Anyone can make a zombie movie. All you need is some buddies, a camera and a few gallons of fake blood. An idea or two helps, and a little talent can go a long way, but plenty of these low-to-no-budget backyard zombie epics get made without either. Sometimes — very…
Glob turned ten this month. As the sister DIY venue to our city’s flagship all-ages spot, Rhinoceropolis, Glob often doesn’t get the same kind of credit for its existence. But like Rhino, Glob is an all-ages, all-welcome, donation-based music and performance venue that has been providing Denver with some of…
#11: Jerry De La Cruz Artist Jerry De La Cruz, who nows splits his time between studios in Denver and Miami, has been a force in the local Chicano art movement for more than forty years. His signature magic realism is all his own, sometimes tapping into cultural roots and…
Fantasy, as a genre, can feel pretty tired after a while. The same themes — prophesied heroes saving the world, ancient evil uniting reluctant warriors to a common cause — crop up again and again. The same mythology — elves and dragons, swords and sorcery, knights and kingdoms — is…
“We have bears, we have mountain lions and guess what? We have Bigfoot,” says Michael Johnson, a founding member of Sasquatch Investigations of the Rockies who just opened the Bigfoot, Yowie and Yeti store. Johnson’s fascination with Bigfoot started 25 years ago. “I found some footprints out by Pikes Peak on a…
Nerd-core, geek-chic, pop-culture couture. Call is what you will. It is a real trend happening and we spotted someone doing it right this week. A prime example of stylish nerd-chic occurred when online entertainer, Audrey Madison, wore a R2D2 printed dress while browsing books at Capital Hill Books on Colfax…
The universe of action movies is a strange and magical place. Good guys never miss. Bad guys never hit (or when they do, it’s always a flesh wound with less effect than a hangnail). Explosions liquefy bystanders and bad guys, but merely leave the heroes smeared in soot and sweat…
Imagine taking a trip to a beautiful, secluded yoga retreat in the mountains of Colorado. Picture walking through the lovely setting, heading to your comfortably rustic cabin room, meditating…and then lighting up a joint. Twisted Sister invites you to do just that at Align With Your Heart, a cannabis-friendly mountain yoga retreat…
Tacti-con is a fan convention that focuses on games — from old-fashioned board games to the vast universe of the gaming cyberworld. And for those who tired of sitting around tables and staring at screens, Tacti-con also offered zombie-hunting and cosplay diversions. Photographer Danielle Lirette got into the game this…
While I was sitting in the hair salon getting my own bangs trimmed the other day, the woman in the chair next to me remarked that she was getting a bang trim just in time for Burning Man. Of course, I relayed this humorous social tidbit to Facebook via a…
Some fashion students are not waiting for graduation before they get their names out there. Nicole Marsch, a student in the fashion design program at the Art Institute of Colorado, is one of these gifted individuals: She designed a swimsuit that will be featured in the 2016 Denver Broncos Cheerleaders…
The local anime and fantasy convention Nan Desu Kan moved to downtown Denver in 2015, bringing some of the region’s most stunning cosplayers along to strut their stuff onstage and on the 16th Street Mall. Danielle Lirette brought back these images of the con’s ongoing costume show. Now see the…
#12: Kent Thompson In his ten years of working magic as director of the Denver Center Theatre Company, Kent Thompson, who came here after years with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, has seen — and exacted — change in how the DCTC and regional theater in general present work both immediately…
We spotted designer Cassie Herzog at Pallet Fest 2015 in Sculpture Park, selling her Broken Revolt handcrafted accessories, which she describes as “delicately dangerous bohemian and industrial jewelry.” We stopped to chat with Herzog about how she comes up with the sayings she stamps into her jewelry, what inspires her…
“The idea for Spruce had been brewing for some time,” say owners Taylor Romero and Becca Miller, who finally opened their brick-and-mortar menswear shop in Berkeley this summer. “I was working at a web space for a while and I felt I wasn’t being creative or like I had to chance…
Earlier this week, horror legend Wes Craven died at age 76. I know I wasn’t alone in really feeling this one; horror movies are a big part of who I am, and there aren’t many horror filmmakers of his caliber. For that reason, it was obvious from the moment I…
Within the town hall that is my Facebook newsfeed, I recently raised an issue that has been bugging the shit out of me — parking, and Denver’s increasingly frustrating lack of skills in this arena. As Denver gains hundreds of thousands of new residents with this latest boom, the ability…
#13: Peter Miles Bergman Peter Miles Bergman is well schooled in both art activism and the craftsmanship of modern communication arts, and when he’s not teaching at Metropolitan State University Denver, he’s printing books and zines and creating art pranks in cahoots with the Institute of Sociometry, a guerrilla art…
Labor Day weekend is almost here, and you never got to take that summer road trip. It’s not too late! Here are eight reasons to head for the hills this weekend. 8) Telluride Film Festival Friday, September 4 through Monday, August 7 The Telluride Film Fest has long been an…
Guests perused the latest in bondage wear while ogling fiery performances and each other at the Exile 4 Fetish Ball, a gathering for like-minded BDSM fetishists dressed in leather, spikes and other strange devices this past weekend. Photographer Ken Hamblin was there to catch all the action on camera. Now…
Denver’s fashion scene is filled with everything from markets to parties to pop-ups. Here are six can’t-miss events in September; watch for updates later this month. 1) Spruce Grand Opening 6:30 p.m. Thursday, September 3 4347 Tennyson Street To call Spruce a clothing store is oversimplifying things. Husband-and-duo…
This week we discovered dancer, self-employed top-hat maker and production-company manager Domino Pastore in a vibrant outfit on 16th and Champa streets. “I do a lot of performances with other artists and my partner and I are about to start doing a play with aerialists and jugglers. Rather than a traditional theater,…
