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…
Colorado native artist and photographer Sara Ford started painting in college because she didn’t want to take the color theory class everyone hated. Needless to say, she got really good at it. Through photography, she has worked with clients such as 303 Magazine, Denver Magazine and DVLP clothing, among others,…
It’s been a long, ongoing, dirty process of restoring the First Avenue Hotel at 101 Broadway — for the last year and a half or so, owner Jesse Morreale (of Rockbar, La Rumba and Mezcal, among others) has been slowly but surely pecking away at restoring the long-vacant landmark, restoring…
The internetz are all about the law of unintended consequences: Once you put it out there, there’s no telling where it’ll go or in what form it will return. Of course, there were no internetz back in the day of Joseph Decreux, but it’s perhaps reasonable to speculate that the…
Stupidity abounds in our daily lives, and the internetz have only exacerbated its abundance. Commercials hold a rather large market share of the overall world stupidity index, and since beer commercials own a significant amount of broadband real estate, by extension they also are responsible for much of the stupidity…
Diminutive and soft-spoken, with black owl-eye glasses and long, wavy dark hair, Viviane Le Courtois is one of those “still waters run deep” types, whose mind, you just know, is working overtime, all the time. Viviane is a thinker and an observer: There’s a bit of a scientist in this…
The game of football has a long, storied tradition of homoerotica: the spandex pants, the frequent bending over, the sweaty, man-on-man grappling — it’s a classic case of Sparta syndrome: athletic, highly ritualized body-worship. And though uncomfortable fruit-salad shots and gratuitous ass-slapping are by no means unusual in a televised…
The Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Arts (1311 Pearl Street, 303-832-8576, www.kirklandmuseum.org) is a collecting institution with three areas of focus: the work of Colorado’s premier modernist, Vance Kirkland, the work of other Colorado artists, and international design. It’s this third category that’s on view now in The Furniture…
The challenges of independent filmmaking are many, from scriptwriting to planning around multiple people’s schedules to finding funding and finding distribution, the list of hurtles to jump goes on and on. In fact, it’s rather amazing when a film is actually made. The Bug Theatre, a venue for local indie…
Finding the mayor of Shotgun Willie’s wasn’t easy. In spite of the fact that Foursquare enables oversharing (I’m at the grocery store! I’m at the gynecologist! I’m at the grocery store, and so is my gynecologist!), the program does a fairly good job of protecting users’ identities. Users go solely…
It’s the day we’ve all been patiently waiting and preparing for the entire year. The one day when we can come together as a people, not just as Americans, but also as human beings, and celebrate the magnificent beauty and potential of the human imagination. Yes, today is Guinness World…
