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…
Fifteen teams competed in the 2013 International Snow Sculpture Championship in Breckenridge last week. From January 22-26, groups from across the globe hand-carved 20-ton blocks of snow into frozen art over a 65-hour period. Yesterday, team Mongolia took home top honors for its impressive snow statue of two riders on…
So normally when my roomie yells “Check this sh*t out on YouTube!!!” I ignore him, but when he told me Denver had a goose-scaring robot to rid its parks of geese, I had to watch. And I saw the “GoosInator,” a highway cone-orange creation that looks like something sewn on…
Designer Victoria Bartlett has a long relationship with the fashion world. From designing to styling and back, Bartlett’s extensive knowledge helped propel the fluid move to creating her own brand, VPL, in 2003. This Tuesday, January 29 — one day only — hand-selected styles from VPL’s 2013 runway and commercial…
Cash can be short at the end of the month; fortunately, this week is long on free events. Watch the season premiere of RuPaul’s Drag Race, catch an improv show, and pig out on free pizza at a Naughty By Nature show — all without opening your wallet. Share more…
Looking for a 16,291 square-foot mansion on 2.15 acres with two master suites and a hibachi island in the kitchen? Try 5 Mockingbird Lane in Cherry Hills Village, one of the five most expensive homes for sale in the metro area right now. No family really needs that much space,…
The double race for the pinnacle of dragdom is on again: As Season 5 of RuPaul’s Drag Race commences tonight, so does the Ultimate Queen Contest 2013 at Tracks, and it all comes packaged up together in one long, entertaining sashay through a Monday night. See also: – Queens Nina…
erpbUpstream ColorBold, impassioned, ecstatically beautiful, Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color — a lyric reverie on loss, love, and various invasions of the body — was in a class by itself at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Well, let’s say it was a class shared by a more conventional but no less…
Dennis Quaid gets around. Since the late ’70s, he’s appeared in more than seventy films and television shows, playing everything from a deep-space fighter pilot to an dragon-slaying warrior, and always with a certain swaggering charm. This Friday and Saturday at the Sie FilmCenter, Mile High Sci-Fi is tackling one…
You don’t need to spend big bucks to have big fun this weekend. You can see a zombie bowling movie, join in a weed-website party or catch a snow-themed art show for less than ten bucks…and that’s just the start of the economical entertainment in store. Share more bargains in…
Wrestling worlds collide this weekend when Primos Hardcore & Wrestling welcomes fighters from Canada and Mexico to throw down with some of the company’s biggest stars. This Sunday, January 27, Primos will host a first-ever exhibition of three unique wrestling styles with Fight Club 3, bringing Hardcore, Lucha Libre and…
If it feels like something’s been gone from your life, perhaps it’s Untitled. But now the Denver Art Museum’s Friday night happy hour of fun programming is back from its holiday hiatus with a whole new agenda for a whole new year. See also: – Paper Bird’s Esme Patterson on…
Motherhood Out Loud, which opened at the Avenue Theater last week, is a collection of short plays on motherhood by several well-known playwrights. You meet bored mothers, elderly mothers, stepmothers, adoring mothers, a mother accompanying her tween-age autistic son on his first date, another trying to protect a seven-year-old son…
Though she was raised a Protestant in an extremely strict church, Thea Deley began questioning religious teachings that she considered bizarre even as a child. Now firmly out of the religion, Deley has made a hilarious and touching one-woman show devoted to her evolution from believer to blasphemer. Jesus Loves…
This Sunday, January 27, the drag kings of Denver will bring their handsome talents to the stage for a chance to compete in the national Mister USofA MI Pageant, which will be held in Oklahoma City this March. At this preliminary round, dubbed the “Carnival of Kings,” potential Misters will…
It’s safe to say Vintage Theatre’s RFK is a smash. A one-man exploration of the life and times of Robert Kennedy by Jack Holmes, it garnered excellent reviews (including mine) and a huge amount of Facebook chatter, with dozens of people who had seen the performance sharing information, congratulating the…
Riding RTD buses, on certain routes, is an awful lot like using my old roommate’s microwave oven: It’s steamy, filled with food splatter and spittle, smells like armpits, and you just never know what fresh hell you are going to find in there. But the Regional Transportation District’s board of…
Update: Congratulations to therealstevecoogan! You’ve won two tickets to Artopia. Check your email for details on how to claim them. Original post: Westword’s annual Artopia party is exactly one month away, which means it’s time to start planning your one-night exploration of Denver culture right now. Split across four venues…
Art of the State, which opens tonight at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, is an ambitious attempt to present the full scope of Colorado artists working in every medium and genre. Put together by Arvada Center gallery director Collin Parson and jurist Dean Sobel of the Clyfford…
Denver comic and former Westword scribe Adam Cayton-Holland will be making his standup debut on TBS’s Conan next Tuesday, January 29. “This is my first appearance on a late-night TV show,” Cayton-Holland tells us. “I did a small spot on the TV show Happy Endings, but yeah, in terms of…
This past year, Thérèse O’Gorman moved up from Santa Fe to take over as the exhibition director of David Cook Fine Art in LoDo. For her first show, she has put together 20th Century Modernists, highlighting abstraction done in the West. Old modern art from the 1930s through the ’60s…
Colorado Art Survey VIII. Every year, Kirkland Museum director Hugh Grant organizes a show in which new acquisitions are combined with pieces already in the collection to illustrate the art history of the state. Grant lays out the somewhat sequential stylistic categories in roughly chronological order. The date range for…
