Thanks to the internetz, we have spied for you today a little slice of South Africa via a commercial for a snack we’ve never heard of, from a company we’ve all heard of. It’s more than a little aggravating to discover that other countries get different, and possibly more-than-likely better,…
Ah, life’s eternal questions, like “Why do words sounds so weird if you say them a bunch of times in a row?” and “What if, like, when you looked in the mirror you were seeing the real you looking at the fake you and you’re the fake you” and “Wait,…
Performance artist/seamstress/activist/do-gooder Frau Fiber’s message is rooted in old-school proletariat values; with that in mind, she focuses specifically on the undervalued garment worker, a workforce icon and punching bag of capitalistic society with a history of struggle against poor labor conditions and wages. She’ll be leading a workshop tonight at…
Denver photographer Mark Sink has often worn more than one hat. In addition to taking pictures, he’s built a reputation as a first-rate photo curator and ran his own exhibition venue, Gallery Sink, for many years. He also served as the interim director of MCA Denver in the ’90s, and…
In the quiet hour of 4 o’clock this morning, the Ladies Fancywork Society struck again. The organization, devoted to epic works of guerrilla knitting, brought to completion what is arguably its biggest project yet (or at least since it knitted leg-warmers onto Borofsky’s “Dancers”): knitting a giant ball and chain…
While the Denver ComicFest this weekend wasn’t as full of crazy costumes as it’s counterpart, StarFest, it was full of ridiculous comics. We sifted through the bins to find these five bizarre comic book covers…
As city-dwellers, we see an average of probably hundreds of buildings every day, most of which we will never step inside. And for the most part, that’s fine, but there are always those buildings that pique our interest, that make us think, “huh, I wonder what’s in there?” This weekend…
The seventh annual all day, all access Doors Open Denver event runs tomorrow and Sunday, giving walking tour access to dozens of public and privately owned buildings. Snoops and historians alike can visit different structures throughout the city, ranging from recent turn of the century architecture to the century before…
Three years ago, the original fiberglass horse from Donald Lipski’s “The Yearling,” who’d been keeping watch over the Denver Public Library since 1999 atop an incongruously giant red chair, stepped down. “Scout,” as he’d been informally named, was swapped out in favor of an identical bronze clone of himself for…
Commercials rarely encourage humans to be the best we can be, to rise to new heights of consciousness and to meld mind, body and soul. Well, Mentos has done just that, with their inspirational guru Dragee giving us all someone to look up to. So what if he dies trying…
For most of the history of settled humanity, there have been two forms of visual art: painting and sculpture. But in the twentieth century, new art genres were born involving mechanical features that spun or lit up. The first of these were created by the Italian Futurists right before WWI…
The Snuggie is the new toga. Easy enough to look like a dumbass in without ornament but versatile enough to decorate in all sorts of ridiculous ways, the popular blanket with arm-holes in it (as differentiated from its less popular competitor, the Slanket) has proved an ideal garment for frat…
Okay, so more like a shitload of people in Hollywood do cocaine — at least that’s what Dennis Quaid shares in a recent Newsweek piece (that we, of course, got wind of via TMZ.com, where all good, abbreviated versions of real news stories come from). Anyway, TMZ was quick to…
Create Denver Week, which kicks off on May 12, will celebrate the local creative scene with a series of stylish events, including a pop-up art installation at the Spire, outdoor LED light and video projection showcases at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, food trucks, fashion, music and crafts. But its…
“In the end,” Charlie Chaplin said once, “everything is a gag.” Denver’s Next Improv Star’s culminating performance proved him right — predictably, perhaps, considering it was a comedy series, but with a vigor so overwhelming and an artillery of jokes so unbearably funny that, by comparison, the rest of the…
Cartoonists are wackier than the average bear, and that’s the closest we’ll ever come to explaining why, once a year, cartoonists across the nation gather en masse in coffee shops and comic book stores and other dens of iniquity too dark to properly describe to individually plot and sketch and…
RiNo’s relatively new Second Saturday phenomenon continues to gather steam tomorrow, with gallery open houses and openings at Wazee Union/Walnut Workshop, Plinth Gallery, DesignHaus Denver, Crema Coffee House, Ice Cube Gallery, Pattern Shop Studio and the Laura Moretz Studio at Taxi. Depending on where you land, there will be food…
Daniel McDonald and Serena Chopra know that Titmouse is a funny name for a publication. But that’s the point. The minds behind this seasonal collection of art, poetry and music may have picked the name for no reason other than it may induce a giggle, but the work found inside…
Think of the Muse’s Market as Al Gore with music and art, and you might begin to get the idea of what it’s all about: Billed as “a modern-day Chautauqua” or a “farmers’ market for music and ideas,” the Denver-based tour comprises an earnest crew of musicians, artists, a photojournalist,…
East Colfax is about to get lit, and not in the drunken way it usually gets lit. With a cool $200,000 in federal grant money burning a hole in its pocket, the City of Aurora is launching a public art project that aims to create a permanent light installation for…
Somewhere in the last couple of years, so gradually it was hard to notice at first, Glenn Beck went from annoying and somewhat menacing to hilarious. While watching Bill O’Reilly remains basically like watching a talk show with the evil trees from The Wizard of Oz except the trees have…
Mountain Standard, a new show opening this Friday, April 8, at Modbo Gallery (17C Bijou E. Street) in Colorado Springs is local effort on several levels. Curated by a newly formed collective of Colorado-based gallery owners and artists called Build A Fort, the juried exhibition will also exclusively feature artists…
