Chuck Close. In the last few years, the Loveland Museum and Gallery has stepped up its game by presenting the work of famous artists. And the beat goes on with Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something. Close first came to the fore in the 1970s with hyper-realist…
Collapse. Comedy doesn’t usually get the respect accorded tragedy, but if you analyze the way that playwright Allison Moore has put together Collapse — the varying rhythms of the dialogue (everything from a touching monologue to a hyper-rapid patch of stichomythia); the surprises that seem inevitable once they’ve occurred; the…
Desperately trying to appeal to not just the Gen X’ers who grew up with Kermit, but also the tykes who’ve never even heard of Jim Henson, The Muppets has none of the easy confidence of the original TV show or movie. The reboot is largely the labor of love of…
The first thing you see in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia is a tight close-up of Kirsten Dunst’s face. Behind her, slow as molasses, birds are dropping from the sky. Brueghel’s “The Flight of Icarus” turns leisurely to ash; a passage from Tristan und Isolde swells on the soundtrack as lightning…
Martin Scorsese’s first foray into big-budget family filmmaking — as well as his inaugural effort in 3-D — Hugo is a personal statement disguised as a sellout. Based on Brian Selznick’s 2007 illustrated kids’ book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Hugo centers on its title character, played by Asa Butterfield,…
Playwright Arthur Kopit and composer Maury Yeston were still putting together their Phantom when Phantom of the Opera, the Andrew Lloyd Webber juggernaut, trundled onto the scene with its thunderous music, grandiose special effects and falling chandelier. Phantom’s backers quickly vanished, as did any chance of a Broadway opening. But…
The New Yorker might be just as well known for its cartoons as it is for its 10,000-word stories, and one of its illustrators, Roz Chast, who’s been cartooning for the magazine since 1978, will speak tonight at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts, with a book signing to…
Among all of this negativity generated by bad drivers, confusing intersections, construction and the monotony of seeing the same buildings every day, there are some humorous bright spots Denver drivers can look forward to, courtesy of a few local businesses signs. This one was posted on the Circle Drive Conoco…
Tonight at 6:30 p.m. the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC) brings its free Avalanche Terrain — Beyond the Basics workshop to REI Denver, 1416 Platte Street, aimed at skiers, snowboarders, and others heading into the backcountry this winter. But, as the CAIC points out, even “a 1.5 hour presentation on…
If you’ve been around Denver a while, you might know that septuagenarian songstress Judy Collins grew up here and attended East High. The daughter of blind bandleader Charles Collins, Judy’s first official performance as a singer was at the age of 17 seventeen, when she won the local Kiwanis Club’s…
Jef Otte wrote “O, Barnum! An ode to Denver’s least desirable neighborhood” as a celebration of his own neighborhood — one that counts several other Westword writers as residents. Some of their neighbors appreciated Otte’s ode; others did not. Denver School Board member Andrea Merida is just the latest to…
Opening day! Vail opens today with a 52-inch base, thirteen inches of new snow in the last week, an opening day terrain park on Born Free, and access to the mountain from both Vail Village and Lionshead. Still need a season pass? The $699 early-season price on the Vail Resorts’…
An event means business when you walk in and are asked to sign a waiver acknowledging that you accept the risks of using toxic substances. About forty people accepted those risks last night at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art’s Graffiti and Martinis and congregated in the purposely industrial-looking upstairs…
So many choices for music, dance or art this weekend. But if you’re in the mood for aerial performances, archetypal paintings, ecstatic dancers, light shows, electronica, fire spinning, spoken word, custom wearable art, vibration adjustments and energy activations — all in support of a good cause, mind you — there’s…
Welp, they finally did it: The three previous installments of the glittering, love-declaring, torn-between-two-monster-lovers Twilight series have basically been one massive buildup to the moment when Edward gives Bella the vamp-boner, and today it finally happened. Luckily, that carnal union is sanctified by the Lord. Which is a little weird,…
Last night’s “All Glory to the Hypnoquiz: an all-Futurama Event ” at Rackhouse Pub, sponsored by Geeks Who Drink, was a pretty raucous time, and I definitely debunked the myths that geeks can’t drink, party, be hot or win things. The evening didn’t turn out exactly how I wanted –…
The buy-local, DIY holiday craft market season is on: Get your foot in the door this weekend when the Sugar Plum Bazaar, featuring about forty spot-on, homegrown vendors, opens for business from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the elegant Parkside Mansion…
Did you have a journal as a teenager? Did you use it to chronicle all the horrible things adults made you do and how cute you found that certain student who used to sit next to you in Chemistry? Was it full of angst? Mine was, and so was Megan…
Master abstract expressionist Clyfford Still had no connection to Colorado during his life, but in death, the museum that is dedicated to him will have a daily connection to Denver. The Clyfford Still Museum opens today at 10 a.m. at 1250 Bannock Street, and it promises to bring a whole…
If you spent the wee hours of your morning taking in Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1, you embarked on the strangest sort of cultural safari. On the way, you saw beautiful things (women discussing gender stereotypes while comparing their Jacob keychains) and you saw terrible, terrible things: At one point,…
Signal Snowboards has built a special tribute to Steve Jobs, complete with an iPad mounted in the nose of the board and a glowing LED Signal logo in the aluminum base (similar to Apple’s iconic MacBook laptops). To test it, the California-based Signal crew brought the iShred to Colorado for…
Whether you want to see campy drag, high-brow art openings, or get down at a feminist dance party, we’ve got you covered this weekend. And it won’t break your bank. Everything on this list won’t cost you more than ten bucks, leaving you more cash to save up for the…
