After a seven year run at its home in Fort Collins, the Nonesuch Theater — currently in the midst of its run of The Art of Murder, by Joe DiPietro (the same guy who wrote I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change) — is gearing up to draw the red…
Cindi Myers used to be a newspaper reporter, and in many ways, that’s apparent in Work of Heart (how about that title, amiright?), her latest. For one thing, it’s a “reality-based romance,” which apparently means that the couple in the story is based on a real-life couple; more importantly, though,…
For people in the theater industry, the sixth annual Colorado New Play Summit is a pretty big deal. Think of it as a testing ground: The Denver Center Theatre Company rounds up five brand-spanking, never-before-seen plays and gives them staged readings — rehearsed performances of the play with no costumes…
There’s a certain randomness to RedLine Gallery’s second annual Valentine’s Pajama Party: “You’ll get an authentic homemade Mexican meal, specialty cocktails, an open bar, DJs spinning, and there’s a contest for best pajamas and giveaways from Neiman Marcus,” says Louise Martorano, RedLine’s director of operations. She also points out that…
In his role as Edie, the world’s sexiest drag queen, Christopher Kenney is many things — silly, campy and disconcertingly good-looking would be a few descriptors – but there is one thing he is not: mean. “Sometimes people think of drag queens as being bitchy, but it’s not bitchy at…
As a challenge extended from one bro to another, the call of “come at me bro,” often accompanied by an exaggerated “puffing up” gesture, is well known to cultural anthropologists; in fact, the behavior — famously typified by Ronnie from The Jersey Shore — is prevalent across the animal kingdom…
In the midst of Black History Month, it seems a particularly appropriate time to consider the plight of another marginalized group, a group that has been disenfranchised since the seventeenth century, has been historically oppressed by the U.S. Navy and, to this day, lacks the right to vote: fictional pirates…
Valentine’s Day is coming up, and if you’re anything like us, that means you’re thinking up ways to make awkward passes at your co-workers, because we’re pretty sure that OSHA ruled back in 1997 that sexual harassment doesn’t count if it’s on Valentine’s Day. Right? Wrong — at least according…
As evidenced by the hideously protracted custody battles that seemingly arise every time two celebrities break off their romantic engagement in favor of stroking their turgid, throbbing sense of their own importance, large egos and small children do not mix well. Well, at least not if you care about the…
The course of a life, once set, is hard to change. Like ships through an ocean, we pass through time on the force of our momentum, able to make adjustments now and then but for the most part fixed and inexorable on the path we’ve set, helplessly coasting forward even…
In one of the most ridiculous overstatements since Michael Bay got compared to an “abstract artist,” Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino offered this analogy on Friday, explaining to the E! Network why he’d be leaving The Jersey Shore after next season: “It’s like Michael Jordan. There’s only so long you can…
The 19th century Russian novelists have a reputation for dense (for many an AP high school student, nightmarishly dense) character studies, giant tomes that spend the majority of their considerable bulk methodically dissecting characters and mapping out how they tick — and of those characters, one of the most fascinating…
Other than Valentine’s Day — a holiday people only celebrate because they are obligated to through some perverse, greeting card company-engineered social mechanism — there’s a pretty intense dry spell of holidays between New Year’s Day and somewhere around Easter, unless you’re counting Lent, the other celebration that actually increases…
Since it’s a well known scientific fact that the mustache is the best and most manly form of facial hair, let’s start with a definition: A mustache consists of hair grown in some form above the mouth — but not below it; i.e., if you have hair on your chin,…
There’s no place like home. It’s where you wind down, where you keep your stuff, where you can be away from the world and all the pressures that come with it — it’s the most intensely personal location in anyone’s life, the ultimate refuge. The best horror movies play off…
Say what you will about Google’s increasingly alarming ability to document everything with its all-seeing eye, but there’s no denying that the corporation is doing some wicked cool stuff with its Big Brother-ish technology. It’s latest, which it revealed this week: Art Project, an offshoot devoted to cataloging the world’s…
For hipsters, the formula for having fun is simple, yet elegant: Take an aspect of the ’80s-baby childhood experience, add Pabst Blue Ribbon and take it really seriously — that’s pretty much the logic behind every kickball league, Portlandia’s recent and disconcertingly accurate sendup of competitive hide-and-seek and (though it…
After a cold snap this week brutal enough to turn otherwise burly men into simpering babies, it’s finally supposed to warm up to a balmy 32 degrees today, which is at least on the cusp of not freezing. But now we almost wish it wouldn’t, since we saw this video…
In one way, local folk darlings Paper Bird are an unlikely choice for pairing with ballet, a form that brings more serious violins and prodigious statement to mind than that band’s old-timey, almost vaudevillian Americana. In another way, it makes perfect sense: Beneath the burlap-sleeved rural charm of the banjos…
Hailing from the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, near Jamaica, calypso music is, in a way, the more folksy predecessor to its cousin, reggae — which is somewhat ironic, considering the cultural associations of the two forms in these United States. While reggae at least has an authentically Jamaican icon…
Tom Selleck, Rollie Fingers, William Howard Taft: just a few of the brave and celebrated men — nay, heroes — who have bestowed upon the world the gift of their lustrous mustaches. But the mustache wasn’t always so admired. Having long suffered an unfortunate association with sexual deviance, the manliest…
Back in the days when video games basically consisted of a small dot bouncing back and forth between two lines (and were ridiculously expensive), kids had to think of other stuff to do with their time. And so it was that Connect Four, which amounted to tic-tac-toe with plastic disks,…
