Samuel Schimek’s newest pop-up incarnation, I ♥ Denver, opened its doors over the weekend in a newly painted second-floor suite at the Denver Pavilions that’s been slicked up with serene ice-blue Scandinavian highlights befitting a city about to welcome IKEA and H&M into its retail fold. Unlike the previous Pavilions…
For the last fifteen years, the Phallogical Museum in the tiny fishing town of Husavik, Iceland, has existed for one purpose and for one purpose only: to collect and display a shitload of penises. Is that two purposes? So be it. In any case, the museum’s collection features an impressive…
It’s true. Sometimes the Internet is used to relay important information (it’s called “news” in some circles) to the general public, and believe it or not, Twitter can be used as a tool to share it. Yes, not only can we stay informed on celeb culture via Nicole Richie’s latest…
If most authors leave an unfinished novel lying around, it doesn’t really mean anything. It’s usually unfinished because at best it’s crap and at worst, unreadable. There have been exceptions: Kafka left behind The Castle, Chaucer left The Canterbury Tales unfinished, and Mark Twain’s Mysterious Stranger was pieced together from…
Paolo Giordano was working on his doctorate in particle physics when he wrote The Solitude of Prime Numbers, a beautifully rendered tale of two misfit children whom Giordano compares to twin primes — a prime number that differs from another prime number by two (like eleven and thirteen). The further…
For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. Though spring…
There are a million movies exactly like it: Promising athlete encounters diversity, gets discouraged, gets encouraged, overcomes diversity, wins something and everybody learns important lessons about life, family and love. That was my main point on Friday when I made fun of the trailer for Soul Surfer, a movie so…
What’s the world coming to? Yesterday Aspen/Snowmass slashed its single day adult lift ticket price to $49; take another $10 off if you have a season pass from another mountain. “Because Easter is two weeks later this year, we’re treating these two weeks as a special bonus,” says Aspen/Snowmass spokewsoman…
Adult Swim has always been Cartoon Network’s flawless answer to the demand of nostalgic man-children everywhere to be served bizarre, absurdist deconstructions of the entertainments they liked when they were actual children (look at the website and tell me that’s not what they do), but in the past, those entertainments…
For most of the history of settled humanity, there have been two forms of visual art: painting and sculpture. But in the twentieth century, new art genres were born involving mechanical features that spun or lit up. The first of these were created by the Italian Futurists right before WWI…
Mi Linda Soledad. This large exhibit at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center zeroes in on the career of one of Colorado’s most important abstract painters, Emilio Lobato. The show’s title, which means “My Beautiful Solitude,” refers both to Lobato’s life growing up in the San Luis Valley and to…
The opening title card of François Ozon’s 1977-set Potiche seems to take design inspiration from the exploitation films of that period — a sneaky-smart way of nodding to one of this pastel-colored political farce’s key topics, if not its stylistic mode. As Suzanne, Catherine Deneuve plays the title role, which…
Set in the months after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, The Conspirator follows the consequences of the fatal shot at Ford’s Theater — specifically, the trial of Mary Surratt, Catholic, 42, and the owner of a Washington, D.C., boardinghouse, who was presented before a military tribunal as the den mother in…
The 30th of Baydak is a small, sweet, gentle play about a large, ragged and ugly topic: dictatorship. And since this is a Buntport production, bringing back a show it originally presented in 2003 as part of the company’s ten-year retrospective, naturally it tackles a particular kind of dictatorship. When…
At its heart, Cabaret has a problem. The brilliant songs, by John Kander and Fred Ebb, will send you home humming. There’s a lot of seductive dancing, as well as a sexy-druggy coupling between lost little Sally Bowles and Clifford Bradshaw, the (relatively) innocent visiting American, and a sweetly sad…
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…
The Snuggie is the new toga. Easy enough to look like a dumbass in without ornament but versatile enough to decorate in all sorts of ridiculous ways, the popular blanket with arm-holes in it (as differentiated from its less popular competitor, the Slanket) has proved an ideal garment for frat…
Okay, so more like a shitload of people in Hollywood do cocaine — at least that’s what Dennis Quaid shares in a recent Newsweek piece (that we, of course, got wind of via TMZ.com, where all good, abbreviated versions of real news stories come from). Anyway, TMZ was quick to…
Create Denver Week, which kicks off on May 12, will celebrate the local creative scene with a series of stylish events, including a pop-up art installation at the Spire, outdoor LED light and video projection showcases at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, food trucks, fashion, music and crafts. But its…
It seems like it was almost overnight that the label “organic” went from something only Boulder cared about to something even Colorado Springs cared about somewhat. Suddenly organic food and farming is big business, and when big money is at stake, it pays to ask, well, what does this mean?…
“In the end,” Charlie Chaplin said once, “everything is a gag.” Denver’s Next Improv Star’s culminating performance proved him right — predictably, perhaps, considering it was a comedy series, but with a vigor so overwhelming and an artillery of jokes so unbearably funny that, by comparison, the rest of the…
Cats are weird. As a rule, they pretty much just do what they want all the time, and what they want to do is usually spastic and inscrutable and occasionally evil — which is why, when we heard about the Springtime in the Rockies Cat Show this weekend, we knew…
