In the quiet hour of 4 o’clock this morning, the Ladies Fancywork Society struck again. The organization, devoted to epic works of guerrilla knitting, brought to completion what is arguably its biggest project yet (or at least since it knitted leg-warmers onto Borofsky’s “Dancers”): knitting a giant ball and chain…
Presumably because of the large cross-section of Star Wars and Star Trek fans within the nerd community, StarFest is at least in name dedicated to the stars — but if the costumes on display this weekend were any indication, it should probably just be called “EverythingFest.” Literally every type of…
In addition to no tomorrow, what you got at Denver’s Fashion First: A Weekend of F.A.M.E. at Suite 200 this weekend was (pay attention to the acronym here) Fashion, Art, Music and no shortage of Entertainment — and contrary to David Bowie’s well known assessment, it was not hard to…
In certain cultish and secretive religious sects, this entire week is devoted to the celebration of a holiday known as “Easter,” when, as the legend goes, a guy got nailed to a piece of wood and then came back to life three days later, except not all gnarly and undead…
As city-dwellers, we see an average of probably hundreds of buildings every day, most of which we will never step inside. And for the most part, that’s fine, but there are always those buildings that pique our interest, that make us think, “huh, I wonder what’s in there?” This weekend…
Anthony Michael Hall defined a subculture for an era once, back in the days of the Brat Pack, when over the course of two great years and three great movies he pretty much single-handedly made it (sort of) okay to be a nerd — at least, that’s what I argued…
Whatever your stance on conservation and environmental issues (we’re hard-line in favor of what we like to call “maximum bull-dozage”), you can’t argue with this: Earth is the shit. It’s got all sorts of cool and weird-ass stuff to look at, it’s fine with people inhabiting it and it’s basically…
It’s been fifteen years since Scream came along and changed the whole horror movie paradigm with its self-awareness, satirizing the cliches of a genre then in the throes of death by indifference and employing them as plot devices, in the process pretty much single-handedly breathing life back into it. It…
Ever since he ended up as conspicuously the only member of the Breakfast Club not to get coupled up — and was pretty much okay with it — we knew Anthony Michael Hall was a guy we could identify with. Lanky, bug-eyed and just a little too weirdly enthusiastic, he…
If it weren’t for a few smirking touches of ironic self-awareness, you’d swear Black Dynamite was straight out of the blaxploitation era. Not only does it feature the baddest motha-shut-yo-mouth since Shaft and Sweet Sweetback rolled into one, plus a ridiculously convoluted plot reaching to the top level of government…
After nearly four months of intense contention, the semi-coherent debate continues to rage over Bree Davies’s assessment of the first episode of the MTV version of the popular U.K. series Skins, now drawing opinions from as far away, apparently, as Portugal. Yesterday, Portuguese reader (we’re just kind of excited about…
Though it’s largely been forgotten in the annals of crack-pottery and snake-oil salesmanship, the story of Mark Kostabi is one of the art world’s weirdest and most head-slappingly dumb. A darling of the high-rolling ’80s New York scene, Kostabi and his rise to fame and riches on the backs of…
Now in its seventh year, Doors Open Denver is opening up more doors than ever. The event, which gives everyday folks access to the unique, historical and just plain cool buildings that give our city its inimitable character, has added considerably to its roster: This year, there are more than…
The liberal and the conservative. The vegetarian and the carnivore. The long-haired hippie and the, uh, long-haired non-hippie: These are two men destined to do battle, and though one of the few things they have in common is their shared love of weed, they will do battle about that, too…
Rowdy Roddy Piper’s got a show, but he doesn’t know what to call it. “It’s not an act,” he says. “I mean, I heard about Charlie Sheen, and I don’t know what you call that.” And true to his form as one of wrestling’s greatest heels, he concludes with a…
He may be equal parts pompous ass and pathetic shmuck, but it’s hard to argue with Mark Kostabi’s self-assessment in the documentary Con Artist: “Modern art is a con,” he announces. “I am the world’s greatest con artist.” In the midst of the East Village’s peak as an epicenter of…
Whether you require full-body spandex and carbon-fiber everything or just something practical to pedal around on until you get that second DUI sorted out, the Bicycle Village Bike Swap probably has you covered. “It’s sort of a proverbial something-for-everybody,” says spokeswoman Joan Christensen. “I hate that cliché, but it’s true.”…
Although the two plays were originally written years apart, there’s a distinctly Buntport-like thread between Kafka on Ice, the theater’s most recent resurrection in its tenth-anniversary retrospective season, and The 30th of Baydak, which returns to the stage tonight: Both are funny and heartwarming and charmingly weird, of course, but…
There are so many seemingly random elements at play in the Yes! Lab’s concept for The Remake Rumble improv series, that they could almost be variables in a long-form improv game. The basic idea: take the plot elements and characters from famous movies and remake them, improv style. But –…
Three years ago, the original fiberglass horse from Donald Lipski’s “The Yearling,” who’d been keeping watch over the Denver Public Library since 1999 atop an incongruously giant red chair, stepped down. “Scout,” as he’d been informally named, was swapped out in favor of an identical bronze clone of himself for…
Hands down, the Pierley/Redford Personality Test is the weirdest personality test out there. Showing you a series of shapes that blink softly like an old film projection, the test purports to ascertain aspects of your personality by asking you questions like “which shape wants to hurt you” and “where is…
It’s an unsettling thought that, at any given moment, Big Brother may be watching you — and in this day and age of surveillance cameras every ten feet, it’s probably true. But this is America, and like the good people of Oceana, when we have unsettling thoughts we prefer not…
