The newly rehatched Denver Art Talks, hosted by Eric Matelski, will hit the new year running by featuring designer/seamstress extraordinaire April Hoy as its first guest of 2011. Hoy has stitched her way through many behind-the-scenes professional layers: She’s a stage costumer, a corset-maker, a textile restoration worker, a pattern…
Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s musical Next to Normal won the Pulitzer for its authors — the book and lyrics are by Yorkey, the music by Kitt. Yet it began simply as an exercise for a musical theater workshop, one of those “show us everything you’ve learned in 10 minutes”…
When Johnathan McFarlane and his partner Tim DeMasters created the Festivus Film Festival four years ago, they had trouble attracting audiences to all of the screenings at the Oriental and Bug theaters. Since then, the event has picked up buzz and grown its budget. The 2011 festival later this month…
Not all failures are noteworthy. In fact, most of us experience quiet failure in every single waking moment of our lives — and nobody wants to hear about that. That shit’s just depressing. There are moments, however, when failure becomes transcendent, when you fuck something up in a way so…
For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. If you…
Ruby Hill Rail Yard sponsors Winter Park Resort, Denver Parks and Recreation and Christy Sports took advantage of the new snow and cold temperatures this weekend to fire up the snowmaking machines in the park at South Platte River Drive & Florida Avenue, in preparation for a mid-January opening for…
The Christmas-New Year’s stretch is over. The presents are opened, the fruitcakes eaten and the splurged-on “holiday cognac” consumed in a flurry of inappropriately commingled bodily fluids and chemically repressed despair, leaving you spent, exhausted and, as usual, covered in vomit. You barely have the energy to crawl out of…
This week we brought you nearly 100 great reasons to stay in town for New Year’s Eve. Here are five equally good excuses to get out of Dodge:…
Everyone has their own way of celebrating the New Year: Some prefer to sit by the fire, play board games and watch the ball drop in Times Square on TV, while others crash into it drunk as loons, with confetti, a kiss from a stranger in a crowded room and…
Lower Snooki in a ball in Times Square on New Year’s Eve while The Situation and other cast members lead a Guinness-breaking fist pump. That was MTV’s original plan, but the authorities shot it down. They’re doing it in Jersey instead. Season three of the show starts next week, and…
I’ve been making the pilgrimage every Christmastime to the Kloewer family home on Elati Street, just north of Belleview, for at least the last eleven years, and this is why: Being Jewish and all, it doesn’t really feel like Christmas until I’ve immersed myself in some sort of urban electric…
This doctored stop sign is remarkable partly in that it’s persevered, untouched, for quite a long time — most suitably, in a neighborhood where people of every faith and stripe live side by side: Africans from across the Dark Continent, South Asians, Russians, retirees, young singles, Muslims and Orthodox Jews…
As a character, the old hard-drinking, plucky-with-a-stubborn-streak-about-a-mile-wide female musician who’s getting older and washed up and needs a chance at a redemption that might just be a little closer to home than she thinks is hardly in short supply (see Gwyneth Paltrow in the upcoming Country Strong, for example). Still,…
In this day and age of reality shows being devoted to every imaginable social phenomenon (recall, if you will, TV Lands’s The Cougar), it was only a matter of time before one got devoted to the “fag hag” — although the Sundance Channel’s series goes with the considerably more PC…
The town of Lafayette, Indiana was up in arms over a couple of snow penises that popped up in a neighborhood after a big snowstorm. Town folk were terrified of the giant snow penis sculptures, causing a confused state of frenzy and frustration before police showed up and laughed at…
Denver’s Minor Disturbance youth Slam Team made history for the local poetry scene earlier this year when they appeared in Brave New Voices, the HBO special that followed the 2010 National Slam Team championships held in L.A. Denver’s team won fourth place in the global competition, but many had issues…
Among the most truly nerdy of nerds, Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage is perhaps one of the most talked about films of the year (and by “year,” we mean in general, since the film comes out January 1, so it would be kind of silly if we meant… anyway), in large…
Progression in snowboarding and freeskiing moves pretty fast: Last year’s double corks are already giving way to this year’s triple corks, and gaps as big as 70 feet are now terrain park features at many Colorado ski areas. How, exactly, does one muster the cojones confidence to sack up, point…
“This is an exhibition of really 3,000 years of Egyptian history,” explains Kristy Bassuener, spokeswoman for the Denver Art Museum. “We were really excited and certainly, this was the exact type of exhibition that the Hamilton building was meant for. We have the climate control, the space and the ability…
When Jump Suits: An Outis Space Venture opens tonight at PlatteForum, the inner superheroic fantasies of a group of Colfax Community Network kids, ages five through twelve, will be revealed. The students, who’ve worked for six weeks with Teddy O’Connor (an artist who embraces both comic-book and sculptural forms), will…
Lonnie Hanzon, Wizard in Residence at the Museum of Outdoor Arts, is making magic again at Hudson Holiday, the annual festival that MOA sponsors at Hudson Gardens. Spread throughout the grounds, this is a light show for the ages: lavish and excessive, psychedelic, funny as hell, beautiful, whimsical and an…
Denver native Adam Cayton-Holland has been telling jokes professionally for a few years now (he described his start in standup on the cover of Westword in July 2004) but only recently moved up to headlining at the Comedy Works. With the lead gig comes more time on stage for Cayton-Holland,…
