Since 2005, “I See What You Mean,” arguably Denver’s most beloved piece of public art, has been photographed, imitated and miniaturized. The sculpture outside of the Colorado Convention Center, nicknamed the Big Blue Bear, has been laughed at, loved, lingered over, tagged with a yarn-made ball and chain and pranked…
Jenn Wohletz first heard of Jeni Britton Bauer’s magical, frozen concoctions back in 2006, when Sophia Ford Coppola’s Marie Antoinette came out, and Jeni’s created a collection of whole-milk yogurt-based, specially-flavored ice creams inspired by the film. The Jeni’s flavors were almost as delicious as the movie that inspired them…
The curse has struck again. “It is cursed. It is the Così curse. You can call it that,” says Cabaret Otaku’s Christina Marzano Haystead. For the second time in a year, the alternative opera troupe is cancelling its planned update of Mozart’s famous Così Fan Tutte called Così: The Series,…
A year after he opened the 1UP arcade/bar in LoDo, business was so good that Jourdan Adler took over the former Monkey Bar on East Colfax and turned it into the 2UP. Inspired by the “barcade” trend, Jesse Gossett and Mike Boselli recently took over the former Round Midnight –…
When Andrew Linares moved to Denver six years ago, he didn’t tell anyone about his passion for music and art. Which is why he was so nervous about baring his soul at his first-ever art exhibition. Anima Instincts, a display of Linares’s photography under the pseudonym A.S. Leena Res, is…
When my miniature obsession with Wayne White emerged two weeks ago, it was because I had loved his work my whole life — without ever knowing who he was. The visual aids White had provided for my childhood — from the puppets on Pee-wee’s Playhouse to shorts for Liquid Television…
Carol “Connie” Boyer was a genealogical researcher and head of cataloguing at the Denver Public Library until her retirement in 1988. She continued to gather information on her family’s ancestry and, in 2006, donated her work to the library, which now houses the Boyer Family Genealogy in the Western History…
All good things must come to an end — but Lollypop Gift, the Hello Kitty store in the Denver Pavilions, seems to have come to a very abrupt end. And the reported reason for the store’s closing is something many vendors can relate to: rotten mall parents using stores as…
There’s still more than a month until Halloween, but at Skylab at the Denver Coliseum this past weekend, the costumes came out. See also: -Twenty-five best costumed ravers at Skylab 2012 -Twenty best vaguely German costumes of Oktoberfest Denver 2012 /twenty_best_pirate_costumes_of.php”>–Twenty best pirate costumes of BrethrenCon 2012 And came off…
Ben Witte and Nate Emsick, of Sound Like Fire Media & Production, focus on local filmmakers at Open Screen Night, scheduled for the last Tuesday of every month at the Oriental Theater. The series is designed to give filmmakers a chance to show their work and fans a chance to…
The Denver Roller Dolls’ Mile High Club destroyed the Sacred City Derby Girls 339-86 in quarterfinals and edged out tournament hosts, B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls, on their way to finals at the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s West Region playoffs over the weekend in Richmond, California. They also made the…
Ahoy, mateys! Perfectly timed to follow September 19’s Talk Like a Pirate Day, Denver’s annual pirate convention sailed into the Red Lion Hotel over the weekend. For three days, the scallywags, their wenches and other pirate friends celebrated the high crimes of the high seas — in costumes. Continue reading…
We get it, you’re broke. But that doesn’t mean you have to fill your weeknights with bad prime- time sitcoms. Instead, get out of the house and enjoy three three stellar events that feature entertaining stories, flirty songs and/or Lady Gaga. And get this: All three are free! For a…
What’s the best way to celebrate your first birthday? By wearing a super-hero costume, of course. Down and Derby, Denver’s regular skating bash, did just that — on roller skates, no less — over the weekend with a party at Exdo Center presented by Beauty Bar. Continue reading for the…
Jack Kerouac visited Five Points when it was at its most vibrant, when it was the heart not just of Denver’s African American community, but of the entire Rocky Mountain West, when the Rossonian Hotel and other jazz clubs in the area were must-stops for black entertainers crossing the country…
People are still talking about the 2012 Nan Desu Kan convention that filled the Marriott at the Denver Tech Center with camaraderie and costumes earlier this month. Bree Davies was there for the entire weekend of anime and gaming of all eras, tropes and worldly origins — where she heard…
Ben Dicke, director and producer of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson at the Aurora Fox, gives a whole new meaning to the phrase “blood, sweat and toil” — he’s invested all three in bringing this historical emo-rock opera to the Denver stage. Bloody Bloody was all set to open two weeks…
Can you ever have too many lists of the best kinky, BDSM — or BDSM-ish — movies out there? I don’t think so. There is just too much steamy, sensual, strange, sadistic, masochistic and prurient cinema to ignore — and these films aren’t even meant to be porn. Naked, sweaty…
Occupy Wall Street celebrated its first birthday this week. In the past year, the young political movement has inspired laws, riots and several retrospective glances, not the least among them the new documentary Occupy Unmasked. Directed by conservative filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon, the piece stays true to its title, aiming…
Now celebrating its one year anniversary, Denver’s all-female sketch comedy group, Ladyface, has become a strong counterweight to the booming male stand-up scene, often hosting the boys from Grawlix and Fine Gentleman’s Club in their sketch-comedy vignettes, and working the mic themselves as solo acts. “They’re both totally different, but…
Short of cash and wondering how you can have fun this weekend? Don’t worry. Whether you want to burn your mouth on chiles, see a rare 1930s samurai film or ride around on public transit all day as part of a competition, the town will be full of things you…
What marks a resident of this state? Our Latest Word blog just served up You Know You’re From Colorado When Tumblr top ten, which includes this as number seven: You never understood why the Fellowship in LOTR had so many issues crossing the pass, when you trudge through that kind…
