Maybe it’s all those tuxedos they have to buy everybody, but the symphony is expensive. Which is a shame, because it just reinforces classical music’s reputation as something reserved for rich people who wear top-hats and monocles, an exclusive party regular folks aren’t invited to. That’s not the case for…
Even though the Day of the Dead is not until November 2, Vain Salon got the season started on Saturday night with work by 25 local artists, music, drinks, face paint and incredible hair. See the full slideshow here: Dia De los Muertos at Vain Salon…
The story of how Denver alternative cartoonist Stan Yan and syndicated cartoonist and 2010 Inkspot Award-winner Keith Knight (The Knight Life), a Bostonian transplant living in California, became friends is one of those “six degrees” deals: They first exchanged work nine years ago at the Alternative Press Expo in San…
Everyone gets angry sometimes. Some people pout. Other people yell. Still others employ the old “walk-into-an-art-museum-and-destroy-the-offending-art-with-a-crowbar” strategy. The ways people deal with their anger are myriad, and they range from the constructive to the bizarre. Falling into the latter category is the star of today’s moment of schadenfreude, who, after…
Half the reason — at least — to love Halloween is because of all the crazy tie-ins in pop culture, from television specials to candy to costumes. And Burlycute, a local burlesque venture, is getting into the spirit (Ha! Get it?) of things with Zombielesque, which will play for one…
French impressionist composers had an odd obsession with Edgar Allan Poe. Years after the author’s death in 1849, seminal composers like Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Andre Caplet remained fixated on his work. Poe’s hallucinogenic imagery and dark themes seemed to complement the composers’ love for eerie tonal colors, augmented…
It was one o’clock on Saturday, and a perfect day for a pub crawl: a little overcast, but not too cold, and not so nice out that you’d feel bad about hanging around in bars all day. Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods’ (CHUN) inaugural fundraiser pub crawl was just getting started…
The new space for YesPleaseMore, the pop-up store that showcases strictly Colorado-designed fashions, artwork, jewelry and home accessories, showed off its new location in the Denver Pavilions on Friday night. YesPleaseMore was previously in another space in the Pavilions, and while the new location on the second level across from…
We’ve been getting so ahead of ourselves looking ahead to ski and snowboard season with all the recent ski porn premieres, we nearly forgot to mention that this weekend is your last opportunity in 2010 to inhale nitro fumes, soak up the sounds of tires screeching rubber all over the…
In MaryJanice Davidson’s new book, My, Myself and Why?, the self-proclaimed “inventor of paranormal chick-lit” takes a run-of-the-mill FBI agent main character and gives her dissociative identity disorder — otherwise known as multiple personalities. But that isn’t just a challenge she has to face: “They’re not solving crime in spite…
All you’re life, you’ve been waiting for someone to recognize you for your freakish ability to cram an insane amount of tennis balls in your mouth. This weekend, my friend, that ship comes in. Tomorrow through Sunday, America’s Got Talent, the Simon Cowell-produced series that takes all the weird and…
I don’t know how many stories Scott Simon has told during his long tenure as an NPR commentator and host. I would guess it’s in the tens of thousands at this point. But I do imagine that the one he tells in his book Baby, We Were Meant for Each…
After pulling out a hat trick on the last few episodes with three consecutive wins, Mondo landed in the top three on this week’s episode of Project Runway — but if he didn’t come out on top this week, it’s perhaps understandable. From the beginning, the odds came out stacked…
Halloween is almost here, and you know what that means: that Christmas is also almost here — or at least close enough for the most ambitious retailers to start monkey-flinging porducts at us like so much feces. It’s just that, with most retailers, the products they’re chucking at us don’t…
We get it, you’ve been saving up all month for your Mad Max Halloween costume and you’re a little short on cash. That’s okay, don’t worry. You can still get out and have fun this weekend — especially if your idea of fun includes building sandcastles, black comedies, dancing or…
It’s always nice to see filmmakers getting ambitious. In simultaneous homage to and dissection of the conventions and mores that make a genre what it is, these bold artists challenge our assumptions as viewers — and our expectations. Take Anton Corbijn’s excellent The American, a thriller in which almost nothing…
Yesterday, we brought you the story of a self-regarded warrior for Christ who took a crowbar to Enrique Chagoya’s “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals” at the Loveland Museum Gallery because she apparently thought the artwork was desecrating her Lord. Sure, the piece appeared to depict the Messiah being fellated by…
Seems like a day doesn’t go by when I’m not writing something about Dana Cain, my favorite event coordinator, art collector, sci-fi and pop-culture geek, ’60s freak and frivolous idea machine. It’s as if she microchipped my brain one night as I lay sleeping and can read on her computer…
It was only a matter of time before South Park took on The Jersey Shore — actually, it’s pretty surprising it didn’t come sooner. Featuring a real-life cast of possibly the most vapid, melodramatic, self-aggrandizing assholes on earth (they’re sweet in their own dumb way, too — we get it),…
In the perpetual war of religious zealots against art they’ve formed outraged opinions about without any actual information, there are always three main arguments: 1. It’s not art, it’s smut. 2. Our tax dollars shouldn’t be funding this. 3. What if our kids saw it? In terms of stoking the…
Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. As usual, we’re rounding up your options for the weekend to come and the following week, and…
Talking to the Dead, which went up on the wall of the MacSpa the other day, is all about the occult as a commodity. Featuring a series of artsy Ouija Boards created by local artists and juried by Eric Matelski, the show reflects the season smartly and with panache, accompanied…
