When you love something with your whole heart, your desire to defend it at every possible chance is unrelenting. This is how I feel about Lakeside Amusement Park. Not that this magical place needs any more positive public words from me, but it still feels like each summer, I hear…
Although today he’s known primarily as an Internet artist, Denver’s Mario Zoots will return to his “physical art” roots with a feature show in Mexico City that opens this week. After making a name for himself in the international art community — showing net-based works in Germany, Italy, Amsterdam and…
Opera in a bar: The two go together well, as Opera on Tap demonstrates. The New York-bred monthly pastime has conquered Denver in its first year here, and has done so well it’s now spread to Boulder. “We have introduced so many people to opera — and shown how accessible…
Edward Cullen and his sparkly friends have made vampires very popular today. But for a modern take on vampires with real bite, Cory Casciato suggests you check out Jeanne Stein’s Anna Strong vampire series. If you want to read about vampires at all, that is…
Art can be rad in all kinds of media, in all sorts of sizes. But Minikin Madness — Rad Art on Small Surfaces will showcase only the tiniest of artworks, all done on 3×3” surfaces. “The idea is that you may be a fine artist, you may be a great…
Zachary Byron Helm pushes the boundaries of horror in his upcoming film, Death Hearse on Satan’s Titty Highway, which he’s filming right here, right now in Englewood. And it should be a wild ride. See also: – Q&A: Artist Daniel Crosier of Mother Mind Studios – Ten weird movie references…
This summer the Real Skateboards team sent eight of its riders home to film love letters about the streets where they came up for the company’s new “Pushing Since Day One” campaign. Our favorite of the bunch is, of course, this Colorado clip from Ernie Torres, who notes in his…
Standing behind City, O’ City last Friday, my friend Sam Tallent and I drank our water and beer and shared a rad moment, peering out at a sea of mutual friends as the sun was just setting, weed smoke wafting through the air. Total Ghost had just taken the stage…
Coors has been a prominent name in Denver since the brewery was founded in the late 1800s, and that history has not been without controversy. A succession of Coors chairmen made no bones about their conservative political leanings, particularly back in the ’70s, when a brewery workers’ union strike inspired…
Do you like scary movies? Bruce Kawin, a professor of English and film at the University of Colorado Boulder, likes them so well he’s written a book, Horror and the Horror Film, on the topic. Covering hundreds of movies across the history of horror, the book explains what makes a…
Though its sister theater, the Mayan, seems to grab all the attention as an historical treasure, Landmark’s Esquire Theatre is actually a little bit older — though you wouldn’t know it from its moderne facade. But while the Mayan, which opened in 1930, survives — with tweaks — as the…
The Book of Mormon is so good that we posted Juliet Wittman’s review of the August 19 opening night performance at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House the next day, rather than save it a few days for the print edition. Although tickets sold out within hours of going on sale…
The fashion event of the summer came down Friday night when Fallene Wells introduced her Modern Nouveau collection at Fall Friperie, a show at Walker Fine Art. The line received a rave review from its audience, which appreciated Wells’s concept of mixing and matching separates and fun patterns. The show…
A trio of filmmakers from Carbondale won three of the four festival awards at the Chamonix Adventure Festival over the weekend in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France: Tyler Stableford won the Jury Prize for Shattered, his portrait of alpinist Steve House (see it in full after the jump); Skip Armstrong and Forge Motion…
For Jeanie Peterson and Cindy Johnson, opening SOL: Store of Lingerie was the natural combination of one sister’s business savvy and the other’s long-running experience in the lingerie business. And this Wednesday, August 29, the internationally-recognized Cherry Creek North boutique will celebrate fifteen years in the business with a party…
Just look at this guy. If you noticed he’s not wearing a shirt, your senses are still working. But there’s a reason why he’s only half-dressed: Every year, many of the state’s male and female firefighters gather to donate their time and rock-solid bods to a photo calendar that raises…
Revelers at Friday’s Exile Fetish Ball at Tracks Nightclub strapped in and strapped on for a large-scale celebration of sex. The ball is an annual highlight on the kink scene, whose denizens stopped in for burlesque, drag, fireplay and suspension events in a night full of supercharged sexuality. Continue on…
Forget Edward Cullen and his sparkly friends: If you want a modern take on vampires with a dash of romance and some real bite, check out Jeanne Stein’s Anna Strong vampire series. Stein’s heroine has starred in eight books since 2006, starting with The Becoming in 2006 through the brand-new…
Noah Van Sciver, one of the hottest commodities in the region’s comic community, set out to picture Abraham Lincoln in a way not yet explored in comic form. The resulting graphic novel, The Hypo, recalls Lincoln’s early treatment for his chronic melancholy, a purge that involved a sadistic variety of…
The Book of Mormon may seem gut-bustingly revolutionary, but creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are building on a tradition of god-mocking that is as old as belief itself, Josiah Hesse reveals in his pop-history of religious satire. From Chaucer and Voltaire to Kevin Smith and Bill Maher, comedians have…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at the Colorado Convention Center, where Walmart is holding a closed-door Holiday Fair to prepare its employees for the big, big season ahead. The event has drawn close to 5,000 people to town to preview new merchandise in time (read: months early)…
The USA Pro Challenge makes its way to Colorado Springs today and will be close to home for the rest of the weekend: Stage 6 is tomorrow with a route from Golden to Boulder (current overall tour leader Tejay van Garderen is a Boulder transplant) and the race concludes, spectacularly,…
