“I believe that ancient Jews built boats and sailed to America/I am a Mormon, and a Mormon just believes,” sings Elder Price in Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s iconic musical, The Book of Mormon. And while the theological irreverence of a song like “Spooky Mormon Hell Dream,” or the existential…
Down to your last $10? Rather than spend it on something boring like food or your electricity bill, do something fun with that Hamilton. September is just a week away, but there are still plenty of ways to get out and have some inexpensive summer fun. From a Fiesta Cookout…
The quintet of new exhibits now up at Core New Art Space veer a bit from the usual Core show construction: Four Core members, all friends and neighbors in the Fresh Art Studios located in the hallways behind the gallery, will share the main gallery that’s usually devoted to just…
The City of Aurora is conducting a survey through August 31, asking people what should be done with the Aurora Century 16, the theater where twelve people died when a gunman opened fire during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises; the results will be shared with Cinemark, owner…
The Swedish invasion, which began with Ikea and the H&M on the 16th Street Mall, continues with with today’s opening of a new H&M. A crowd of almost 200 people lined up outside the new H&M store in FlatIron Crossing, with the first arriving at 4:30 a.m. Why? Simple: to…
After more than three years of selling books, local goods and ice cream, the Bookery Nook is closing its doors August 31. “Three factors played into that,” says Bookery Nook owner Shannon Piserchio. “The economy — definitely; book sales have dropped significantly because of e-books; and then the construction project…
A small world resides within these city limits: Connections are constantly being revealed, demonstrating how tightly-woven this city’s community of artists and musicians really is. And when it all comes together on behalf of one of its fellows, the result is a true labor of love like Jessfest, a benefit…
CultureHaus, the Denver Art Museum’s art-loving social group for young professionals, is always coming up with new ways to have creative fun, such as tonight’s Fashion to the MAX, a nod to the end of the DAM’s most fashionable summer ever. Though the YSL show is over, his high style…
Colorado is full of creative people — and some of them even earn a living being creative! In “Five coveted Colorado music-industry jobs” on our Backbeat blog, Samantha Alviani profiled a quintet of people doing everything from repairing guitars to marketing musicians…
“I have always been against this idea of the ‘clash of cultures,'” Marjane Satrapi says. “It’s the biggest piece of bullshit I’ve ever heard.” That’s apparent from her films and graphic novels, which bridge worlds. Born in Iran, Satrapi emigrated to Europe with her family when she was a teenager…
Remember how action movies used to be? The good old-fashioned American (but often European-accented) ones from the ’80s and ’90s, the type paid tribute to (but not necessarily re-created) in the Expendables movies? No offense to your Iron Men and your Jason Bournes, but I miss movies like Die Hard,…
After the word went out more than a year ago that MCA Denver and the Aspen Art Museum were planning a collaborative show highlighting Colorado artists, the response was astounding. More than 300 artists submitted their work for review by MCA curator Nora Burnett Abrams and AAM curator Jacob Proctor…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist that starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with some odd takes on…
It might be true that we hurt the ones we love the most, but André Téchiné’s epic neo-family drama depicts offenses—attempted murder, mid-funeral beat downs, sex videos for Daddy—that no relation should have to countenance. Alain Resnais mainstay André Dussollier plays Francis, a best-selling mystery writer who travels to Venice…
Boyishly lean, with a brooding angularity that suggests both high maintenance and nefarious vacancy, Robert Pattinson has managed to fill the role of a grade-A male sex symbol without ever evincing anything like carnal energy, and to top the Hollywood A-list as a representative of the undead. Pattinson’s casting in…
Hit & Run, a new action comedy engineered by faintly Muppety co-director/writer/star Dax Shepard, is as much about running mouths as running motors, and injects estrogen into the few remaining enclaves of American testosterone, muscle cars and FM cock rock. Shepard plays Charlie Bronson, a 35-year old in Nowheresville whose…
The Book of Mormon finally arrived in Denver, freighted with a massive weight of hype, slick marketing, praise and excitement for this musical created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, both Colorado natives. The show had sold out within hours last January, with friends posting photographs of themselves holding tickets…
David Koepp writes, and now directs, superior B-movies. This is an admirable and tough-to-master skill given how few major movie studios are willing to take chances on films with lower budgets that don’t employ a found-footage gimmick or generally look like they were made on an aglet-less shoestring budget. So…
At the heart of Project Angel Heart is the free meal-delivery service created more than twenty years ago as a way to serve homebound individuals with life-threatening illnesses. Throughout the year, the Denver-based organization hosts a number of food-oriented fund-raisers to support that effort. But tonight’s event is all about…
Denver kinksters have great balls, as they’ll prove to anyone who ventures into tonight’s Exile Fetish Ball. Festivities will include live music, dancing, DJs, visual artists, and fashion and style demonstrations, as well as a show put on by the ladies of Denver’s premier dungeon, Pavlovia. “We’ll be doing demonstrations…
It’s no surprise that comics fans would band together in the wake of the Aurora shootings, considering that the movie premiere that night focused on Batman, one of the most enduring and beloved of all superheroes. And in true superhero style, a number of local groups, including the folks behind…
From tragedy comes triumph. The I Love U Guys Foundation was started as a way to honor the memory of Emily Keyes, killed at Platte Canyon High School in 2006, by restoring and projecting “the joy of youth through educational programs and positive actions.” And last year, the Conifer Blues…
