It was a battle of the bold in Denver on Sunday, November 3, when American Crew 2013’s opening night featured the announcement of the U.S and Canadian All-Star Challenge winners, narrowed down to six hairstylists from hundreds of competitors. The hairstylists displayed their talents at a men’s-only show that highlighted…
AirwolfberlinJonathan Brandis hanged himself 10 years ago this week at Sixth and Detroit in Los Angeles, in the second-floor hallway of an apartment building south of Hollywood near a decent doughnut shop and a cat groomer. He was 27 years old. And he was my first big crush. If you’re…
Colorado native Rebecca Shepard is a newly minted author, and she’s barely old enough to drink. Her book, Naked Came the Post-Postmodernist, already has the New York Times talking. Actually, make that the book in which she has a part. There’s a story to this Naked and it began when…
#33: Michael Chavez Michael Chavez had already worked as an artist and curator, experience that prepared him well for his current job as public-art administrator for Denver Arts & Venues. In that role, he both oversees and maintains the city’s present collection of 350 works and coordinates new commissions. High…
Photographer and artist Kristen Hatgi-Sink has joined forces with Vanessa Barcus, owner of Goldyn, to produce a one-of-a-kind wet-plate photograph series. Crowns merges a photography technique using the collodion process with modern fashion to create a new artistic medium. And you can get a piece of it. See also: Curating…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, Withey suggests The Final Member…
Tonight at big-box electronics stores and GameStops all over the country, as the clock ticks over to midnight, the next generation of gaming will officially begin with the launch of the PS4 (sorry, the WiiU doesn’t count). Next week, the other shoe will drop in the form of the Xbox…
With loyal followers and customers packing Mile High Station, Max Clothing’s annual fashion show opened with a short thank-you video from parents and their children who had received pediatric care at Children’s Hospital. Max Martinez and Scott Seale, owner and CEO of Max Fashions, respectively, challenged the attendees to up…
From the mid-1990s to somewhere around 2006, Hollywood bankrolled a number of romantic entertainments targeted to — though not made exclusively for — black audiences. Pictures like Love Jones, Brown Sugar, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, and Something New provided a showcase for actors of color, a refreshing change…
Richard Curtis has so much to tell us about life. Seize the day! Show people you love them before it’s too late! Don’t let the right one get away! His movies — those he writes, directs or both — are so packed with info-feeling that they become restless jumbles of…
There’s little to suggest the restaurant industry needs a champion, but director Joseph Levy took on that mantle anyway. His feature debut is the splendid and engrossing documentary Spinning Plates, a love letter to that singular intersection of artistic innovation, cultural legacy, community pride, and family-sustaining (or -straining) commerce known…
The best part of Electra Onion Eater, which opens Buntport Theater Company’s thirteenth season, comes at the beginning, when Erin Rollman stages a television show called Cooking With Electra and proves yet again that she’s one of the top comic actresses around. Poor Electra is aiming at Julia Child-style chumminess…
Over the years, there have been dozens of heart-tugging movies featuring a boy — usually lonely and outcast — and his dog. (Lonely little girls are equally attached to their pets, but they don’t get as much cinematic time.) Sylvia, now at the Lone Tree Arts Center, is about the…
Artist and arts advocate Tracy Weil and fellow artist Jill Hadley Hooper founded the wildly successful River North Art District in 2007. And Weil’s Weilworks, a postmodern farmhouse complete with a small farm, is right across Chestnut Place from Ironton Studios & Gallery, the post-industrial complex where Hooper is the…
Barbara Carpenter and Janice McDonald. In the east gallery at Spark, Barbara Carpenter has assembled a large group of small photos hung in clusters, salon-style, for Walking Miss Daisy: Photographs by Barbara Carpenter. The Miss Daisy of the title is Carpenter’s dog, and all of the photos have been taken…
99 Histories. In Julia Cho’s 99 Histories, a young woman returns to her Korean mother’s house. She is pregnant, alone, unsure what to do next. A onetime musical prodigy who stopped playing the violin when she was diagnosed with a never-fully-defined mental illness, she has broken up with Joe, the…
Michel Gondry likes video stores. He is, after all, the director of the ultimate VHS sonnet, Be Kind Rewind, in which Jack Black and Mos Def re-create classics like Ghostbusters from plastic bags and tinsel. (Sad about the death of Blockbuster? Give it a watch.) One night, Gondry was browsing…
Through the soaring windows of the Mandarin Oriental Miami, it’s hard not to notice the blue skies and matching azure water. Most people find Miami’s beachy, serene views relaxing. But for fans of The Hunger Games, the vacation vista could just as easily conjure images of blister-forming nerve gas, vicious…
The idea behind Attention Homes’ Sleep Out for Homeless Youth is to give people a chance to sleep in someone else’s shoes. Now in its second year, the fundraiser invites participants to support National Runaway and Homeless Youth Awareness Month by spending a night outside in the cold. The evening…
Denver has been presenting the Mayor’s Awards for Excellence in Arts & Culture since 1986 — but this year the city added a new twist, asking people to vote for their favorites in two categories. Tonight, the winners of those contests will be announced at a free awards ceremony that…
Need your pants hemmed in a hurry? Get a tailor, swift. As much as we’d like to take credit for this music/fashion pun, it comes to you courtesy of MCA Denver, which is offering an evening of pants alterations and uninterrupted Taylor Swift songs for this week’s Black Sheep Friday…
The Colorado Symphony’s celebration of superheroes, sci-fi soundtracks and video-game scores is making a hero of composer Austin Wintory, a Denver native whose music for the PlayStation 3 game Journey has the distinction of being the first-ever Grammy-nominated video-game score. “I don’t know which is the greater honor: to have…
