The dark empire of Church of Scientology, well known for its extensive real-estate holdings, expanded its reach in Denver yesterday by throwing down $8.5 million in cash money on a new facility to house its secretive minions. Believed by its adherents to be the one true path to enlightenment and…
If anyone is in need of further proof that we live in strange and litigious times, they need look no further than the gossip that’s arisen around the first episode of ABC’s The Bachelor, which aired yesterday. A slap in the face delivered by contestant Chantal O’Brien to bachelor Brad…
The newly rehatched Denver Art Talks, hosted by Eric Matelski, will hit the new year running by featuring designer/seamstress extraordinaire April Hoy as its first guest of 2011. Hoy has stitched her way through many behind-the-scenes professional layers: She’s a stage costumer, a corset-maker, a textile restoration worker, a pattern…
Lower Snooki in a ball in Times Square on New Year’s Eve while The Situation and other cast members lead a Guinness-breaking fist pump. That was MTV’s original plan, but the authorities shot it down. They’re doing it in Jersey instead. Season three of the show starts next week, and…
This doctored stop sign is remarkable partly in that it’s persevered, untouched, for quite a long time — most suitably, in a neighborhood where people of every faith and stripe live side by side: Africans from across the Dark Continent, South Asians, Russians, retirees, young singles, Muslims and Orthodox Jews…
The town of Lafayette, Indiana was up in arms over a couple of snow penises that popped up in a neighborhood after a big snowstorm. Town folk were terrified of the giant snow penis sculptures, causing a confused state of frenzy and frustration before police showed up and laughed at…
Colorado is a regional art center with literally thousands of artists displaying their work in venues around the state that are as varied as coffee shops and museums. Here’s a list of ten artists who made a difference with their work last year. It’s a wide-ranging group that includes one…
For as good as we have it here in the USA, we definitely miss out on some amazing media due to the prudish nature of much of our culture. Not so in the land of the Danes. The Danish Road Council is a million times cooler than any DOT in…
Dana Cain is the lady with her thumb in a million pies: The local maestra of event-planning throws several well-attended collectors expos, art shows, parties, chocolate fests each year. Her latest — and biggest — project is next summer’s Denver County Fair. But Dana is also an avid art collector…
The gossip blogs are abuzz today about the Lindsay Lohan PR machine’s reaction to a movie in the works that’s reportedly based on her. In one corner, filmmaker Charles Castillo, who has repeatedly mentioned Lohan’s name with regard to his upcoming Dogs in Pocketbooks, but claimed today that the movie…
As a social phenomenon, probably the most interesting thing about celebrity death hoaxes is that they are a social phenomenon at all. There’s no point to them. They’re not particularly funny (aside from the resulting lulz if the celebrity in question gets all offended about it), and they have the…
Sorry to let you down, ladies, but it seems Hugh Hefner — commonly known as “The Sexiest 84-year-old since Bea Arthur died” — went ahead and put a ring on it. The lucky lady? The 24-year-old Crystal Harris, who made her name on the reality series The Girls Next Door,…
So present-unwrapping is over and you’re freshly stocked up on new socks, kitchen utensils and copies of the soundtrack to Glee, but is there a tiny, immature part of you that’s still hungering for something that’s just pure fun? If so, Graphic.ly is your answer. The Boulder-based start-up is all…
How do you get kickstarted when you’re a young artist, right out of art school with nothing lining your pockets but a smudge of paint and a fierce desire to put your talent on the map? For some lucky emerging artists in Denver, it all starts with a good studio…
Quietly, very quietly, over the last year since the venue opened, Illiterate Gallery director Adam Gildar instigated a resident artist program, wherein Illiterate offers artists who go through an application process a chance to stage a solo show at the gallery and, for a small monthly fee, prepare for it…
Matt Johnson is the owner of Mindful Software, LLC, an iOS developer that just released the app Group Trivia, a trivia game that hopes to bridge the gap between online and local play while providing a perfect way to waste a few minutes at a time. With iOS becoming such…
In the ’90s, people started getting interested in historic Colorado modernism, and I’ve always thought it had something to do with the retrospective mood created by the coming turn of the millennium. Edward Marecak, who died in 1993, became one of the first local modernists to have his reputation resurrected…
The reason human beings are so messed up, theorized the seminal psychologist Sigmund Freud, is that our consciousness is essentially split into two parts continually at war with one another: the ego, which drives us to conform to the orderly and unnatural existence we impose on ourselves through society, and…
This holiday season has taught me two things: one, that people are heliotropic as daisies, and two, that they love to celebrate it. Essentially every winter holiday relates somehow to the planet’s descent into darkness and to the eventual return of light. Most of the time, this is a metaphor…
This time of year, some things are meant to go together: mint and chocolate, Rudolph and Santa, Swallow Hill and spangles. Catch the belles of bump ‘n grind Orchid Mei, Violetta Volare, Tatianna TaTa, Fannie Spankings, and more at one of Denver’s least expected burlesque venues…
Oh, we’re only kids now, but someday we’re gonna be the guys that make ya laugh and cry and think that there’s a little stardust left on life’s dirty old pan. – Mickey Moran in Babes in Arms. Among young and emerging artists these days, the loudest complaint is against…
Artist Teddy O’Connor goes both ways: He works in three dimensions, creating mixed media assemblage works, but for the last couple of years, he’s also been hard at work making comic books infused with a funny, personal Teddy vision, about the lives of pyramids and other rarefied nonsense. “As an…
