The Squire Lounge: The meth of Denver’s late-night scene

Everybody’s seen those lovely “Meth Will Change That” billboards dreamed up by the Colorado Meth Project, which depict scenarios so vile they’ll surely make you want to drop the dope or at least reach for a Handi Wipe. Now local comedians Adam Cayton-Holland and Greg Baumhauer have applied the concept…

RiNo’s Rhino charges into view tonight

The timing couldn’t be more perfect. Today’s installation of sculptor Mike Whiting’s touted public work Rhino at the intersection of Larimer and 24th streets at the gateway to the RiNo Arts District flawlessly dovetails with tonight’s opening reception for his solo show Primitives down the street at Plus Gallery. And…

Donald Lipski’s The Yearling is a Facebook sensation!

Haven’t you always wanted to do this? I guess if you’re the artist, it’s okay. This photo of Donald Lipski sitting atop his sculpture The Yearling on the lawn of the Denver Central Library appears in The Facebook Show, Volume 1: Profile Portraits from the FB, currently at Detroit’s Museum…

How to get my job: Freelance computer programmer

It seems like we’re accustomed to a lot of different types of freelance positions, from writers to designers and even lawn care. Even still, it was a bit surprising to find out freelance computer programmers exist, too. Sure, it’s a thin line between running your own business and freelancing, but…

Glee in GQ: The Parents Television Council strikes again

The Parents Television Council has got it out for Fox. It makes sense: The PTC is made up of easily offended people hiding their fear of seeing their values system challenged behind their children. Fox, from its “news” to its entertainment, has been since day one the sleaziest name in…

Gratuitous Randomness: Awkward Family Photos

You can’t escape your family. No matter how old and weak they get, no matter how far you run, they will always be there to humiliate you with their bizarre habits and their documentation of your participation in them. Now, happily for everyone but you, the internetz are here to…

Bristol Palin fails in a monkey suit on Dancing with the Stars

If there’s one thing you can say for Dancing with the Stars, besides that it’s easily the campiest show in prime-time, it’s that the show has an excellent track record of showcasing Republicans being voluntarily ridiculous. Why, it was just last year that Tom DeLay was onstage looking like a…

Phone and games with Mark Amerika at the Denver Art Museum

We can all feel comfortable calling Mark Amerika, the artist pioneer in new media technology, at least half-Coloradan, since he lives in Boulder (a separate republic, perhaps, but Colorado all the same) half of the time. And we can all cheer for him as a local when Amerika’s latest ground-breaking…

Harajuku what? A guide to what’s what in Japanese street style

Last weekend’s Harajuku Street Fashion Party at Hinterland aimed to educate while giving aficonados a chance to deck out in Japanese pop styles and have a good time. If you were there, you might have caught on. And then again, you might not have. Here’s a vague pathway through the…

Over the Weekend: Art by Craft and MCA Denver down on Delgany Street

Indian summer? I think it came and went last Friday when balmy temperatures held into the evening for gallery-goers crossing back and forth on Delgany Street during twin openings at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and the Denver Handmade Alliance’s Art by Craft show across the street. Outdoors, the…

Stupid ad of the week: Burger King’s musical chauvinism

Advertising agencies work tirelessly to come up with new ways to tell us the same thing over and over again: “Hey, buy our shit. Don’t you want to be happy?” Thankfully though, there are always a few ridiculous ads that cause us to take pause and appreciate the stupidity of…

Dorothy Tanner’s luminous sculptures light up the night at Vertigo

It was third Friday-time again last night, and at Vertigo Art Space, that means artist reception time. Though not as crazy as the first Friday gallery openings on Sante Fe, third Friday receptions often provide a more intimate and focused evening for art fans. Last night, Dorothy Tanner hosted her…

Movin’ Anubis: Now reaching unprecedented heights of tie-in weirdness

In was weird enough when a 40-foot statue of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god of death, moved into the Denver International Airport as a tie-in to the Denver Art Museum’s King Tut exhibit, provoking a renewed flurry of hand-wringing from people who believe DIA is secretly houses an alien…

Ride RiNo in style on a Denver Arts Week VIP Limo Tour

Denver Arts week is just around the corner, with special events all over town for folks of all ages and cultural interests. It also heralds one of the biggest First Fridays of the year citywide on November 5, including in RiNo, where the galleries and artist studios will be pouring…

Gratuitous Randomness: The Leprechaun Dance

As everyone knows, Wednesday is the day that we bring you the best of our weird internetz world in the form of a compendium of whatever loosely related images we happen to come up with. “But wait,” you may say, “Wednesday was yesterday.” About that, my friend, you would be…