While Katherine Rutter, Aron Dubois and Zach Reini all create very different art, Illiterate Gallery director Adam Gildar says that “they connect in their exploration of inhumanity and humanity, and they all have very different takes on that.” Tomorrow night’s closing reception at Illiterate Gallery will be the last time…
Ugh, vampires. They’ve been everywhere for the past few years, and now the Twilight brand is hitting Red Rocks tonight for Film on the Rocks. To coincide with the modern sparkle vamps, the Denver FilmCenter is also showing the original, campy Buffy the Vampire Slayer film (tonight at 9:30 p.m…
When I arrived at the Oriental Theater Saturday afternoon, I was put to work stapling together the zines the girls made throughout the week. I then went to work at the door handing out programs to parents of the budding rock stars as well as people in the community who…
Author and burlesque star Vivienne VaVoom, aka Michelle Baldwin, has been to a lot of singles events, but what makes the Stag Social Club different from the rest is its laid-back attitude. The monthly event, hosted by the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life program, offers a comfortable, relaxed setting…
In the over half a decade LoDo’s Rockmount Ranch Wear has been in business, the company has had the time to brush elbows with quite a few celebrities. Stars like Elvis, Bob Dylan, and David Bowie have all been seen sporting Rockmount’s unique brand of western wear, which will be…
Kelly Shortandqueer, co-founder of the Denver Zine Library, says that people often come into the library and ask how to make a zine. The Community Zine Workshop Series aims to answer that question in five Sunday sessions from July through September, after which aspiring zinesters will emerge with their own…
For the past three years, Georgina Kolber has curated an outdoor Israeli film festival on the lawn of the Mizel Museum, with mostly older films. But this year, Kolber wanted the series to be a little more significant and reach a wider audience. So the Mizel partnered with the Denver…
Los Angeles-based artist Allie Pohl says she sees her job as a way to hold up a mirror to society. Tonight she’ll be doing just that with her new solo exhibition, Mirror, Mirror. The project is a result of months of studying online dating. From her research, which included visiting…
Gardening writer Gayla Trail says that one of the strangest places she’s seen a plant growing was corn coming up out of a crack in the pavement in an alley. Trail will use this, and other examples, to help inspire gardeners to grow their own plants even in the smallest,…
Last year, the Civic Center Conservancy expected 5,000 people to attend the inaugural Civic Center Independence Eve celebration. Instead, 25,000 showed up. “We think that number will grow significantly this year,” says the Conservancy’s executive director, Lindy Eichenbaum Lent, “so we want to make sure that it is the highest-quality…
Growing plants in a Denver apartment can seem like an impossible task — but it doesn’t have to be. Writer Gayla Trail visits the Denver Botanic Gardens today to talk about creating a garden in even the tiniest living quarters with tips from her new book, Grow Great Grub: Organic…
Winona Ryder is so cool, Johnny Depp tattooed “Winona Forever” on his arm when they were engaged. Her first audition was a monologue from Franny & Zooey. Generation X has a crush on her. And we forgive her for the shoplifting. Actors do way worse things. Inspired by our Winona…
Jillian Allison says that some of the most ingenious miniatures she’s seen were Tiffany-style lampshades fashioned out of golf balls, jewelry and paint. Allison, the Coordinator of Education and Programs at the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys, explains that this kind of creativity is normal in the miniature…
What’s the best way to perk up a tired movie franchise? Most of the time, there is no way. But movie producers still continue to try by taking the old characters overseas and hoping the new locale will reheat the leftovers. Case in point: Cars 2. The film comes out…
Ever since MTV announced in February that Beavis and Butt-Head would return to television, we’ve been getting more and more stoked for the comeback of these cherished cartoon cretins. In anticipation of the redo, which is slated for this summer, we take a look at four more ’90s TV shows…
BurlyCute’s Cora Vette has heard a lot of misconceptions about burlesque. While some think of it simply as “that stripping stuff,” others are totally clueless to the fact that it involves nudity, expecting the tame pop star antics of Christina Aguilera and Cher in the misleadingly titled film Burlesque. In…
Although last year’s Burlesque, starring Cher and Christina Aguilera, contained no real striptease, BurlyCute’s Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett) says it brought a whole new audience to the art — an audience that is sometimes surprised. “Since it didn’t have any pasties or G-strings involved in it, we have…
The relationship between Denver Urban Gardens and the locally oriented eatery Root Down began last September at a cooking contest. “We had a big picnic in Ruby Hill Park celebrating the groundbreaking of our 100th community garden,” explains DUG spokes-woman Abbie Harris. “We had an Iron Chef-style competition where we…
What better way to start off a new month than with a photo of a seductively-clad lady? The Colorado Burlesque calendar will do just that with its 2012 incarnation, to be released Thursday night at Bender’s at 8 p.m. The calendar features twelve of Colorado’s dazzling burlesque stars in action,…
Films based on comic books can really suck. But every once in a while, the stars align and the movies manage to translate a graphic novel into a film that actually works on its own. Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World is one of those successes, an adaptation of Bryan Lee…
Now in its third year, Girls Rock Denver is committed to empowering young women through, as co-director Katie Rothery explains “music education, creation, and performance.” They do this every summer at a week long program where campers learn to play an instrument, form a band, write an original song, and…
Though she was a nearly penniless hermit living in squalor, “Little Edie” Beale still managed to look good. The cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who, along with her mother “Big Edie” Beale are the subject of the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens that chronicles their lives as former socialites living in…
