Last Friday, while media hacks clambered over one another as well as fleeing evacuees in a mad-dash effort to add invaluable hurricane footage to their highlight reels — if their hair’s blowing wildly, then they must be, how you say, entrenched — President George Bush decided his presence in his…
SAT, 9/24 There’s a fine art to selecting your fighting name. It’s got to be something aggressive, but a potential pugilist can’t fly off half-cocked and just hurl out a bunch of words. For instance, the novice brawler can’t pick something like Tom “Once Ripped Out a Guy’s Eyeball in…
The sense of unease was palpable at last year’s Franz Ferdinand performance at the Bluebird Theater. Hipster faces awash in confusion hinted at a deep and troubling inner turmoil. The dilemma? How to avoid shaking that ass, thus losing your resigned and superior mystique. Resistance proved futile. By the time…
I count rabbits. That’s not the name of the latest coming-of-age indie darling to stun the packed, B.O.-scented screening rooms at Cannes. It’s just something I do. For the most part, I’ve abandoned the OCD behavior that I exhibited as a child. I no longer name and catalogue inanimate objects,…
FRI, 9/16 “Pod is dead. Long live Pod.” That’s Lauri Lynnxe Murphy’s weary-yet-relieved refrain as she closes the book on Pod, the quirky artist-run and artist-supporting retail adventure she and a partner oversaw for two years in a Santa Fe Drive storefront. Pod and the partner are gone (though Murphy…
TUES, 9/20 The 1770 Sherman Street Events Complex is a 99-year old building known not only as one of the area’s finest examples of Moorish Revival architecture, but as one whose access was once on a members-only basis. Since the building’s sale in 1995, the facility has become highly fought…
What’s So Funny was in a fraternity. Straight up and down, Sheldon. Can I call you Sheldon? Doesn’t matter, Sheldon, because the thing was, my fraternity was not very frat-like. There were no shirtless meatheads tossing a football around outside the house. Date-rape scandals were non-existent, and the recruitment process…
Though drinking liberally is nothing novel in the fine city of Denver, Drinking Liberally is. Conceived in 2003 by two friends in New York as a means for young Democrats to talk politics over a pint, the organization has flowed across the country ever since; some ninety DL chapters have…
Sometimes it takes a little time apart from a person to make you really notice what’s changed about him. If you see someone every day, you’re not going to realize that he’s gotten taller or that he finally had a voice box installed in place of the festering hole in…
TUES, 9/6 The notion of the total artist — one who juggles many media and genres with ease — defines the career of Bauhaus master Herbert Bayer, who danced between graphic and fine art, architecture and sculpture. He created diverse works, ranging from stylish Aspen ski posters touting his adopted…
Broadway bums beat the pants off of Colfax bums. Sometimes literally. The overlap in these derelict Venn diagrams usually occurs near where the streets intersect at Civic Center Park, much to the well-documented horror of Japanese tour groups. And the incidents generally go like this: Colfax bum randomly encounters a…
“If they define gonzo journalism as journalism where the writer is an integral part of the story, then you guys are gonzo filmmakers,” a Woody Creek Tavern patron told Haylar Garcia, Darcy Grabowski and Scott Baxendale — the trio behind the documentary Do It for Johnny — on August 20,…
Fifteen minutes before Friday’s eight o’clock show at the Comedy Works, the line stretches nearly to Larimer Street. Tammy Pescatelli from Last Comic Standing is in town, and she’s attracted a sell-out crowd of primarily white suburbanites excited about a night out in the city. Pascatelli travels with no openers,…
FRI, 8/26 “It’s really hard to categorize,” says Andenken curator Ryan Riss, who is struggling to come up with a moniker to classify the five nationally recognized artists he’s assembled for MyMyHeyHey, an exhibit that opens tonight and runs until September 23. “I don’t want to say ‘street culture,'” he…
SAT, 8/27 Everyone’s a dreamer at the non-profit Microbusiness Development Corporation in Five Points. People come with hopes of opening their own business, whether the service is bike repair or steel-drum lessons. They cook Laotian dishes and concoct and bottle kick-butt barbecue sauces. They are artists, candle makers, writers, seamstresses,…
You don’t even want to know how we’d get orange milk when What’s So Funny was a kid. But we’ll tell you, anyway. First we’d shovel four heaping spoonfuls of cottage cheese into a dish, which we would then place in the hot sun for seven hours. After that, we’d…
FRI, 8/19 When I was growing up, pretty much every kid I knew received a brand-new remote-control car for Christmas. This was not because of some vast improvement in remote-control-car technology, but because by the end of the year, our old cars were so devastated through use that they were…
MON, 8/22 Every year the Colorado Theatre Guild holds a fundraising gala, but this year’s offering, Theatre Night In, is a little different. To begin with, the guild intends to use the proceeds not for administrative purposes — the organization helps theater artists network and promotes the art form’s visibility…
Downtown Denver, midday, summer. Car pulls into metered parking space outside Paris on the Platte, known purveyor of caffeinated beverages; two dashing young men — one a writer, one a law student — frantically search pockets and car for coins, find none. Law student agrees to purchase two cups of…
SAT, 8/13 Attempting to promote diversity and raise funds for the non-profit educational art program Destination: Artistic Activism, local poet Day Acoli has launched the first-ever Aurora Black Arts Festival. This lively benefit, beginning today at 10 a.m. and running through 7 p.m. tomorrow at Fletcher Plaza, 9900 East Colfax…
Bob Saget has a lot of fond memories from his days playing Danny Tanner on ABC’s Full House. “One episode, we had a donkey in the house named Eeyore,” Saget recalls. “And the donkey kept getting aroused and getting this huge erection. The girls were level with it. They were…
“You can tell right away our flick ain’t for everyone,” begins a letter by filmmaker Penn Jillette on the website for The Aristocrats, a documentary he helped make. “Our movie uses that four-letter word that begins with “C.’ Our movie uses that word a lot.You know the word; it’s the…
