Matt Doubek and Sam Mobley work in unique, yet aligned styles: In addition to painting and silkscreening, both do graphic design work; Matt also builds and installs custom wood architectural details for homes, and Sam creates forward-thinking one-of-a-kind furniture. Put them together — something that happens at least once a…
Red Bastard comes to Boulder this weekend for some of the character’s final shows before creator Eric Davis heads to Cirque du Soleil. A huge part of the Red Bastard show is engaging the audience in sometimes uncomfortable ways. Interacting with the audience in ways that range from challenging to…
Superman, the ideal representation of truth, justice and the American way, is now being portrayed by Henry Cavill, a Brit. While I don’t think it’s xenophobic to have a problem with that, I do think that if it’s a punishment, it’s one we deserve. An American icon, Superman was created…
We’ve always been fascinated with risky jobs, but there are few in the world more insane to anyone with a fear of heights than a high-rise window washer. There is no amount of money you could pay us to rappel off of a giant glass building. Thankfully for people who…
Last Sunday, the Denver Art Museum’s American Indian Art Galleries suddenly got a whole lot more personal: That’s when DAM native arts curator Nancy Blomberg unveiled a whole new way of looking at Indian art to the public, by celebrating the individual talents of heretofore unrecognized artists and craftsmen. The…
Few companies blatantly exploit sex appeal for financial gain as much as AXE male scent products. Sure, almost every advertisement in history has employed some degree of sexual innuendo, but AXE forgets all about the innuendo part and goes straight for the junk. Exhibit A: Their stupid ad in which…
Andrew Novick and Janene Hurst, the stark raving mad brains behind Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast have taken monster steps up the ladder with their Japan-centric concern: The couple, who go on buying trips in Japan, opened and closed their Belmar store, vend at NDK and other cosplay meccas, throw all…
Valentine’s Day is a fantastic holiday — if you’re in a relationship, it’s going well and/or you happen to love Hallmark and all the treacly, glitter-themed merchandise it produces this time of year. Those of us who are not included in this margin, on the other hand, generally regard the…
The current show at Ironton Studios and Gallery (3636 Chestnut Place, www.irontonstudios.com) is Soft Descriptions, which is filled with installations, most of which are text-based. Emerging Denver artist Marc Willhite doesn’t explicitly explain what he means when he uses specific words in specific pieces, but he does want the viewer…
By now, the facepalm-inducing silliness of Kim Kardashian’s tearful protest on Sunday’s episode of Kourtney and Kim Take New York at being shown in the nude in the October issue of W magazine has been extensively remarked upon. For one thing, she posed nude for the magazine, so it’s hard…
Well, now I guess I’ve seen everything. I’ve been through wars, natural disasters, the inexplicable career of Jimmy Fallon and two or three great depressions, but I never thought I’d see the day when everybody stopped the presses on account of a little cold weather. Why, today’s kids are so…
Improv is based on inclusiveness; competition implies exclusivity. It’s pretty safe to assume, then, that the two can’t mix, isn’t it? It is not. Bovine Metropolis successfully combines the uncombinable in Denver’s Next Improv Star, a competition that aims to find the city’s funniest improviser via the tried-and-true performance-then-expulsion technique…
I have to admit I wasn’t quite in sync with Friday night’s Untitled theme at the Denver Art Museum: Pledge. Pledge? It had something to do, they told me, with artists making creative pledges to accomplish certain things and how to keep museum installations well dusted; people, they said, could…
The 2011 version of the Geeks Who Drink Geek Bowl, the fifth annual granddaddy of useless trivia, went down on Saturday night at the Fillmore Auditorium. The tournament kicked off with a rowdy musical theater performance, where the performers bellowed “Fuck Philly” through motifs of hip-hop, chorus line and gospel,…
This just in, from our friend and favorite Santero, Jerry Vigil: A saint for these times…
Once upon a time, cartoons were silly. Consider the original Batman series of the 1960s, a show so jokey it had villains named both The Laugher and The Giggler and starred a not-exactly-ripped-but-still-wearing-spandex Adam West playing the world’s most block-headed straight man — even Tim Burton’s late-’80s reboot of the…
Lord knows how many times I’ve walked past this garage (attached to a semi-dilapidated abandoned house near the Westword office) and not given it a second glance, but for whatever reason, it happened to catch my eye the other day — probably because I happened to be carrying a camera;…
Metropolitan State College has a special place in Denver’s art world. Not only does it have the biggest set of visual-arts departments in the state, but it has its own mini-museum, the Center for Visual Art, long a fixture in LoDo and now the jewel of the Santa Fe art…
Close to twenty years after the slang was first coined in those primitive internets forums of yore, at least one Fox News affiliate out of Los Angeles is on the case, intrepidly investigating just what it is that the kids are saying nowadays. Last week, the station dedicated fully three…
In Superior yesterday, a “suspicious package” left in a Costco parking lot triggered alarm bells, causing the store to go on lockdown, with shoppers held inside while the Boulder County Bomb Squad investigated. Why a terrorist would be targeting a Costco parking lot in Superior was unclear. In any case,…
When you are introducing a new product to the populace, it is important that your ad campaign make a strong first impression. You might try associating this new item with an A-list celebrity, or you might open with a clever joke. You might also go on a serious hallucinogen bender…
She’s not the first long-lost celebrity relative to come randomly out of the woodwork, but where most of them are deadbeat dads or biological mothers seeking a coattail-riding boost to gaudy tabloid fame, Oprah’s newly found sister seems, like everything in Oprah’s crazy, made-for-TV life story, to be legit. And…
