For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. Today, we…
When the local design- and fashion-savvy entrepreneurial couple Tran and Josh Wills visit other cities, they don’t look first for the typical tourist attractions and destinations. “We try to hit the Plastic Chapels, the Mona Lucero Design Boutiques in other places,” Tran says. Tran and Josh are part of a…
If you watch The Dog Whisperer with even a fraction of the unhealthy frequency with which we do, you know that dog ownership is a power-struggle. In a dog pack, the alpha dog establishes dominance and, once established, rules. These are the same dramas that play out in human-dog relationships…
If you spent the last Super Bowl wondering what the hell the weird trailer for the film Cowboys and Aliens was all about like we did, we have an answer for you today. Thankfully, the long out-of-print graphic novel that inspired the film is back on the shelves this week…
Ready to send it off some sick cliffs “thrill of victory and agony of defeat” style? “Registration is still open for all fields of the Colorado Freeride Championships going down this weekend, February 25-27, 2011 in Snowmass,” reports Aspen Skiing Company spokeswoman Meredith McKee. The event is open to male…
After more than a decade on Broadway, Rule Gallery, one of the city’s top contemporary art dealers, will be relocating in March to RiNo. Sky-high rents on Broadway have led owner Robin Rule to seek out a new spot for her twenty-year-old-plus business, and she apparently liked what she saw…
Fresh off headlining the fashion show of Westword’s Artopia on Saturday night, local clothing brand DVLP announced yesterday that it will close its doors. The brand, which carved out its niche with eco-friendly materials, domestic manufacturing and relaxed but stylish designs, expanded quickly and went international in 2007, maintaining lines…
The Catch. Ken Weitzman’s play explores the well-worn concept of baseball as a metaphor for America itself, but in new and interesting ways. In the hands of Darryl Love, the boastful, charismatic player at the center of the story, the ball itself becomes a symbol, its seams stitching over the…
One of last year’s best films, Lee Chang-dong’s rending, hyperventilating followup to 2002’s Oasis focuses on Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon), a willowy, not-too-pretty young mother relocating to the obscure burg her dead husband came from, for obscure reasons. Reserved and cagey, Shin-ae herself remains a mystery, as she resists the gang…
Rick and Fred (Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis) are two domesticated husbands whose long marriages (to Jenna Fischer and Christina Applegate, respectively) have achieved somnolent routine in suburban Providence, Rhode Island. Yet the wives worry. Rick is a girl watcher; Fred masturbates in the privacy of their parked Honda Odyssey…
Paramount, the distributor of David O. Russell’s The Fighter, celebrated its Best Director Oscar nomination by placing a “For Your Consideration” ad on the cover of Variety, touting Russell as “the comeback of the year.” It was an odd choice of phrasing, considering that The Fighter, Russell’s first feature to…
If memory holds, I tried reading Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment when I was a dutiful little swot of about seventeen, and didn’t get much beyond the murder of the old pawnbroker. It’s one of those seminal works I’m sort of ashamed of not having read but probably never will now,…
As Reasons to Be Pretty opens, Steph is railing at her lover, Greg. The girl’s a spitfire, with a habit of tossing Greg’s goldfish into the john when she’s angry, but at this moment she’s beyond all reason, incandescent with rage, a shrieking, spitting harridan who won’t allow the poor…
John Rodwan Jr. has long been writing critically about music, boxing and literature. His essays have found homes in The American Interest, The Mailer Review, Blood and Thunder, Open Letters Monthly, and Spot Literary Magazine, among others. Last year, he published a book, Fighters and Writers, examining the relationship between…
It’s a consistent argument against gay marriage that it just ain’t natural, that gays are in some way deviant and that to allow them to wed would be a corruption of the very fabric of society. The GLBT Wedding Preview Event at the Cable Center this weekend, though, seemed to…
In the way that anything has at least its category in common with its opposite (red is the opposite of green, for example, but they’re both colors), a magazine and a zine are opposites: Where magazines tend to be slick, polished and pandering (ours excepted, of course — we never…
DVLP’s “The Distant Vagabond” went down at Westword’s Artopia party on Saturday, February 19, 2011 at the City Hall Amphitheater. Presented by Abella Bala, Justice Talent Agency, Flippin’ Entertainment and Making the Model, the show featured designers DVLP, Akomplice, Jiberish, Tricia Hoke, Fallene Welles and more. Photos by Aaron Thackeray…
Denver-based snowboard film crew SixEleven Productions released the first teaser from the 2011 video It’s Our Fault over the weekend, their fifth film and the follow-up to STOP… Hammertime!. The grisly slams you’re looking for commence at about the 2:11 mark…
#100: Dana Cain If the overarching Colorado arts scene is like an awesome picture of a unicorn galloping across a rainbow — and we’re going to go ahead and say that it is — then Dana Cain is like the glitter: essential. A tireless arts cheerleader and all around rolling…
This past Saturday, at Westword’s biggest and undeniably bitchin’ art soirée, guests appreciated all levels of local talent. Artopia-goers also took in the large amounts of alcohol, causing thoughts from the silly to the profound to pour from their mouths just as smoothly as the booze flowed into their cups…
Facebook bowed to demand for more relationship status options for homosexual couples, adding “In a domestic partnership” and “In a civil union” to the drop-down menu late last week. We’re certainly glad more people can accurately express themselves on the internet, but we must say we still feel Facebook is…
Reality TV is great because it’s obnoxious, because it’s trashy and because it’s unpredictable. The former characteristics are more or less unique to television (little else owes its appeal to the fact that it’s so terrible), but the latter element of relentless surprise is also definitive to Improv Star. This…
