Amid numerous calls for brains, the third annual March of the Zombies fashion show on Saturday night featured everything from live painters to tattoo artists to a zombie author — “Anyone with an intrinsic interest in zombies,” said show organizer Summer Jackson — but the real highlight was the models,…
It’s purported to be the biggest St. Patrick’s Day Parade west of the Mississippi (others have claimed it’s the third-biggest in the country), and whether or not there’s a whole lot of statistical validity to that designation, it’s certain that it’s a good time that involves wearing green and a…
Measured scientifically, there is exactly one shitload of explosions in the trailer for Battle: Los Angles, making the pyrotechnics seemingly the primary reason for the film’s whole existence. That’s why I spotlighted the movie on Friday in my weekly trailer analysis “This week’s most ridiculous Movie Trailer.” According to reader…
There tends to be a certain irony to the way we celebrate religious holidays. For example, right now, it’s Lent, which in the Catholic tradition is a forty-day period of abstaining and self-denial; in popular culture, though, the closest most come to observing Lent is Mardi Gras, the day before…
As Summer Jackson, organizer of the third annual March of the Zombies Fashion Show, observes, there’s a certain logic to zombie fashion: “You’re sort of frozen in time when the zombie attacks happen” — in effect, a stylish person makes a stylish zombie. And since both fashion and zombie attacks…
Building a Pinewood Derby car was supposed to be a father-son bonding experience; he’d show you how to use the tools, help you with the design, offer you suggestions on how to do it. Instead, he just took the whole project over and spent hours by himself in the garage,…
The popular perception may be that they are either fat slobs or oversexed vixens, but for most phone sex operators, it’s just a job — that’s according to (pseudonymed) Crystal, the phone sex operator Thorin Klosowski talked to yesterday (in a strictly professional capacity) in our semi-regular feature “How to…
By our informal count, there are about forty explosions in the two-minute trailer for Battle: Los Angles — which breaks down to about one explosion every three seconds. That number gets even more impressive when you take into account that the explosions don’t even really get started until about one…
Celebrating Chuck Norris’s birthday is kind of like celebrating the birthday of time itself: impossible. Nevertheless, several news outlets have reported that the noted martial arts expert and godlike figure of Spartan manliness turns 71 today. Because anything having to do with Chuck Norris is by definition dangerous (the word…
After two months of bankruptcy proceedings, an eviction and at least one accusation of looting, the embattled Shadow Theatre Company opens its first production since it moved An Evening with Nina mid-run from its former space at 1468 Dayton Street to the Aurora Fox in January. The show, In Search…
Like every other blog in existence, we’ve been getting endless mileage out of Charlie Sheen’s recent series of bizarre rants, so when we found out he was looking for a social media intern and asking prospects to apply in 75 characters or less yesterday, Kyle Garratt couldn’t help but throw…
In its five years of existence so far, the Curious Theatre Company has lured some pretty prodigious figures into its annual Denver Stories production, where it pairs local celebrities with playwrights and has them produce autobiographical short plays; previous lineups have included former Governor Bill Ritter, MCA Denver Director Adam…
Back in the golden age of HBO as a comedy staple, Colorado’s very own weirdo star-haven was home to the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, one of the network’s biggest comedy events of the year. And for the thirteen years leading up to 2007, Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House, 320 East…
Given their notorious single-mindedness, zombies are not the most likely subject for a fashion show. Zombies don’t care about fashion; they’re just trying to get some delicious brains. But to Summer Jackson, organizer of the third annual March Of The Zombies Fashion Show, that’s the very thing that makes them…
Sarah Slater, a 2011 Westword MasterMind, is a woman of many projects. Besides producing the annual three-day grassroots music festival, Titwrench, she’s also the organizing force behind myriad arts and music events throughout the year — and while those projects may be numerous, they do all share a common theme:…
If the majority of post-WWII noir-flick soundtracks are saddled with the standard maudlin strings, then the all-zither score of the 1949 classic The Third Man is a great example of how music can radically affect the tenor of a film. Chipper and upbeat, it gives the proceedings a certain ironic…
Andrea Moore’s Good Grief may be the culmination of her six-week residency at PlatteForum, but it’s been a lot longer than that in the making. “The death of my father is the underlying theme that goes through the whole piece,” she explains of the work she’s done. “It’s been a…
It’s been ten years since University of Denver professor Lawrence Golan filed his copyright suit in Colorado District Court, seeking the revocation of copyrights retroactively placed on works previously in the public domain, and now, after a lot of batting around and dual ruling reversals from both the Court of…
Probably nowhere in cinema right now is there anyone making films as consistently smart, witty and engaging as those of the Coen Brothers. By the time O Brother, Where Art Thou came out eleven years ago, with instant classics like The Big Lebowski and Fargo already under their belt, the…
From time to time, it happens. You’re walking around, minding your own business, maybe eating an ice cream cone or stopping to pat an adorable child on the head, and then it occurs to you: Shit just got real. So because it usually seems to happen on Wednesdays, and because…
#97: Ietef Hotep Vita Words like “organic,” “local” and “sustainable” may be so hot right now in the food world, but for Ietef Hotep Vita, they’re family traditions. The son of noted organic gardener, poet and social justice advocate Ashara Ekundayo, Vita has forged his own path in about a…
For anyone who missed the opening salvo of Denver’s Month of Photography on First Friday, there’s yet time (a lot of time, actually) to check out the more than one hundred venues dedicated this month to showcasing one of the more underappreciated fine arts, and tonight brings yet another excellent…
