It’s pretty tough when you get slapped like a bitch on your own lawn, but that’s exactly what happened to Seattle on Saturday — twice. In a double-header, Seattle’s Rat City Rollergirls suffered double defeat when their all-star team got crushed by San Francisco’s Bay City Derby Girls and their…
Contrary to popular cultural belief, not all cosplayers are mouth-breathing weirdos with no social skills — in fact, the vast majority of them are just normal folks who like to represent their fanhood by dressing up, and what’s so strange about that? That’s the gist of Thorin Klosowski’s post yesterday,…
Without Limits Race Productions race coordinator Candy Panigutti is dropping triathlon knowledge tonight at 6:30 p.m. at Outdoor Divas, 2717 East 3rd Avenue (and tomorrow at 7 p.m. at the Boulder store, 1133 Pearl Street), to help local ladies gear up and get ready for upcoming events like the Colorado…
If you were a kid before somewhere in the mid-’90s, you remember the merry-go-round, that spinning metal disk of danger that, if you were lucky, you could get your dad to spin you around on at incredibly hazardous speeds until the g-forces peeled your fingers off the metal rails and…
Denver photographer Mark Sink has often worn more than one hat. In addition to taking pictures, he’s built a reputation as a first-rate photo curator and ran his own exhibition venue, Gallery Sink, for many years. He also served as the interim director of MCA Denver in the ’90s, and…
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…
Fiction. In the first scene of Fiction, two people argue and flirt in a Paris cafe. They seem entirely familiar with each other; their argument, though heightened and intensely clever, still has the comfortable, teasing, accustomed rhythms you expect of a conversation between lovers. But in the second scene we…
Sharing the narrative opacity and marginal milieu of Hamilton, its 2006 predecessor, Putty Hill, the assured feature-length followup from Matt Porterfield, surveys the effects of a young man’s overdose death on his extended working-class family. And like the militantly decentralized storytelling that Porterfield favors, their grief surfaces in flashes but…
Anthropomorphizing its animal stars to a borderline-dubious degree, Disneynature’s non-fiction African Cats situates itself in Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve, where two four-legged mothers valiantly struggle to provide for and protect their young. On the northern side of the river that divides this gorgeous but pitiless land lives aging lioness…
Set in a doughnut shop in a rundown section of Chicago, Superior Donuts centers on the growing friendship between the defeated and deflated owner, Arthur Przybyszewski, an aging hippie who avoided the draft by fleeing to Canada and still feels guilty about it, and Franco Wicks, a black youngster who…
In the quiet hour of 4 o’clock this morning, the Ladies Fancywork Society struck again. The organization, devoted to epic works of guerrilla knitting, brought to completion what is arguably its biggest project yet (or at least since it knitted leg-warmers onto Borofsky’s “Dancers”): knitting a giant ball and chain…
When 13 Families, a new documentary about how the families of the thirteen victims of the Columbine shootings cope with their loss, premieres tonight at the Denver FilmCenter, it will be a new experience for the public. After so much media focus on the more sensational and political aspects of…
Presumably because of the large cross-section of Star Wars and Star Trek fans within the nerd community, StarFest is at least in name dedicated to the stars — but if the costumes on display this weekend were any indication, it should probably just be called “EverythingFest.” Literally every type of…
Normally we wouldn’t highlight a video depicting violence, but this Youtube gem appropriately titled “Taco Shop Drag Queen Tranny Brawl” is just that — a fight among some gentlemanly ladies over who gets to order first. The tiff seems less like a caught-in-the-act clip of actual violence, and more like…
The first costume I ever wore in my life was a handcrafted Thorin Oakenshield from the Hobbit when I was one or two years old. Then, when I was in fifth grade, I tricked my mom into sewing me a Mortal Kombat costume — Scorpion — for Halloween. Since then,…
In addition to no tomorrow, what you got at Denver’s Fashion First: A Weekend of F.A.M.E. at Suite 200 this weekend was (pay attention to the acronym here) Fashion, Art, Music and no shortage of Entertainment — and contrary to David Bowie’s well known assessment, it was not hard to…
While the Denver ComicFest this weekend wasn’t as full of crazy costumes as it’s counterpart, StarFest, it was full of ridiculous comics. We sifted through the bins to find these five bizarre comic book covers…
Beaver Creek, Silverton Mountain and Echo Mountain all called it quits for the season yesterday, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still perfectly good skiing and snowboarding to be had: Copper Mountain, Vail, Winter Park, Aspen Highlands and Snowmass are all throwing rites of Spring bashes this week and Easter…
In certain cultish and secretive religious sects, this entire week is devoted to the celebration of a holiday known as “Easter,” when, as the legend goes, a guy got nailed to a piece of wood and then came back to life three days later, except not all gnarly and undead…
As city-dwellers, we see an average of probably hundreds of buildings every day, most of which we will never step inside. And for the most part, that’s fine, but there are always those buildings that pique our interest, that make us think, “huh, I wonder what’s in there?” This weekend…
Anthony Michael Hall defined a subculture for an era once, back in the days of the Brat Pack, when over the course of two great years and three great movies he pretty much single-handedly made it (sort of) okay to be a nerd — at least, that’s what I argued…
If you’ve ever wondered what the future meets the past looks like, you might call to mind the antics of Marty McFly and the wonder DeLorean in the middle of the wild, wild west, or perhaps a robot tromping through the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. You’d be right on…
