“Biennial” means every two years — so a biennial convention of dental hygienists would probably be a squeaky clean but dull replay of their last gathering, complete with the same flossing diagrams. But the Museum of Contemporary Art’s rapid-fire 2005 Film Biennial, unspooling this weekend at the Starz FilmCenter in…
If you’re the type who gets off on the intellectual intersection between city planning, economics, public policy and artful culture — and especially if you’re a starving artist — Ginger White may be the wonkette of your dreams. Two months ago, the 31-year-old was hired by the Denver Office of…
Saddled with a painfully useless degree in creative writing and an apocryphal career path, I started working at Penny Lane in 2002, after seeing a handwritten sign taped to the front door advertising for a barista. I knew that the legendary Boulder coffeehouse would provide the perfect environment for shunning…
Summer is upon us, and you know what that means: the birds and bees getting all natural and shit in the flower beds, rabbits and squirrels frolicking in the bushes hey, tail! and that musky sample platter of pheromones spritzed into the breeze by critters far and wide. All that…
Stele Ely has a message for environmentalists who are searching for new Earth-saving endeavors: Think globally, screw locally. “Giving love to the planet, somehow it makes lovemaking more fun,” he says wistfully — and with no trace of irony. In fact, he’s so focused on his tangent about the preciousness…
Fetish-party promoter Christiaan Howard is suddenly without a location for his seventh annual Erotik-a, which had been scheduled for July 1 at the Gothic Theatre but was canceled by the venue’s owner, Steve Schalk. “The event definitely dabbles in the gray area when it comes to nudity and all those…
As the three skaters crested the hill behind the rec center at 104th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard, they caught their first view of the newly completed Westminster Skate Park. Immediately they sensed that something was amiss. “Goddamn it,” one sighed. “Aw, man,” lamented another, throwing his board in the dirt…
“I’m a fetishist,” announces Christiaan Howard. “I love women’s feet.” As creative director and CEO of Afterdarkkmedia, the 34-year-old Howard is the force behind Erotik-a, an annual fetish-themed gala designed to “to try to get people of all shapes and sizes to express themselves sensually without fucking each other.” The…
Michael was eleven years old when he discovered the photo in one of the Penthouse magazines that his parents kept on the lower shelf of their bedroom nightstand. The black-and-white shot had a vintage graininess, like a frame from an old silent film. In it, a group of schoolgirls have…
Experts say the condition most often occurs between the ages of 23 and 27, but you may experience a delayed affliction into your early thirties. Symptoms can include career indecision, resumé fatigue, student-loan remorse, spare-bedroom recidivism, chronic underemployment, a disintegrating social network and reoccurring delusions of graduate school. You may…
There it was, the power right — blam! — like a goddamned torpedo launched from Tony’s shoulder, through his elbow and out his glove. The blow hit the champion’s brow, which immediately parted like the Red Sea, streaming blood into his left eye. No one saw it coming, especially not…
“My family and I have been getting harassed by police officers since I can remember,” Denver resident Paul Lopez told Denver police chief Gerry Whitman during a March 10 meeting. It was one of the few moments of passion in what was a restrained gathering at police headquarters between department…
THURS, 3/31 The Yard Dogs Traveling Road Show is rolling back into town, ready to prove that a Yard Dog can, indeed, learn new tricks. “Nail your hat to your head and hide the wine,” says the carny’s barker, Eddy Joe Cotton. “Did I mention the Œdancing girls, dancing girls,…
Just as sounds and symbols are organized to create meaning in language, so, too, does the built environment give structure to our everyday lives. From the Ballpark Lofts to the abandoned Evans School to the Qwest tower, each building projects a certain meaning that contributes to our urban experience. To…
Commerce City is a strange place to go in search of your identity. Last fall, Yvonne Lucero was driving north on Brighton Boulevard, past the rendering-plant spires leaking steam and stench, thinking about how to confront her impersonator. Are you Yvonne Lucero? she would ask. The 26-year-old nursing student wondered…
Last week, in a splendid illustration of the intertwined relationship between booze and campus life, the University of Colorado hosted an alcohol-education program at Coors Events Center. When a speaker asked how many people had attended an anti-binge drinking presentation before, everyone in the audience of roughly 700 students raised…
If it was 11 p.m. instead of 11 a.m. and the students were toting keg cups of Icehouse rather than buckets of cleaning solution, the scene could have been mistaken for a total rager. Two hundred college kids packed the old Sigma Pi house, everyone sweaty, spilling out on the…
SAT, 3/5 Michael Reynolds’s vision of the future is totally wireless: There will be no matrix of pipes or power lines connecting humans and their homes to supply plants and water- treatment facilities. The creator of the Earthship — a self-sustaining, eco-friendly form of architecture made primarily from refuse –…
5:55 a.m.: 7600 Broadway They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway…but right before dawn, on the hillside where Broadway begins, the only lights are a hint of orange and pink on the horizon to the east, the beacons of a convenience store a few blocks down the two-lane…
The Rocky Mountain Progressive Network has undergone some changes in recent months — and, no, it hasn’t recruited Ward Churchill as its new spokesman. To gain a larger national presence, its name has been changed to Progressnow.org; it’s hired the technophile behind Howard Dean’s much-lauded Internet campaign to launch the…
Like ragged scrapbooks of everyday life, zines reveal an alternative perspective not found at the local Barnes & Noble. Boosters of these homemade, small-print publications note that in an increasingly homogenized media realm, anyone — including those without a lot of money or experience — has the ability to create…
Ladies and gentleman, Elvis has left the building. But — hot diggity damn! — it seems he forgot his Styrofoam cup. And on Tuesday, January 25, the polystyrene wonder will be on display at the Boulder Theater as part of Nutballz Night Out, a fundraiser for the Center for Celiac…
