Based on a best-selling French graphic novel by Joann Sfar, the animated film The Rabbi’s Cat tells the story of a cat who eats his owner’s parrot and is suddenly able to speak. Set in Algeria in the 1930s — where Arab, French and Jewish cultures intersect — the film…
Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Art will kick off the year with something both close to home and global in scope. Working in collaboration with Denver International Airport art curator Jacquelyn Connolly, the CVA is presenting In Situ, a satellite exhibit to Friends and Neighbors, a series…
Sixteen-year-old Steamboat Springs local and U.S. Snowboarding team rookie Arielle Gold, who was landing 720s on her way to winning the 2013 FIS Snowboarding Halfpipe Championship last month in Stoneham, Quebec, might not have been precisely what Nordic ski-jumping pioneer Carl Howelsen had in mind when he founded the Steamboat…
Hold on to your pasties: Nationally renowned burlesque emcee extraordinaire and badass of all things theatrical Miss Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett), has had an epiphany. “I was sorting through the music from all these different shows I’ve done — Leadville or Bust, Reefer Mania, a jazz project I’ve…
Ah, the ’50s. That fabled time when the United States was at the height of its affluence and power, and everyone who lived here was happy and middle-class. Except for those who were members of a minority, or gay, or leftist, or poor, or unconventional. In Jordan Harrison’s play, Maple…
When it comes to personal style, some people find genres and labels limiting. One of those is local dancer and aspiring fashion designer Sarrah Jane Brooks, who likes to take inspiration from unexpected places to craft her own look. That look changes depending on her mood and the occasion. Keep…
On “Bad Friend,” the episode of the zeitgeist-courting HBO comedy Girls that aired Sunday, the characters decide to buy some coke and indulge in cocaine-related hijinks. At one point, Lena Dunham’s character, Hannah, and Andrew Rannell’s Elijah are seen chopping out lines on a toilet seat and the camera lingers…
For this week’s review, Westword art critic Michael Paglia visited Loveland Museum/Gallery, where he took in a retrospective show dedicated to local artist Dave Yust. Yust has been a large part of the Colorado art scene for years, and while he’s known mainly for his paintings, the exhibit spotlighted his…
Love it? Loathe it? Chances are good that you’ve got an opinion about the giant blue “Mustang” statue at the Denver International Airport. (Only slightly slimmer are the chances that you have a conspiracy theory about it.) This week’s cover story, “Yay or Neigh,” tackles the issue of whether it’s…
Talk about art on the cutting-edge! On Friday, February 1, the show Estee Fox: fox tales ft. 7 and marbles — an eclectic mix of videos, paintings and live music — will open at Edge Gallery, complete with a screening and discussion of Fox’s performance piece “How to: A Pretty…
Art of Winter, Denver’s annual snow-inspired art fest, kicked off in LoDo on January 25, and it will remain open to the public for three weeks of cold weather and cool art. Westword photographer Christopher Morgan captured these shots of ski and snowboard art (and enthusiasts) during the opening days…
The first time John Oliver agreed to do an interview with Westword, Michael Roberts noted the utter futility of pointing out when either party — but mostly the “humble scribe” — laughed due to the ubiquitous chortles throughout. Five years later, Humble Scribe No. 2 (aka, yours truly), could have…
This June, Nick Cave — not the Bad Seeds Nick Cave, but the Chicago-based artist Nick Cave — will transform the Denver Art Museum into a living garden of the fantabulous moving costumes he creates with Nick Cave: Sojourn, an exhibit of forty works, including twenty Soundsuits. And what are…
There’s a lot to love here: The teachers and students of the Clear Creek Academy of Jewelry and Metal Arts will be showing and selling handcrafted pieces as part of the Navajo Street Art District’s First Friday gathering. Through classes at the school, beginning to advanced jewelry-makers have had a…
After a teaser in which Conan O’Brien plugs his standup guest as Adam Clayton-Holland (a reference to the U2 bass-player that Adam Cayton-Holland is surely used to), Denver’s former What’s So Funny? columnist was introduced to one million nation-wide fans in his late-night TV debut. Utilizing material familiar to local…
Dave Grohl is a busy guy. The Foo Fighters frontman is a member of multiple supergroups, played alongside Paul McCartney at the 12/12/12 Sandy Relief Concert, will be the keynote speaker at South by Southwest this March, and just made his directing debut with Sound City, a documentary tracing the…
While winter casts its icy breath on the people of Denver, many still brave the streets — whether to reach their jobs or just to have fun. One of these is Ross Evans, a local bartender who works in LoDo and enjoys dressing up on and off the clock. Continue…
Oh, Colorado — you trickster! Just when we started sneaking some summer wear into our freakishly good-weathered January days, you pulled the plug and reminded us what those jackets are for. But at least you also gave the mountains some fresh powder. Over the past 24 hours, Copper Mountain raked…
As the University of Colorado at Boulder’s International Film Series kicks off its spring series tonight, you might notice a slight shift in the force. Longtime IFS director Pablo Kjolseth, one of the area’s last holdouts in the 35mm-or-digital debate over quality of film experience, is considering, and maybe more…
My band broke up two weeks ago. For the three or four people who know us and may accidentally find themselves reading this, I won’t be discussing why we broke up. Sorry. I know band breakups are really fascinating to everyone who isn’t in the band, but it’s not really…
Forty years ago, New York fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert set out to produce a runway show called Le Grand Divertissement à Versailles in 1973, a fundraising catwalk to save the dilapidated Palace of Versailles in France. But the fashion show — which positioned American designers Oscar de la Renta, Bill…
Every great filmmmaker has to start somewhere. In fact, even the not-so-great ones need a place to air their cinematic laundry, and that’s the reason for Open Screen Night Denver, a monthly event at the Oriental Theater that’s open to anyone who dabbles in the art of short film and…
