Hailing from the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, near Jamaica, calypso music is, in a way, the more folksy predecessor to its cousin, reggae — which is somewhat ironic, considering the cultural associations of the two forms in these United States. While reggae at least has an authentically Jamaican icon…
Entrepreneur and Fashion Denver founder Brandi Shigley will commemorate several milestones today at the Fashion Denver Anniversary Bash. “We are celebrating one year of being at our 1070 Bannock Street location, seven years of Fashion Denver being a company, and eleven years of me celebrating entrepreneurship,” explains Shigley. “It’s really…
Ben Roethlisberger marches the Steelers 78 yards in eight plays to connect with Santonio Holmes in the end zone. Saints cornerback Tracy Porter intercepts Peyton Manning and runs 74 yards for a touchdown. Eli Manning lofts a game-winning thirteen-yard pass to Plaxico Burress. These are some of the greatest moments…
It goes without saying that planning Design After Dark, the annual art auction and benefit party for the Denver Art Museum’s Department of Architecture, Design & Graphics, has its own special challenges: It has to be visual and cutting-edge in theme to meet the expectations of an equally stylish and…
In one way, local folk darlings Paper Bird are an unlikely choice for pairing with ballet, a form that brings more serious violins and prodigious statement to mind than that band’s old-timey, almost vaudevillian Americana. In another way, it makes perfect sense: Beneath the burlap-sleeved rural charm of the banjos…
“Nothing against the guys, but sometimes it’s great to spend the day on the slopes with just the girls,” says Breckenridge ski resort spokeswoman Austyn Williams. “Women challenge each other and learn from each other in different ways, and it makes for a completely different experience on the mountain.” Breck’s…
Far more often than is at all warranted, a bill proposing to “crack down” on graffiti — like the one shot down in committee by the state legislator yesterday — comes up in some form of government, promising to eradicate the scourge of people scribbling on shit once and for…
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp unveiled The Future of Journalism this morning in an elaborate, hour long event at the Guggenheim in New York. The product: The first tablet-native newspaper, a 14 cents per day, iPad-only publication called The Daily. There was some amount of fervor surrounding its debut; this has…
Ever since Nic Cage as Everyone stopped entertaining us roughly 46 seconds ago, we’ve been on a vigilant lookout for the next memomenon (that’s “meme”=”phenomenon”) involving celebrities and Photoshop; now, a seeming eternity later, we’ve found it: Tom Hanks is a Lot of Animals, a photo/chop concept updated daily by…
Few companies blatantly exploit sex appeal for financial gain as much as AXE male scent products. Sure, almost every advertisement in history has employed some degree of sexual innuendo, but AXE forgets all about the innuendo part and goes straight for the junk. Exhibit A: Their stupid ad in which…
If you took yesterday off because you were scared of the roads, then chances are you’re returning to work today with a couch-potato hangover and no desire to get any work done. Good thing we’ve got Shift Freedom for you, because it’ll get your brain back into working shape and…
Andrew Novick and Janene Hurst, the stark raving mad brains behind Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast have taken monster steps up the ladder with their Japan-centric concern: The couple, who go on buying trips in Japan, opened and closed their Belmar store, vend at NDK and other cosplay meccas, throw all…
Valentine’s Day is a fantastic holiday — if you’re in a relationship, it’s going well and/or you happen to love Hallmark and all the treacly, glitter-themed merchandise it produces this time of year. Those of us who are not included in this margin, on the other hand, generally regard the…
Now that the SIA Snow Show is officially over, after two days of on-snow demos at Winter Park following the trade show at the Colorado Convention Center, it’s hard to imagine the snow sports industry ever got away with having this thing in Las Vegas. Anovia Daniels, spokeswoman for SnowSports…
It’s Groundhog Day today, a holiday nobody would give a single shit about if it weren’t for the 1993 Bill Murray film by the same name, because that movie is awesome. In some ways, it was Murray’s career-defining role — not because the movie was an outstanding piece of film…
The current show at Ironton Studios and Gallery (3636 Chestnut Place, www.irontonstudios.com) is Soft Descriptions, which is filled with installations, most of which are text-based. Emerging Denver artist Marc Willhite doesn’t explicitly explain what he means when he uses specific words in specific pieces, but he does want the viewer…
2011: Year in Preview. Bobbi Walker, owner of Walker Fine Art, has employed a clever way to create an automatic group show by putting together examples of work by all of the artists who will be featured in duets this year. The show looks good, but what’s really neat is…
Circle Mirror Transformation. At a small-town community center, four people are participating in an acting workshop run by Marty, who combines a little knowledge of theater with quite a bit of new-agey yearning. The participants are Marty’s husband, one-time hippie James; sexy Theresa, who spent time in New York and…
Writer-director Javier Fuentes-León’s directorial debut, Undertow, is sublime. Set in a small, picturesque Peruvian fishing village, it’s less a coming-out tale than a magic realism-infused coming-of-consciousness love story. Miguel (Cristian Mercado), a happily married fisherman and soon-to-be father, insists he’s not “that way,” despite being head over heels in love…
In 1952, Manoel de Oliveira sketched a fable of impossible longing that became, finally, The Strange Case of Angelica. Though the automobile models in de Oliveira’s 2010 film are modern, many plot details remain of the period of its writing: On a torrentially rainy night, the Portas estate sends a…
There’s a lot going on in The Catch, a world premiere that grew out of a reading at last year’s New Play Festival. Ken Weitzman’s script presents a swirl of ideas — some of them fairly obvious, but all explored in interesting ways. Preeminent among them is the well-worn concept…
How perfect that Buntport is reviving Kafka on Ice — first produced in 2004, and one of my favorite of the company’s many inventive works — as part of a citywide celebration of all things Czech. First, because Franz Kafka is the Czech author best known in this country, with…
