Quick, somebody check Jason Reitman’s house to see if the real man has been turned into dust by a body snatcher. Though his name’s on the poster, it’s impossible to believe that the sardonic boy wonder of Juno, Thank You for Smoking and Young Adult would direct a stilted romance…
Baltimore’s 12 O’Clock Boys are a dirt-bike crew who literally believe in “ride or die.” If it weren’t for their Sundays in the streets causing havoc for the cops, boredom and stress would get them in worse trouble. And from what we see in Lotfy Nathan’s documentary, we believe it…
Anyone can catch American Hustle or Dallas Buyers Club on the big screen, but there aren’t a lot of opportunities to see the short films that have been nominated for the 86th Academy Awards, which will air on March 2. So film buffs may want to check out the Oscar…
Playwright Marcus Gardley has won prestigious awards and been compared with such giants as August Wilson and Tennessee Williams for the poeticism of his language. But he’s also been criticized for writing plays that lack structure and for creating characters more symbolic than real. The Denver Center Theatre Company commissioned…
As she usually does, Tina Goodwin has brought together two solos at Goodwin Fine Art, with one in the larger front space and another in the smaller dog-leg corridor in the back. Also typical for Goodwin is the fact that the two shows are simultaneously distinct from one another and…
Clark Richert. In the few years it’s been in business, Gildar Gallery has mostly showcased young and up-and-coming artists, but with Dimension and Symmetry: Clark Richert, the intimate space on Broadway has moved to Denver’s big time, as Richert is among the best-known artists in the state. The show comes…
The Legend of Georgia McBride. Matthew Lopez’s The Legend of Georgia McBride makes for a bright, fast, entertaining evening, but there isn’t a lot of there there. Casey, an easygoing dreamer, has a wife he adores, Jo, and scrapes out the barest of livings as an Elvis impersonator at a…
A favorite pastime of critics and serious film-goers, perhaps the most idiotic and fruitless one, is to complain about how bad the movies have gotten. The complaint is meaningless, because no matter how “bad” the movies get, there are always actors. There’s no such thing as a golden age of…
The second annual Westword Whiteout, which gets under way at 7 p.m. tonight at the McNichols Building, will celebrate the season’s hottest fashions and Denver’s coolest designers. The signature event mixes live music, fashion-forward vendors and handcrafted cocktails, and concludes with a curated runway show featuring some of the town’s…
The Denver Art Museum has made the final Friday of the month just as popular as the first on the local art scene with its ongoing Untitled programming, which kicks off a new season tonight. “It offers a totally different kind of museum experience,” explains Jaime Kopke, DAM’s manager of…
Sexpot Comedy – the monthly comedy showcase that’s the brainchild of ganjapreneur and pizza tycoon Kayvan Khalatbari –- is back with its second edition, Ice Queens of Comedy, with enough laughs to melt even the most hard-hearted audience. Tonight’s lineup highlights two of Denver’s funniest jokesmiths: host Jordan Doll and…
Since it’s served up some of the best-looking parties and shiniest silent auctions in town for nearly a decade, you’d expect the Design Council of the Denver Art Museum’s tenth annual Design After Dark fundraising gala to follow suit. And the feel, if not the exact look, of parties past…
Look closely and you’ll find things hidden within Denver’s architecture. Local author Kitty Migaki’s Alphabet Denver reveals where kids can discover every letter from A to Z concealed in the city’s landmarks and buildings. Using poetry, photographs and the GPS on your phone (or the addresses in the back, if…
Celebrate the Year of the Horse for two hours today, at the 2014 Colorado Chinese New Year Celebration, which has had “hundreds of volunteers working year-round,” according to Huiliang Liu, president of the Chinese American Foundation of Colorado and the Denver Chinese School. But they had a lot to accomplish:…
Volker Schlöndorff, filmmaker and proponent of the New German Cinema, might be best remembered for his Oscar-winning turn as director of The Tin Drum in 1979, but 1976’s Coup de Grâce, filmed in black and white and set amid post-revolutionary turmoil in the Baltics, avoids that film’s crazy bombast for…
Chilean author Isabel Allende won worldwide acclaim with her best-selling first novel, The House of the Spirits. From there she went on to write twenty more works in her native Spanish, everything from Zorro to Island Beneath the Sea, which have have sold a total of more than sixty million…
Imagine sewing illumination right into your own clothes, conducting electricity with wearable, blinking light art. Tonight’s Tip & Tinker: Art of Winter Edition is going to teach you how to do just that, with an adults-only evening of booze and e-textile creating. Combining fashion and technology, local nonprofit MindSpark will…
Jeff Ross, host of Comedy Central’s The Burn, is something of an anachronism. An old-school insult comic in the vein of Don Rickles and Rodney Dangerfield, Ross has done more than any comedian of our era to preserve the tradition of the New York Friars Club roasts and, not surprisingly,…
Jumping out of Africa’s Kalahari Desert and onto the big screen, cuddly meerkats are coming to IMAX at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in Meerkats 3D. Watch a family of these adorable members of the mongoose family as they grow up from pups, deal with turf wars and…
Improv and geek culture collides in Geek Out, a show that uses the obsessive nature of fandom as inspiration and fuel for improv. “It’s a combination of all the things we love. We’re an improv theater. We’re a bunch of geeks,” explains Denise Maes, the show’s executive producer. “We thought,…
“You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy our festival,” says Ely Hemnes, coordinator of the eighteenth annual Denver Jewish Film Festival, which opens tonight in the Elaine Wolf Theatre at the Mizel Arts & Culture Center, 350 South Dahlia Street. Curated over the course of a year, this multi-day…
A while back, the New Yorker’s magisterial Hilton Als mentioned playwright Marcus Gardley’s immense talent and called him “a potentially great writer who has yet to write a great play.” Gardley’s latest work, Black Odyssey, which was featured in the Denver Center Theatre Company’s New Play Summit last year and…
