Organizers for the seven-day cycling race formerly promoted as the Quiznos Pro Challenge announced big news yesterday: They’ve rebranded as the USA Pro Cycling Challenge and inked a major broadcast deal for 23 hours of race coverage on Versus August 22-28 and two hours of live coverage on NBC on…
Painting inspired by graffiti is a style that was established in the ’80s by the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring and has since become an old standard in contemporary art. Interestingly, over the past few years, a new generation of artists has reinvigorated the approach (think Banksy), and…
Emilio Lobato and Sangeeta Reddy. Mixed-media artist and painter Emilio Lobato is surely near the top of anyone’s list of abstract artists in the region. His work relates well to that of the late Dale Chisman, as both artists studied with Mary Chenoweth at Colorado College. His latest creations, many…
Laws governing the keeping of exotic animals as pets vary from state to state in this country — and some states have no restrictions whatsoever, which means there’s a vibrant subculture of raising some of the most dangerous animals in the world as common household pets. That’s the premise behind…
The era of the teenage action heroine is fully upon us. As pop-cultural correctives go, it’s a mixed blessing. In one corner, you’ve got the jailbait fantasies of Donkey Punch and Kick Ass, which eagerly trade on notions of naughty girliness rather than transcend or interrogate them. In the other,…
Your Highness plays like a dirty-joke blooper reel made by the cast of a junky sword-and-sorcery epic, streaked with carelessly contemporary-sounding blue humor, blunt profanity replacing the naughty-naughty, tankard-sloshing, heaving-bosom ribaldry that goes with the period setting. The scene: a generic medieval realm from an EverQuest or Forgotten Realms module…
One of the most troubled and lawless places in the world right now is the Democratic Republic of Congo, suffering the malign aftermath of colonial rule, riven by inner conflict, the site of proxy wars involving neighboring countries, and made particularly dangerous by the presence in its soil of rich…
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…
Ah, those halcyon days of summer: relaxing on lounge chairs, guzzling cold beers, loping on down to the swimming hole and taking a swing on the rope that ends in mild bodily harm and humiliating failure — the good times. Since heavy day-drinking in an integral part of any summer…
RuPaul might be the smartest man on the Internet. She dispenses advice to her Twitter followers (Ru says we shouldn’t take our personal pronouns so seriously) on a daily basis that can actually be applied to one’s regular old life. Yes, unlike the usual self-inflated shit that comes from famous…
There are a lot of short films playing at the Aspen ShortsFest tonight and over the course of the next five days — like, a shitload of them. And since many of them are foreign and all of them, pretty much by definition because they are short films, are somewhat…
If poetry is, as writer J. Patrick Lewis described, “prose, bent out of shape,” then Sandra and Ben Doller have made a career out of bending. This poet duo will bring its crooked prose to the University of Colorado at Boulder for a reading this evening that’s sure to be…
What kind of idiot eats a sandwich while standing over an open casket? A very special kind, and you just gotta love him. This advert for a good cause requires just as much creativity as advertising for a bad cause. Maybe even more. It takes the ability to pull at…
Generally speaking, when a celebrity writes a book, we shrug and feel sorry for everyone who purchases it. That’s because celebrity books are usually egocentric cash-ins trying to make it seem like these characters on TV are less one-dimensional than we think. That said, Tina Fey’s book might not be…
Call me a sad shell of a human being with a withered capacity for imagination, and you would probably be right, but I don’t believe in no ghosts. It just doesn’t make any sense. But before I crap all over your good time with my “logic,” suffice it to say…
I’ve been checking in with cool Colorado companies and trying out their goods on a mission to assemble a locals-only gear bag. This month I’ve been testing three different pairs of ski/snowboard goggles from Boulder-based Zeal Optics as well as the company’s sweet new solar panel pack that helps power…
When 4-year-old Aiden Gumz of Evergreen put his parents in frog suits and set out to film a dance video, he had a vision: to make something awesome He succeeded. The result of his efforts, FrogP, was avant-garde and experimental like Stan Brakhage, but also unexpectedly poignant and sweet like…
It’s hard out there for a pimp. Or at least a warlock like Charlie Sheen. When it was announced that CBS had begun looking for actors to replace his role on Two and a Half Men, the cogs started turning and the rumor mill spit out one replacement after another…
While it’s of course true that marijuana is a medical drug, and the implements of smoking it are as such medical devices and should only be used as such (cough, cough, in multiple senses of that joke), it’s unlikely that you’re going to see a blood-pressure pump or a forceps…
When our esteemed art director (who we will decline to explicitly name for reasons that will become clear… now) designed the photo that accompanied Embattled Painting of the Virgin Mary fellating Christ appears to weep blood (at right), our fake April Fool’s day joke article, he mentioned he was pretty…
Remember those awesome commercials in the ’80s for Barbizon, the school where you could train to be a model, or just look like one? Well, Bettina May brings her version to Beauty Bar at 3 p.m. this afternoon, with a program that goes way beyond the model “look.” In fact,…
It was partially by coincidence and partly by design that the opening credits of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining had just started rolling when we flipped on the TV Saturday night in our room at the Stanley Hotel; the movie, of course, is based on Stephen King’s novel by the same…
