Five reasons why Clerks III is a fan-tastic idea

Kevin Smith fans are taking to the streets to celebrate the announcement that he is currently writing Clerks III — or at least they would be, if they weren’t too stoned to leave their houses. Even though Smith said he wasn’t going to produce a sequel to Clerks II, now…

3 things to do for free in Denver this week, March 11-14

Joan Crawford once famously proclaimed that she loved playing bitches. But back in 1928, in Our Dancing Daughters, the film that made her a star, Crawford played quite a different role: a jilted roaring ’20s party girl. And you can see that movie for free this week, as well as…

Andrew Novick remembers five desserts featured in Sweet Tooth

Crazed collector Andrew Novick even collects food memories with his camera, and sometimes he shares them with the world, as he does with Sweet Tooth: 1000 Photographs of Desserts (that I ate), an exhibit that opens with a reception from 5 to 11 p.m. tomorrow at cupcake emporium The Shoppe…

Doug Benson on comedy, high concepts and Doug Loves Movies

Doug Benson’s appearance in Denver this weekend is a welcome addition to a long line of marijuana-themed events that have given Colorado a globally recognized identity as a THC utopia. As the co-star of The Marijuana-Logues and the documentary Super High Me — in which Benson takes on the Morgan…

Horror films from A to Z: part one

At The ABCs of Death, opening today at the Sie FilmCenter, you’re going to get the equivalent of horror tapas — one short, punchy tale for each letter of the alphabet, each delivered by a current or rising star in the genre. It’s a tasty appetizer that can serve as…

Nick Sugar goes to bat for Equinox’s Bat Boy: The Musical

The opening weekend of Equinox Theatre’s Bat Boy: The Musical last month was a smash — sold-out houses on both nights, and standing ovations for the cast. But a few days later came the horrifying news that Adam Perkes, the intense actor who played Bat Boy, had been found dead…

100 Colorado Creatives: Judy Anderson

#85: Judy Anderson When Judy Anderson founded PlatteForum a decade ago, it was a good idea. Over the years, with the help of an enthusiastic team, it’s morphed into a great idea — a well-oiled machine that molds a rare product: Kids pumped up on creativity. The basic idea behind…

William Stoehr puts on a monumental show at Space Gallery

Up front at Space Gallery is an impressive solo, William Stoehr: Icons, which comprises large portraits done in a wildly expressionist style. Stoehr blows up women’s faces to gigantic proportions using an action-painting approach, smearing the pigments in rapidly laid-down strokes. Despite the abstract shapes of these smears, Stoehr orchestrates…

Now Showing

Art of the State. This juried effort at the Arvada Center has been attracting crowds, to say the least. The two-person jury comprised Collin Parson, Arvada’s exhibition manager and curator, and Dean Sobel, who, as director of the Clyfford Still Museum, is an art-world celebrity. Because of the curators’ stature,…

Cate Shortland’s Lore resembles a dark children’s fable

Nine years on from her intoxicating road-movie debut, Somersault, Australian director Cate Shortland has fashioned a different kind of journey — this one set amid the winding trails of the Bavarian woods, circa 1945. There the five children of a captured Nazi officer flee toward what they hope is safety…

Oz the Great and Powerful tilts toward the mawkish

It’s a bad omen when, early on in Oz the Great and Powerful, we learn that the full given name of its wizard is Oscar — also the name of the ceremony that star James Franco once presided over as calamitously as he does this sagging Disney tent pole, a…

The existence of The Gatekeepers is its own chief statement

It’s a cliché of the voting world that even the staunchest liberals — especially of the privileged, male variety — tend to drift rightward through middle age and beyond. Yesterday’s protesters develop the libertarian malaise; its progressives seek to fence in their fiefdoms and tax-proof their stock portfolios. Not so…

In Jon, teens express themselves in an artificial world

On the opening night for Jon, the Catamounts served vodka before the show. The drinks — courtesy of Boulder’s 303 Vodka — came in glasses rimmed with blue Kool-Aid, and with ice cubes made of frozen cherry juice. This offering — along with a food wagon decorated with lights that…