“I was so excited! I just got out of Spanish class and ran down the hallway to meet her. It’s like meeting a rock star,” says Stella Brown, an eighth-grader at Boulder’s Horizon’s K-8 School. Brown was racing down the hall to meet Teddy Namuyiga — not Taylor Swift. Namuyiga…
Since the beginning of time — or at least the beginning of cinema — there have been chick flicks: three-hanky tear-jerkers and, conversely, romantic comedies. In honor of the Sie FilmCenter’s new Hey Girl chick-flick series, debuting April 24 with Dirty Dancing — which might just be the greatest chick…
Dressed in a slinky black cocktail dress and spunky Beatle boots, Natasha Leggero strutted with sarcasm and sass during the first show in her four-night run at Comedy Works last night. Delivering her characteristic bitter commentary on politics and lowbrow culture (sweetened by an Audrey Hepburn forgive-me wink), Leggero caustically…
Sara Century is everywhere: running her monthly freeform open mic, Baby Hair, with co-conspirator Erica Adams; playing solo and with various bands all over the city; and hawking tape rentals behind the counter at Video One. This Saturday, April 13, Century wears yet another hat, an artist’s, as Hooked On…
Along with their love of sleeping late and attempting nothing ambitious during daylight hours, millennials seem to have an unending appetite for nostalgia. Comedians have been capitalizing on this for some time, making jokes about vintage Nintendo games and comic books. So it only makes sense that someone finally came…
We gave the Broadway/Baker retail strip the award for Denver’s Best Neighborhood Shopping District two years in a row — in 2012 and 2013 — for so many good reasons: The area is spilling over with hip, modern creative ventures. But some of that contemporary spark flares further south, too,…
The William Havu Gallery is chock-full of interesting things to look at. On the main floor are three solos that have been interwoven into a coherent theme show on contemporary abstraction, and up on the mezzanine is a salute to the Month of Photography, which straddles March and April. On…
In what U.S. state is it illegal for a man to have sex with a fish? If you want to know the answer — and are looking for something both fun and educational to do Thursday night — Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains has you covered. It’s hosting a…
While it’s true that a venue can make or break the show regardless of the talent on stage, this is doubly true with comedy. Location, comfort level, atmosphere, drink prices and, yes, quality of performers all play a large role in whether a comedy fan will Google your location when…
Truth or Dare: A Play Date with Kidrobot, an eye-catching and puckishly irreverent exhibition, continues through April 14 at Next Gallery. Curated by local artists as well as Veronica and Dan Ma, Truth or Dare gleefully eschews the false dichotomy between fine art and toys while celebrating the ingenuity of…
Lucas Richards, creator of the Horndribbles, a line of plush toys based on his monster designs, is ready to take his project to the next level. Where before, the Horndribbles were labor-intensive and functioned like uniquely soft sculptures, Richards hopes to introduce his labor of love to a new generation.
Westword caught up with Richards in the days leading up to the “Return of the Horndribbles” Children’s museum exhibit, where Richards and his partner Devon Braun of Explorer’s Playground will debut a story book and a line of Horndribbles manufactured for sale as toys.
The days of Internet dating being the domain of basement dwellers, antisocial misanthropes, virgins and folks who are unlucky in the looks department (mix and match any and all of these) are effectively over, and today it seems like everyone is meeting and dating — and venting about meeting and…
A bitter pill wrapped in a sweet cherry coating, comic Natasha Leggero is a double threat of intoxicating charm and tabloid cruelty. With her Audrey Hepburn style and merciless observational humor, she’s known to raise the I-can’t-believe-she-just-said-that bar during her regular appearances on Chelsea Lately, while still maintaining an authenticity…
What makes a city great? Bolstering the arts and culture is a good place to start, and many of the nation’s best cities rely on a civic cultural plan to figure how to best do that. Denver’s last attempt at such a plan came back in 1989 when Federico Peña…
Before I Die, an art installation that encourages people to create a communal bucket list, has been standing in the northwest corner of Civic Center Park since January — and yesterday, Candy Chang, its creator, came for a visit. The New Orleans artist first conceived of Before I Die after…
This Saturday, April 6, Hooked on Colfax will donate its wall space to Local Goes Global, an evening devoted to raising money through art for a global health-focused nonprofit, Comunidades Unidas Peru. A student-run organization, CU Peru comprises volunteers from various schools at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus…
Thomas Horne of Black Book Gallery lost his twin brother, Tim, to cancer. But Horne recognizes that he’s not alone in his loss. In solidarity with the thousands upon thousands of families, friends and patients whose lives are affected by cancer, he and gallery partner Will Suitts organized Knock It…
With his subtly satirical humor and deeply intricate ink drawings, Paul Michel creates stop-and-think images of layered, comedic art. He’ll debut new work in The Fanciest Tiger, a show opening tomorrow at Civilized Living, the monthly First Friday event at Fancy Tiger Clothing. In advance of that opening, we caught…
Su Teatro’s XicanIndie Film Festival, now in its fifteenth year, is a pure distillation of what the Chicano culture center offers on its stages all year long. That almost guarantees a curated whirlwind of diverse Latin-American films, filmmaker appearances, parties and world-class live performances, all in the space of four…
It seems like every place in the city’s art world has gotten into Month of Photography this year. And Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Center for Visual Art has gone beyond, mounting two exhibits — plus a chaser — on the theme. The first show, Semblance, was organized by Metro…
At some point during their comedy careers, every standup has to deal with a heckler. A truly annoying heckler can derail even experienced comedians as well as make audiences uncomfortable. While most hecklers think they’re being funny and can be shamed into silence with a pithy rejoinder from a talented comic, there are a few heckler sub-species that simply refuse to shut up, regardless of the comedian’s reaction.
While most of the world celebrated the resurrection of ol’ J.C., there were several weird developments — both real and satirical — in an even more implausible resurrection: that of Chris Brown’s career. After becoming the most hated man in show business, Breezy has defied logic by continuing to brawl…
