The best part of the annual Academy Awards is arguably the red-carpet fashion, and this year, stars were showcasing a variety of couture gowns. Bright reds and tangerines dominated the pre-Oscar parade, with some purple trimming and light, ethereal dresses to counterbalance the rich palette. There were hits, misses and…
There are a lot of things more important than watching and liveblogging the 2011 Academy Awards – but none of them are things we have to do today. Look for our recap after the show!…
Is that a suspiciously shaped tendon, Jesus, or are you just happy to see us? A tad nonplussed at the photo (above) the Denver Post ran today on page 14D of Rebecca Vaughan and Peter Illig’s “Celestial Navigation” — part of the artist’s Displaced show at Ice Cube Gallery, which…
If you’re a real Denver old-timer, you might remember the Third Eye, a brave little independent theater that operated out of a second-floor loft at Second and Broadway by local theater pioneers Joey and June Favre. It was a funky little space with black walls, plush red chairs pirated from…
Charlie Sheen went on the radio and said some absurd things yesterday. Maybe you’ve heard. He really sailed off into crazy land this time, calling Thomas Jefferson a pussy and making some incoherent analogies involving him in his underwear strafing all his haters early in the morning. And frankly, the…
Best Supporting Actress nominee Amy Adams was your typical senior in the tiny town of Castle Rock, Colorado. Before graduating from Douglas County High School in 1992, Adams may have hung out at these spots in Castle Rock, now a city of more than 44,000…
What’s a secondary art market? It’s a sale of works that have been sold before and are back on the market. The advantage of buying these pre-owned works, from the collector’s point of view, is the clear picture it gives for a work’s resale value and present worth in the…
In Drive Angry, Nic Cage plays a man who broke out of hell to make things right, and now he’s got one last chance at redemption. Now, read that last sentence again in the gravelly voice of the “In a world… guy and note that Nic Cage also drives a…
If you’re a regular reader of Westword, the that headline should’ve tipped you off that now — right this very second — is prime time to vote in our annual Best of Denver Readers’ Poll, the populist sidebar to our own picks of our favorite people, places, songs and inanimate…
Even though we’re well aware that February is a short month, it’s still hard to imagine we’ve already reached the final weekend of it. With rent and bills on the horizon, chances are you might be strapped for cash this weekend, but we’ve got you covered. Well, that’s provided you…
When you’re talking about a silent sci-fi-parody movie based on the 1971 concept LP Bark, commonly regarded as one of Jefferson Airplane’s worst albums, it pretty much only makes sense that it would be set on the moon in the 26th century and prominently involve buffalo. Also that the narrative…
Traditionally the calm before the storm before Spring Break mania takes over in the mountains, the last weekend in February has become a storm of its own, with challenging events at just about every ski area in Colorado. Here’s a preview of the top five ways you could be busting…
Nothing like a flat bang of an episode opening–finally, Snooki has gotten hers (well, again.) But as soon as this dude is in, he’s out–he won’t cuddle. After Snooki tells him to head out, she gets on the duck phone to call up an old flame. Meanwhile, Ronnie’s dad comes…
As far as fictional characters go, there is maybe no archetype so boring as the Hero, that figure of unwavering nobility and poise. Whether that hero is deftly vanquishing foes like Superman or valiantly overcoming adversity a la Odysseus, the construct is the same: The Hero represents the David-like ideal…
Apple introduced its Facetalk app in the computer App Store today, charging $0.99 for it’s video chat platform. Google, meanwhile, is in the midst of a contest where users create video demos of the company’s apps and users vote on the winners. Both companies continue to stride into overlapping territory…
When Matt Vogl and Harrison Rains started Mile High Sci-Fi five years ago, Vogl says, “We agreed never to watch Mystery Science Theater 3000 ever again.” In many ways, their show’s premise is the same — screen terrible movies and make fun of them — but Vogl and Rains also…
We are well aware that graffiti is not subject to the strict grammatical rules imposed on other art forms that, you know, involve words. But this proclamation found on the corner of Yale and University recently had us perplexed. Whoever scrawled these four choice, punctuationless words on a utility box…
We generally don’t think much about who is narrating our stories, but in the case of Benjamin Hale’s new novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, we have to. Mostly because the narrator is an ape. Hale, who grew up in and around Boulder but who currently lives in New York,…
#99: Ratha Sok Ratha Sok just couldn’t stop tagging. Growing up in the projects of Westwood, he found his young voice in a spray can. Graffiti was the only art he knew. And eventually, he got caught. Ratha spent two months in Juvie, and that’s where things started, slowly, to…
Back in the day we had to ski to school uphill in both directions. Okay, maybe not, but you can still get an earful of old-school ski stories when representatives from Arapahoe Basin, Breckenridge, Keystone and Copper Mountain get together tonight to reminisce about the good ol’ days for the…
It’s well known that Philadelphia is a cultural armpit that has never produced anything of value except for Gilbert Lewis, but the town’s community of second-rate trivia geeks is apparently up to speed on random facts as posed by a cross-section of obscure Philadelphia celebrities. Last weekend, a crack trivia…
Journey to the Stars is the first new planetarium show at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science in almost two years. Developed by the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, Journey takes the audience on a tour from a sunset in Central Park to the farthest…
