Denver’s comedy community despaired when heckler-ready Squire Lounge comedy night open-mike host Greg Baumhauer decided to call it quits. The comedy night was mean, it was ugly, it was the toughest crowd in town — if you could even get them to listen to you in the first place. But…
We’re on a roll! In honor of the upcoming Bicycle Film Festival, yesterday Jef Otte and Kelsey Whipple got the wheels turning with their list of the twenty best bicycle scenes in cinema, ever. “Bike porn, sweet,” says bpsycle. But there was one sour note…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist. Clyfford Still: Inaugural Exhibition 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…
CBS descended on Denver on Saturday to hold an open casting call for anyone interested in possibly being picked as a contestant on the upcoming season of Big Brother. While I detest reality television in every way, I took it upon myself to go down and try out. What I…
With rare exceptions for the Smart Car, the tandem bike and whatever those contraptions are in the Dr. Seuss books, the human evolutionary process basically stopped when mankind progressed from two legs to two wheels. If you need proof of the superiority of the cycle, look no further than film,…
Some of our favorite local skate crews have been busy this month, dropping Spring video clips that will have you ready to take to the streets. First up… Ben Ericson and Tristan Minton’s 2012 Spring Street Trash edit (above) featuring the 303 Boards team…
Selling out for the first time since moving into its basement home at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Friday night’s Feminism & Co.: Sex Work lecture had to turn many people away at the door. The expertly curated lecture series seeks out artists, scholars and women of all trades to…
Last night, Tuaca brought Corey Miller (think L.A. Ink — and if you’ve seen that show, then you know how talented he is) to Stoney’s Bar and Grill to play with his band, Powerflex 5. We caught up with Miller before the show (while he placed the finishing touches on…
Denver’s earned its rep as a slam-poet factory: The city not only supports two competitive adult teams, each of which has taken a national title in the last decade, but it also has a strong youth wing, Minor Disturbance, one of this year’s Westword MasterMind Award-winners. And tonight is when…
Andy Kelso flew back to Colorado last week for a starring role in Wicked — and “it’s incredible” to be back home, says the Aurora native. “I already have heard from old high school and childhood friends who are coming to see the show and have reached out to say…
Director/producer Todd Cassetty is used to working with pop sensations like Taylor Swift. He produced two Taylor Swift music videos and seven Taylor Swift TV specials — most notably, her 2010 NBC Thanksgiving Special. More recently, though Cassetty has set his sights on a culture somewhat less predictable than his…
Getting a dance show off the ground in this economy can be a real circus, a delicate dance requiring high-flying financial acrobatics. Nancy Smith, the founder and artistic director of Frequent Flyers Productions, a Boulder-based aerial dance troupe, is uniquely qualified for the job. Last month Smith turned to Kickstarter.com…
Wish your favorite purse was just a little bigger? Have a bag that is perfect in every way, except there’s no place in it to put your keys? Handbags.com and Big Buddha Handbags want to hear from you. Running now through April 18, the companies are asking for video submissions…
Denver is no stranger to Wicked. The Broadway show has toured through here three times before, and April 11 marked the start of a fourth run in this city. Arguably, no one can celebrate the show’s return more than lead actor Andy Kelso, who plays the role of Fiyero, the…
It’s not a bad thing to get a red card at the Colorado Gay Volleyball Association’s Red Card Party at Hamburger Mary’s Club M this Saturday. “Everyone who comes to see the show gets a red card — and they get to give their “violation” to their favorite model or…
What’s striking about Cheryl Strayed’s writing is its radical sincerity and vulnerability. She pens personal essays as responses in her advice column Dear Sugar (which was written anonymously until recently), dishing out loving, thoughtful advice to questioners she addresses as “honey bun” and “sweet pea.” Her new memoir, Wild: From…
“While President George H.W. Bush had been known for saying ‘Read my lips,’ I began urging colleagues and reporters to ‘Read my pins.'” — Madeleine Albright. That’s the basic story behind Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection, an exhibit opening Sunday at the Denver Art Museum. A showcase of…
This weekend rules. Just saying. There’s tons of stuff to do that won’t leave you eating cereal for dinner for a week, and whether you want to see a feminist spoken word night, go to a huge comedy show, or dance at an art opening, it’s all here — and…
First rule of Soundpainting: You do not have to be a virtuoso. And from there, the sky’s the limit: It doesn’t matter how old you are, what you play — if anything — and whether or not you can even read music. Soundpainting is a kind of improvisational “Simon Says”…
Leonardo DaVinci has come to the Denver Pavilions. Discover the DaVinci In You, featuring replicas of sixty machines and other inventions created by DaVinci, has moved into the former Virgin Records space — and it’s quite a change from the other things on display in the Pavilions…
With their red-brick walls and stone turrets, many of America’s mental hospitals look eerily like sanctuaries. Some of these facilities genuinely endeavored to do good. Others have darker histories, belied by the elegance of the architecture. In The Empty Places, a photo collection and soon-to-be-produced documentary, Ralena Gordon tries not…
Sister Spit is coming. The queer, feminist-minded, spoken-word tour will land at St. Cajetan Event Center on the Auraria campus Friday night, and at the helm of the event is founder, author and icon Michelle Tea. From her debut memoir The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in…
