Tim Gunn’s new show, Under the Gunn is only in its second week, but the excitement is building. During last night’s episode,Tim had to drag Isabelle out of the sewing room onto the runway, and Amy and Ray were sent home. The teams have been chosen, and now we are…
When Lamberto Bava’s splatter classic Demons screens this Saturday, January 25 at the Alamo Drafthouse, it isn’t just a rare chance to see this obscure gem on the big screen. The film also marks the debut of Channel Z, Keith Garcia’s new cult-film series that picks up where his excellent…
Though your lack of funds might make you want to stay home and blast the Descendents’s Everything Sucks until the weekend’s over, resist that urge. Even if you don’t have much (or any) cash, you can find plenty to do in Denver this week, good, good things like watching the…
What goes in the collection stays in the collection, and that means a plethora of fine artworks often stay behind the scenes, unseen by the general public. The Arvada Center’s new exhibit series, COLLECT, brings some of them back out in public, by pulling together work from a variety of…
Let’s start with the ending: the closing credits disclaimer that insists that none of the lead actors in Lars Von Trier’s Nymphomaniac filmed penetrative sex. If there is real sex in the movie, and it sure looks like there is, it must have been done by one of the eight…
Although much of the National Western Stock Show is devoted to farm and ranch animals, the performing pooches of Super Dogs are always a crowd favorite. Photographer Brandon Marshall was there to catch the show, and came back with these pictures. See also: Photos: Contemporary art on display at William…
Art has been a part of Sandi Calistro’s life since her earliest memories. A painter and tattoo artist, Calistro is known for her whimsical style. She is the co-owner of Kaze Gallery, which will be closing soon, and is in the process of opening a new studio, Ritual Tattoo &…
For the most part, geeks are a friendly and welcoming bunch. When we meet new people who share one or more of our geeky obsessions, we welcome them into the clan with open arms. Lately, though, as typically geeky things have become more and more accepted by mainstream society, there’s…
#18: Chandler Romeo and Reed Weimer Artists Chandler Romeo and Reed Weimer have been fixtures of the local scene since co-ops first began to pop up around 1980, building their Denver art careers first at Pirate gallery and later starting up Zip 37 just across Navajo Street. Over the years,…
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…
You can say this for the Disney teen machine: They sure know how to pick ’em. Vanessa Hudgens was seventeen when High School Musical made her famous, the tail end of a generation of Mouseketeers that included her contemporaries Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez, and her elders Justin…
Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi solidifies his status as one of cinema’s finest living dramatists with The Past, a superb followup to 2011’s Oscar-winning A Separation that again situates audiences amid interpersonal, familial and household crises. Working from a script that incisively plumbs a thicket of logistical and emotional complications, Farhadi’s…
Jillian Schlesinger’s Maidentrip condenses fourteen-year-old Laura Dekker’s quest to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world down to a breezy eighty minutes, which isn’t to say it’s all killer, no filler. Though certainly inspirational, the film could hardly be called probing: The range of emotions exhibited by…
The entrance to Edge Theatre is in a small, gray Lakewood strip mall, but once you open the door and step inside, you encounter a warm, colorful space that includes three rooms serving as galleries for local artists, a bar and — of course — the auditorium, cunningly curtained and…
Matthew Lopez’s The Legend of Georgia McBride, now receiving its world premiere at the Denver Center Theatre, began as a staged reading at last year’s New Play Summit. Lopez has two plays running in Denver right now, and both feature original and intriguing central concepts. In The Whipping Man, currently…
Though contemporary art went fully international more than a generation ago, certain qualifiers related to country, culture, history, sexuality, gender and ethnicity, among a raft of other factors, persist, and there is no indication that they will give way to some kind of worldwide sameness. This idea came to mind…
There are four good things we can say about I, Frankenstein, another muscles-and-rubble comic book adaptation just un-terrible enough not to alienate its core audience, yet never consistently grand or surprising enough to win over anyone else. First, Aaron Eckhart brings it, scowling like a champ beneath his jigsawed scar…
For Robert Redford, Sundance’s opening day was a bummer. He woke up to learn that the Academy had snubbed him for a (deserved) Best Actor nod for the sparse yachting drama All Is Lost, and had to spend his typically triumphant morning press conference swatting down questions about being sad…
In 1992, Armistead Maupin, author of the much-loved Tales of the City series, refused to visit Colorado on a book tour; the state had just passed a bill repealing anti-discrimination laws against gay people and been derided nationwide as the “hate state.” But now we’ve redeemed ourselves, and Maupin will…
In the absence this year of One Book, One Denver — a citywide book club promoted by the mayor’s office — there was a void that needed filling to get the community reading. Enter The Big Read. The National Endowment for the Arts program, in conjunction with Lighthouse Writers Workshop,…
The new art show from Good Thieves Press is all about the artists stealing — or at least borrowing — from each other. “Because we’re a co-op and there are six members, all of us have our own styles and artistic approaches,” says Good Thieves’s Corrina Espinosa. “We decided that…
“I’m not sure that there’s any music out there that exists that imbues more utter passion and depth of feeling than Edith Piaf’s,” says musician Britta Laree. “Her entire life was about living and loving to the fullest, and, boy, she paid the price in a lot of ways. But…
