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Review: Artist Ana Maria Hernando in Full Bloom With We Have Flowers

This has been the summer of women’s art in Colorado, with the Denver Art Museum’s heralded Women of Abstract Expressionism already looking like the show of the year and inspiring a number of other exhibits around the area featuring women artists. These events are part of a national re-evaluation of...
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Top 20 Paxton Lynch-Sucks Tweets

The headline of our first post about Paxton Lynch, the Broncos' number one draft pick this past April, reads, "Meet Paxton Lynch: Broncos' Star QB of the Future or the Next Tim Tebow?" Yesterday, during his first start — a desultory 23-16 home loss to the Atlanta Falcons that wasn't...
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Masterminds Leaves You Time to Wonder: Does Director Jared Hess Hate Poor Folks?

When Relativity Media — the production company/distributor behind Masterminds, the newest vehicle for Zach Galifianakis to do his painfully committed schtick — started getting press, co-founder/co-CEO Ryan Kavanaugh boasted of his secret sauce for success. A proprietary risk-evaluation algorithm that crunched variables like cast, release date, relative examples in the...
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Spring of Violence in Aurora: Three Dead in Two Overnight Shootings

In recent days, we've been reporting about the proliferation of officer-involved shootings in Aurora — three in May thus far. But there's been plenty of bloodshed in Aurora that's not directly tied to cops gunning down suspects. Overnight, three people died in the community as a result of two shootings...
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Holophrase on Circuit Bending, ‘Glove Hash’ and Making Noise on the Fringes of Denver

Experimental pop band Holophrase has always existed on the fringes of Denver, whether with its difficult-to-qualify musical style or in its living arrangements. The band currently resides in Henderson, a community in Adams County. At the end of a dirt driveway, three-fourths of the band shares the basement of a house and a garage. Outside, you can see undeveloped fields, an increasingly rare sight in most of the metro area.
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Review: The Glass Menagerie Is Shiny But Shallow at the Denver Center

The room, with its floor of lighted squares, seems small and isolated in darkness. It’s edged by the black metal railings of the fire escape. This is St. Louis, where author Tennessee Williams grew up, during the impoverished years of the 1930s, and The Glass Menagerie is autobiographical, a memory...
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These Four Bakers Helped Create the Colorado Bread Line

Flour, water, salt and yeast: the four ingredients needed to make a loaf of bread, by the standard modern reckoning. But you can scratch one of those ingredients off the list: According to a few top bakers in Denver and Boulder counties, yeast isn’t needed. At least not in the...
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Keith Maitland Gets Animated Discussing His Powerful Documentary Tower

One of the most powerful documentaries of 2016, Keith Maitland’s Tower immerses the viewer in the 1966 massacre at the University of Texas, during which Charles Whitman fired from a clock-tower in Austin, shooting 49 people and killing 16. The film takes a somewhat surprising and stylized approach to re-creating...
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Review: Arvada Center Breaks Out of the Box With Tartuffe

The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, which turned forty this year, includes art galleries, meeting rooms, community gathering places and two theaters: the original Main Stage, which usually hosts big musicals, and the newer Black Box Theater, which is as large and well-appointed as many companies’ main stages...
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Green Lab Teaches Cops How to Know When a Driver Is Stoned

It’s early evening in a parking lot outside a DoubleTree in northeast Denver. At the north end of the lot is a 1987 Winnebago with seven people inside, gathered around a table covered with cannabis products: a concentrate pen, a dab rig, some bud flower and edibles. Once most of...
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Tense and True, Tower Reconstructs America’s First Mass School Shooting

Words can't do justice to the singular power of Keith Maitland’s documentary Tower, a you-are-there reconstruction of the harrowing 1966 mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin, where 25-year-old former Marine and engineering student Charles Whitman planted himself in the school’s clock tower and shot 49 people, killing...