wandered Denver with his smartphone, snapping images of what he describes as “natural spaces void of humans…the nooks and crannies where the rawness of nature and reality is still living.” These photographs became the ingredients for Edwards’s new video installation, The Deep Novelty…
For its fourth year, carver and show organizer Rob Yancey decided to move the annual Muertos in May art exhibit to the heart of his Westwood/Morrison Road neighborhood to raise awareness of positive changes, from new murals to new development, taking place in the depressed area. “It’s the most overlooked…
Celebrate the geeky side of life all weekend at the third annual May the Fourth Be With You. As in past years, organizer Dan Landes and his partners have lined up a slate of geek-friendly fun that’s a little different than the typical con experience, but just as accessible to…
Technology has already drastically changed the way we get things done, and on its tail comes a pioneering wave of DIY entrepreneurship. We call people who’ve found a way to fuse the two “makers,” and if you count yourself among that group, the inaugural Denver Mini Maker Faire, set for…
When it comes time to plan a new production of Stories on Stage, creative director Anthony Powell is sometimes lucky enough to have his audience do the work for him. “For How Does Your Garden Grow?, one of our subscribers just said, ‘You should do a garden show — and…
“There’s a certain kind of person who is into both cameras and bicycles,” says Mike Kone of Boulder Bicycle, who helped organize today’s Rocky Mountain Regional Camera & Collectibles Show and Colorado Custom & Vintage Bicycle Expo, a collaborative showcase and market for people who love vintage cameras or old-school…
For the first time ever, May the Fourth — aka Star Wars Day — falls on the same weekend as the annual StarFest convention, which is pulling out all the stops this year. “As far as I know, StarFest is the biggest Star Wars Day celebration between the two coasts,”…
Ceramics artist Jean Smith chose the enigmatic title Teased, Torn, Coddled & Pampered for her annual showcase at Zip 37 Gallery, but her explanation makes sense: “It’s how I work with the clay,” she says. “Sometimes I kinda tease it, and then you have to coddle and pamper it as…
Food can change lives, and so can cooking. That will be the message at tonight’s WomenCook!, the tenth annual fundraiser for Work Options for Women, a Denver nonprofit. “One thing that we’re doing special this year is having ten of our graduates as presenters of the program,” says Work Options…
Dixie Longate is best known for her show Dixie’s Tupperware Party, which recently closed a long run. But she’s not stopping there. In her new show, Never Wear a Tube Top While Riding a Mechanical Bull (and 16 Other Things I Learned While I Was Drinking Last Thursday), a world…
Once upon a time, there was Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, and together they were the Swell Season, a pair of folk-rockers from Ireland and Czechoslovakiathe Czech Republic and then out of, love. Ironically, the bandmates became enamored while making the 2006 film Once, the story of an Irish and…
For his newest installation, Hooty Hoo, artist Matt Scobey turned to a medium we see every day while walking down the street: concrete. Inspired in part by the Proun art movement of the 1920s, Scobey’s wood-and-concrete installation will be on display through May inside of Fancy Tiger Clothing. “For years…
Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Presented by Lone Tree Arts Center through May 4 Huck Finn, a wild-haired urchin, wants to be free of the constraints of civilization, represented by the Widow Douglas, who has adopted him and is determined to get him properly Christianized, and her steel-spined…
Adam Cayton Holland got his start in standup ten years ago, when he decided to try a few jokes at an open-mike night and wound up on stage at Comedy Works; he described his experiences in “Get Up, Stand Up,” a July 2004 Westword cover story. Since then, Cayton-Holland has…
Kevin McDonald is an actor, improviser, and comedian best known for his work with Canada’s Kids in the Hall sketch comedy troupe. McDonald will be at Denver’s Voodoo Comedy Playhouse all weekend, which kicks off at 9:00pm on Friday, May 2nd with a special edition of The Couch, Denver’s only improvised therapy session. McDonald is also scheduled to perform on his own Improvised sketch show at 8:00pm on Saturday, May 3rd.Tickets for both shows cost $15 in advance and $20 at the door. The 2 day sketch-writing workshop runs from 10:00am-5:00pm on Saturday, May 3rd and Sunday, May 4th. The fee is $300. Westword caught up with McDonald in advance of his trip to Denver to discuss bad sketch writing, getting into standup, and the new Kids in the Hall tour.
