Arts & Culture

“Unique” well describes Long Neck, Big Heart, called “a comic-book cabaret” by its creator, Boulder performance artist/cartoonist/musician Timothy Foss. Starring Santa Claus, a four-year-old boy, a giraffe and Foss himself, the, um, performance (multimedia show? monologue? concert? film screening?) sounds like something we’ve never exactly seen before. But we’ll get…

This party could change your life. Bicycling magazine’s Biketown program has been giving away bikes to those who make a convincing case that a bike might alter their existence positively and then following up on the winners’ stories. Now, with help from Salvagetti bike shop, at 1611 Platte Street, and…

“If you’re anything like me,” admits Jeff Huling, chief operating officer of RIP-COREFX, “the first time I saw this device I was like, ‘Oh, man, come on. Another gizmo? Another commercial?’ If you feel that way, welcome to the club. Everyone feels that way at first.” Slick salesmen that he…

The main current in abstraction is formalism, and the journey from the more-is-more approach of abstract expressionism to the less-is-more motives of minimalism has led to more than half a century of interesting work. In recent years, though, many artists have tweaked the two opposites, merging them into a single…

In the past, Alana Eve Burman and Teresa Sparks, who together make up Boulder’s Pickpocket Theatre, just worked for the Boulder International Fringe Festival. This year, they’re also performing in the fest, something Sparks says they owe to the Fringe’s own growth as an organization. The appropriately titled Moxie,written by…

Dave Mustaine has long been a punchline — if not a punching bag — for Metallica fans. The group’s founding lead guitarist was famously expelled by his bandmates in 1983 for his alcoholic antics, just before Metallica became the biggest metal band in the world. Mustaine had his revenge, though:…

Seth Lepore, a Naropa grad now living in Vermont, has an adorable face and the kind of richly extemporaneous voice it takes to be a good performance artist. The guy can definitely talk, but he can also delight, making his new work, Losing My Religion: Confessions of a New Age…

“This is a great combination of the two things that many of our followers love the most, and that’s art and ale,” says Tori Labs, spokeswoman for the Wildlife Experience Museum, 10035 South Peoria Street in Parker, summing up the popular Art & Ale Brew Festival, which returns to the…

Unless a state emergency forces her to be elsewhere, First Lady Jeannie Ritter will mingle with a bunch of winos at tonight’s Celebration of Premier Colorado Wines at the Governor’s Mansion, 400 East Eighth Avenue. The party, a benefit for the Governor’s Residence Restoration Fund, will push a project the…

There will be plenty of cork-popping this weekend when the ritzy village of Beaver Creek hosts its annual Wine & Spirits Festival. Beginning today, and continuing through Saturday, August 21, grape gurus and grubniks will get to hobnob with winners from the San Francisco Wine Competition and World Spirits Competition,…

In Invictus, director Clint Eastwood dramatized the story of how Nelson Mandela galvanized the South African people in support of the Springboks, the nation’s rugby team and a surprise contender in the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship, and in the process, broke through the racial barrier left behind after the…

When the media furor around Brandon Smith’s allegedly ripping off a dude’s finger while stealing an iPad died down, we assumed the lulz were over, and we were a little sad. Smith, however, has proved to be uncommonly obliging in that respect. In a letter sent from jail and easily…

Last week, Dr. Laura Schlessinger violated the cardinal rule of race relations in broadcast: If you are white, you can never say the N-word in public — even if you are joking or making a point. Follow that rule, and even if you are a bona-fide racist, you’re somehow golden…

What’s hot, and what’s not? Check here every day for the daily Fringe haps. Find out what’s going on after the jump…

If you haven’t ridden a red B-cycle yet, this is the week to try one out – as long as you’re okay with being labeled as a communist sympathizer (for that story, click here). The city is offering free seven-day memberships in the bike-sharing program and giving away one hundred…

Nobody makes the distinction better than Encyclopedia Dramatica: The Internet is where normal people go to find things out — to get business info or the news. The information superhighway, if you will. The internetz is like the landfill beneath that — a nerd-dominated repository of all things filthy, wonderously…

The YesPleaseMore pop-up shop’s August Summer Camp series takes a fashionable turn tonight by hosting a DVLP Clothing Fall Launch, with projections of models in the coming season’s DVLP duds, spins by DJ London Dungeon, Italian sodas and spritzers by Crema and a chance to pick up the new looks…

When a lactating mom was told to “wrap it up” at a LoveSac store in FlatIron Crossing recently for breastfeeding her kid there (interesting coincidence, and the store itself has nothing to do with breasts, but isn’t “LoveSac” a weird name of a store to get kicked out of for…

Jason Bosch, a Westword MasterMind and the sole man behind Denver’s ongoing ArgusFest human-rights film series, has had his share of troubles this summer. And there’s more trouble, still: Attendance is down at ArgusFest, and Bosch, whose agenda for educating folks runs deep, is desperate to get his peeps back…