If Don Lemon’s recent admission about his sexual orientation via his Twitter account (and through the discussion of his new memoir, Transparent, due out next month) isn’t testament to the power of this micro-social networking site, we don’t know what is. In fact, it was this piece of personal news…
The least likely demographic to neuter a dog, a recent PetSmart study found, is apparently also the demographic most likely to attend a monster-truck-related event, purchase a Coed Naked T-shirt or enjoy the delicious food and ambience of Hooters, everyone’s favorite restaurant named after mondo gazongas. The study found that…
The last leg of Create Denver Week was by no means an afterthought: Rather, Your Sunday Best, for which Fashion Denver’s Sprout spring market and the Denver Handmade Alliance’s Crafty Ballyhoo shared quarters at the Grant-Humphreys mansion, was rife with good vibes, in spite of the cloudy weather. And, typically…
In this crazy culture of individuality, people like to express themselves. They like to personalize their personal things so that everybody will know how personal they are, because our lives in the culture of personalization hinge on the assumption that other people are not too relentlessly self-involved in their own…
Named after magical spells from Harry Potter meaning light and dark, Lumos and Nox is a new clothing boutique for humans owned and operated by Tyler Lewis. A traveling kid, Lewis draws inspiration from the places he’s traveled to in his short 21 years of life. “I’ve hitchhiked, rode trains…
Some people probably think escapism is a bad thing, but if we’ve learned anything over the years, it’s that sometimes you need to get as far away from reality as possible. Case in point: All the picks this week are somehow related to the idea that you don’t have to…
Nothing makes a better target for ironic mockery than sincerity, and when it comes to sincerity, hippies — with their happiness and their frolicking — are a reliable go-to. Whatever you say about them, though, they clearly know how to have a good time; at least, hippie-sympathizing writer Amber Taufen…
Advertising is like a cultural mirror, which shapes the way we think of ourselves and others. But are our commercials reflections of us or are we reflections of our commercials? This question of advertising’s power to shape our culture comes to mind when watching this new spot for Google Chrome,…
Heather Baroody is so hardcore she wears snowboard binding screws as earrings. We last caught up with her last January as part of our cover story profile on her sponsors at Never Summer, and it turns out she’s been busy since then: Last month she won both the Women’s Slopestyle…
Come Saturday, Colorado’s poised to have more incoming messiahs than anybody ever asked for, including the evangelicals; besides being the scheduled day of Jesus’ second coming according to Biblical number-cruncher Harold Camping, it’s also the day Bono comes to Denver with U2 for a show at Invesco Field — all…
Earlier this year, Robin Rule made the surprise announcement that she was relocating her swank-looking Broadway gallery to a much smaller space immediately adjacent to Ice Cube in the RiNo neighborhood. A couple of weeks ago, she opened the doors to this latest iteration of the Rule Gallery (3340 Walnut…
15 Colorado Artists. The Kirkland Museum is presenting a historical show that tracks the beginnings of post-war modernism in Denver using the artist group 15 Colorado Artists as an index. The story goes that the Denver Artists Guild was hostile to modernism at the time. This led to a split,…
Five Course Love. This production consists of five musical scenes set in five different restaurants, each one a broad parody in which author Gregg Coffin spoofs stereotypes while shamelessly using and abusing them. There’s a barbecue place featuring country/Western music; an Italian restaurant where a mob wife is cheating —…
Pick a reason to balk at this spot-on, garishly threadbare paean to ’80s no-budget sleaze: It apes a genre that was already creaky when its director/co-writer, Jason Eisener, was still in nappies; it’s nauseatingly violent; it began life (and arguably should’ve finished it) as a mock trailer for faux-grindhouse gazillionaires…
After sinking into self-important tedium with its prior two overstuffed installments, Pirates of the Caribbean seemed destined for burial at sea. And yet the soggy franchise and Johnny Depp’s foppish rapscallion return again for On Stranger Tides — to search for the fountain of youth, no less, a quest that…
An earnest, intermittently droll dramedy about a manic-depressive toy manufacturer and his bewildered family, The Beaver is a parable that’s not easily parsed. While director Jodie Foster fails to maintain a consistent tone — could there be such a thing as inspirational satire? — the movie’s lopsided wobble is undeniably…
Caryl Churchill is not a playwright who repeats herself. She doesn’t have an immediately identifiable writing style or revert to certain kinds of characters or situations. Although her work tends to be politically aware, highly original and inventive in terms of stagecraft, each play is distinctly different. A Number, first…
The story of Billy Elliot is deeply appealing: During the 1980s, as Maggie Thatcher wars with the powerful coal-mining union as part of her campaign to destroy British labor, an eleven-year-old miner’s son stumbles into a ballet class and discovers an unlikely love of dance. Naturally, this appalls his tough…
At Gettin’ Crafty this week, we take a break from crafting to admire the crafts of others. Namely the talented crafters and designers participating at the second annual Crafty Ballyhoo, put on by Denver Handmade Alliance. This event also served as an etiquette reminder of what to do, and not…
When director Jerry Aronson screened his documentary The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg for Ginsberg himself before the film’s release in 1994, the iconic poet is said to have nodded his head and reflectively quipped, “So that’s Allen Ginsberg.” With good reason: Even all these years later, Life and…
It was a lovely, cool evening on Friday night, as the sun went down and people began to gather in the shadow of the Spire at 14th and Champa streets in the Denver Theatre District. The second night of Create Denver Week 2011 held the promise of what would perhaps…
Judging by this weekend’s Facebook frenzy over the Denver Film Society’s “Bargain Bin” film selection of picks for the 2011 season of Film on the Rocks, there is just no fucking with moviegoers. On Saturday night, Karla Rodriquez, Director of Social Media for the organization and its summer program, dropped…
