Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing. Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry. — Letter from Oscar Wilde to Lord…
Lin’s husband is scheduled for execution, but the electric chair in the big house is so rickety he can only be put to death if everyone in the Armadillo Acres Trailer Park where she lives conserves energy. So she’s urging them to keep the lights burning. Betty’s husband is already…
There is exactly one unexpected moment in the otherwise drearily predictable The Five-Year Engagement that, though little more than a throwaway line, at least adds a bit of charged political reality to puncture Nicholas Stoller’s limp, hermetic comedy of deferred nuptials. Tom (Jason Segel, who co-scripted with Stoller), a talented…
Back with his first film in fourteen years, Whit Stillman still operates in a world of his own. That’s true with respect to both the singularity of his deadpan, dialogic style and his hermetic milieu. With Damsels in Distress, Stillman’s followup to 1998’s The Last Days of Disco, the urban-haute-bourgeoisie-as-endangered-species…
The new Arvada Skate Park took Best of Denver 2012 Best Skate Park honors last month, and the more time we spend there, the more we love it. This edit from local filmmaker Tristan Minton, of Royal Stain Design, which features 303 Boards team rider David Reyes and The Denver…
Does a bear shit in the woods? How about in the city — in front of the Colorado Convention Center? The answer, it appears, is “yes.”Someone snapped the above picture of an awesome “art attack” that took place sometime on Sunday night or Monday morning underneath the Big Blue Bear…
Denver certainly has no shortage of Star Wars fans and they were out in, um, Force, this weekend to take in all the geeky fun that was StarFest 2012. The convention is an annual tribute to all things sci-fi, comics and horror, but every year the Star Wars franchise seems…
A twelve-year-old degenerate needs a spot for daily operations: someplace that’s secluded, where he can stash his collection of pornos and light a bunch of weird shit on fire, and no one will bother him. For my best friend Noah and me, the central vector for our troublemaking was behind…
I’ve never played Draw Something for the same reason I’ve never tried cocaine: I know that if I did, I would become immediately addicted, drop out of society and ruin what’s left of my life. If you’re not familiar with Draw Something, it’s an app that, according to the App…
Because this planet’s the only one we’ve got for the time being, you can never really celebrate Earth Day enough. But there’s no rule that says you have to be all self-righteous and earnest or even new-agey about paying homage to Gaia. It’s okay to have fun, too, and that’s…
The lineups are now complete for Denver’s big slam poetry teams: Mercury Cafe, Slam Nuba and Minor Disturbance. These contemporary poets are very at home on the range — and a real asset to Denver…
Denver-based filmmakers Robin Bond and David Wruck premiered their roller derby documentary Derby Baby on March 31 at the Atlanta Film Festival and screened it earlier this month at the Sonoma International Film Festival, but before they can bring it to a wider audience they need to sort out a…
Bringing to light the journeys of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer individuals within faith traditions, The Shower of Stoles exhibition opening today at Iliff School of Theology lets sacred pieces illuminate the story. “Some of the stoles tell a story of pain — they may have been donated by…
Outside of maybe The Sound of Music, it would be hard to imagine a musical as far across the genre spectrum from the Rocky Horror Picture Show as Wicked. So when musical director Julian Yarcho decided to merge the two in tonight’s charity fundraiser, when the company of Wicked will…
Denverites really have no problem with getting up early on a weekend, donning a ridiculous costume and drinking — all for a good cause (remember Cupid’s Undie Run?) It happened again over the weekend. Photos below…
So it goes like this: Agoraphobic Jeannie can’t bear to leave her trailer in the Armadillo Acres Trailer Park Community since her son was kidnapped and her perm went sour. And on the eve of their twentieth anniversary, her husband and childhood sweetheart Norbert is suddenly head-over-heels for the stripper…
Feminism & Co. sells out at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; the biggest swingers’ outfit in the country, Scarlet Ranch, now occupies the former Northwoods Inn. Alt-sex marks the spot in this city — which, by dint of altitude alone, also happens to be the easiest urban spot in…
Nick Apollo Forte, who’ll perform in Denver for the first time in two decades on Sunday, April 22, at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, is best known for playing the lounge singer Lou Canova in Woody Allen’s Broadway Danny Rose. But Forte is much more than a singer: He started off as…
It seems to some of us Gen Xers that celebrating Earth Day — and any other holiday — just ain’t the same as it used to be back in our decade of Smashing Pumpkins, store-bought tie-dye sundresses and lesbian chic. But if we learned anything from surviving the ’90s, it’s…
Last night’s Titanic-themed Frock Out fashion fete at the Denver Central Library was a subdued affair, especially when compared to the last one two years ago, which was both a fashion show and a good-humored freak show, and maybe a little too messy for some people’s taste. But the styles…
On Saturday Snowboard Colorado and Loveland Ski Area will co-host a demo-day event featuring next season’s gear from at least sixteen different brands, including boards from Colorado companies Never Summer, Unity Snowboards and Oz, as well as boards from YES, Capita, Technine, Salomon, Niche, Echelon, Mervin Manufacturing, Signal, Arbor and…
Tonight and tomorrow at the Mercury Cafe, V-Day Denver will stage readings from A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer, an anthology about violence against women co-edited by Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues. This is only one of the events organized by V-Day Denver, this city’s…
