At one point in the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens, Little Edie Bouvier Beale turns to the camera and offers a bit of fashion advice: Wear pants or stockings under a skirt so that “you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape.” It’s this kind of…
In 2008 Lee Saville rode his bike 700 miles from Portland to San Francisco. Now, he’s about to embark on a much more ambitious ride: 17,000 miles. Saville, along with his friend Ian Lacey, will fly from Denver to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, this July and begin their biking trip from…
To celebrate its thirtieth year of helping cats in Colorado, the Cat Care Society is searching for homes for a different kind of feline: painted, fiberglass ones. The nonprofit will auction off decorative kitties designed by local artists at its Tails of the Painted Cats gala tonight; examples include a…
Harry Shearer may be best known as the comedian who voices a litany of characters on The Simpsons and makes mockumentaries like This Is Spinal Tap and A Mighty Wind, but his new documentary is completely serious. The Big Uneasy, which screens tonight at the Denver FilmCenter at 7 p.m.,…
When Harry Shearer heard President Barack Obama refer to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as a “natural disaster,” he decided to take action. The actor and writer, best known for his roles in The Simpsons and This Is Spinal Tap, had been following the investigations into the government’s handling of…
Composer David Wohl first came across Margaree King Mitchell’s Uncle Jed’s Barbershop in a museum in Baltimore, and immediately recognized that the award-winning children’s book had the potential to become a musical. Years later, it has: Wohl, along with playwright Ken Grimes and director Susan Einhorn, fleshed out the saga…
While Harry Shearer is most popular as the bassist from This is Spinal Tap and nearly half of the voices of on The Simpsons, he’s also been extremely prolific in other areas during his half-a-century in showbiz. In advance of the screening of his documentary The Big Uneasy Thursday night…
Does Vincent Gallo write his own Netflix reviews? Artist Jason Barr thinks so. In a recent blog post, Barr points out that the auteur responsible for bizarre but captivating films like Buffalo ’66 and The Brown Bunny might just be responsible for the reviews posted on Netflix for his latest…
Long before Savage Love was the go-to place for relationship advice, distraught readers with romance and etiquette questions turned to Ann Landers — or, rather, to the lady who used that surname to write the column. From 1955 to 2002, that woman was Eppie Lederer, an elegant Midwesterner who is…
Want to see a giant cat face with light-up eyes and a glowing field of poppies? So does Rianna Lee Brown. But to make it happen, she needs your help. The local artist, costume designer and performer has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund her ambitious new production, The…
Friday the 13th has been associated with a lot of creepy shit over the years. From various natural disasters to Tupac’s death, the date has been deemed unlucky by superstitious people everywhere. But rather than succumb to friggatriskaidekaphobia tomorrow and keep looking over your shoulder for Jason Voorhees, you can…
Sick of your friends tormenting you about not having a girlfriend? The new start-up Cloud Girlfriend was created to solve all of your problems by creating a virtual lady to interact with you on Facebook. At least, that’s what the site initially promised before its launch. Here’s how it’s supposed…
Jon Lew found out about the earthquake in Japan from Twitter. The artist and owner of Fortune Cookie Tattoo has visited the country a few times and always felt what he describes as a “spiritual connection” to it. So when he saw his friend in Japan, tattoo artist Hori Benny,…
In advance of the Arvada Center’s production of The Lady With All the Answers, which starts its previews tomorrow night, we started researching the woman the play was based on: Eppie Lederer. Known to the public for 47 years as advice columnist Ann Landers, Lederer was a fascinating lady. And…
Just in time for Passover, Susannah Perlman is bringing her troupe of Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad back to Denver for a night of Judaic-themed comedy, music and burlesque. Because of the alignment with the holiday, Perlman promises “a whole burning bush, Moses thing” which entails a “’Go Down Moses,’…
While the Denver ComicFest this weekend wasn’t as full of crazy costumes as it’s counterpart, StarFest, it was full of ridiculous comics. We sifted through the bins to find these five bizarre comic book covers…
The prostitutes in the Coen brothers’ film Fargo probably had the all-time best description of actor Steve Buscemi’s bizarre face: “kinda funny-lookin’.” Well, thanks to the Tumblr “Chicks With Steve Buscemeyes,” we now know that the actor’s funny-looking eyes look particularly creepy and hilarious when Photoshopped on the faces of…
We’re all used to personality tests like the Myers-Briggs that determine the inner workings of our psyches based on sane, practical issues like whether we prefer to read a book rather than go to a party, or if we find it difficult to talk about our feelings. But the Pierley/Redford…
If poetry is, as writer J. Patrick Lewis described, “prose, bent out of shape,” then Sandra and Ben Doller have made a career out of bending. This poet duo will bring its crooked prose to the University of Colorado at Boulder for a reading this evening that’s sure to be…
When Meg Caley realized how much public land in Denver was going unused, she chose to take action. Along with James Hale and Chad Hagedorn, Caley helped found Sprout City Farms to use these empty spaces for something productive. “We thought, why don’t we just put farms on that land…
The releases of Beastly and Red Riding Hood mark just two more additions to a time-honored film tradition: hackneyed, shitty movies based on fairy tales. Inspired by these cloying new releases, we decided to take a look back at five more insipid films that were vaguely based on magical children’s…
“I don’t think in terms of clean or dirty,” says comedian and promoter Onus Spears. ” I think in terms of funny or not funny.” Spears’ Huge Comedy Show, which goes down tonight, is definitely poised to be the former. Spears, who put this night together, got his start at…
