It’s taken almost two years for the bonkers, exhilarating same-sex romantic comedy I Love You Phillip Morris to finally reach theaters. Premiering at Sundance in January 2009, the movie was a near-casualty of nervous-nellie U.S. Distributors — more comfortable with innocuous gay genres like the homosexual weepie or the martyr…
Though I’ve managed to skip all Sugarplums, Scrooges and Child’s Christmases this year, I couldn’t avoid the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s A Christmas Carol. Director Philip C. Sneed’s readers’ theater approach — few actors, a cappella Christmas songs, minimal glitz, functional rather than exquisite sets and costumes — puts the focus…
When the clock struck twelve, did you strike out? No matter how disappointing your worst New Year’s Eve may have been, the winners of our My Worst New Year’s Eve essay contest have you beat. Read their stories below — then see our comprehensive, up-to-date event listings for dozens of…
It was one of the most egregious and highly publicized miscarriages of justice in American history: the murder of Emmett Louis Till, a sixteen-year-old black boy who was brutally murdered for the alleged crime of flirting with a while woman in rural Mississippi in 1955. Though the obviously guilty perpetrators…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning December 1, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve…
Have you seen this eye-catching billboard on Champa Street just south of 14th? It’s been dubbed the Faces of Colorado Art billboard, a collaborative effort curated by the Denver Theatre District’s Art Salon. But who are the artists behind the billboard?…
Second Saturday Open Studio Night at Wazee Union went down on Saturday night, and photographer Hunter Stevens was there. Stevens brings back these photos from the gallery…
Unless you count bandleader Natalia Perez del Villar’s festive red vest, there wasn’t too much Christmas-y about the tenuously Christmas-themed Navidad Flamenca at the Mercury Cafe on Friday night. Though the band played a few villancicos, or traditional Spanish Christmas songs, the jingling bells your typical North American might expect…
This week, Breckenridge is hosting the first stop of the Winter Dew Tour for the third year in a row. The Nike 6.0 Open runs December 16-19 and, since they’ve completely redesigned the Freeway terrain park and halfpipe for this year’s competition, we headed up for a sneak peek and…
The Aspen Grove Santa is a wandering one. Luckily, he’s trailed by gaggle of carolers — dressed like real-life, Disney-like Dickens characters, no less — so he’s easy to track down along the sidewalks of the outdoor shopping and “LifeStyle Center.” I found him taking a break on a bench…
It was not enormous, nor was it filled with flashing lights, giant monitors or masses of people. Instead, 360 MacDev’s current incarnation was a smallish gathering of like-minded individuals of all ages (more on that later) interested in getting together, talking shop and discussing theory. While most people these days…
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. If you…
Today, we stand on the very precipice of the granddaddy of all yearly holidays: Next week brings Christmas day, with New Year’s Eve and Day close on its heels — at no other point during the year do we get so much time off for no reason. It’s a special…
When I think of Fellini’s film Juliet of the Spirits, I think of beautiful women in big hats on the beach — the gorgeous surreal. When local designer Mona Lucero chose “Felliniesque” as the theme for her boutique’s eighth-anniversary fashion show, she turned to the dictionary. “I thought, ‘Do I…
What does the Denver Zoo have in common with Jerusalem? How about with a thirty-foot tree made entirely of Legos? Or a bridge in Branson, Missouri, a city best described as Las Vegas for Christians? Stumped? We’ll tell you. Bing (if you don’t know what it is, Google it) included…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning December 1, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve…
Eric Matelski is all about making art accessible to others, especially work by local and emerging artists, and the 13 Lumens Candle Art Show, which opens tonight with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Art Salon, isn’t the first time he’s taken this approach: reproduced art printed…
Of the modernists, Ernest Hemingway was by far the most man-friendly: A robust outdoorsman with a spartan style, Hemingway personified his best characters and in fact eclipsed them in legend. And though, like them, he had a brooding dark streak that eventually led to his demise, the portrait of him…
Everyone knows The Nutcracker, but few people know the story — and that’s for a good reason: It’s is so slight, it’s almost incoherent. Yeah, there’s a pseudo-plot in the first act about a battle with a Rat King or something, but that’s all wrapped up by the second act,…
Since Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast closed its Belmar retail doors last fall, store owners Andrew Novick and his wife Janene have been selling their collected Japanese kitsch online. Now, in a partnership with Mod Livin’, the couple has brought Gimme Gimme’s stock back to the tangible world, setting up shop…
Superman provides the basic template: publicly mild-mannered and lame, but secretly able to jump tall buildings and dominate everything. The potential for variations on that superhero theme is basically endless — and particularly so coming from kids, whose superheroes, unencumbered by the conventions of the genre, don’t really have to…
Imagine a holiday office party on acid mixed with boundary-shattering Christmas shopping and doused with a fish tank full of mojito mix and you more or less have local design studio MATTER’s 11th Annual Print Sale and Party, which launches tonight at 8 p.m. at MATTER’s studio, 2134 Market Street…
