The endless love in question unfolds in that universe where shy, bookish teenage girls are always catalog-model beautiful, not a pimple in sight or a pound overweight, not a garment from Hot Topic darkening their closets. The movie tells us that 17-year-old Jade Butterfield (Gabriella Wilde) is “awkward” and has…
Just as animated characters who look too human creep us out, could there be a phenomenon we might call the RomCom Uncanny Valley, a case when movie stars’ gorgeousness fully outshines our ability to believe their characters’ humdrum relationship problems? Radiant lovers make radiant love — and then argue about…
Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, both of which publish special daily issues at the major international festivals, may be the most famous movie trade magazines. But every morning at any of these festivals, including Berlin, most critics I know – and probably plenty of industry people, too – turn to…
Dirty mouths are encouraged tonight at Mile High Erotic Spoken Word 2: Vday Edition, the latest part of a series that welcomes people of any sexual proclivity to gather for some sexy stories and performances. Created by Rachel Carlisle, the open-mic night seeks to offer a safe space in which…
Has love taken your breath away? Feel even fainter today at 12,000 feet, when Loveland Ski Area invites people to participate in the 23rd annual Mountaintop Matrimony. The mass wedding and vow-renewal ceremony takes place at noon on the top of Chair #2 at Loveland Basin, overlooking the valley just…
“It’s part broadway show, part rock show, part freestyle motorcross — it’s like taking freestyle motocross and putting it into a storyline,” says Jayme Dalsing, show director for Nuclear Cowboyz, which makes its Colorado debut today at the Pepsi Center. Combining gravity-defying choreography with pyrotechnics and a killer soundtrack, this…
If you’re looking to break free of the dinner-and-a-movie date clichés for Valentine’s Day, how about a candlelit evening spent with a murderous lunatic in a bear costume? After all, if you can’t charm the pants off your date, why not scare them off? Step into 13th Floor Haunted House’s…
Known as the Sweetheart City, Loveland is proud of its heritage, including the annual Valentine Re-mailing Program, which reroutes valentines sent in from across the nation with its hearts-and-flowers postmark. But Loveland also has the Loveland Feed & Grain, a converted 1892 warehouse and grain elevator where the Arts @…
It shouldn’t be hard to convince the geek in your life to go see Knights of Badassdom, an action-comedy movie about LARP (live action role-playing) enthusiasts who accidentally summon a real demon. If you’re not already sold on the description alone, get this: It stars a rogue’s gallery of nerd-dom’s…
The latest incarnation of Love, Wonderbound’s Valentine’s Day performance, is the third show in seven years that the company has named after the most famous human emotion. “The work that I do commonly enters into the world of personal, intimate relationships, and we’ll have live music, dancing and poetry layered…
When it began in 2005, the Boulder International Film Festival attracted 5,000 film lovers. Nearly a decade later, the four-day fest has more than quadrupled in size, celebrating the cinema with 22,000 audience members. “One way that we’ve grown since that very first year is that people are really beginning…
After a monumental splash on the film-festival circuit, Tiny: A Story About Living Small returns home to Colorado tonight. In this documentary, filmmaker Christopher Smith panics: He is turning thirty without fulfilling his Rocky Mountain cabin fantasy, so he dumps his savings into five acres, sans electricity, water or gas,…
“Civic health” organization Warm Cookies of the Revolution will tackle the subject of food justice tonight at its regular meeting. This edition, called Soup and Dreams, should shed some light on issues like the cost of food and the accessibility of fresh, local produce. The evening will work like this:…
Amelia Pedlow’s father has been teaching high-school English for decades — which means he’s been teaching Hamlet for quite some time now. “He would drag me to every production of Hamlet that would happen anywhere, anytime, to see if it would be worth it to take his class,” she laughs…
Just as Z Cuisine is that little French place in the neighborhood, Patrick DuPays’s latest effort, Entre Nous Galerie d’Art, serves a similar purpose in showing work from neighborhood artists, many of whom frequent the eatery. Companionably squeezed between Z and its sibling bar, À Côté, the gallery will host…
Once, when artist Kristen Hatgi Sink was photographing a friend, she was struck by the idea of putting flowers on her model’s face. But she needed a way to do it. The answer? False-eyelash glue. “Gluing flowers to people’s faces was actually pretty hard for me to do,” says Hatgi…
So, you’ve got a kid, huh? Whether it’s your own rambunctious preschooler or the bratty nephew you’ve been charged with keeping alive for the next five hours, the most important thing is leaving your house where valuables are liable to be destroyed and seeking refuge on somebody else’s property. In…
State lawmakers are pondering a bipartisan proposal today that would help fund the track maintenance and upgrades that Amtrak says it needs to keep running its Southwest Chief route through southern Colorado. The railroad wants approximately $40 million a piece from Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico over the next decade…
It can be overwhelming to navigate the wide variety of films and panels that run February 13 through 16 at the tenth annual Boulder International Film Festival. Luckily you can’t go wrong, says director and co-founder Kathy Beeck. The common thread is good storytelling. From the free Youth Pavilion to…
Valentine’s Day is nearly upon us, and love is in the air. Everywhere you look, people are planning fancy dates or at least renting their favorite romantic movies for a night of couch-snuggling with their beloved. Contrary to the stereotypes, geeks are no different. Well, maybe a little different –…
#12: Anthony Garcia Sr. Raised in Globeville, Anthony Garcia Sr. knows the street, but his artist’s vision only wants to make the street more beautiful — with grassroots public art and murals. Garcia may have moved on from Globeville, but his heart remains in the community, where members of the…
Every year, Westword gathers our favorite painters, sculptors, performers, musicians and more from around Denver for Artopia, a celebration of all that’s good in Denver’s art world. This year, the celebration is taking over five venues along Broadway. See also: Artopia 2013…
