In one of the most ridiculous overstatements since Michael Bay got compared to an “abstract artist,” Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino offered this analogy on Friday, explaining to the E! Network why he’d be leaving The Jersey Shore after next season: “It’s like Michael Jordan. There’s only so long you can…
The 19th century Russian novelists have a reputation for dense (for many an AP high school student, nightmarishly dense) character studies, giant tomes that spend the majority of their considerable bulk methodically dissecting characters and mapping out how they tick — and of those characters, one of the most fascinating…
Collective Nouns and E. C. Cunningham. Metropolitan State College has a special place in Denver’s art world. Not only does it have the biggest set of visual-arts departments in the state, but it includes a mini-museum, the Center for Visual Art. These two factors only rarely come together, but they…
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…
The theatrical release of the Oscar-nominated live-action and animated short films provides a fun peek into intriguing bite-sized cinema from across the globe. This year’s live-action entries are a diverse mix. The African-set drama Na Wewe is a rather obvious critique of cultural identity, while The Confession is a coming-of-age…
Fresh from Sundance, Miguel Arteta’s amiable Cedar Rapids is a mild comedy of embarrassment, set in the dark heart of Middle America and starring sitcom secundario Ed Helms (The Office’s obnoxious, angry salesman Andy Bernard) as Tim Lippe, a prematurely middle-aged man-child. Taking an airplane for the first time in…
The Eagle, directed by Kevin Macdonald and adapted from Rosemary Sutcliff’s 1954 historical novel, The Eagle of the Ninth, a best-selling tale of second-century Roman legions and youthful derring-do on the far side of Hadrian’s Wall, is a thunderous boys’ adventure of the old-school type: There’s not a female speaking…
Having created a full-out exploration of women’s relationships to their vaginas in The Vagina Monologues, feminist Eve Ensler has turned her attention to female bodies in general in The Good Body, a compassionate, would-be reassuring look at the near-universal American neurosis on the subject. The show is watchable and empathetic,…
The Denver’s Next Improv Star series at the Bovine Metropolis has themes, it seems, and its clearest and strongest are enthusiasm — copious amounts of it — and a nonsensicality so relentless it’s damn near absolute. The show’s third installment on Saturday, which began with a skit that managed to…
Love it or hate, the Super Bowl crosses almost every cultural subgroup in the United States, and as befitting of such a massive national holiday, it also inspires new pop-culture touch points. From Mean Joe Green to Betty White, from Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction to Jim McMahon’s headband, some Super…
The seventh-annual Mustache Festival went down on Saturday night, February 5, 2011, at Vesta Dipping Grill. Photographer Hunter Stevens brings back these excellent photos of real and faux lip sweaters: See a full slide show of the Mustache Festival at Vesta Dipping Grill…
Friday night, February 4, 2011 was Fashion Denver’s anniversary party, marking eleven years in business and one year at its Bannock Street location. Local designers and music were offered to those who hit up this free public party. Photos by Hunter Stevens. See the full slide show…
Ready to climb something crazy and then tell the tale in style? The Jonny Copp Foundation is now accepting applications for its $20,000 in 2011 Copp-Dash Inspire Awards, named in memory of Copp (Boulder’s Adventure Film Festival founder) and his climbing partner Micah Dash, who died in 2009 in an…
While most of the other stops on the First Friday Art Walk on Santa Fe were showing more commercial, high-end art to the wealthy snow-bros in town from Aspen for the weekend, bohemian coffeehouse Yellow Feather was showcasing the music and art of artists geared a little more toward the…
It’s a testament to the selling power of both Ballet Nouveau Colorado and Paper Bird that this past Sunday — the biggest game day in football all year — the matinee performance of Carry On at the Lakewood Cultural Center was almost entirely sold out. And it’s safe to say…
The commercials of the Super Bowl are one of the biggest draws to the game for some people. Viewers love to see the somewhat witty, incredibly overproduced and expensive miniature films announcing that Volkswagen is the best, Detroit is better than where you are and Fox is the greatest station…
Other than Valentine’s Day — a holiday people only celebrate because they are obligated to through some perverse, greeting card company-engineered social mechanism — there’s a pretty intense dry spell of holidays between New Year’s Day and somewhere around Easter, unless you’re counting Lent, the other celebration that actually increases…
In 1998, cable television Entrepreneur Bill Daniels bequeathed his behemoth mansion on Shangri-La Drive (across from the Target in Glendale) to the city of Denver, to be used as the official residence for the Mayor. Though no Mayor has ever actually lived in this mauve monstrosity since its donation, Mayor…
Since taking office last month, there has been some talk about Mayor Guillermo Vidal officially running for the position when his term ends in July. Though this is apparently hearsay and Vidal has no immediate plans to run, last night’s inaugural Cableland Cultural Jam had us wishing he was. Hardly…
The Super Bowl is the biggest TV event of the year. And not just for the actual game — it affords the host station a massive audience for the post-game show (Glee this year) and other stations the opportunity of 106 million potential channel surfers in America alone. Animal Planet…
Octogenarian musician/musicologist David Amram’s ties to the Beats hold strong, especially in San Francisco, where jazz and poetry intersected, and in some ways, he’s one of the last grand old men of the cause. It’s no small thing, then, to consider that Amram will be among the presenters, along with…
Since it’s a well known scientific fact that the mustache is the best and most manly form of facial hair, let’s start with a definition: A mustache consists of hair grown in some form above the mouth — but not below it; i.e., if you have hair on your chin,…
