Hawaii is probably the weirdest U.S. State, as Sarah Vowell observed when she interviewed with our Amber Taufen on Friday: The U.S. basically annexed it over the course of a summer, and even today, native Hawaiians recognize a strong loyalty to the former monarchy — something Vowell says, as an…
There are slam poets, and then there are SLAM POETS: Though there’s more than a little love and support spread around in the performance poetry community, it’s still everybody for themselves when they hit the stage. That means there’s going to be some fierce nitty-gritty going down at Westword MasterMind-winning…
Many Colorado ski areas announced pre-season discounts on 2011/2012 season passes this week. Yes, we know there are still three or four good weeks of Spring skiing and shredding ahead of us, and that Arapahoe Basin will be keeping the dream alive until at least the end of May, but…
This week gets off to a strong start with Something on a Stick Day, a holiday dedicated to that great American pursuit of putting food on sticks before eating it — well, actually, the Middle East probably got the jump on this one with their kebabs and whatnot, but did…
March 26, 2011 Update: See photos from Drama Drag last night at Tracks The life of a drag queen is an expensive, high profile existence, and Joel Valenzuela, aka Angelina Essex, knows this routine all too well. The madam of many faces is making his final appearance tomorrow night at…
Nice Myspace photo, Charn.For the second time in a month, a multi-million dollar sexual harassment and assault lawsuit against American Apparel founder and CEO Dov Charney has surfaced, this time by four former employees. This is hardly a surprise, but there is something to be said for the fact that…
Feathers. Coral. Corsets. All made of paper, all on display last night at the Paper Fashion Show competition at City Hall in downtown Denver. With over 60 jaw-dropping entries, the Paper Fashion Show was a spectacle unlike any other. Pieces went from chic to quirky to star-struck to hot mess,…
Sabin Aell of Hinterland took up the challenge of Denver’s Month of Photography by putting out an international call for entries for work that is “wild, uncontrolled, different, luminous, beautiful, sparkling, in the flow.” It’s a tall order, but that’s exactly what came up out of the ground for jurors…
At 3 p.m. on Sunday, Sarah Vowell will sign copies of her latest tome, Unfamiliar Fishes, at the Tattered Cover LoDo, 1628 16th Street. We caught up with Vowell about her inspiration for the book, what she learned and how this book fits into her previous body of work…
Looking ahead to the citywide Create Denver arts blowout in May, the Downtown Denver Partnership and Denver Theatre District are teaming up to put the work of some Denver digital media artists up in lights — really big ones — on the giant outdoor LED screen at 14th and Champa…
It was pretty damn lame on Tuesday when the Denver Art Museum cut down Talia Kauk’s unauthorized installation of 1,000 paper cranes in front of the Hamilton Building and threw it in the trash — and I said as much in the post I wrote on it, where bitched about…
If you can take anything from the eyeball-overload trailer of Sucker Punch, it’s that the movie seems to hinge on some kind of dissociative-identity fantasy world: In order to overcome her real-life oppressors, a girl must first defeat the enemies in her own mind and learn some important lessons about…..
Only an evening? Tonight at 6:30 p.m. REI Denver presents An Evening With Earthwatch, your chance to learn about upcoming volunteer expeditions around the world where you’ll combine exotic adventure, scientific research and travel on the cheap. By this time next year you could be doing something meaningful with your…
We’re not entirely sure what happened to Denver’s usual March storm, but since it seems to have forgotten us this year, we’re going to celebrate the only way we know how: on the cheap. Since we spent most of our money stockpiling canned goods for the annual snow-in, we’re out…
Deepak Sharma Bajagain already holds four Guinness records, and tomorrow, he’ll attempt to add two more to that illustrious legacy: Most Envelopes Torn in Half in 30 Seconds and Most Grapes Eaten in Three Minutes by a Small Plastic Teaspoon. Yes, these are actual entries in the Guinness Book of…
Really? We mean, really? The Situation is still hooked on the Sammi and Ronnie fight drug? As if this guy needed to play himself out any more like the bored, oversexed, tan and drama-addicted freak show that he is, this finale episode opens to just that. He’s on the duck…
If the Interwebs are to be believed, Josh Allen may just be the funniest wordsmith Denver has to offer. His 40,000-follower Twitter feed @fireland has been named among the best by the likes of the New York Times, the Washington Post, Gawker and Boing Boing, thanks to his 140-word gems…
It’s really a shame that more 4-year-old boys don’t have creative control over dance video projects, because the world needs more of the kind of delightfully incoherent things that happen when the Gumz family puts on frog suits and gets out in the snow to pirouette with the dog. As…
Timothy Flood is into deconstruction. And right now, he’s into musical instruments — specifically, pulling them apart and rebuilding them into things that basically perform the same tasks, but in radically different ways and for totally different purposes. How different? Try this on for size: One part of the installation…
Cristy Road is a queer punk-rocker radical feminist Cubana artist and writer; her career as a ‘zinester dates back to the 7th grade and a time when she struggled with personal gender and identity issues, masking over her true feelings with a combination of deep-felt loneliness and an obsession with…
With Anomaly Con, Denver’s first big steampunk convention, people are probably wondering what the best way to prepare for the big day might be. Others might simply be asking, “what the hell is steampunk and why should I care?” Don’t worry, we have answers for all that and more, including…
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the longtime brains behind South Park, Colorado’s most famous semi-fictional mountain town, took it all the way to Broadway on Tuesday when The Book of Mormon opened to glowing reviews. The musical, a sendup of Mormon culture starring two “elders” on a mission trip to…
