Michael Paglia visited RedLine for this week’s review, taking in a group show from artists who also use studio space at the gallery. The show features many different types of work, ranging from paintings to installations, from about two dozen artists. Continue reading for photos from the exhibit…
Noir fiction is full of seedy bars where desperate people make bad decisions to do worse things to each other. So it makes sense that if you want to offer a place for noir writers to read their work and interact with the public, you’ll skip the bookstore and go…
Ballet Nouveau Colorado was started twenty years ago to fill what the founders perceived as a need for quality ballet training and educational dance programs in Denver’s north metro community. But you have to be on your toes to keep up with what Ballet Nouveau is doing these days, and…
This past year has been tough for many people, and we’re eager to kiss 2012 goodbye. In hopes that 2013 will turn out to be much luckier for many, we invited some of the town’s cultural tastemakers — entrepreneurs and entertainers we’re lucky to have in Denver — to answer…
Update: Congratulations to superiorforchange and pogomojoho! You’ve each won two tickets to the film. Check your email for details on how to claim them. Original post: One of the year’s biggest Christmas movies might also be one of its biggest tear-jerkers. And then there’s that cast: Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman…
When Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver’s graphic novel The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln was released this past September, he wasn’t sure what its critical reception would be. His prior work was almost entirely comedic, and here he was tackling a complex, biographical-historical novel about one of the nation’s greatest…
The idea behind the VOICES Mobile Film Festival is simple: using only a mobile device for filming, shoot a one- to two-minute movie about a woman that inspires you. While editing software and external microphones, lighting and tripods are allowed, even encouraged, the content must come from a non-traditional movie…
A Denver Cruiser Ride in the heart of December has to have a reason — or at least a reason more urgent than the usual “because.” And in fact, tonight’s DCR Retro Ride is getting in gear for a great reason: It’s destined to be part of a locally produced…
When Melissa Wollenberg of Highlands Ranch snapped a cute/surreal photo of her son in a gas mask, standing before the orange haze of this past last summer’s out-of-control fires, she had no idea that it would eventually be chosen by film legend Ron Howard and LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy for…
The civic health club Warm Cookies of the Revolution hosted a letter-writing party at Buntport Theater last night, where attendees wrote letters to loved ones, publication editors, and city and state officials. But they weren’t the only ones celebrating the holiday season by writing letters. Another letter-writing party was held…
Denver-based backpack company Mile High Mountaineering (MHM Gear) won the top prize at the local Something Independent Awards in October; in July, MHM’s “Snake-Loader” Salute 34 pack made the cover of the 2013 Backpacker Magazine Gear Guide and also won an Editor’s Choice Award. And this week the local brand…
Poetry can be a form of catharsis, but often the poems are forgotten after they’re written, banished to a closed notebook in a dark drawer. Lesbian Inspired Poetry wants to make those poems public — by sharing them in a free publication. The first issue of LIP is scheduled to…
While I was sitting on the toilet the other day reading a months-old copy of The Atlantic, something caught my eye in its annual “Ideas List” — the notion that employers should hire introverts. As one of those annoying extroverts, I immediately got upset and irritated that the article wasn’t…
Local goths often have a general attitude of deep, dark despair — and now they have a reason for it: They will soon have to crawl back to Hot Topic to buy their gear…at least for a little while. Rave’s Oh My Goth, the brick-and-mortar store at 1516 Emerson Street,…
For some folks, the ski season doesn’t really start until they’ve seen the annual Warren Miller adventure flick. Others caught the premiere of Flow State last month, but are ready for another look at the movie. And they’ll get their chance tomorrow night, at the sixth annual Warren Miller Screening…
Warning: these photos are graphic. You may need to look away and take deep breaths. Denver brought out the worst of its eye-searing Christmas cardigans on Saturday at City Park for the 2012 Ugly Sweater Run, which included contests for everything from best mustache to ugliest sweater, hot-chocolate aid stations…
Nimrods are everywhere. You can find them at the gym mesmerized by their own reflection, in bars chirping obnoxiously about the complexities of their trivial existence, even on their crusty couches at home, where they seem to be perpetually married to the thrilling phenomenon known as “television.” But that’s just…
Denver rewound the clock by seventy years on Saturday night at the 1940s White Christmas Ball, which took place, appropriately, inside the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum. See also: – Photos: The 1940s White Christmas Ball slide show – Reader: 1940s WWII Era Ball is worth every…
Evan Weissman wants Denver to take control of its civic health, so he’s created Warm Cookies of the Revolution, a monthly gathering where the community can discuss important issues, promote advocacy and also enjoy entertainment. Tonight’s event at Buntport Theater is a letter-writing party, where attendees can write a letter…
“This is the season of light for so many faiths,” says Carol Kozak Ward of the Colorado Hebrew Chorale. And so tonight, the group is inviting everyone to the annual Festival of Lights at Four Mile Historic Park. The singers open the celebration to anyone interested in sharing the traditions…
Now that heating bills across the state are going up, it’s tempting to stay inside and stay warm while staring at your empty wallet. But that’s boring! There’s tons to do in Denver that’s completely free, so you won’t have to feel Scrooge-like with your thermostat. This week, for example,…
As a university town, Boulder has a reputation for supporting both the avant garde and the cultural underground. Tonight, for instance, the Univerisity of Colorado boulder will host the multimedia program Invasion 2012, featuring works by students of new media technology-arts ground-breakers Mark Amerika (who teaches Remix Culture) and Mark…
