This is the first in a series of profiles of street performers. Jentry McCombs has taken to the streets of Denver with a mission: to enlighten the people with real music and to stop the spread of “noise pollution” created by novice street performers…
This fall’s incoming college freshman were born in 1992. The year of the L.A. riots. The year Dan Quayle misspelled “potato.” The year that brought us Whoopi Goldberg as a mildly-talented-Reno-lounge-singer-turned-sassy-undercover-nun in the cinematic masterpiece Sister Act. So what should college professors know about the lives and brain contents of…
Soon the Fonz will be singing and prancing in Aurora’s Fox Theatre when it brings Happy Days the Musical to life in September (the online poster of the original show is replete with women in curled updos and bouffants and camel-toed hot pants). Sure, it’s kinda sad that Henry Winkler’s…
The media of today is hard to keep up with — it comes from so many directions and in so many forms that it’s next to impossible to keep track of your favorite artists, let alone new ones. Because we’re devoted to your convenience, we’re going to pick five things…
There’s nothing unlucky about this thirteenth season: The always-adventurous Curious Theatre Company, led by artistic director Chip Walton, will follow in its own footsteps by producing another vanguard season of newer works and premieres…
The folks who already bring you the Denver Handmade Homemade Market, a new model for people looking to buy, sell and trade their crafts, veggies, baked goods and whatever else, are now getting into education…
It always seemed to me that vampires must lead somewhat boring lives. Especially if it’s summer, because nights are much shorter than days, and of course vampires can’t be out in the sunlight, unless they’re vampires from Twilight, in which case they apparently can if they apply glitter. I’m just…
Today here on Show and Tell we have a contest for our readers. Win two tickets to see any movie at The Landmark Theatre -Greenwood Village, Monday through Thursday. All you have to do is be funny…
Coming right off a bizarre yet somehow fitting appearance at Sturgis as his iconic alter-ego Pee-wee Herman, Paul Reubens recently sat down with Playboy and provided definitive evidence toward settling an age-old pop-culture query: Was he, or was he not, basting his own ham in that porno theater on that…
Denver-raised Journalist Micah Toub had a childhood like no one else’s: While other kids’ parents were content asking how their school day went, Toub’s parents, both Jungian therapists, were perhaps looking for something deeper in their son’s day-to-day existence. He apparently turned out all right, though, since he’s willing to…
We’ve come a long way from the golden age of celebrity culture. Was a time, Joe Namath could generate controversy just by having badass mutton chops, but those days are gone. Now, we rejoice at the asinine behaviors of our stars — and indeed, reward them for it, with reality…
There’s nothing more sociologically baffling than a music festival. The proletariat are mixed in with the bourgeoisie, and, for a brief weekend, everyone is on the same level: pathetically idolizing other human beings simply because they can play a guitar or say words that end in rhymed couplets. Ferris Bueller…
When the Aurora History Museum moved to its current location in 1991, the debut exhibition was dedicated to Native American art collected by Bill and Sue Hensler. Now, almost twenty years later, a group of pieces donated to the museum by those same Henslers goes on display on August 17…
Depictions of Jesus in pop culture have exploded with fanatical speed with the Internet. Religion does that to people. Because Jesus is awesome (as the photos attest) here are about 27 of the best depictions of Jesus on the Internet…
It’s hard to laugh at people who wipe out performing actual stunts — the skater whose board slips out from under him on the rail, or the parkour traceur who miscalibrates a backflip and lands on his head. There aren’t any lulz in those situations; only boring empathy. But when…
Over the last nine years, Buntport Theater has produced 29 different original plays in Denver that are simply like no other we’ve every actually seen anywhere. They’ve all sprung from a miasmic six-headed Gestalt monster called Brian Colonna, Hannah Duggan, Erik Edborg, Erin Rollman, Samantha Schmitz and Evan Weissman, and…
As they often do, a call went up once again today on the infamous 4chan (before you click that link, note that it is indescribably NSFW) to “troll” Mormon chat. Famous for being the origin of almost every internet prank — they invented Rick-rolling, for example — the anonymous folks…
A new Colorado Symphony Orchestra season rarely gets folks all riled up to go hear classical music, but when CSO single tickets go on sale Monday, there are a few bright – and unexpected – highlights to consider…
Some people just stand out. Whether their style is cutting-edge, quirky or just well-executed, they make you want to know: How do they do it? Because we work for you, we’re finding out. Each day, we’ll hit the streets and talk to one person who catches our eye and makes…
Artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, a mover and shaker in every sense of the term and a veritable legend in this town, is leaving Denver in early September, and the opportunities to schmooze with Lauri while enjoying another aspect of her many talents are growing thin. But here’s one of them:…
Some people will try and tell you that $10 won’t get you much these days. To those people we cry foul, because every weekend in Denver’s there is more than enough to do for ten bucks and less. To prove it we’ve got a list after the break…
Once upon a time, in the epoch of the president they called “Ray-Gon,” there was a concept so new and different it blew the minds of the citizenry: video rental. Say you wanted to watch Black Eagle with Jean Claude Van Damme, but only once or twice, and then probably…
