Since it finally feels like winter, it seems appropriate to begin throwing “official” holiday parties. Consider the Gorinto Pedicab Holiday Party the first one of the new year, going down tonight at the Mercury Cafe. $5 gets you in the door for a night of bands, booze and jug music,…
Mark Twain’s classic Huckleberry Finn will be scrubbed of its 219 uses of the word “nigger” in a new edition to be published by NewSouth. They say the edit is an attempt to return the book to classroom literature requirements, where its use of the slur (as well as the…
We’ve all heard that eyes are the “windows to the soul,” which is just one of the many things that makes it so unsettling when those eyes are replaced by fucking mouths. Indeed, in this strange, often disturbing internetz world, Mouth Eyes, in spite of its seeming innocuousness, is one…
Quietly, in December, the Kirkland Museum opened a new installment of its ongoing Colorado art survey, a range of 51 art and decorative works, most of them culled from the museum’s collection and many on view for the first time. The show’s particular focus is on works by past members…
The dark empire of Church of Scientology, well known for its extensive real-estate holdings, expanded its reach in Denver yesterday by throwing down $8.5 million in cash money on a new facility to house its secretive minions. Believed by its adherents to be the one true path to enlightenment and…
You might think that 2010 was the year of the platformer, but here we are in 2011, and the damn things are still oozing out of people’s brains and onto the Internet. It’s not a bad thing, by any means, but we’re pretty certain critical mass was reached late last…
Jennifer Figge, the Aspen-based endurance athlete who swam the Atlantic (from the Cape Verde Islands to Trinidad) in 2009, then did it again in 2010 just for kicks, is now swimming the Pacific. She dove in from the shore of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, on December 30 and is headed…
After getting her start in the inner workings of the entertainment biz as a music promoter (for a while in Denver), Tig Notaro got an itch to be on stage — not as a musician, but as a comedian. In that respect, she’s been more successful than many; she’s done…
If anyone is in need of further proof that we live in strange and litigious times, they need look no further than the gossip that’s arisen around the first episode of ABC’s The Bachelor, which aired yesterday. A slap in the face delivered by contestant Chantal O’Brien to bachelor Brad…
When you call your local government office and ask whether they are covering up a dragon population in the sewers, the usual response is an auto-reply. Greeley, faced with only slightly less outlandish accusations, has taken a more proactive route by fielding citizen concerns in a View-style talk show on…
It’s been a rough couple of years for the Shadow Theatre Company. Not long after moving into what it calls a “state-of-the-art” space three years ago, founder Jeffrey Nickelson took ill; he died in early 2009. After that, it seems — from an operational standpoint, anyway — things got rough…
When Stranger Than Paradise hit the big screen, in 1984, indie director Jim Jarmusch was right in the thick of a trend: the American movie, made over in a drifting, plotless European sensibility that aped the way life usually continues to unfold, without a real storyline, sometimes in parallel worlds…
Since the establishment of horror as a legit genre somewhere around the late ’70s, it’s always been almost a tradition to infuse the gore with a liberal amount of sex — and in a literary sense, few have been as shameless about those twin preoccupations than Mario Acevedo, whose credits…
You’d think that publishers would take the first weeks of the year off when it comes to new releases, so that people don’t forget about things during Best of the Year time, but there is a theory in the psychology world that people tend to think best of two different…
Add one more sport to Denver’s lengthy list of athletic obsessions. The city now has its very own Denver Skeeball League. For the past month, twenty teams have been battling for ruler of the ramp every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, starting at 6 p.m. at the Breckenridge Brewery…
There’s been a lot of John Cusak-related hubbub about the end of the Mayan calendar meaning the end of the world, but Harold Camping isn’t buying that crap. “It’s like a fairy tale,” he chuckles. Because by the time 2012 comes around, according to Camping, who developed his theory with…
The Denver Roller Dolls’ first home bout of 2011 at the First Bank Center isn’t until February 19, but it’s never too early to get a piece of the action: Tonight at 6 p.m. the Roller Dolls will host the first practice session and informational meeting for their new Junior…
Kelly Canter is the Courtney Love of country stars. Spectacular meltdowns on stage have forced Kelly (an inconsistently twanging Gwyneth Paltrow) into rehab. There, her decolletage decked out in black lace and a bling cross, she jams in more than one sense with singer-songwriter-janitor Beau (Tron fox Garrett Hedlund) until…
Generously bankrolled (then shelved) by an imperiled Weinstein Company and peopled with Oscar nominees, it’s tempting to call All Good Things an upscale version of straight-to-cable True Crime crap — only that makes it sound more entertaining than it actually is. The fiction feature debut of Andrew Jarecki, director of…
Dissolute action-movie star Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), first seen doing laps in his black Ferrari, has no destination in Somewhere, Sofia Coppola’s mood ring of celebrity lassitude. Coppola’s fourth feature, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice this year, is, at times, similarly aimless and empty. But those who groan…
More than a thousand blackbirds, grackles and starlings fell from the sky on New Year’s Eve in Beebe, Arkansas. So far, there has been no official explanation for the avian precipitation, but we thought we’d look to other unexpected things falling from the sky for some context…
Blame it on the holiday influx of cheese logs, goose-meat and cases of Hofbräu, but you’ve been feeling a little sluggish lately. And broke. Plus, “sluggish” and “broke” is a very negative combination of things to be feeling, according to your court-ordered therapist, which also makes you feel anxious. Luckily,…
