In the ad industry’s constant flurry to be creative and original, boundaries are pushed — and sadly, every once in a while an animal is creepily made to look and act like a human. While anthropomorphism is almost always a bad idea — except in Japan, where there are more…
What do artists think about the city they live in, wherever that might be, and what does it mean to them? At Illiterate Gallery, a new show, Mile High on the Map, cast a few clues on the Denver point of view. We hit the opening on Friday night. Take…
In 2005, the City of Denver acquired more than 800 paintings and 1,500 works on paper from the estate of Clyfford Still (pictured) in exchange for the promise that a museum would be built dedicated to him. Construction of the Clyfford Still Museum is now under way just west of…
Small works, affordable art, crafty items, the unexpected: Tonight’s First Friday Artwalk will no doubt feature plenty of them all, regardless of whichever urban quarter you land in. And that’s a good thing: Not only do local artists have to eat like the rest of us, but everyone benefits from…
Considering it’s an activity wherein people look on while other people walk down a street and do things at the same time, it’s unsurprising that the least boring thing about a parade is usually the floats. Actually, a lot of the time, the floats are pretty awesome — like the…
Celebrities don’t really owe the world anything. They do what they do and we treat them like royalty for it and ask nothing in return, except these days for maybe a tweet every couple hours to let us know what they are doing and thinking throughout every day of their…
There’s hardly any denying that MTV’s 16 and Pregnant is one of the most crassly exploitative shows ever made. Just the inherent nature of its subjects — pregnant sixteen-year-old girls — lends itself to portraying those subjects as frivolous, vindictive tards completely unprepared for the monumental task they are about…
Now that we’re officially settled into the holidays, it’s time to start looking for folks that have seasonal jobs. What better place to start than a holiday elf? For understandable reasons, our elf has decided to remain anonymous, but regardless of the anonymity, you should still get a pretty good…
It’s never too early to plant the seeds of life-long sexual neurosis; in this day and age of growing tolerance toward the scourge homosexuality, we’ve really got to step up our efforts to instill deep self-hatred in our children at an early age. That’s where Chased by an Elephant, the…
Bailey Ferguson is hard at work in the world of art and design, trying her hand at any and all media. She’s been a painter’s assistant, a design intern, a freelance painter and chalk board artist, and she’s currently a member of the Pirate Contemporary Art Co-op, a photographer, a…
Dear Denver International Airport, You stress me out. It’s not you — it’s just that airports in general stress me out. You’re too crowded, parking is a hassle, TSA makes me take off half my clothing and then feels me up inappropriately, and then when I finally get to the…
If you read our post yesterday, you know that the Mayan Theatre celebrated its 80th birthday last night with music, costumes and a showing of the Wizard of Oz. (Don’t worry, there’s still time to enter our Mayan memories contest and win free movie tickets!) Westword photo intern Hunter Stevens…
When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) isn’t prowling our borders for drug traffickers, it’s prowling our digital borders and shutting down torrent domains that facilitate the piracy of copyrighted material. But seizing a domain name is a lot like playing Wack-a-mole: the second you hit one, another one rears…
It’s a common complaint about art: “I don’t get it.” The French theorist Nicolas Bourriaud explored that idea back in 1996 — how art can often be so removed from the everyday human experience, cordoned off in museums and behind velvet ropes, that it becomes something obscure, something elite and,…
So many young artists — those in their twenties and thirties — come out of colleges, universities and art schools every year that they often have trouble getting noticed. Nowhere is this situation more pronounced than in China, where seemingly a million students have, upon graduation, become internationally famous. Even…
In the modern world, advertising is one of the most powerful tools available to get one’s message out to the public. Urgent issues are spread wide through our wonderful super technology. But just because you can send a message out to millions of people simultaneously doesn’t mean it’s going to…
Tattoos and PBR and women who dress like pin-up models of the ’40s and ’50s were the key ingredients for Saturday night’s “Paper Dolls Wild West Pinup Shoot Out” at the Rockaway Tavern. Show and Tell dispatched photographer Coleen Whitfield to document the photo shoot/party and she brings back these…
On what basically amounts to a national holiday dedicated to crass commercialism — Black Friday — at least a few people were gathered to do something at a mall that did not involve hemorrhaging money: It was the Black Friday Flash Mob and Silent Dance Party, where folks converged in…
The custom of watching The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, as Kiernan Maletsky pointed out the other day, is one of our more bizarre holiday traditions: There is almost no cultural event more boring than a parade in real life, but watching one on TV? Coma-inducing. Still, for lack of much…
Local events promoter Dana Cain has locked down the time and place for the brand-new Denver County Fair. The event, envisioned as a hip, urban version of the classic rural-style county fair, will be held July 28-31 at the National Western Stock Show complex. Cain and cohorts Chandler Romeo and…
There’s nothing Hollywood loves more than taking a universally beloved story or concept and remaking it — after all, what’s a more surefire moneymaking bet than something that’s already proven to be universally beloved? In that remake process, these five steps are generally observed: 1. Strip the story or concept…
Every once in a while, crowded train stations have been known to break into song and dance and then disperse as if nothing happened. Large groups of people freeze for a period of time and then continue walking with onlookers amazed. Choreographed ninja fights happen out of the blue for…
