When we interviewed Woodward at Copper ripper Morrison Hsieh for The Edge, our 2011/2012 winter activity guide, we got an earful about all the new terrain park features we’d be seeing on the slopes now that Woodward’s partnership with Copper Mountain has moved into full swing and new terrain park…
Which dog in this town has the most “person”ality? For the One Book One Denver “Dogs Are People Too” photo contest, pet-owners got to submit pictures of their dogs that best captured the feel of this year’s book, The Art of Racing in the Rain, in which author Garth Stein…
“I like the idea that music is somewhat ear-bending or mind-bending,” says Erik Peterson, a Colorado Symphony Orchestra violinist who founded the chamber music group EarWarp. He’ll be taking the stage at the Concert Hall at the Denver School of the Arts at 7 p.m. tonight, along with Abby Raymond,…
The 1st Bank Center played host to twelve of the best roller derby teams from around the country this past weekend. And although our hometown teams did not triumph in the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Championships, the Denver area definitely came out the winner for having the WFTDA games…
Tina Goodwin is a veteran of the Denver art world, having started out at the legendary Carson-Sapiro Gallery, which arguably pioneered RiNo as an art district some thirty years ago when it became the first art venue there. She was also the director for sixteen years of the now-closed William…
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…
American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose. Written by Richard Montoya, of the San Francisco performance group Culture Clash, American Night: The Ballad of Juan Josetells the story of immigrants in America through a crazed mix of skits, historical references, inspired parody and moments of pathos and insight. But the…
Director Danfung Dennis’s Hell And Back Again seeks to document the personal experience of war with extreme and sustained intimacy. The nightmare-vivid combat footage Dennis shot over the so-called Summer of Decision in 2009, while he was embedded with a Marine battalion behind enemy lines in southern Afghanistan, is only…
As life-or-death dramedy, The Descendants poses several important questions: Why has it taken Alexander Payne seven years to follow up on his critically beloved, box-office boffo, merlot-squelching Sideways? And what has blunted this gifted writer-director’s edge? Payne topped his debut feature, the provocatively obnoxious abortion comedy Citizen Ruth (1996), with…
An egalitarian study of crime and punishment in a small Southern town, Into the Abyss is also an unmistakably Herzogian inquiry into the lawlessness of the human soul. That would be the abyss of the title, though if you’re looking for more of that kind of shameless lyrical swagger, you…
When Blanche, desperate and destitute, comes to live with her sister in A Streetcar Named Desire, she finds Stella sexily and happily married to Stanley, a working-class yob — a Pole, not a Polack, as he angrily informs Blanche. The couple’s home in the steamy New Orleans French Quarter is…
Cannibal! The Musical began life as a movie written by pre-South Park and Book of Mormon Trey Parker, when he was a film student at the University of Colorado. It starred Parker himself and Matt Stone, and later evolved — or perhaps degenerated — into a stage production that bears…
Welcome to the online version of The Edge 2011-2012, Westword’s annual insider’s guide to winter activities. This season has already seen plenty of snow, and that’s just the beginning, as the 25 resorts profiled below have added new terrain, lifts, features, events and restaurants. To sort it all out, we…
New York’s Gotham Girls Roller Derby All-Stars were the big winners at the 2011 Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Championships at the 1st Bank Center this weekend, beating out West Region champs the Oly Rollers Cosa Nostra Donnas, 140-97. Gotham Girls also trounced the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls 5280 Fight…
The best thing about the holidays? It brings families together. The worst thing about the holidays? Right: It brings families together. But here’s something enlightening to remember when that dark moment comes down and you fear you are going to do something horrible to your children the next time they…
Roller derby girls are tough as shit. After all, the game they play involves dashing around an oval on roller skates, intentionally colliding into opponents and oftentimes sending them careening off course — sometimes face-first. Injuries are common; the starting line of this weekend’s WFTDA Championships in Broomfield was sponsored…
The Ellie Caulkins Opera House was south of capacity for the Starz Denver Film Festival’s closing night, which made some degree of sense, because the flick being showcased was The Artist, which is both black-and-white and silent. Yet the film, by French director Michel Hazanavicius, manages to encapsulate the reason…
National Geographic announced the finalists for its 2012 Adventurers of the Year awards on Friday, and they include two Boulder locals: Cory Richards, the first American to complete a winter ascent of an 8,000 meter peak, and Nick Waggoner, whose South American ski epic made for one of the year’s…
The instructions for Saturday night’s inaugural And Then She Saved Clothing Swap clearly stated that participants be at Super Ordinary Gallery by 7 p.m. to set up their outfit outposts and be ready to trade beginning at 7:30 p.m. sharp. I caught gallery owner Tran Wills at 7:23 p.m., right…
Another clothes call! Arts & Venues Denver will host a fashion forum tonight for local fashion/accessory and jewelry designers, which it describes this way: “This is a forum to LISTEN & HEAR from YOU! We want to know from you as designers what will be the best for this creative…
While H&M fans waited for the first Colorado store of the Swedish chain to open at the Denver Pavilions on November 10, some of Denver’s best designers showed off their skills in a Cut ‘n’ Sew competition emceed by Project Runway contestant Fallene Wells, and sponsored by the Denver Art…
Every sports team needs super-fans — and that includes roller derby teams. Twelve of the best from around the country are at the 1stBANK Center this weekend, competing in the WFTDA Championships, and several brought their most rabid supporters — you know, the guys (and gals) who are willing to…
