Making a movie starring Zach Galifainakis and Robert Downey Jr. is kind of like making Jell-O: The result is awesome, and it’s pretty difficult to fuck up. And sure enough, for about its first half, the trailer for Due Date makes the movie look like what it should be: a…
If you’re a fan of John Cusak, you already know that the end of the world is less than two years away, and you know that we know that because that’s what the Mayans said 3,000 years ago. Less well known to Cusak fans, though, is that the Hopi Indians…
Where to get some action this weekend? Where to begin? For starters, you’ll want to call in sick this morning and make it a three-day weekend: Copper Mountain opens today with its annual Lift Off party running through the weekend. Hit the slopes all day then stop by Jack’s at…
It’s the start of a big week for film buffs, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of non-movie related activities to partake in this week. Of course, if you’re inclined, you can certainly weasel your way into a few of the films for the Starz Denver Film Festival. If…
You can’t judge a book by its cover — and it just goes to show you, because the cover of The Wishing Trees, by John Shors, is pretty awful. Decked out in pink with an apple blossom and a soft-focus photo, it might as well be an advertisement for a…
After last summer’s three-month March to Fulfill the Dream, a journey from New Orleans to Detroit meant to bring about awareness of and empowerment to the nation’s poorest people, ArgusFest activist/videographer Jason Bosch learned that the road home was much longer than anticipated. “When I got back, I was overwhelmed…
It’s a sad but true fact: Neglected words are continually falling off the back of this montivagant English of ours, making room for such gems as verbs like, ‘tweet’ and ‘google,’ and such kexy nouns as, ‘staycation’ and ‘frenemy,’ as we march boldly into the unknown territory of the twenty-first…
When it comes to everything, Denver is the best city. Hands down. Our women are sexier, our men more agile, our homeless people more aggressive and our hard-ons more raging. We’ve got better bands, better teams, better cheese-steaks, hell, we’ve even got better meth — that’s right, we’re looking at…
Dana Cain is the lady with her thumb in a million pies: The local maestra of event-planning throws several well-attended collectors expos, art shows, parties, chocolate fests each year. Her latest — and biggest — project is next summer’s Denver County Fair. But Dana is also an avid art collector…
Jordan LaRousse and Samantha Sade run the Oysters & Chocolate erotica empire from their home base in Boulder, and they’re celebrating the release of their second book, Mastering Your Man from Head to Head: How to work your man below the belt, between the ears, and beneath the sheets for…
Yesterday, we learned the sad news: Denver Initiative 300, which would have created an official, government-approved commission to prepare our fair city for a visit from extraterrestrials, was soundly defeated, garnering hardly fifteen percent of the vote — meaning hardly fifteen percent of the population has any sense of humor…
Getting ready to hit opening day tomorrow at Copper Mountain or Keystone? Stop by the Retro Room tonight, 2034 Larimer Street, for a Pre-Shred Kickoff Party and a raffle to benefit Burton Snowboards’ non-profit Chill Foundation. The Chill program partners with local non-profits serving at-risk and under-served youth each year…
In the great tradition of ski porn, there’s no name as porntastic as Powderwhore, the free-your-heel, free-your-mind company responsible for the new telemark ski epic TeleVision. It’s the company’s 6th film in as many years, and the Powderwhore film tour is making its way around Colorado this month with a…
Dylan Scholinski and Maggie Evans had a dream. It wasn’t political, a dream that would change the world, or even necessarily a money-making scheme, though the latter wouldn’t hurt; they just wanted to make and sell adorable children’s clothing, made from reclaimed fabrics and set apart by Dylan’s screen-printed graphics…
Japanese ceramics have had a tremendous impact worldwide, and their aesthetic of elegant simplicity has been especially influential on artists in the United States. That means that Soaring Voices: Recent Ceramics by Women From Japan, at Metro State’s Center for Visual Art, is something worth checking out for anyone interested…
Get a leg up on the titans of the spider world tonight at Legend of the Tarantula, a class for adults created to complement the Butterfly Pavilion’s new exhibit of the same name. That show is a Victorian-themed peek into the life and times of everyone’s favorite giant arachnid —…
The plight of the returning war veteran isn’t a particularly new theme — really, it’s as old as war itself — but it’s an enduring one. And Tom Cole’s harrowing 1976 play Medal of Honor Rag, based on the true story of a black Vietnam vet, remains vital on a…
The fluffy songs of Swedish ’70s sensations ABBA are all about giving it up and feeling good; even the pleasantly good-looking, disco-dressed singers themselves — Frida, Benny, Björn and Agnetha — gave off a placidly sweet aura that just plain made their millions of fans feel happy. The Broadway musical…
It used to be that with every November, for many years, you could begin to count the days until Chanukah, like clockwork, by arrival of the Robert E. Loup Jewish Community Center’s Leah Cohen Festival of Jewish Books and Authors. But three years ago, the JCC’s in-house Mizel Center for…
If the “Free Tibet” stickers on every Subaru within a thirty-mile radius are any indication, we’ve been there, done that, seen the documentary. And Brit Withey, artistic director for the Denver Film Society, knows we’re hip to it. “Everybody in Denver, and especially Boulder, has probably seen documentaries about Tibet,…
If you know the names Greg Heffley, Roderick, Rowley and Fregley, then you know about the mesmerizing combination of snarky, sometimes off-color stories and adolescent drawings that make up the immensely popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. The four books — which are aimed at the seven-to-twelve-year-old crowd but…
Skiers and snowboarders have learned to count the passing of years — 61 of them — by the steady thrum of new films from Warren Miller Entertainment, the surest sign out there that a new winter season is upon us. The latest can be seen at the Wintervention film tour…
