Yes, zombies are taking over Denver this weekend — but you don’t have to be undead to have a lively time. If getting gory isn’t your thing, you can enjoy improv, wheel into a giant bicycle show, and start shopping for the holidays. There’s plenty to do — and many…
There are a lot of zombie events in Denver this month, but the lineup on Saturday, October 19, takes the cake. If there’s a single day to celebrate your love of the living dead, this is the one. From morning to late at night, there’s something undead happening pretty much…
Celebrate Fashion, the show at the JW Marriott tonight, celebrates the retailers of Cherry Creek North, all of which will bring something different to the runway. SOL, located at 248 Detroit Street, will show off something not often featured at traditional fashion shows: lingerie. (SOL is short for Store of…
Rained out of its original outdoor venue and date last month, Cherry Creek North’s Celebrate Fashion is finally on for tonight — indoors — at the JW Marriott in Cherry Creek. The show will feature fourteen boutiques, each presenting fall adult and children’s collections available in Cherry Creek North. The…
While Colorado has more than its fair share of mountain-centric film festivals, Telluride Mountainfilm stands out for its diversity. Some of the biggest awards at this year’s edition of the 34-year-old conclave went to films with little to no connection to the mountains, including best cinematography winner Dirty Wars, which…
“You say boogie, I say bogey,” says Eric Matelski, in response to questions about the pronunciation of the ‘bogeyman’ element of the Bogeyman Group Art Show now up at MacSpa. Inspired by the fact that his family treated Halloween like Christmas in his youth, and in honor of Denver’s multi-cultural…
On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl and L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson disagree on Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave — a beautifully shot film, contrasting the all-too-visible evil of mankind…
Michael Paglia visits Z Art Department in this week’s review, taking in a solo show featuring work by the late Al Wynne. Wynne was a large part of the mid-century modern art scene in Colorado, but a majority of his life’s work was destroyed in a forest fire last summer…
When Nan Desu Kan staff member Becca Cressler collapsed on stage during the Cosplay contest at this year’s anime convention, everyone in the building stepped in to help. After two grand mal seizures and an extended hospital stay, the uninsured Cressler was left with mounting medical bills — but again,…
Conventions — or cons, in nerd speak — are one of the best things about being a geek. A con is like a rock concert, a film festival and a super store all rolled into one. Only for nerds: Hundreds or thousands or even tens of thousands of us gather…
After six grueling months of weekly competition that whittled 140 comics down to one, the 2013 Comedy Works New Faces Competition has a winner in Jordan Doll. He’d delivered heavily talked-about performances at UMS and High Plains, and there had been a lot of hype in the comedy scene that…
Joan Dickinson blurs genres to create works that span the mediums of drawing, literature, film and performance. The current artist in residence at PlatteForum, she will display genre-bending work inspired by the astrological and paranormal there at a show that opens today; she’s been working with students from the West…
Oakland-based artist Desirée Holman is admittedly a bit of a geek when it comes to otherworldly things, from auras to aliens, and that’s the subject matter she taps visually in her ongoing project, Sophont. Begun in 2012, Sophont is a multimedia mixture of light, video, sound and physical paintings that…
Being a sensible person, you’ve probably taken a liking to Benedict Cumberbatch, the actor, Dickensian beanpole and banana-fana name-game destroyer who has lately played everyone literate geeks adore: Sherlock, Smaug, Khan. And, as a sensible person, you probably were curious — even heartened — to hear that Cumberbatch would be…
We see Bono’s face before we hear a soul singer sing, but other than that prizing of current fame over timeless R&B, Greg “Freddy” Camalier’s engaging new doc Muscle Shoals stands as a winning tribute to the northern Alabama studio, whose musicians and engineers laid down some of the greatest…
Vigil opens with an old woman in a bed and a looming figure in the shadows of the doorway behind her. It looks like a true Halloween scenario — the big bad wolf approaching the helpless grandmother — and this impression isn’t altogether off, because the intruder is indeed a…
Colorado Springs is hardly the cultural center of our state — it’s more accurately described as the provincial capital of Teabagistan — but for a good deal of the twentieth century, it was at the heart of Colorado’s art world. A major part of the story was the existence of…
Adam Milner. The show Adam Milner: Wave so I know you’re real represents Emmanuel Gallery director Shannon Corrigan’s latest effort in a series dedicated to what used to be called cutting-edge art by artists who work in Colorado. And as this exhibit proves, it’s a successful formula. The impact as…
After the Revolution. Playwright Amy Herzog enters a very specific world in After the Revolution: the passionate, close-knit, hyper-idealistic world of Jewish Communism in New York City during the early decades of the twentieth century. For these activists, Soviet Russia was a model. But when Khrushchev denounced Stalin during the…
What’s illegal at Disneyland? Dogs, drugs, alcohol, pamphlets, flags and large coolers. Not listed? Secretly shooting a feature-length movie. But Disneyland couldn’t have imagined director Randy Moore would have the courage to film Escape From Tomorrow on location — and that it would be so horny. In the black-and-white theme-park…
Kimberly Peirce changes almost nothing in her rallying remake of Brian De Palma’s classic about a troubled telekinetic teenager. She doesn’t have to. Yes, now the mean girls who pelt Carrie with tampons upload a cell phone video of the attack, and the well-meaning jock who squires the school outcast…
The world was wowed in 2008 when director Megumi Sasaki released Herb & Dorothy, a documentary on Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a couple of very low-key modern-art collectors. The postal worker and librarian had spent decades filling their cramped New York City apartment with thousands of pieces, including works by…
