One hundred years after the first Curtis Park grand Victorians were built in the 1870s, the neighborhood was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Homes that had long fallen into disrepair started to see reinvestment. This weekend, some of the people who have put their blood, sweat, tears…
Growing up, I fully embraced the punk-rock do-it-yourself ethos in everything I did — from starting my own band and self-recording our albums to sewing my own clothes and silk-screening tees and patches. Fast-forward ten years, and I began to see the appeal of Buddhism to a highly independent type…
Five years ago, Mark Siebert dressed up in a trucker cap and a flannel shirt, used some black licorice to gap his otherwise intact front teeth and walked into a convenience store at 2 a.m. to buy a can of beans with a bag of pennies. His brother Jeff was…
“I just think it’s an excellent book,” enthuses Matt Kailey, staff writer for Out Front Colorado, author of Just Add Hormones and editor of the new anthology Focus on the Fabulous: Colorado GLBT Voices. For those who don’t know, GLBT is an acronym for “gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered” —…
“People love bad taste — that’s the key,” explains the Kinsey Sicks’ Rachel (aka Ben). “Doesn’t matter what your sex orientation is. I’m a biased source, but we’re really amazingly fabulously talented and great.” Tonight is your chance to check out the Kinsey drag divas in person at Condoleezzapalooza, a…
What’s happening at today’s CultureHeads extravaganza, taking place from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Paladium Event Center, 1320 West 62nd Avenue? A better question might be what isn’t happening. Promoter Ryan Vincent says he “wanted to make a spot for everybody to go,” and he wasn’t kidding. “The…
Johnny Briggs embraced the motto “Live fast, die young” — literally; he passed away in 2000 at the age of thirty and left behind a local music scene well etched with his heavy-metal footprints and fans. The notorious strummer of Derailed and Hell’s Half Acre will be memorialized tonight at…
Before you ring up an expensive bar tab drinking Grey Goose or Belvedere martinis, you may want to invest some dough in learning the basics of booze. Sean Ziegler’s Lively Liquors course at Colorado Free University starts today with vodka, and Zeigler is pretty sure his students will be surprised…
I first met Sandra Renteria when she ran Indigena Gallery, a socially conscious moving feast of folk and outsider art that last hung out on Santa Fe Drive before its owner packed it in to pursue other concerns. A rare free spirit whose feet are firmly planted on the earth,…
The carp, long considered just a trash fish, moves to the top of the heap today when a crew of carp-lovers holds the first-ever South Platte Pro-Am Carp Slam — a fly-fishing tournament right in the heart of Denver. Not only will each participant be placed with a fly-fishing pro…
The Black Donnellys: The Complete Series (Universal) Chill Out Scooby-Doo! (Warner Bros.) City of Violence (Weinstein) Delta Farce (Lionsgate) Desperate Housewives: The Complete Third Season (Buena Vista) Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams (Disney) Georgia Rule (Universal) Gumby Essentials (Classic Media) It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Seasons 1 &…
Funny how gaming’s most epic genre — the role-playing game — often feels the most limited in scope. After all, how many times can we traverse a medieval land, defeat the orcs, rescue the girl, save the world, and level up along the way? Never enough times would be the…
The Office: Season Three (Universal) After a shaky first season and a better-with-every-episode second, The Office proved itself one of the most consistent comedies in the history of the medium. The show has long since escaped the shadow of its BBC forebear and boasts an ensemble from which you could…
Clyfford Still Unveiled. A master and pioneer of mid-twentieth-century abstract expressionism, painter Clyfford Still was something of an eccentric in the artist-as-egomaniac stripe. His antisocial behavior led to a situation where 94 percent of his artworks remained together after he died — a staggeringly complete chronicle of his oeuvre that…
Even if you didn’t get a chance to visit the mountains this summer, the area’s galleries and art centers provided plenty of closer-to-home opportunities to take in our world-famous scenery as interpreted by artists. There was Colorado & the West, at David Cook Fine Art; Masterpieces of Colorado Landscape, at…
All in the Timing. David Ives’s six one-acts are all about language, communication and understanding, and also chance and fate. The dialogue is light and funny and fizzy, and it gets your frontal lobes buzzing as you attempt to catch and process all the flying puns, allusions, jokes, rhythms and…
John and Jen are not lovers, as the title of John & Jen might lead you to believe, but children of a violently abusive father in the ’60s. Jen, the older sibling, does everything she can to protect her little brother. But when she leaves for college, becoming a free-spirited,…
If you had a ten-question limit, what are some of the queries you would posit to the holiest man on the planet? (And no, we’re not talking about the pope.) Filmmaker and explorer Rick Ray had the opportunity to meet with the Dalai Lama, a Tibetan Buddhist spiritual teacher who…
There have already been critical rumblings about the extreme violence in Shoot ¹Em Up, but it’s hard to get too worked up about a film whose very title announces its maker’s intent. You just can’t stay mad at a picture that early on has the hero helping a woman give…
Huffing and puffing to resuscitate a long-moribund genre, James Mangold manages to imbue a fifty-year-old Western with the semblance of life. Mangold’s remake of 3:10 to Yuma isn’t as startling a resurrection job as his Johnny Cash biopic, but it does send a saddlebag full of Western tropes skittering into…
Since I just reviewed city-o-city, which opened early this year in the original home of WaterCourse Foods, it seemed an appropriate time to check out what the new WaterCourse has to offer. First things first: The restaurant, which took over the space formerly occupied by the New York on 17th…
Ooh la la! When I first moved back to Denver from New York, I spent a lot of time at Bistro Adde Brewster’s, the Cherry Creek hot spot run by Adde Bjorkland and Duey Kratzer, now the proprietor of Mondo Vino. I had too many exceedingly wild nights there and…
