An archeologist, a North Korean dictator, a Norse god, two photographers, the people of Indonesia and a tribal chief who believes Jesus is actually black American WWII soldier John Frum all look into a volcano and see their fates. That’s not the beginning of a joke; it’s the premise of…
Ritualcravt, the shiniest, eco-metaphysical mineral and herb store in the Mile High City, has recently expanded with a new location at 2842 West 44th Street. Still in Sunnyside but up the road and off the beaten path, Ritualcravt now boasts a significantly larger storefront with some much needed elbow room. The new space coincides with the shop’s one-year-anniversary, being celebrated this weekend with a seance on Friday October 28 and an all-day anniversary party on Saturday, October 29.
Even if Denver’s sunny-then-freezing weather can’t decide if it’s fall yet, we’re ready for Halloween and Día de los Muertos (and, hey, Flossy McGrews is back, everyone!). Fortunately, October’s calendar is full of special, spooky shindigs in the Mile High City. Here’s our list of fifteen favorites — some for…
In his own October surprise, filmmaker Michael Moore is releasing his new film, Michael Moore in Trumpland, just days before the election; the controversial director will be popping up with Skype Q&A sessions after shows at the Sie FilmCenter in Denver and the International Film Series in Boulder. Filmed fewer than…
Bobbi Walker, owner and director of Walker Fine Art, has assembled Inherent Intent, a seamless group show that brings together seven contemporary abstract artists from across the country. All of these artists employ subtlety as their principle aesthetic philosophy, yet none of them can be called minimalists — at least…
#53: Daniel Crosier Since graduating from the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in 2000, under the tutelage of sculptor Chuck Parsons, Daniel Crosier has put his hands in plenty of new projects: He’s been a neo-kabuki performance artist with his group OFM: OdAm fEI mUd, transformed wood-burned illustrations…
Rob Zombie can do better than 31. For proof, just watch any other Rob Zombie movie. The musician-turned-filmmaker’s body of onscreen work is as nasty and brutal as you’d expect of a metal singer whose first band took its name from a pre-Code horror film, but it’s also been marked…
Writer/director Osgood Perkins has been peeking at my Shirley Jackson book collection, and he’s already read through my favorites: The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Jackson, who penned chilling ghost stories and moral tales in the ‘40s, ’50s and ’60s — like her…
This summer, as the start of an abstraction extravaganza, Space Gallery presented Expanding the Dialogue: Part One (which I reviewed September 14), and now Expanding the Dialogue: Part Two is on view. While the first show explored the subtlety of certain approaches, the second takes the opposite tack, looking at…
Hundreds of runners went ape at the thirteenth annual Gorilla Run on October 22. This year, the event benefiting the Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund moved from downtown Denver to Westminster, where the 5K fun run/walk wound up at the Westin Westminster for a vine-swinging Silverback After Party. Monkey see, monkey…
If you’re a vulnerable young woman who gets hit on by lecherous older men, you might think that you could do worse than having a guy like Henry at your side. He has a low tolerance for ass grabbers, for one; he’s known to take such bird dogs by their…
America never understood Oasis’ hugeness. By that I don’t just mean the band’s epochal mid-’90s global popularity or the nationalistic fervor it stirred in the U.K. I mean, simply, its hugeness of sound. In the States, only the ballads connected, the glorious/meaningless Beatle raptures “Wonderwall,” “Live Forever” and “Champagne Supernova”…
The owner of the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park has a favorite story involving his flagship property. It involves a wedding and a couple of overly hydrated llamas.
A Denver-based videography company called Studio C3 has been making insane time-lapses of the most haunted places in Denver. Using a Gh4 camera, photographer David Kaufman made his way around the Mile High picking four haunted spots to showcase. The fantastic four he chose: Molly Brown House, the Croke-Patterson Mansion, the Brown Palace Hotel and the Lumber Baron Inn. A separate time-lapse features one haunted spot in particular: the stagecoach ruins found in Penrose, Colorado, which includes a legend of a “grey lady” guarding the space.
It’s rare for a franchise, especially in the horror genre, to actually get better as it progresses — doubly so if the final part of said progression is a TV series. Yet in six-part miniseries form, currently airing on the you-didn’t-know-you-had-it Pop network following a broadcast in Australia earlier this…
Before we get into the matter of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, we must first address the issue of the man actually playing Jack Reacher. Resolved: Tom Cruise has absolutely nothing in common physically with author Lee Child’s crime-solving ex-military drifter. Cruise is famously diminutive; Reacher is famously tall and…
This season of gourds and ghouls is full of family-friendly activities. The fall festivities kick off in he mountains this weekend and extend through early November. Keep reading for our ten favorite autumn events.
The zombie invasion was sudden and swift. There were at least a hundred of them, with gaping flesh wounds and bulging eyes, moaning and dragging their feet as they scoured their surroundings for fresh brains. It was an alarming sight for the bride and groom who happened to be taking…
The sun was shining in downtown Denver on Saturday, October 22, but the good weather didn’t keep a horde of zombies — thousands of zombies — from overrunning the 16th Street Mall. Here’s what it looked like at Ground Zero on the mall, courtesy photographer Aaron Thackeray. Now see the…
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s the philosophy that inspired Denver International Airport to not only acknowledge all the conspiracy theories that started flying even before the new airport opened two decades ago, but celebrate them. As part of the fun, last week DIA hosted a costume party…
A man in a hospital bed is having a lively conversation with the woman sitting in a chair by his side. Amid all kinds of teasing and laughter, Sander explains how he came to be injured: something about the scent of a certain perfume, taking an elevator he’d been warned…
One of Broadway’s longest-running businesses is packing up its wig boxes and high heels. Studio Lites, which caters to Denver’s burlesque and drag communities but is a treasure trove for anyone looking for a wig or some bling, will close its location at 333 Broadway by the end of the…
