It’s an experience that’s memorable for few, yet one that few will ever forget: the first time. Initially a website (www.myfirsttime.com) and then an off-Broadway production based on stories culled from the website, My First Time traffics in tales of virginity lost — and now, for the “first time” (sorry),…
Boeing’s 787 “Dreamliner” has been a public relations disaster. Rolled out in 2007, the plane was billed as the future of air-travel: a sleek, efficient long-distance jetliner made with composite materials that consumes 20 percent less fuel than carriers of a similar size. Three years later, due to myriad materials…
Aside from drinking a hot toddy and wearing a smoking jacket while counterfeiting a nickel and being painted by Norman Rockwell, it doesn’t get too much more Americana than the Rockettes — and as everyone knows, the Holidays are, at their best, a time of misty-eyed sentimentality. To that end,…
It was just a week ago that Denver voters overwhelmingly rejected Initiative 300, which would have required the city to create a government-sponsored commission to study extraterrestrials — many officials and voters feared such a commission would make Denver “a laughingstock.” To those people, we say, where is your God…
Of all the U.S. presidents — George W. notwithstanding — Richard Nixon might have been the most unintentionally hilarious. A dour, glowering grinch with a cat’s disposition and a simian’s posture, Nixon nevertheless had a surprisingly expressive face, in a silly-putty sort of way, that makes his goofy faces that…
Hundreds of years ago, America was not much to look at — just a backwoods berg with a bunch of British prudes who wore clothes with too many buckles and couldn’t make it through the winter without help from the local natives, to whom they returned the favor with smallpox…
For film-geeks in Denver, the Starz Denver Film Festival is always the high point of the year — and from the Denver Film Society’s sudden new digs to the eerily timed death of George Hickenlooper, this year’s fest has been a particularly wild ride. But while the highest profile action…
Since sometime circa the late ’90s, Conan O’Brien has been the best of the late-night talk-show hosts. While Jay Leno did jokes so tame they would’ve felt just as at-home coming from a purple cartoon dog in the middle of the afternoon, Conan’s formula continued to feel fresh and relevant…
Rule one: If you are not a mutant, anthropomorphic turtle named after a figure of renaissance art, you should probably just not play with nunchucks. Rule two: If you are still bent on playing with nunchucks, make sure there is not a skateboard lying around while you do it. And…
Art is expensive. Between the paint and the clay and the canvases and the brushes — to say nothing of the time it takes to create art — it’s no wonder artists are starving. Then again, perhaps the suffering builds character. But that doesn’t mean that artists and aspiring artists…
It’s a film so cool, Boyz II Men dedicated its first LP to it: That EP was called Cooleyhighharmony, if you’ll recall, and many of the songs on it (including the cover “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday”) were in homage to the 1975 classic Cooley High. Set…
Before Night at the Museums on Saturday, where eighteen Denver museums opened their doors to whoever wanted to come, free of charge, in conjunction with Denver Arts Week, I’d never been to the Denver Botanic Gardens before. After spending Night at the Museums at the Botanic Gardens on Saturday, I…
Ah, Heidi Montag. How do we take pleasure in your misfortune? Let us count the ways: First, there was The Hills, one of the most boring reality-drama-fests ever created. Then, there was the messy split from husband/ultra-douche Spencer Pratt. Then, there was the will-they-won’t-they sex tape, and the comically enormous…
Making a movie starring Zach Galifainakis and Robert Downey Jr. is kind of like making Jell-O: The result is awesome, and it’s pretty difficult to fuck up. And sure enough, for about its first half, the trailer for Due Date makes the movie look like what it should be: a…
If you’re a fan of John Cusak, you already know that the end of the world is less than two years away, and you know that we know that because that’s what the Mayans said 3,000 years ago. Less well known to Cusak fans, though, is that the Hopi Indians…
You can’t judge a book by its cover — and it just goes to show you, because the cover of The Wishing Trees, by John Shors, is pretty awful. Decked out in pink with an apple blossom and a soft-focus photo, it might as well be an advertisement for a…
When it comes to everything, Denver is the best city. Hands down. Our women are sexier, our men more agile, our homeless people more aggressive and our hard-ons more raging. We’ve got better bands, better teams, better cheese-steaks, hell, we’ve even got better meth — that’s right, we’re looking at…
Yesterday, we learned the sad news: Denver Initiative 300, which would have created an official, government-approved commission to prepare our fair city for a visit from extraterrestrials, was soundly defeated, garnering hardly fifteen percent of the vote — meaning hardly fifteen percent of the population has any sense of humor…
The reasoning for a silent film festival was ultimately pragmatic: “I didn’t have any speakers,” explains Wendy Manning, marketing director for the Denver Pavilions and organizer of the Short, Sweet & Silent Third Floor Film Festival. All the same, Manning wanted to do something to commemorate Denver Arts Week, November…
Katie Goodman makes it no secret that Broad Comedy, her all-female, song-and-dance sendup of politics and pop culture, has a bit of a feminist bent. “If it’s not political,” she admits, “it’s kind of women-centric.” It’s fitting, then, that the Vancouver Fringe Festival winner and critically acclaimed dame of theatrical…
If the “Free Tibet” stickers on every Subaru within a thirty-mile radius are any indication, we’ve been there, done that, seen the documentary. And Brit Withey, artistic director for the Denver Film Society, knows we’re hip to it. “Everybody in Denver, and especially Boulder, has probably seen documentaries about Tibet,…
General William Sherman once said that “war is hell” — but what he should have said is “war is hellarious. Or at least it is when adorable animals are all dressed up and cute. Because anthropomorphizing our fellow inhabitants of the animal kingdom is one of the strangest things humans…
