Twenty-two-year-old Luke Mueller describes himself as “good-looking and charismatic,” calls himself a “salesman with ADHD,” and says he and his business partner, Kevin Rice, “make an outstanding team.” But when Mueller and Rice first began searching for models to form the Denver Diamond Girls, they didn’t have a lot of…
For many Coloradans, bicycles are a way of life. But for 39-year-old Denver real-estate agent Brad Evans, who rides a stealth-black, single-gear Schwinn Panther reissue, cycles and summer simply mean one thing: cruising. When Evans lived in Boulder, he regularly rode with the Thursday-night Boulder Cruzer Club. But eventually, Evans…
For some reason, musicians put a lot of pressure on themselves to come up with clever and ironic band names. This seems especially senseless considering how many good bands have really stupid monikers. Take Sweden’s The Sounds, for instance: Shamelessly generic epithet? You bet. Fortunately, the music doesn’t suck, and…
Few things bleed post-modernism more profusely than the films of Andy Warhol. The prolific artist shot more than sixty stories from 1963 to 1968, among them Sleep, which shows a man sleeping for eight hours, and Blowjob, 35 minutes of fellatio footage. And although Chelsea Girls was certainly his most…
Toga parties are, by most accounts, ridiculous. Then again, so are white-trash parties, pimp-and-ho parties and pretty much any other themed shindig that mandates costumes and the exorbitant consumption of alcohol. But ridiculous or not, we still go — we always go, because people in costumes tend to leave their…
Since the summer of 2004, the Longmont-based humor quarterly American Drivel Review has been sticking it to the McSweeney’s mob by going beyond satire and the merely ironic to offer experimental, subversive and absurd humor that “runs the gamut from intellectual to intestinal,” according to founder and editor Tara Blaine…
Musicians who are fortunate enough to experience longevity in their careers are sweet on experimenting in order to keep themselves from losing interest and becoming completely sterile. This often upsets longtime fans who would prefer that each album simply sound like an extension of their favorite. Experimentation, however, is necessary…
Growing up, Blake Sennett was just another Corey Feldman, destined to milk the reality-television circuit as an adult. With roles such as Pinsky on Nickelodeon’s short-lived Salute Your Shorts and Joey the Rat on Boy Meets World, his acting career was about as promising as G-Dub’s chances for re-election in…
If male and female energy were universally balanced, metaphysically speaking, then there would be no sexism, no archaic stereotypes and certainly no “Fix me a sandwich, woman” crap. Sure, meatheads everywhere would mourn the passing of beer on demand, but with International Women’s Day fast approaching, it’s high time everyone…
This weekend’s Sex and So Much More Show at the Colorado Convention Center just isn’t getting the kind of attention that a sexpo featuring porno bigwigs Ron Jeremy and Jenna Jameson deserves. For one, Focus on the Family hasn’t gotten involved, but things would sure be a lot more interesting…
Nobody actually enjoys working out. Sure, sweating yourself stupid might make you feel better about that Pete’s burrito with extra sour cream you killed after a disciplined night of Bacardi-and-diets. But the unflattering clothes, blotchy skin and heart-shattering cardio work? No chance. Reverend White Eagle, a Denver motivational speaker and…
The last album from experimental duo George & Caplin, the self-released Electronic Eulogy (From Morse Code Infinity), was a powerful and tempo-changing burst of introspective energy that strategically employed minimalist vocals for ambience. Although equally sparse, the hushed, monotone vocals that appear on a handful of tracks on Things Past…
Long before 22-year-old Efren Ramirez was getting three feet of air on his Sledgehammer or making all of Preston High School’s wildest dreams come true as Pedro Sanchez in Napoleon Dynamite, he was lugging crates of records around Los Angeles for his older brothers. Though he was well underage and…
Geoff McFarlane and Mark Lynn are hung over. They were boozing last night at a charity event, and now they’re paying for it at lunch with a “hangover triangle” of water, OJ and coffee. But despite their ages — McFarlane is 22, Lynn is 21 — they’re not just a…
SAT, 11/19 Winter is a despondent time for motorcyclists. As the weather turns cold and the roads get icy and unsafe, they unenthusiastically nestle their cycles and motorbikes into a warm, safe space for ninety days or more of hibernation. And though those motorcycles totally have it made, the owners…
FRI, 11/11 In 2000, artist Patricio Córdova produced a piece titled “Allegory of My Life,” an assemblage of painted hearts, abstract lines and scenes from his family history in New Mexico and Southern Colorado. A year later, the picture of Córdova’s life changed dramatically. Hit from behind while stopped in…
In the Upper 15th Street shopping district, centered around 15th and Platte streets, low-key commerce thrives to the distant tune of freeway traffic and an unmistakably downtown beat. The shops here are all about marching to your own drummer, whether that’s expressed by what you wear, what you feed your…
FRI, 11/4 Freedom & Liberties, the new show at Capsule Gallery, leaves a lot of room for interpretation. “I have wanted to do a show on the theme of freedom and liberties for a long time because Bush, in his State of the Union speech, used those words an ungodly…
SAT, 11/5 Every so often, on cloudless nights that follow slow traffic days, smog makes a deal with the atmosphere and agrees to cut out early so Denverites can see those white, twinkling things Midwesterners and mountain purists call “stars.” Skepticism is understandable, of course, considering that the closest thing…
SUN, 10/30 The Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut Street, hosts the weekly Entertainment Industry Night to give film and music laborers a place to belly up to the bar with their own type. Most Sundays they bring in DJ K-Nee, and every fourth Sunday they feature “Movieoke,” where cinephiles can act…
SAT 10/29 Tom Noel is no stranger to Fairmount Cemetery, the final resting place of some of Denver’s most noteworthy names. Back when he was a grad student in history at the University of Colorado at Denver, Noel — aka “Dr. Colorado” — worked at Fairmount, Denver’s second-oldest cemetery, as…
FRI, 10/21 It’s like a dropkick to your chakra, the feeling of your skateboard snapping off the concrete, locking into a long grind down a metal handrail and then riding away smooth. Hear your friends cheering? That’s what was buzzing through Glen Gillingham’s solar plexus when he jumped up from…
