Holocaust culture has proven to be essentially infinite: Nearly seventy years since the end of World War II, and untold stories of decimation and survival are still hitting the mainstream, with no light at the end of the tunnel. Agnieszka Holland’s new film, In Darkness, opens a scab perhaps only…
When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover And wring his bosom…
The words “diva” and “legendary” could have been coined to describe Maria Callas, one of those fiery, imperial, larger-than-life talents who defines her art form for a generation — though critics have been divided on whether her voice was a gift from God or an essentially flawed instrument. Callas’s life…
The main virtual hall Most conventions are pants-mandatory kinds of affairs — even those of the adult nature. For the world’s first virtual porn convention, however, I’m not wearing any (relax…I’m in my PJs). This past weekend, XBiz and Red Light Center hosted the Adult Entertainment Virtual Convention, porn’s first…
News that Disney plans to film a remake of The Lone Ranger, starring Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer (who played the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network) as the Ranger, in Colorado bucks the trend of filmmakers abandoning the state for cheaper locales — a trend lawmakers are…
Collaboration is the new competition, and eight of Colorado’s coolest local skate shops and skateboard brands are banding together in an unprecedented partnership to release Malfunction, a new video from filmmakers Brandon Greer, Corey Miller, and Travis La featuring skaters James Batcheller, Dan Hunter, Scott Johnson, Mike Marks and Garrett…
Interviewing some celebrities can be as excruciating as putting out a campfire with your face, but talking to John Waters is a lot like talking to a friend — that is, if you have friends who have made freaks, gays, drugs, abortions and religion into delightfully irreverent movies that have…
The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave unveiled its new exhibit, Buffalo Bill Superhero, yesterday on Lookout Mountain. The character of Buffalo Bill (born William F. Cody) graced the cover of almost 2,000 dime novels more than a century ago, making him America’s first comic-book hero — and paving the way…
The Yves Saint Laurent show will soon fill the Denver Art Museum, and Mondo Guerra seems to be running away with Project Runway All Stars (anyone else think it’s suspicious that he’s cancelling Denver engagements because he needs to be in New York in mid-April?). So Denver’s looking good these…
Daniel Junge just picked up an Academy Award for best short documentary for his film Saving Face.. This was Junge’s second nomination…but one reader wonders what happened to a third movie:…
Colorado-based filmmaker Daniel Junge won an Oscar tonight for Saving Face, the short documentary film that follows a Pakistani plastic surgeon dedicated to performing reconstructive surgery on women who’ve been attacked with acid. Read an interview with Junge about Saving Face…
Penelope Ann Miller looked fairy-tale beautiful (and Oscar-worthy) at the red carpet with this classic strapless look — and here are several other glimpses we caught of fashion dos and don’ts, including the stunning Milla Jovovich and overly collagen’d Melanie Griffith…
You could say it all started with a pair of shoes — the most minimal of shoes, made of woven straw — in 1991. That’s when Denver-based artist Viviane Le Courtois strapped the first pair on her feet and ventured off on a series of foot-treks around the world, creating…
There will be a memorial for longtime Denver critic Holly Bartges at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 6 at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Street in Boulder. “We will sing, hoist a glass and talk of all things Holly,” promises Colorado Theatre Guild director Gloria Shanstrom, who notes that there…
It’s so easy to get the blues in dreary, cruddy February. But there’s no excuse this weekend — the city is full of things to do. From Oscar parties to art openings, dance performances to absurd theater, we’ve got everything you could possibly want. And it all costs $10 or…
Koffi Toudji has been making a positive impact on Denver as a drummer, dancer and teacher of both for more than half a decade, and now he wants to take his energy full circle. Toudji is originally from Kpalimé in Togo, West Africa, and he’s putting on the Koffi Togo…
If you are kinky, want to be, or are just curious about sexuality and different lifestyles — check out KinkForAllDenver, a full-day conference taking place tomorrow at the Community College of Denver’s Auraria Campus. The conference will be a hands-on (crack a joke here, pervs) teach-in with presentations by sexual…
This isn’t Daniel Junge’s first trip to the Oscars. The Colorado-based filmmaker was nominated for an Academy Award in 2010 for his documentary The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner; this time he’s nominated in the Documentary Short category for Saving Face, a film that follows a Pakistani plastic surgeon…
It’s always a good Friday when Untitled rolls into the Denver Art Museum: The monthly last-Friday series, which makes looking at art fun and proactively unboring, turns your museum visit upside-down from the moment you walk in the front door. Tonight’s session, Untitled #44 (Road Trip), pays homage to the…
It was World War III last night onProject Runway All Stars as the designers competed to see who could create the best national flag-inspired outfit. Each contestant was to take on a nation that represented a “major world region,” but some of the countries wound up looking somewhat obscure…
Where was the art in Artopia? That was the question one reader asked after looking at a slide show of Westword’s entertainment extravaganza that filled five venues on Broadway with music, fashion, food, drinks…and yes, lots and lots of art. You couldn’t miss it…if you were there…
With his art, Phillip Potter investigations the correlation between interior design, home decoration and fine art. His current show, The DavenPort Collection , which runs through February 26 at Edge, is a subtle nod to the role of fine art in America’s consumer-minded society, a slight satire on how visual…
