Westword art critic and exhibit jurist Michael Paglia has already cast his votes and chosen the works for the upcoming Art District Best of 2010 exhibition at eventgallery 910Arts, and the results will be unveiled Friday night at the opening gala. But you still have time to weigh in, too,…
Everyone likes cheap stuff, right? And cheap stuff is even better when it benefits a good cause, like the Denver VOICE. Enter the VOICE’s latest deal: wicked super-cheap Nuggets tickets to tonight’s game against the New York Knicks. As in, $85 club-level seats for $40. And $39 balcony seats for…
Everyone gets angry sometimes. The key is to channel that anger toward something positive, like exercise, or making a nice macaroni angel, or sometimes just counting to ten. Because if we’re not careful, our anger can get the best of us — which actually brings up another good way to…
Facebook announced yesterday that it will be introducing Google Buzz Facebook Messages, which will totally change everything we know about communication! Unless, you know, it doesn’t. Ostensibly, it’s a streamlined, multi-platform, hyper-organized e-mail client. And maybe, in a year, we’ll all be using Facebook on our smartphones as the sole…
If you’re anything like us, all you need to know about beer is that it’s good for filling the void of existential desperation and it makes driving a car way funner. But if you’re one of these hoity-toity “liberals,” you probably also want to know a bunch of worthless facts…
If you’re looking around at a lot of empty cubicles in your office this morning, chances are your female co-workers are taking a “sick” day at Loveland: The ski area is hosting a complimentary On Snow Refresher Workshop today with Warren Miller Entertainment heartthrob Chris Anthony at 9 a.m., sponsored…
The last time Scottish street trials pro Danny MacAskill put a full video part online it got more than 21 million views on YouTube, got the Band of Horses song “Funeral” stuck in everybody’s heads across the whole damned world, and gave Inspired Bicycles more free press and new business…
Walking along Santa Fe Drive the other day, I gazed at the van Straaten Gallery and thought about a shift that has taken place recently on the street. As usual, the gallery was closed, though a few spotlights were on so you could tell there was art on display inside…
archiTECHtonica. This is one of several shows put together by CU Art Museum director and curator Lisa Tamiris Becker to herald the opening of the institution’s new building. It’s paired with a show made up of related objects from the permanent collection. Becker invited an international cast of artists who…
Astronomical Sunset. Jim is a man destroyed by guilt because a social-networking site he created led to…actually, it’s not quite clear what, but it had to do with a teenage boy posting compromising photographs of his girlfriend, and the boy is now in prison. The plot doesn’t make a whole…
A fascinating, deftly layered look at the complex intersections of art and charity, reality and perception, Waste Land follows celebrated New York artist Vik Muniz back to his native Brazil, where he’ll work with outer Rio garbage-pickers on an ambitious art project. Ostensibly called to “give back” to the impoverished…
A teenage witch stands trembling behind her unsuspecting mother and father, wand raised. Obliviate, she whispers, and her parents’ eyes go glassy, their memories erased. On the mantel, the girl’s image disappears from the family’s photos. Blinking back tears, she walks into the street, the link between herself and her…
Comely, independent, willful young lass returns to collect family inheritance in rural England, drives the local men wild, makes several misalliances, and inadvertently precipitates a catastrophe before nature finally takes its course. Adapted from Posy Simmonds’s excellent graphic novel, Tamara Drewe knowingly updates Thomas Hardy’s gloomy pastoral Far From the…
The Band of Toughs — formerly the Aluminous Collective, which distinguished itself with an excellent production of Charles Mee’s Big Love last year — is back with a second offering: Finders Keepers Losers Weepers. The difference in quality is startling. Finders Keepers, which hitches together ensemble-developed material with an eighteenth-century…
In the realm of cult classics, Killer of Sheep is king: Arguably one of the most cultish and the most classic films ever made, the movie boasts a compelling lore that involves a budget of less than $10,000 and a release that didn’t happen until more than 30 years after…
Gone is the snow globe-themed display of the past several years at the Cherry Creek Mall. Replacing it is a 30-foot-tall, 22-foot-wide structure made to look like it was made out of ice, complete with constantly falling snow, a technicolor light show and a throne that feels cold to the…
Living in Denver — especially if you live in Capitol Hill, as I do — it can be easy to forget that, despite our fancy skyscrapers and hoity-toity public art, we still living in the wild American West, if a slightly more urbane one in within the blue insulation of…
Advertising is all around us — and thanks to the Internet, we can see all the weird stuff other countries are doing — telling us what to value and how to act, offering us insight on how to be better human beings (wink), or just making us laugh at ourselves…
Nobody’s reppin’ the local scene as hard as the new Snowboard Colorado magazine, and the third issue hit core snowboard shops this week. To pick up your free copy, look for the brand-new magazine racks made from Colorado beetle-kill wood. That’s Skylar Holgate on the cover carving a big turn…
The Bill of Rights guarantees many protections: Protection of free speech, protection from self-incrimination, protection from undue government imposition in private affairs. Perhaps it was that last one that got misinterpreted by a California man who told a Transportation Security Administration officer in San Diego not to touch his “junk,”…
The music of Wolfgang Amadaeus Mozart was both a haven and an inspiration for Albert Einstein. When the physicist would get stuck on a particularly puzzling problem regarding the nature of the universe, he would pick up a violin and turn on a different part of his brain. Along with…
Judge me if you will: I love The Jersey Shore. I love the uber-clever film editing designed to highlight the characters’ duplicity and incompetence, I love the fact that it’s inexplicably in Miami instead of New Jersey this season, hell, I even, in a weird way, love the Guido gang…
