Ben Witte and Nate Emsick, of Sound Like Fire Media & Production, focus on local filmmakers at Open Screen Night, scheduled for the last Tuesday of every month at the Oriental Theater. The series is designed to give filmmakers a chance to show their work and fans a chance to…
The Denver Roller Dolls’ Mile High Club destroyed the Sacred City Derby Girls 339-86 in quarterfinals and edged out tournament hosts, B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls, on their way to finals at the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s West Region playoffs over the weekend in Richmond, California. They also made the…
Ahoy, mateys! Perfectly timed to follow September 19’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, Denver’s annual pirate convention sailed into the Red Lion Hotel over the weekend. For three days, the scallywags, their wenches and other pirate friends celebrated the high crimes of the high seas — in costumes. Continue reading…
We get it, you’re broke. But that doesn’t mean you have to fill your weeknights with bad prime- time sitcoms. Instead, get out of the house and enjoy three three stellar events that feature entertaining stories, flirty songs and/or Lady Gaga. And get this: All three are free! For a…
What’s the best way to celebrate your first birthday? By wearing a super-hero costume, of course. Down and Derby, Denver’s regular skating bash, did just that — on roller skates, no less — over the weekend with a party at Exdo Center presented by Beauty Bar. Continue reading for the…
Jack Kerouac visited Five Points when it was at its most vibrant, when it was the heart not just of Denver’s African American community, but of the entire Rocky Mountain West, when the Rossonian Hotel and other jazz clubs in the area were must-stops for black entertainers crossing the country…
People are still talking about the 2012 Nan Desu Kan convention that filled the Marriott at the Denver Tech Center with camaraderie and costumes earlier this month. Bree Davies was there for the entire weekend of anime and gaming of all eras, tropes and worldly origins — where she heard…
Ben Dicke, director and producer of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at the Aurora Fox, gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “blood, sweat and toil” — he’s invested all three in bringing this historical emo-rock opera to the Denver stage. Bloody Bloody was all set to open two weeks…
Can you ever have too many lists of the best kinky, BDSM — or BDSM-ish — movies out there? I don’t think so. There is just too much steamy, sensual, strange, sadistic, masochistic and prurient cinema to ignore — and these films aren’t even meant to be porn. Naked, sweaty…
Occupy Wall Street celebrated its first birthday this week. In the past year, the young political movement has inspired laws, riots and several retrospective glances, not the least among them the new documentary Occupy Unmasked. Directed by conservative filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon, the piece stays true to its title, aiming…
Now celebrating its one year anniversary, Denver’s all-female sketch comedy group, Ladyface, has become a strong counterweight to the booming male stand-up scene, often hosting the boys from Grawlix and Fine Gentleman’s Club in their sketch-comedy vignettes, and working the mic themselves as solo acts. “They’re both totally different, but…
Short of cash and wondering how you can have fun this weekend? Don’t worry. Whether you want to burn your mouth on chiles, see a rare 1930s samurai film or ride around on public transit all day as part of a competition, the town will be full of things you…
What marks a resident of this state? Our Latest Word blog just served up You Know You’re From Colorado When Tumblr top ten, which includes this as number seven: You never understood why the Fellowship in LOTR had so many issues crossing the pass, when you trudge through that kind…
The 35mm films are in place, and the University of Colorado Denver music students have their instruments ready. The Denver Silent Film Festival runs tomorrow through Sunday at the King Center on the Auraria campus, with screenings of silent-era classics and some lesser-known gems. We asked artistic director Howie Movshovitz…
In two weeks, the Denver Cruisers’ riding season will officially end for 2012, but not without a bang: Last night, hundreds of cyclists gathered on Talk Like a Pirate Day dressed as pirates, sailors, nymphs and a few seafaring shades in between. We guess you could say all hands were…
The Fritzler family will go down in history as proud, card-carrying Coloradans — in large part because this LaSalle family has already made its mark in corn. For the past twelve years, the Fritzlers have created epic and (mostly state-centric) corn mazes, the most recent of which honors Broncos star…
It took a lot of planning and hard work by the Denver Gay and Lesbian Flag Football League to land this year’s Gay Bowl XII, which officially kicks off tomorrow at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Bidding for the games began back in 2010, when the Denver Gay and Lesbian Flag…
Denver’s two premiere roller-derby leagues are headed to Richmond, California this weekend for the Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Association (WFTDA) West Region Playoffs — aka the “Bay of Reckoning” — and there’s a halfway decent chance that the Denver Roller Dolls (#2 seed, behind Portland’s Rose City Rollers) and…
In all of its forty years, Denver’s Su Teatro has never performed a more iconic work than the satire I Don’t Speak English Only. And considering that nearly everything the troupe and artistic director Tony Garcia touch is entrenched in Chicano culture and activism, that’s saying a lot. See also:…
Pulitzer finalist Dava Sobel is definitely a star — the asteroid 30935 davasobel is even named after her. And tonight you’ll be starstruck when the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company offers a free reading of Sobel’s play And the Sun Stood Still, which dramatizes the events that led Nicolaus Copernicus to…
Sign porn! Denver is a showplace for amazing signage from across the decades. For proof, look no further than #denversignporn, a popular Instagram hashtag. That’s what Michael Roberts did, and then compiled some of the best examples of this particular brand of porn in this Latest Word post…
For some reason, I’m never ready for the onslaught of shows that are unleashed at the beginning of the fall season each September. If I stop to think about how many noteworthy exhibits have opened in the past two weeks or are about to open — and how many I…
