When you walk into the Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which opens today, the first thing you do is watch a short movie, one of those PBS-style hist-umentaries with the vaguely English-sounding narrator, the scrolling/zooming over photos and…
When Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Wydah at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and Machines Like Us at the Theatre Company of Lafayette come to town simultaneously tomorrow, it will set the stage for one of the most epic battles ever conceived by nerds, who are…
People are into questions right now (they always have been — just ask that Plato dude). It’s the new black. Watson’s recent run on Jeopardy brought them (what is) record ratings, and in case you haven’t heard, he won. Watson, of course, is the IBM super-computer built solely to answer…
In every romantic comedy, it all starts with a lie: a little lie that leads to zany antics, which in turn lead to more elaborate lies, which in turn lead to madcap misunderstandings, which in turn lead to love. And isn’t that what it’s all about? So today, because we…
It’s been almost a week since Charlie Sheen went off the fucking chain on the Alex Jones Show, where the insane rant he went on — in which he (among so many, many other things) called Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre “a contaminated little maggot” who “can’t…
The interview with Charlie Sheen on ABC’s Good Morning America is one of the finest pieces of television I’ve seen in a long time, in no small part to Charlie Sheen’s off-the-wall replies to a straight line of questioning. Here are some of our favorites, in a new meme we’re…
Photographer Mark Sink is one of the grand old men of the Denver cultural tableau, with a colorful past, deep roots in photography (his great-grandfather James L. Breese founded the Camera Club of New York, and Breese’s uncle Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the telegraph, has been called “the…
Dear Carlos Estevez, aka Charlie Sheen, How goes it, man? I saw you on Good Morning America and beyond the sweats, the wide red eyes, excessive talking, cigarette-smoking and orange liquid-consuming antics, you looked fucking great. Any cocaine and whores and stuff like that should obviously be kept far away…
Being a reality TV standby best known for getting kicked off his first gig on MTV’s Road Rules: South Pacific for attacking a black co-star with widely speculated racist motivations is not exactly the most admirable thing to be known for, but this weekend, Abram Boise managed to shit all…
Is it time to already begin thinking about next year’s Academy Awards show? Well, if you’re like most Americans — and critics, the venerable Roger Ebert among them — who watched last night’s show, then the answer is “yes.” The hipster hosts, 28-year-old Anne Hathaway and 32-year-old James Franco, didn’t…
“Happy birthday” is not an unusual phrase. Most people hear it often, at work or at home or in passing or whenever else they are near someone celebrating the anniversary of their parturition. One of improv’s most famous characteristics, one of its most celebrated, is its ability to take lackluster…
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…
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…
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…
Thankfully, foolishness is a worldwide phenomenon. Otherwise when we would see another culture’s advertising on the internetz we might feel all dumb by comparison and end up sending them angry emoticons in their comment boxes — because we all know Emoticon is the universal language. But since people are crazy…
There are endless affinities that connect gardening to ceramics, the most obvious of which is that both start with digging in the ground. The creation of vessels from clay and the cultivation of plants each came very early in the development of civilization, and both were necessary pre-conditions for it…
After more than a decade on Broadway, Rule Gallery, one of the city’s top contemporary art dealers, will be relocating in March to RiNo. Sky-high rents on Broadway have led owner Robin Rule to seek out a new spot for her twenty-year-old-plus business, and she apparently liked what she saw…
This past Saturday, at Westword’s biggest and undeniably bitchin’ art soirée, guests appreciated all levels of local talent. Artopia-goers also took in the large amounts of alcohol, causing thoughts from the silly to the profound to pour from their mouths just as smoothly as the booze flowed into their cups…
Last night’s On Being a Woman, a conglomeration of dozens of artists and performers of both sexes celebrating the female identity, was by all means a success. Spread throughout the maze of hallways and studio space at Wazee Union, Designer Baily Rose and community organizer and 2011 MasterMind Award Winner…
Last week someone forwarded me this video of a contestant on Family Feud correctly guessing “a joint” would be an answer to the question: “what is something people pass around?” Host Steve Harvey’s hysterically ignorant reaction to just how popular marijuana is makes the video. Below are four other classic…
