It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what it is about it, but there’s no denying that the creepiest possible accent is the accent of a soft-spoken British child. It must be, because there’s really no other explanation as to why this by-all-rights innocuous video of a British kid insistently asking sheep…
The phrase “end of an era” has lost much of its meaning because it’s been so overused, but I can’t think of anything more appropriate to say about the impending closure of the Camera Obscura Gallery. In business since 1980, Camera Obscura was among the first galleries in the country…
Blink! A young curatorial assistant at the Denver Art Museum, Jill Desmond, has stepped up to the big time by putting together an over-the-top exhibit of electronic and mechanical art titled Blink! Light, Sound and the Moving Image. Beginning on the first level of the Hamilton and taking over the…
Ruined. One of the most troubled and lawless places in the world right now is the Democratic Republic of the Congo — and if everyone’s life there is hell, Congolese women, raped and mutilated by the thousands, are condemned to the lowest circle. In attempting a play about the plight…
Written and directed by Quentin Dupieux, Rubber follows the exploits of a tire (listed in the credits as “Robert”) that figures out how to control its own motion and then rolls through the desert on a killing spree, blowing shit up with its mind. Rubber’s methods of address make it…
“This one perfect moment.” “That soul-crushing mistress.” “Our forever night.” These and other understated definitions are obsessively applied to a certain dreaded/anticipated ritual throughout Prom, a timely pop product set in a suburban high school during the last weeks before summer break and destined for the immortality of Vitamin C’s…
It’s near the beginning of Five Course Love, and we’re in a gaudy barbecue joint with a big “You’ll (Heart) Our Wings” sign on the wall. The sound system — as always in the Garner Galleria Theatre — is set way, way too loud, so that it distorts both high…
In Japanese, “sawagi” is so defined: Uproar, commotion, revel, excitement, hubbub, ado, merrymaking. In plain English, it’s a hell-raisin’ party, though tomorrow night’s SAWAGI! Raising a Ruckus for Japan, a joint effort of Naropa University and Kansuke Productions to raise funds to send bottled water to the quake-shattered Tohoku region…
When we first came across Rhombus Jerk, a new webcomic series from Joe Flores, we were delighted, charmed and slightly terrified by the innocuous but totally random humor embedded in each panel. Over time it has tackled subjects like “Wookie in a UFO,” “Reimagined Famous Logos,” and other surreal but…
This Friday, April 29, Bicycle Colorado hosts its annual Gala celebration and fundraiser for bicycle awareness and advocacy at The Denver Post building (101 W. Colfax Ave). The non-profit organization aims to educate the public on bicycle safety, road-sharing and bike lanes, while being a voice for both city and…
As long as you’re stuck wandering around in the desert for forty years, you might as well do some partying. Actually,the New York-based Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad has only been on its Passover Tour for a couple of months, but that provided no less reason to party when the…
Hollywood is prone to recycling the same tropes over and over again, and there are no shortage of obnoxious ones to choose from — but certainly one of the most nauseating is the black-male-actor-as-fat-sassy-black-woman. To that tiresome formula, the trailer for Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family promised to add…
When it was all over, after The Great Cloth Diaper Change event at the Scheitler Recreation Center in Berkeley Park this past Saturday morning, I was pacing back and forth underneath a basketball hoop in the gymnasium while bottle-feeding one of my twins when a man in his sixties sauntered…
If you spend your evenings discussing the what-ifs of art, the possibility of another dimension of existence or what visual would happen if a demon gypsy had a love-child with an ethereal goddess, then you should have been at Cirque Voltaire this weekend — unless you were one of the…
In a collaborative effort that came together at the last moment, INTI and Peace Officer mingled their talents with Sugarpill, Stephan Jacobs and ChrisB. to create the second installment of Zenlightenment fundraisers for Michelle “Smallfry” Lessans’ artistic vision for the 2011 Burning Man gathering. With three rooms of music and…
Still can’t believe ski season ended yesterday at Vail and Breckenridge, the last of the Vail resorts still standing, even though it’s still snowing up in them thar hills? As we reflect on the epic season now mostly behind us, the hardcore among us can visit EpicMix.com to relive all…
Now that Easter is over and you’re back on all the vices you gave up during Lent, it’s time to unwind a little bit. Jk, you didn’t give up anything during Lent — quitting things is for the weak willed and poor of spirit — but it’s still time to…
Memorial Day weekend is just around the corner, which kicks off the summer festival season. From sweaty outdoor concerts to snooty art crawls, here are the good, bad and ugly of the Metro-area’s most popular festivals…
I often look through old albums of my grandfather’s family photos from the 1920s, marveling at how he must have labored to produce them in his hobbyist’s darkroom, even creating clever photocollages for my mother’s birthday invitations. In the present, everyone’s a photographer, and our cameras have become a ubiquitous…
Celebrating the celebrity in everybody, Paparazzi For The People is back at Beauty Bar once again, for a Saturday night throwdown of bright lights and plenty of opportunities to smile for the camera. DJs Amen and El Supremo will be tag-teaming the decks, running four turntables together for the entire…
Ballet Nouveau Colorado’s innovative season draws to a close this weekend with a program of four brand-spankin’-new pieces, one by BNC artistic director Garrett Ammon, one by company artist Jason Franklin, and one each by guest choreographers Maurya Kerr and Alex Ketley. We caught up with Ammon and Ketley to…
While most people ostensibly make their resolutions, to keep or forget, on New Year’s Day. But I think it makes more sense to save them for Earth Day and resolve to take doable ecological steps with an infinitely more likely capacity for follow-through. I also think it’s something to celebrate…
