If it weren’t for his recent, surprisingly tender performance in the Oscarific Silver Linings Playbook, Chris Tucker would be in danger of only being known for his massive IRS debt. But now he’s back, not only in his first film in years but on the road performing standup, which was…
Month of Photography, a citywide series of events going on right now, has really left its mark on Denver over the past few years — a goal that hasn’t been easy for some other recent multi-venue offerings. Remember Dialogue Denver, which coincided with the 2008 Democratic National Convention? No? Neither…
For this week’s art review, Michael Paglia visited RedLine to take in a group show celebrating the city-wide Month of Photography. The show, titled The Reality of Fiction, tackles the notion that photos can fool the eye, making them both true depictions of reality and false ones. With only a…
Comedian Mara Wiles hasn’t had it easy the last few years. After establishing herself as an intelligently goofy performer on the local comedy scene, she was diagnosed with a potentially life-threatening kidney disorder that, to say the least, interrupted her ascending career as a standup. And Denver’s comedy community, which…
Five years ago, Denver filmmaker M Van Michaels (then working as Mike Olafson), released a documentary, Gears, Grease and Guitars, that traced the intertwined cultures of hot-rodders, rockabillies and, eventually, ’60s garage rockers, all from a local perspective. The fun flashback is packed with interviews and archival footage, and just…
The studio community at Wazee Union, peopled by artists and creatives of all kinds, shows off its diversity to the rest of the world on Second Saturdays — often with fundraisers that showcase the building’s talented denizens. Unfortunately, last week’s Lucky Dog Art Show got snowed out — but it…
Valerie Savarie’s Me, Myself and You, which opens Friday, March 15, at Zip 37, is an exploration of the artist’s relationship to the viewer. For this participatory show, Savarie is asking gallery visitors to share their reactions to her work, good or bad, on postcards that she plans on mailing…
In the 1970s, when she was in her nineties, Georgia O’Keeffe was rediscovered in a big way, as images of her paintings became ubiquitous in reproductions on posters, greeting cards and prints. This was the result of the confluence of three independent factors. First, there was new interest in looking…
The Colorado Business Committee for the Arts just announced the winners of its 2013 Business for the Arts Awards at a sold-out luncheon at the Seawell Ballroom. “Congratulations to the arts and business leaders recognized today,” Governor John Hickenlooper told the crowd of crowd of arts, business and civic leaders…
Michael Paglia visits the Denver Art Museum in this week’s review, which takes a look at the later works of famed artist Georgia O’Keeffe, in which she dealt with New Mexico modernism as her subject matter. Continue reading for photos from the exhibit. See also: – Photos: Art of the…
Colorado Creative Industries, a division of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade that replaced the Colorado Council of the Arts, has a new executive director, Margaret Hunt, who will be responsible for developing a statewide, shared vision for Colorado’s creative industries. “Margaret has extensive experience in regional…
Westword’s eighteenth annual Artopia combined art, food, music and live performances at Vinyl, City Hall, Bar Standard, The Living Room and The Salty Dog on February 23, 2013. And to celebrate the event turning voting age, we asked Denver artists John Vogl to create a limited edition poster (above) commemorating…
Kevin Smith fans are taking to the streets to celebrate the announcement that he is currently writing Clerks III — or at least they would be, if they weren’t too stoned to leave their houses. Even though Smith said he wasn’t going to produce a sequel to Clerks II, now…
Crazed collector Andrew Novick even collects food memories with his camera, and sometimes he shares them with the world, as he does with Sweet Tooth: 1000 Photographs of Desserts (that I ate), an exhibit that opens with a reception from 5 to 11 p.m. tomorrow at cupcake emporium The Shoppe…
Up front at Space Gallery is an impressive solo, William Stoehr: Icons, which comprises large portraits done in a wildly expressionist style. Stoehr blows up women’s faces to gigantic proportions using an action-painting approach, smearing the pigments in rapidly laid-down strokes. Despite the abstract shapes of these smears, Stoehr orchestrates…
The annual Women + Film Voices Film Festival officially opened yesterday, offering a well-curated sampler of feature films, shorts and documentaries — by, for and about women — that continues through Sunday. But this afternoon, the fest will kick back a little by presenting a bona fide chick-flick matinee screening…
In honor of the release of Stoker, the English-language debut of Park Chan-Wook, the Sie FilmCenter is hosting a retrospective of the South Korean filmmaker’s revenge series, starting tonight with the first entry in Chan-Wook’s trilogy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance. The series continues tomorrow with Oldboy; despite (or perhaps because…
First Friday in March was filled with pictures as Month of Photography 2013 kicked off at museums and galleries all over town, but the night was also all about food trucks and hip-hop dancers, street musicians, Anthony Camera’s junkie photo booth and folks strolling in the streets. Our photographer Danielle…
This year’s version of Month of Photography is not going to be typecast, no way. The very breadth of the 2013 citywide photography showcase is astonishing and diverse, viewing photographic media from every perspective: In black-and-white and color, super-real and fantastically altered, analog and digital, projected, and cut up and…
March holds a variety of options for comedy fans — from a new night in Boulder to the appearance of such ’90s nostalgia faces as Chris Tucker and the duo from Loveline. Click ahead to see what side-splitting adventures await as we laugh our way out of the winter chill…
On Saturday, Westword celebrated its ninth class of MasterMinds — artistic adventurers who are changing the landscape of Denver. Here’s our last winner: The Nix brothers got their start as filmmakers in high school in 1999, when Evan, the older brother, got a VHS camcorder for Christmas. They were living…
Colfax Avenue earns its storied notoriety the long, hard way — it’s the longest continuous commercial roadway in the U.S., kissed for decades by summer-night cruising, streetside commerce and the salt of the earth, and it begs to be photographed any time of day on any stretch of its 26-plus…
