The seventh annual all day, all access Doors Open Denver event runs tomorrow and Sunday, giving walking tour access to dozens of public and privately owned buildings. Snoops and historians alike can visit different structures throughout the city, ranging from recent turn of the century architecture to the century before…
Whatever your stance on conservation and environmental issues (we’re hard-line in favor of what we like to call “maximum bull-dozage”), you can’t argue with this: Earth is the shit. It’s got all sorts of cool and weird-ass stuff to look at, it’s fine with people inhabiting it and it’s basically…
It’s been fifteen years since Scream came along and changed the whole horror movie paradigm with its self-awareness, satirizing the cliches of a genre then in the throes of death by indifference and employing them as plot devices, in the process pretty much single-handedly breathing life back into it. It…
Now that IKEA and H&M have both signed on the dotted line in metro area, folks who’ve waited patiently for their first chance to walk in the door of either of those trendy Scandinavian outlets will finally have their day. But after those open, and we’re all done dancing in…
Rock out with your sunblock out! The Spring Back to Vail concert lineup kicks off tonight at 6 p.m. in Vail Village with Grace Potter & the Nocturnals and The Chain Gang of 1974 at Solaris Plaza (Train and Saint Motel play tomorrow night at Ford Park and The Greyboy…
This weekend is jam-packed with lots of expensive gathering and events, but for those looking to live life on the edge of a Hamilton, we’ve got you covered. With StarFest in town this weekend, a couple theaters are following suit with science-fiction themed classic movie showings, but for the less…
Ever since he ended up as conspicuously the only member of the Breakfast Club not to get coupled up — and was pretty much okay with it — we knew Anthony Michael Hall was a guy we could identify with. Lanky, bug-eyed and just a little too weirdly enthusiastic, he…
Tonight, Erica Sodos brings her magical variety show to the Mercury Cafe (2199 California St.) once again for an evening of mystery, poetry and of course, magic. Taking on a role generally played by men, the Boulder-based magician flips the script with her own spin on classic illusions and magic…
The prostitutes in the Coen brothers’ film Fargo probably had the all-time best description of actor Steve Buscemi’s bizarre face: “kinda funny-lookin’.” Well, thanks to the Tumblr “Chicks With Steve Buscemeyes,” we now know that the actor’s funny-looking eyes look particularly creepy and hilarious when Photoshopped on the faces of…
If it weren’t for a few smirking touches of ironic self-awareness, you’d swear Black Dynamite was straight out of the blaxploitation era. Not only does it feature the baddest motha-shut-yo-mouth since Shaft and Sweet Sweetback rolled into one, plus a ridiculously convoluted plot reaching to the top level of government…
StarFest is kicking off this weekend, and packed into the three day event are five different festivals, hundreds of activities and enough dork-power to raise Firefly from the ashes. You can pick up a full schedule here, but if it’s a bit overwhelming, we’ve broken it down to ten events…
After nearly four months of intense contention, the semi-coherent debate continues to rage over Bree Davies’s assessment of the first episode of the MTV version of the popular U.K. series Skins, now drawing opinions from as far away, apparently, as Portugal. Yesterday, Portuguese reader (we’re just kind of excited about…
Colorado-based climbers “HardCor” Cory Fleagle, Jim Turner and Thom Engelbach got in over their heads last month on an expedition to the Southern Patagonian Ice Field between Argentina and Chile, throwing “caution to the winds” on Monte FitzRoy, but still managed to live to bring home the slideshow…
Though it’s largely been forgotten in the annals of crack-pottery and snake-oil salesmanship, the story of Mark Kostabi is one of the art world’s weirdest and most head-slappingly dumb. A darling of the high-rolling ’80s New York scene, Kostabi and his rise to fame and riches on the backs of…
There are so many seemingly random elements at play in the Yes! Lab’s concept for The Remake Rumble improv series, that they could almost be variables in a long-form improv game. The basic idea: take the plot elements and characters from famous movies and remake them, improv style. But –…
Curious Theatre Company got its start more than ten years ago when a group of artists came together to produce Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. The project left artistic director Chip Walton with an “almost insatiable appetite to continue producing that kind of theater — epic, political,” he remembers. “Not…
Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Ruined deals with the impact of war – specifically, war in the Democratic Republic of Congo — on the lives of women. In countries where terrible things are happening, women are often the focus of violence and rape is used as a tactic, a way to…
There’s something especially poignant about the annual National Theatre Conservatory Repertory performances when they come around each spring: Signifying both the end of a long, hard road and the launching of a new flight into the mystic, the productions show off the newly honed skills of conservatory seniors. “It’s the…
Although the two plays were originally written years apart, there’s a distinctly Buntport-like thread between Kafka on Ice, the theater’s most recent resurrection in its tenth-anniversary retrospective season, and The 30th of Baydak, which returns to the stage tonight: Both are funny and heartwarming and charmingly weird, of course, but…
A who’s who of Denver kitchen magicians will converge at the Colorado Convention Center tonight for Chefs Up Front, a gastronomic blowout to benefit the nonprofit Cooking Matters Colorado. The event highlights the culinary ingenuity of two dozen top toques, including Max MacKissock (Squeaky Bean), Daniel Asher (Root Down), Wayne…
Nancy Smith, director of Frequent Flyers Productions Aerial Dance Theater, is the only company member who was even alive during the 1960s, but that hasn’t stopped her crew of far-out choreographers and high-flying dancers from tackling the turn on, tune in, drop out decade in their new show, Fabulous Freaky…
Poet Ginny Hoyle, a member and instructor at Denver’s Lighthouse Writers, and artist Judy Anderson of PlatteForum created the tag-team installation When We Were Birds, which opened last month at Walker Fine Art for a run through May 7. But to see the results of their collaborative effort wasn’t quite…
