With no announcement and little ceremony or sentiment, the Denver Daily News closed its doors forever yesterday after ten years of Monday-through-Friday reporting. For an upstart organization with an incredibly tiny staff (four in editorial and one photographer), the Daily got a lot done, and there’s a lot we’ll miss…
While most folks go to festivals like the Capitol Hill People’s Fair mostly for the bouncy-castle and the shirtless ambience, Bree Davies is partial to the finer points of festival vending, like hats for dogs and paintings of sheep in trench coats; in her recap of the fair yesterday, she…
When the guy who directed G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra sets out adapt a novel by Dean Koontz — pretty much the M. Night Syamalan of the literary world — there’s an excellent chance it will be awful. Nevertheless, there may be at least one bright spot for local…
The sales pitch for cell phones that do a ton of other shit has always been about connection: Buy this phone and be connected to everything all the time, because you are a social animal and this will make you happy. That’s partly true: For you, the user of the…
First Friday is ostensibly about looking at art, but everyone knows it’s much more about free box wine and eyeballing the artsy weirdos that the monthly art-walk draws out — and while the festivities of course continue throughout the winter, it’s pretty tough to adequately get a freak on when…
It hasn’t been medically confirmed yet, but I’m pretty sure my pregnant girlfriend left the Boyz II Men show with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra last night approximately 250 percent more pregnant. Just as sexy and possibly even sexier than they were in the ’90s despite being down a Boy/Man (bass…
Well here we are almost a week into June, and all this time you’ve been missing out on all the commemorative months you could be getting drunk for right up until July — for example, did you know June is Dairy Month? No, you did not. More immediately, though, today…
Nobody’s going to argue that the sweet digital SLR you just picked up with the 20 katrillion megapixels and the extra-wide viewfinder is pretty sick, but let’s be honest: You don’t know what the hell about 80 percent of those knobs and switches do, and ever since you accidentally pressed…
Few could have anticipated a decade or two ago, when I was a kid growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, what kind of toll the decline of the Big Three automakers would take on the whole state; back then, it was a solidly middle-class and blue-collar place to be from,…
The Virgin of Guadalupe is such an icon of Mexican culture that it can be easy to forget that she’s also an icon of Mexican Catholicism — and religion and art seldom mix comfortably. That’s somewhat the case with the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council’s Frida Kahlo and other Superheroes…
After years of mind-boggling advances in the realm of CG animation courtesy of Pixar and, uh, everybody copying Pixar, it’s pretty impressive to see something as visually crappy as The Lion of Judah, an animated allegory for the Christ story from Rocky Mountain Pictures, which, thank God, is not based…
Four the last four years running, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council’s gallery on Santa Fe has done an annual show dedicated to Frida Kahlo, queen of the surrealist self-portrait and owner of the most celebrated unibrow of all time. This year, though, the gallery is doing it a little…
Yesterday, we brought you the news that Devo is set to headline the Denver County Fair — good news for anyone inclined shape it up/get it straight/move forward/move ahead. But there will also be about one million other things to do at the Fair, plus other fairs to go to,…
Clay is arguably the first medium ever invented by humans — one of the oldest prehistoric artifacts ever found was a drinking vessel made of sun-dried clay — and it’ll soon be the star of the largest single-subject exhibition the Denver Art Museum has ever mounted: Marvelous Mud, scheduled to…
Here in the States, we tend to think of trailer parks as a distinctly American commodity, but it’s possible that the country the rest of the world most closely associates with the trailer is Canada — and if that’s true, we have the Trailer Park Boys to thank. A massively…
The Chuck Roy Show’s live podcast on indie303.com is never live. “Yeah, no, not at all,” admits Roy, the show’s host. “The whole joke is that we are never live and we’re never where we say we’re going to be. But if you know the secret, you can still listen…
Anthology Fine Art’s Pullin’ for ABC party tonight has a lot going on — screen printing, cheap drinks and music from DJ Squirl, for example — but at its core, it’s about one young generation of artists helping an even younger generation of artists. “My brother Jacob teaches printmaking at…
Summer doesn’t become official until the solstice later this month, but that shit is for hippies: it’s June and after Memorial Day, and for all intents and purposes that means it’s summer. And while summer is a time for lazy rivers and wasting away in gin-and-tonicville or whatever, it’s also…
Pretty much any way you slice it, “Emily Griffith Technical College” is a more boring name than was the “Opportunity School” that used to be in the title — but the change is bigger than just how it rolls of the tongue. It also represents a slowly dying hope for…
Despite the fact that there is no known shortage of awesome writers, authors and poets in this town, the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs’ One Book, One Denver program has a long history of coming up with arbitrary treacle that has nothing to do with Denver for the three selections…
County Lines While the Denver County Fair will have many things not offered at normal county fairs, it will also lack certain features common to the classic county fair experience. Like the pervasive smell of horse feces or a demolition derby. For those, you’ll have to head out to more…
Lay-dees and gentlemen, step right up and see the most fantastic, the most amazing, the most marvelsome attractions the world has ever seen — or at least that Denver County has ever seen. And let me tell you, it’s one marvelsome attraction that’s been a long time in the making…
