Vern Nieto knows his way around some Zuni fetishes — and no, you pervert, it’s not at all what you think. In the Zuni tradition, a “fetish” is a spiritually significant art object, a small, intricate charm carved from precious or semi-precious stone to reflect an animal of symbolic import;…
Holiday shopping doesn’t have to be a drag. You just have to know where to look. There are two big reasons why we’re already thinking about it seriously this year: First, this gift-getting season could go down in the books as the earliest commercial shopping blitz in history. The door-busters,…
Denver Arts Week ends tomorrow, but there’s still plenty of time to participate. Especially if your idea of participation in the arts is pantomiming statues while standing in front of them. Worst case, there’s almost certainly free shit in it for you. The Denver Arts Week Scavenger Hunt is pretty…
At Plus Gallery last night, art lovers sat silently together in the dark, waiting for the next 16mm projected film to surprise and astonish. It was the ideal venue for the third Win Wear showcase, Into the Avant-Garde: Landscapes, with an intimate atmosphere and a large white wall to serve…
There are burlesque girls and there are legends. No question about which category Satan’s Angel, the Devil’s Own Mistress, Queen of the Fire Tassels belongs to. Perhaps the greatest tassel-twirler alive, 66-year-old Angel Cecelia Helene Walker retired at her prime, but decided to hit the road again in 2002, to…
As we reported yesterday, Boulder-based Internet security company Webroot has released the Social Media Sobriety Test, an app that checks your level of inebriation before you risk making a drunken fool of yourself to all your online friends. But there’s an easier way to tell if you’re too drunk to…
A little over six months ago, in late April, the celebrated scientist Stephen Hawking made some, well, some kind of weird comments about sending messages out to possible extraterrestrial life in space: “If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed…
1. Opening weekend at Breck. More than six inches of fresh pow for opening day today and 17″ so far this week mean you could be skiing or snowboarding on some serious snow right now. Get to it. There are also freshies to be had this weekend at Loveland, A-Basin,…
The holidays are getting closer every week, but for those of us that aren’t interested in shopping yet, there’s still plenty to do on the cheap. Actually, you can even go shopping this weekend if you’d like to hit up the DIY goods fair, but if the words “party” and…
Breckenridge opens today, and we’re not just talking about a single-run ribbon-of-death opening, either: It’s been snowing in Summit County for the last three days and piling up like crazy. “It’s gonna be awesome, I’m not gonna lie,” says Breck spokeswoman Kristen Petitt. “We’re like kids on Christmas up here:…
If you don’t have the $12.50 admission price to cough up, you’re generally SOL on seeing the Denver Botanic Gardens — free days are not particularly common, and those prison-style walls pretty much preclude seeing so much as a shrub at no cost. This weekend, though, from tomorrow all the…
The good news? Tickets are on sale this week for the Denver Big Air ski and snowboard competition in Civic Center Park, January 25-26, a two-day event sanctioned by the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association (USSA) and the International Ski Federation (FIS). The Denver Big Air contests will include the…
Entertaining as TLC’s new The Osbournes-style miniseries on the shenanigans of the Palin family in Alaska looks, we feel she could shoot higher/stoop lower. Although before we tell you which TV shows we’d rather see the Mama Grizzly in, it’s worth watching that trailer. Fireworks! Bear Tackling! “This was flippin’…
Mona Lucero has a name in this town, but I have a feeling she would have gained one wherever she settled, even in what might be called more cosmopolitan coastal, urban or even global realms. In the eight years since she opened her Mona Lucero Design Boutique, an urban community…
It wouldn’t be the first time Bossip, a tabloid site devoted to black celebrities and culture, has espoused seemingly racist views about, ahem, black celebrities and culture. Take, for example, the actor and model Djimon Hounsou, who Bossip has consistently mocked for his particularly dark skin — the site has…
When it comes to advertising that is geared to deter someone from something, the most effective — and most often chosen — tactic is to use images that scare the shit out of any would-be buyers or doers. This is often seen in political ads and AIDS awareness ads, and…
Perhaps more than ever in this reality show age we live in, it can be difficult to know what the hell famous people are even famous for — and nobody, besides maybe Paris Hilton, exemplifies that “famous for being famous” phenomenon better than Tila Tequila. In her completely un-clamored-for memoir,…
Recently, there have been a slew of ill-advised memoirs from people far too young and inexperienced to share their stories with the world. Steve Katz doesn’t have that problem. The 75-year-old Denver author started writing his memoir five years ago, and it has since become a collection of over 100…
Local artist Axel Geittmann’s paintings take viewers into a surrealist world of psychological landscapes, exploring complex emotional territory by combining gestures of realism with an essence of the other-worldy. Mostly painting with acrylic and spray-paint, Geittmann fuses traditions and viewer expectations to create a haunting mythology all his own. We…
Republicans are flag-flying rubes who drive enormous pickup trucks and lap up mass-produced reality dreck like it was a case of shitty domestic beer. Democrats are effete, pasty elitists who drink tea with their pinkies up and prefer “sophisticated” TV programs nobody cares about. These are the stereotypes basically confirmed…
It’s an experience that’s memorable for few, yet one that few will ever forget: the first time. Initially a website (www.myfirsttime.com) and then an off-Broadway production based on stories culled from the website, My First Time traffics in tales of virginity lost — and now, for the “first time” (sorry),…
The Denver Center Theatre Company is opening its 2010/2011 season on a light note: Patrick Barlow’s screwball adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal film noir The 39 Steps opened September 10 in the Ricketson Theatre of the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex, Denver Performing Arts Complex, featuring a monochromatic set that emulates…
