Marty DeRosa is a comedian, podcaster and wrestling super fan who lives in Los Angeles. DeRosa, who got started in Chicago, created the insightful podcast, Wrestling with Depression, where he interviews comedians, wrestlers and other artists about their struggles with mental illness. He also runs several shows with fan favorite wrestler Colt…
Just a week after it was installed in a field near the former Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, Jeff Gipe’s monumental sculpture, “Cold War Horse,” has been knocked over and seriously damaged. According to police, a vandal or vandals hit the sculpture with a vehicle over Labor Weekend and then…
Tacti-con is a fan convention that focuses on games — from old-fashioned board games to the vast universe of the gaming cyberworld. And for those who tired of sitting around tables and staring at screens, Tacti-con also offered zombie-hunting and cosplay diversions. Photographer Danielle Lirette got into the game this…
The Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art is one of this city’s great cultural treasures, and tomorrow, September 10, developers will break ground on a new facility for the museum, at the corner of West 12th Avenue and Bannock Street. Dedicated not only to the preservation and exhibition of the…
While I was sitting in the hair salon getting my own bangs trimmed the other day, the woman in the chair next to me remarked that she was getting a bang trim just in time for Burning Man. Of course, I relayed this humorous social tidbit to Facebook via a…
Some fashion students are not waiting for graduation before they get their names out there. Nicole Marsch, a student in the fashion design program at the Art Institute of Colorado, is one of these gifted individuals: She designed a swimsuit that will be featured in the 2016 Denver Broncos Cheerleaders…
Get those vacation requests in and start putting red X’s on your calendar, film fans: The Denver Film Society has announced the dates for the 38th Denver Film Festival. (Starz Entertainment’s title sponsorship contractually ended last year.) The twelve-day fest will unfold November 4 through November 15; the Sie FilmCenter,…
The local anime and fantasy convention Nan Desu Kan moved to downtown Denver in 2015, bringing some of the region’s most stunning cosplayers along to strut their stuff onstage and on the 16th Street Mall. Danielle Lirette brought back these images of the con’s ongoing costume show. Now see the…
#12: Kent Thompson In his ten years of working magic as director of the Denver Center Theatre Company, Kent Thompson, who came here after years with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, has seen — and exacted — change in how the DCTC and regional theater in general present work both immediately…
The folks at Boulder’s Dairy Center for the Arts must be popping their corks with pleasure. A major new grant will help transform their physical plant — and fund arts grants to individuals as well. And the second annual Dairy Center Honors event, which will laud six local cultural movers…
Near-native Josh Viola, award-winning author of The Bane of Yoto, was frustrated by the commercialization of publishing — so frustrated that he set out to change the way authors are treated by launching Hex Publishers, a local indie press putting out mainstream-quality literature. Now, with the help of co-founder and…
The Labor Day holiday came and went — but at least next weekend is only four days away. And even this short work week is packed with free events, including a moving quilt display, a yukfest with local comics and the opening of a new art gallery. Go to the…
We spotted designer Cassie Herzog at Pallet Fest 2015 in Sculpture Park, selling her Broken Revolt handcrafted accessories, which she describes as “delicately dangerous bohemian and industrial jewelry.” We stopped to chat with Herzog about how she comes up with the sayings she stamps into her jewelry, what inspires her…
A romance about wanting to see a romance, a comic tragedy about an onlooker willing something tragic, Anne Fontaine’s Flaubert-inspired meta-pleasure Gemma Bovery takes as its subject the act of watching the lives around us — and of wishing those lives were literature. Or films: Here’s a French film thick…
Young people are the only ones who ever talk about growing old gracefully. For those actually in the thick of it, the romance of that notion burns off pretty quickly, and wrinkles and creaky joints are the least of it: Growing old, gracefully or otherwise, means becoming the person you…
The Denver Film Society’s Reel Social Club hosted its annual adults-only Summer Scream benefit at Lakeside, setting a flock of big kids loose on the amusement park’s retro rides, from the fabulous Wild Chipmunk to the ever-popular Auto Skooters. Photographer Ken Hamblin joined in the fun with camera in tow…
It’s hard to keep up with Pirate. Shows run for only a short period of time, the place is only open on the weekends, and the exhibits come and go with almost no notice from the venerable old co-op. Because of that, my shout-out to an impressive pair of solos…
First Friday kicks off the holiday weekend with new exhibits big and small, including Jokes of Nature, an ambitious group show showcasing the art of the grotesque at RedLine, and Denver culture jammer Peter Miles Bergman’s retrospective at Dateline. And then there are these one-of-a-kind gems, lighting up arts districts…
Any time of the year is great time to visit one of Colorado’s many mountain hot springs destinations, but with fall right around the corner, a dip in a warmer pool is definitely on our minds. There are many different kinds of springs, from full-size, human-made pools warmed by earthy…
“The idea for Spruce had been brewing for some time,” say owners Taylor Romero and Becca Miller, who finally opened their brick-and-mortar menswear shop in Berkeley this summer. “I was working at a web space for a while and I felt I wasn’t being creative or like I had to chance…
Well, that’s a wrap on Summer 2015. It flew by, and we had a lot of fun, but we’re going to go out with a final bang. This weekend, we’re going to party with Joan Jett, hit the beach and get juiced up on java, all on the cheap. Check…
The art of the grotesque has staying power, as RedLine development director Geoffrey Shamos, a scholar of Renaissance art from northern Europe, and local contemporary artist Donald Fodness, who has an affinity for the style in modern times, will both tell you. In the present, the genre in all its…
