Before Dale Chisman’s death in 2008, the artist prepared a number of gigantic piece for a show that would never come to be — financial disputes arose around the work and a proper retrospective of his oeuvre has been on hold in the two years since — until now. In…
We just had one of our first messy snow storms of the year, causing plenty of people to slip and slide around the streets of Denver and curse the snow gods and subsequently the snow plow gods. We decided to catch up with a snow plowman to figure out exactly…
Zipping through the bulk of modern Louisville, with all its bedroom-community developments (it took first place in Money Magazine’s Best Place to Live: Top 100 in 2009), you’d think that most of the Boulder County berg’s Italian coal-mining heritage has all but disappeared. But once you find yourself in the…
Few advertisements manage to be as enjoyable, or more enjoyable than, the show they interrupt. HBO’s new spot for the awesome comedy Eastbound and Down on DVD makes it look easy, with a ridiculous ad that is packed with all the humor and humanity you’d expect from a short film…
It was back in 2007 that MCA Denver first made plans for a major show of new works by legendary Denver abstract painter Dale Chisman. The museum had just opened the doors to its brand-new David Adjaye-designed building, and Cydney Payton, the MCA’s director at the time, had asked Chisman…
There are no plans to erect a statute to Robocop in Detroit, according to Mayor Dave Bing. There is, however, a Rocky statue at the base of the Philadelphia Museum of Art after one was placed at the top of the Rocky steps in Rocky III. While it could be…
The Denver’s Next Improv Star series at the Bovine Metropolis has themes, it seems, and its clearest and strongest are enthusiasm — copious amounts of it — and a nonsensicality so relentless it’s damn near absolute. The show’s third installment on Saturday, which began with a skit that managed to…
Love it or hate, the Super Bowl crosses almost every cultural subgroup in the United States, and as befitting of such a massive national holiday, it also inspires new pop-culture touch points. From Mean Joe Green to Betty White, from Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction to Jim McMahon’s headband, some Super…
While most of the other stops on the First Friday Art Walk on Santa Fe were showing more commercial, high-end art to the wealthy snow-bros in town from Aspen for the weekend, bohemian coffeehouse Yellow Feather was showcasing the music and art of artists geared a little more toward the…
In 1998, cable television Entrepreneur Bill Daniels bequeathed his behemoth mansion on Shangri-La Drive (across from the Target in Glendale) to the city of Denver, to be used as the official residence for the Mayor. Though no Mayor has ever actually lived in this mauve monstrosity since its donation, Mayor…
Since taking office last month, there has been some talk about Mayor Guillermo Vidal officially running for the position when his term ends in July. Though this is apparently hearsay and Vidal has no immediate plans to run, last night’s inaugural Cableland Cultural Jam had us wishing he was. Hardly…
Octogenarian musician/musicologist David Amram’s ties to the Beats hold strong, especially in San Francisco, where jazz and poetry intersected, and in some ways, he’s one of the last grand old men of the cause. It’s no small thing, then, to consider that Amram will be among the presenters, along with…
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…
