It’s not the most Boulder-ish thing ever to come out of Boulder, but it comes pretty close: barefoot running, the newest cultural export from our neighbors to the northwest and the whitest thing since unpaid internships. If you’re not from a place that can price non-whites into trailer parks while…
We all know fantasy is better than reality, because in reality you have to do stuff you don’t want to do, and you have to face the fact that there will be some things you’ll just never be good at, either for lack of time to learn or lack of…
There are lots of ones in today’s date, and we as a culture do not miss chances to invent significance for these sorts of things. Croatian gaze-healer Braco, pictured here gazing, gets his power from oneness and can therefore heal cancer today. Or something. Video below…
Dale Chisman, who died in 2008, was one of the most significant abstract painters to have ever worked in Colorado — a roster that includes the likes of Vance Kirkland and Herbert Bayer. But Chisman wasn’t just a great artist. He was also a great arts advocate, with his efforts…
Like circus clowns, streakers are not a good kind of funny. They sometimes provoke laughter, sure, but it is not the laughter of true hilarity; rather, it’s an awkward, uncomfortable laughter, the laughter of being informed that the nurse at the clinic was just kidding when she told you you…
For a project that centers around grief, it’s coincidentally a fitting time of year for Andrea Moore to begin her work in PlatteForum’s artist residency. An artistic jack-of-all-trades, the writer, photographer and performer moved into PlatteForum yesterday to begin her six-week residency there, during which she’ll be putting together a…
Christian Lander, author of the popular website and book series Stuff White People Like, will be at the Tattered Cover, Lodo on Thursday to promote his newest book, Whiter Shades of Pale. Unlike the broad strokes of his previous endeavors, Lander’s new book takes a closer look at the stuff…
If you’d bought Copper Mountain’s Snow Day pass back when we first told you about it, you could have already had 15 powder days for the price of a single day lift ticket at some other nearby resorts. The deal — $99 for a season pass good any day Copper…
At 8:30 this morning at the City and County Building downtown, John Hickenlooper will officially resign as mayor of the City of Denver, leaving him unemployed for the few minutes it will take him to walk over to the State Capitol to be sworn in as governor. Normally, that short…
The continuing appeal of abstraction some hundred years after it was developed in France by the gods of art history — Picasso, Matisse, Braque and on and on — is both astounding and predictable. Astounding because, like hip-hop, it seems to be an inexhaustible source for newness; predictable because arrangements…
St. Patrick’s Day, 2008: Danny Bristow and Dan Werling of Fluidiam were definitely thinking green. After taking notice of the dark, distressed styles that were pervading much of the fashion world and the lack of environmental thoughtfulness in their creation, it was time to invoke change. Taking its name from…
Mini-golf courses, good ones anyway, always have personality. You expect tunnels and ceramic animal obstacles, general minor fighting back from the holes. So in some ways, Smash Putt: The Return of the Miniature Golf Apocalypse, now two weeks into its six-week run, is like other courses you’ve played. Sort of…
There are so many seemingly random elements at play in the Yes! Lab’s concept for The Remake Rumble, a seven-week series that starts tonight, they could almost be variables in a long-form improv game. The basic idea: take the plot elements and characters from famous movies and remake them, improv…
This I know is true: Comic books aren’t easy. Banish the idea that they are from your minds immediately before you proceed. Sure, artists like Noah Van Sciver (creator of Westword’s weekly 4 Questions strip) make it look easy, but a comic artist is kind of like a god-figure who…
It’s more than simple hometown loyalty that keeps Lil’ Miss Firefly coming back to the Immundo burlesque show in Denver. During the past nine years, the Colorado native has built an international reputation with her act, a routine she’s performed in Las Vegas, New York and Europe. Firefly stands three…
After more than six months of residency at the Denver Art Museum and its accompanying marketing blitz, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs closed yesterday to head to its next destination in St. Paul, Minnesota, where it opens in February. Along with it, the 26-foot-tall statue of Anubis,…
Don’t feel like sitting in ski traffic to ride the rails? The Ruby Hill Rail Yard Terrain Park at South Platte River Drive & Florida Avenue opened on Saturday with rails, slider boxes, jumps and open slopes for sledding and learning to ride. Bob Holme, who oversees the terrain parks…
Pickings tend to run pretty slim in January, as far as holidays go — in fact, our extensive research of googling a couple of things revealed exactly zero legit, nationally sanctioned holidays this week. Maybe what with Christmas and New Year’s and Hanukkah and Kwanzaa and everything else, people are…
2011: Year in Preview. Bobbi Walker, owner of Walker Fine Art, has employed a clever way to create an automatic group show by putting together examples of work by all of the artists who will be featured in duets this year. The show looks good, but what’s really neat is…
John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole plops us down in the lives of Becca (Nicole Kidman) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart), fortyish bourgie marrieds rattling around an East Coast dream house. Becca and Howie’s young son was killed in an accident, and months later, the couple is trying to cope. Howie thinks…
When the MPAA handed Derek Cianfrance’s Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating this fall, cynics suggested that the so-called kiss of death was better publicity for the gently experimental marriage drama than anything famously crafty distributor Harvey Weinstein could buy. When the rating was reversed last month — downgraded to an…
A quasi-documentary portrait of young non-actors striking poses, walking around Boston, hanging out and playing or listening to music, Damien Chazelle’s Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench is a giddy and cannily frugal avant-musical. Beginning when Chazelle, now 25, was an undergraduate at Harvard, and evolving over a period…
