After more than six months of residency at the Denver Art Museum and its accompanying marketing blitz, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs closed yesterday to head to its next destination in St. Paul, Minnesota, where it opens in February. Along with it, the 26-foot-tall statue of Anubis,…
Pickings tend to run pretty slim in January, as far as holidays go — in fact, our extensive research of googling a couple of things revealed exactly zero legit, nationally sanctioned holidays this week. Maybe what with Christmas and New Year’s and Hanukkah and Kwanzaa and everything else, people are…
If you find yourself aboard the Light Rail this weekend minus your pants, you are involved in one of three possible contingencies: Either a). you have escaped from the ward again, b). your friends are jerks, or c). you are participating in the latest project from flashmob impresario Rick Gold,…
If you think about it, the tropes of action movies are inherently pretty absurd. The quick cuts, the fetish for stony masculinity, the one-liners; watching even a good action movie is more or less akin to watching ninety minutes of a guy filling balloons with sweat, and then when he…
The Denver Botanic Gardens is not exactly known for being generous with its free days. If it’s not doing them in the dark, it does them on weekdays when most people are at work — probably the closest you’re going to get to a free day on the weekend is…
Regardless of what it did for Mexico, the Mexican revolution of the early 20th century spawned some of the most badass figures in history: You might remember Pancho Villa, maybe the most famous bandit/revolutionary ever, or Emiliano Zapata, the guy who said “it is better to die on your feet…
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers has been trying to get on Facebook for over a year. Due to issues with the social networking site’s indemnity clause — which says Facebook is not responsible for one user suing another — Suthers last April ordered all state agencies and institutions to take…
Editor’s note: Tig Notaro returns to Denver on January 13 for a gig at the hi-dive. Jef Otte had a chance to talk to her about her former life in Denver’s music scene and her current life as a comic and Sarah Silverman sidekick. Read all about it: Tig Notaro…
Since the apex of their popularity in the ’60s and subsequent market saturation in the early ’70s (recall, if you will, the Hanna-Barbera cartoon), the Harlem Globetrotters have not exactly been the hippest thing around. But what becomes lame in turn becomes nostalgic and then awesome again, and following an…
Matt Savage is reluctant to talk about how he became a piano prodigy shortly after picking the instrument up at the tender age of six, how he started composing a year later, how he was good enough to jam with legendary pianist Chick Corea a year after that. He’s proud…
There will be no shortage of stuff to buy at the International Sportsmen’s Exposition; from fishing reels to adventure vacations to art featuring wildlife, the expo will most likely have something to appeal to anyone who’s ever held a rifle and thought, awesome. The real draw, though, is not what…
We’ve all heard that eyes are the “windows to the soul,” which is just one of the many things that makes it so unsettling when those eyes are replaced by fucking mouths. Indeed, in this strange, often disturbing internetz world, Mouth Eyes, in spite of its seeming innocuousness, is one…
The dark empire of Church of Scientology, well known for its extensive real-estate holdings, expanded its reach in Denver yesterday by throwing down $8.5 million in cash money on a new facility to house its secretive minions. Believed by its adherents to be the one true path to enlightenment and…
After getting her start in the inner workings of the entertainment biz as a music promoter (for a while in Denver), Tig Notaro got an itch to be on stage — not as a musician, but as a comedian. In that respect, she’s been more successful than many; she’s done…
If anyone is in need of further proof that we live in strange and litigious times, they need look no further than the gossip that’s arisen around the first episode of ABC’s The Bachelor, which aired yesterday. A slap in the face delivered by contestant Chantal O’Brien to bachelor Brad…
It’s been a rough couple of years for the Shadow Theatre Company. Not long after moving into what it calls a “state-of-the-art” space three years ago, founder Jeffrey Nickelson took ill; he died in early 2009. After that, it seems — from an operational standpoint, anyway — things got rough…
Since the establishment of horror as a legit genre somewhere around the late ’70s, it’s always been almost a tradition to infuse the gore with a liberal amount of sex — and in a literary sense, few have been as shameless about those twin preoccupations than Mario Acevedo, whose credits…
There’s been a lot of John Cusak-related hubbub about the end of the Mayan calendar meaning the end of the world, but Harold Camping isn’t buying that crap. “It’s like a fairy tale,” he chuckles. Because by the time 2012 comes around, according to Camping, who developed his theory with…
Blame it on the holiday influx of cheese logs, goose-meat and cases of Hofbräu, but you’ve been feeling a little sluggish lately. And broke. Plus, “sluggish” and “broke” is a very negative combination of things to be feeling, according to your court-ordered therapist, which also makes you feel anxious. Luckily,…
Not all failures are noteworthy. In fact, most of us experience quiet failure in every single waking moment of our lives — and nobody wants to hear about that. That shit’s just depressing. There are moments, however, when failure becomes transcendent, when you fuck something up in a way so…
The Christmas-New Year’s stretch is over. The presents are opened, the fruitcakes eaten and the splurged-on “holiday cognac” consumed in a flurry of inappropriately commingled bodily fluids and chemically repressed despair, leaving you spent, exhausted and, as usual, covered in vomit. You barely have the energy to crawl out of…
Lower Snooki in a ball in Times Square on New Year’s Eve while The Situation and other cast members lead a Guinness-breaking fist pump. That was MTV’s original plan, but the authorities shot it down. They’re doing it in Jersey instead. Season three of the show starts next week, and…
