First Friday is ostensibly about looking at art, but everyone knows it’s much more about free box wine and eyeballing the artsy weirdos that the monthly art-walk draws out — and while the festivities of course continue throughout the winter, it’s pretty tough to adequately get a freak on when…
Billy Wilder is often credited as one of the golden age of film’s most diverse and greatest directors — he was, after all, nominated for several fistfuls of Academy Awards for films like Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment and more. To celebrate his staggering repertoire, the Mayan is kicking off a…
Deepak Chopra is a new-agey self-help spiritualist whose doctrines are rooted in Indian religion and culture; his son, Gotham Chopra, is an all-American boy who publishes comics and makes movies about superheroes across the ages. Together, they have written a new book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes: Harnessing Our…
It hasn’t been medically confirmed yet, but I’m pretty sure my pregnant girlfriend left the Boyz II Men show with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra last night approximately 250 percent more pregnant. Just as sexy and possibly even sexier than they were in the ’90s despite being down a Boy/Man (bass…
If you skipped the action in Vail this weekend at the 10th annual Teva Mountain Games, never fear: Students from the Outside Adventure Film School camp held in conjunction with the games will be getting their footage featured online shortly (click here for an hour’s worth of awesome from the…
Tim Tebow knows how to draw a crowd. For his book signing yesterday at the Tattered Cover in LoDo, Tebow signed books before the multitude of about 600 devout fans, and we’re talking very, very devout. It was like Jesus Christ had come down from heaven to sign copies of…
One thing about the Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods’ People’s Fair is that it’s consistent. Now in its 40th year, the event brings out the best in Colorado people-watching, plus, you know, several stages of local entertainment and booths full of tie-dye, made-to-order art and, of course, “turkey” legs. (The consumption…
Well here we are almost a week into June, and all this time you’ve been missing out on all the commemorative months you could be getting drunk for right up until July — for example, did you know June is Dairy Month? No, you did not. More immediately, though, today…
Nobody’s going to argue that the sweet digital SLR you just picked up with the 20 katrillion megapixels and the extra-wide viewfinder is pretty sick, but let’s be honest: You don’t know what the hell about 80 percent of those knobs and switches do, and ever since you accidentally pressed…
Few could have anticipated a decade or two ago, when I was a kid growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, what kind of toll the decline of the Big Three automakers would take on the whole state; back then, it was a solidly middle-class and blue-collar place to be from,…
It’s not everyday you get to see an 8-foot-tall robot made of scrap metal or 2-foot minion playing projecting claymation off of its chest. Luckily, tomorrow, over ten artists will be displaying these and other works in several mediums including sculpture, lights and 2-D art in the robot-themed art show…
Remember a time not long ago, when the Internet was still fun? It was a place for weird exchanges with people across the globe (or in Reno) that you didn’t know IRL (in real life) but connected with via your love for Buffy The Vampire Slayer. Maybe you met on…
The Virgin of Guadalupe is such an icon of Mexican culture that it can be easy to forget that she’s also an icon of Mexican Catholicism — and religion and art seldom mix comfortably. That’s somewhat the case with the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council’s Frida Kahlo and other Superheroes…
Dive in! Red Bull Illume — “The world’s biggest action sports photography competition” — brings its touring exhibition to the Denver Performing Arts Center’s outdoor Galleria tonight through June 12 from 8:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., with massively large-format backlit prints of the top 50 finalists from 2010. Chris Burkard’s…
After years of mind-boggling advances in the realm of CG animation courtesy of Pixar and, uh, everybody copying Pixar, it’s pretty impressive to see something as visually crappy as The Lion of Judah, an animated allegory for the Christ story from Rocky Mountain Pictures, which, thank God, is not based…
The best part about a three-day weekend is the shortened work week — just like that, it’s already Friday. But because you blew all your money on hangover cures on Tuesday morning, you’re all out of cash. It’s cool; we’ve got you covered with some cheap activities to get you…
It’s sunny outside, with green foliage and clear skies — the perfect time to spend your day in an air-conditioned room with no windows wearing stupid 3D sunglasses, being bored for three hours straight. That’s right, it’s summer movie movie season, and every weekend brings a new event to your…
Every day we edge closer to the hideous sports wasteland that is mid-summer–when all we’ve got is baseball and other sports are nothing but arrests, rumors and deaths both hilarious and sad. So let’s put off hiking, climbing and anything else outdoors, glue ourselves to our TVs and cling desperately…
The flock of seventeen artist-decorated fiberglass felines that are the core of the Cat Care Society’s fundraiser Tails of the Painted Cats traveled far and wide in the preceding months, curling up in Santa Fe Drive galleries in April and at the Lakewood Arts Council Gallery in May. But now…
Four the last four years running, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council’s gallery on Santa Fe has done an annual show dedicated to Frida Kahlo, queen of the surrealist self-portrait and owner of the most celebrated unibrow of all time. This year, though, the gallery is doing it a little…
In the modern age of the iPod, any shoe store, cowboy bar, hair salon or (in this particular case) pho restaurant can do business to any soundtrack it chooses. When I worked at KB Toys in the 90s, we were sent a monthly cassette to play in the store –…
Yesterday, we brought you the news that Devo is set to headline the Denver County Fair — good news for anyone inclined shape it up/get it straight/move forward/move ahead. But there will also be about one million other things to do at the Fair, plus other fairs to go to,…
