All along, the plan was to choose just six acts for the Play It Forward talent showcase. “But there was just so much good talent” among the 32 submissions, says Rebecca Saltman of A Foot in the Door Productions, that organizers went with eight. A fundraiser for the Women With…
Even when you’re talking about the real actual place called South Park, which is not really a town, but rather a 1,000-some square-mile area of grasslands southwest of Pikes Peak, the phrase “gas exploration” sounds like a set-up for a Terrance and Phillip joke. Nevertheless, the people of South Park…
When you’re talking about the “biggest, greatest, most poppin’ ass art party of the year,” you know there’s going to be a lot of stuff going on — almost too much stuff. But not really. That would be ridiculous. Don’t be ridiculous. Because you don’t have time to be dealing…
Borders filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this morning in New York, making it one more casualty of the continuing slow death of physical media. Six Colorado stores will close in the coming weeks, though none of the Denver locations. They’ve still got some time to right this thing, but it…
For film buffs looking for something a little fresher than the traditional Oscar fare dominating film talk this season, the Boulder International Film Festival offers a meticulously curated batch of movies Colorado audiences have likely never seen before, many coming straight from festivals like Sundance to make their local debuts…
Enough of this “LOL” nonsense. If you are looking at this blog right now, stop immediately and get back to work, because the internets are no longer for jokes and silliness. The internets are now for serious, serious business. Extremely serious business. That’s why today, before you get back to…
Crested Butte Mountain Resort celebrates 20 years of hosting the U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Championships this week, a truly extreme action sports event that predates the X Games and other extremism in sports lexicography by about four years. The resort bills itself as “the birthplace of Big Mountain competitions,” and it’s…
Yes, your childhood dream of being able to play The Great Gatsby instead of reading it is finally here. While it’s not going to help your high school term paper score, it’s still a welcome addition to the book-turned-into game genre, and it’s filled with nods to the original story,…
David Zimmer is a man of action and few words: A longtime figure in the Denver art scene, he’s something of an art alchemist who straddles a century in his enigmatic works, which bustle with strangely iconic curiosities and found objects, hovering half in and half out of the Victorian…
Denver’s Smitten Kitten outlet — the local outpost at 70 Broadway of the infamous Minneapolis boutique — has shut its legs, er, doors. Between the store’s DIY pasties workshops — and others, like Treats for Your Sweets and Real Sex vs. Porn Sex with Jayme Waxman, which just took place…
In a strictly statistical sense, there’s perhaps no better barometer for what we’re interested in moment to moment than Google Trends. Using the cataloging data it collects on a massive scale with it’s unsettlingly all-seeing eye, the search engine divides what’s hot right now into two categories — hot searches…
Comedy Central announced an awards show devoted to comedy today. It will be called The Comedy Awards and will air simultaneously on Comedy Central, VH1, Spike, TV Land and Nick at Nite on March 26. On one hand, comedy does tend to get boned in the other major awards, particularly…
Big ideas take time to hatch, and for that reason Denver artists Rob Mack and Samuel Schimek have already announced their joint exhibition, Microclimates, which they describe as a large-scale graphic art environment in three distinctive parts and will open in June at Super Ordinary Gallery (a nascent venue that…
From a very young age, Edie was chasing a dream common to many young girls: She wanted to be a showgirl. Except Edie is actually a boy. A dancer since age 8, Christopher Kenny spent years as a professional ballet dancer, but he never stopped chasing his real dream, the…
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. Here at…
Back when Boston Celtics power forward Glen “Big Baby” Davis was just 9 years old and a freakishly large 5’6″, 160 lbs., he was too big to play pee-wee basketball with kids his own age, so he was sent to play with the seniors. Because he was so young, his…
It’s time to spend that Valentine’ Day cash you got from grandma, and what better way to do it than to buy something that’ll make you feel less lonely? Thankfully, there is plenty to be happy about this week, with new releases that will make you nostalgic, cause you to…
Modern commercials rely on our collective impressions of happiness to catch our attention and tell us our lives aren’t good enough. This stupid ad from Pfister furniture does that with an almost sickeningly chummy, romantic dinner scene — but it has a twist, which is both slightly funny and slightly…
“Hipster or Jesus?” a new memeblog Denver Urbanist is linking to Boulderites Chris Znerold and Charlotte Myerberg may seem like all fun and games, but it actually highlights a major cultural challenge: How does one actually differentiate a precious ironic douchebag from the son of our Lord? After all, the…
Whatever else happened in the Denver arts world this year, one thing is certain: Fashion blew up like a balloon with a terrorist in it. At the forefront of that boom, of course, was Mondo Guerra, who took second place in this year’s season of Project Runway and first place…
There’s a pair of compelling solos at Spark Gallery (900 Santa Fe Drive, 720-889-2200, www.sparkgallery.com) that brings together two well-established Denver artists. And although their works are as different as night is from day, the exhibits go together well. On the west side of the gallery is Andy Libertone: Old…
Every Good Cowboy and Nate Baldwin. In the front space at Pirate, there’s an interesting collaborative show made up of neo-pop mixed-media pieces, most with a vaguely Western theme. The works on view include those done either by Matthew Doubek or by Samuel Mobley, as well as many others that…
