Today’s stoke comes to us via our ever-watchful friends at YoBeat (tagline: “Making fun of snowboarding since 1997”). Director Jim Mangan’s short film Winter’s Children: Naked Ambition features vintage snowboards, woven Native American blankets, and a noticeable dearth of winter clothing (or any clothing at all) on the seven featured…
It’s about time. Yesterday, the illustrious Emilio Estevez announced that he and his father, Martin Sheen, are working on a joint memoir; it’s called Along the Way, and they’re looking to release it on Father’s Day 2012. Now, we don’t necessarily care all that much about Martin Sheen, but we’ve…
Evalyn Walsh McLean was famous for the blowouts she threw on short notice at the Brown Palace for Denver’s society swells — ice elephants filled with caviar, Bollinger ’26, dance bands, the works. But in the depths of the Depression she took the Hope diamond to pawnshops to try to…
Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes for the second time in a row this year — looks like, as predicted by Gervais himself, he won’t make it a third next year. Gervais has never been one to hold a punch, but which monologue hit the hardest? Below, we’ve included video…
When Westword staff writer Melanie Asmar called out the announcer and rodeo clown at the National Western Stock Show Rodeo yesterday for using Brokeback Mountain references to make gay jokes (personally, I’m more offended they haven’t updated their material since 2005), causing the NWSS to promise never to do it…
An overflow of bodies was spilling out onto the street of 609 East 13th Avenue on Saturday, toasting the night in celebration of the opening of the long awaited Landmark: Electric Ghost Tattooing. The co-op is a venture put together by four colleagues of the Denver tattoo scene, whose combined…
On these vast internets, there’s perhaps no concept more prevalent than the fail, and for good reason: The well known “pwnge” formula states that fail + evidence of fail = lulz. And lulz are desirable. Sounds simple, but that very formula has also given rise to a bizarre and ironic…
January used to be a time when new releases would wane a bit, giving people’s pocketbooks a break for month. Then someone in the marketing department realized that gift cards were a popular Christmas gift for estranged family members, and suddenly January became the time when we all get bombarded…
There are more bears than cougars in Aspen this week, as my fiancée and I noticed when we rolled into town last night, and more rainbow flags than usual, too. That would be because it’s the 34th annual Aspen Gay Ski Week, and this year’s theme is “Wild Wild West,”…
Last month, we told you about how Adam Cayton-Holland, former Westworder and current emcee of Geeks Who Drink’s Geek Bowl 2011, was heating up the animosity between the six cities going head-to-head in the trivia competition by making a series of shit-talking videos. Now, like the slow kid who awkwardly…
Colorado has a rich history in ceramics going back to the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but it was in the period from the 1950s to the 1990s that the ceramics scene here really hit its stride, with masters of the medium Nan and Jim McKinnell, Betty Woodman and…
Joan Moment and Monroe Hodder. Though Joan Moment has spent the past four decades in California, she began her art career right here in Colorado in the late ’60s when she was a graduate student at the University of Colorado in Boulder. That makes it easy to associate her work…
Taking in Enemies of the People is a little like watching a Cambodian Shoah, if we had access to the director’s methods and motivations instead of just the astonishing results. Chronicling his ongoing project to track down and document those responsible for the Khmer Rouge’s late-’70s reign of terror, co-director…
Ivan Reitman, master of the high-concept, big-budget Hollywood comedy (Ghostbusters, Dave), would seem an unlikely candidate to direct No Strings Attached, an extremely low-concept, low-key romantic comedy of contemporary sexual mores centered on the dating foibles of attractive nerds. Fully devoid of the fantasy contrivance that often sets a Reitman…
Tracking the parallel trajectories of three employees laid off from cushy corporate jobs at the same Boston-based manufacturing conglomerate, The Company Men is transparent in its ambition to capture The Way We Live Now from a sensitive and equitable — rather than a withering and satiric — point of view…
I was surprised to discover that Jim Leonard’s The Diviners was written as recently as 1980. The play feels like a period piece, and not just because it’s set in the Depression. Buddy Layman, the central character, was brain-damaged by an almost-drowning at the age of four, during which his…
Bedroom Farce. Bedroom Farce is the story of four couples and three bedrooms. The oldest pair, Delia and Ernest, are looking forward to a pleasant dinner and a quiet night. But their plans are upended by Susannah, the intensely neurotic wife of their socially obtuse son, Trevor. The depredations of…
There are many things that make English television better than American television. Mostly, it is a lack of censorship; American TV loves violence but hates sex, drugs and profanity. English TV loves them all equally, and luckily for us, by the good graces of YouTube and Netflix, we can indulge…
My, how attitudes change — or, rather, how well MTV edits. Episode three opens with Sammi feeling remorseful after somehow, just now, realizing Ronnie is a liar. A big one. She’s ready to apologize to the girls, and Ronnie is ready for her to peace out of the relationship, since…
There is no movie theater in Denver like the Landmark in Greenwood Village. Popcorn and fountain drinks come free with your ticket, there’s a full bar and VIP seating, some of the highest-quality screens in town and much better movie offerings than their megaplex peers. The current selection is True…
Painter Jenny Morgan, a Salt Lake native with a Denver history, is now based in New York City, but her ties to the region, where she attended the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, are strong. Morgan came up through the gallery ranks here, from the co-ops to her…
America’s favorite action auteur-savant, Michael Bay, has spent years telling whoever will listen that his directional style is too hardcore for 3D, that adding depth would be too extreme and punishing on the average filmgoer. With last week’s official announcement that Transformers: Dark of the Moon (dude, it totally syncs…
