Everyone has their own way of celebrating the New Year: Some prefer to sit by the fire, play board games and watch the ball drop in Times Square on TV, while others crash into it drunk as loons, with confetti, a kiss from a stranger in a crowded room and…
Lower Snooki in a ball in Times Square on New Year’s Eve while The Situation and other cast members lead a Guinness-breaking fist pump. That was MTV’s original plan, but the authorities shot it down. They’re doing it in Jersey instead. Season three of the show starts next week, and…
I’ve been making the pilgrimage every Christmastime to the Kloewer family home on Elati Street, just north of Belleview, for at least the last eleven years, and this is why: Being Jewish and all, it doesn’t really feel like Christmas until I’ve immersed myself in some sort of urban electric…
This doctored stop sign is remarkable partly in that it’s persevered, untouched, for quite a long time — most suitably, in a neighborhood where people of every faith and stripe live side by side: Africans from across the Dark Continent, South Asians, Russians, retirees, young singles, Muslims and Orthodox Jews…
As a character, the old hard-drinking, plucky-with-a-stubborn-streak-about-a-mile-wide female musician who’s getting older and washed up and needs a chance at a redemption that might just be a little closer to home than she thinks is hardly in short supply (see Gwyneth Paltrow in the upcoming Country Strong, for example). Still,…
In this day and age of reality shows being devoted to every imaginable social phenomenon (recall, if you will, TV Lands’s The Cougar), it was only a matter of time before one got devoted to the “fag hag” — although the Sundance Channel’s series goes with the considerably more PC…
The town of Lafayette, Indiana was up in arms over a couple of snow penises that popped up in a neighborhood after a big snowstorm. Town folk were terrified of the giant snow penis sculptures, causing a confused state of frenzy and frustration before police showed up and laughed at…
Denver’s Minor Disturbance youth Slam Team made history for the local poetry scene earlier this year when they appeared in Brave New Voices, the HBO special that followed the 2010 National Slam Team championships held in L.A. Denver’s team won fourth place in the global competition, but many had issues…
Among the most truly nerdy of nerds, Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage is perhaps one of the most talked about films of the year (and by “year,” we mean in general, since the film comes out January 1, so it would be kind of silly if we meant… anyway), in large…
Progression in snowboarding and freeskiing moves pretty fast: Last year’s double corks are already giving way to this year’s triple corks, and gaps as big as 70 feet are now terrain park features at many Colorado ski areas. How, exactly, does one muster the cojones confidence to sack up, point…
“This is an exhibition of really 3,000 years of Egyptian history,” explains Kristy Bassuener, spokeswoman for the Denver Art Museum. “We were really excited and certainly, this was the exact type of exhibition that the Hamilton building was meant for. We have the climate control, the space and the ability…
When Jump Suits: An Outis Space Venture opens tonight at PlatteForum, the inner superheroic fantasies of a group of Colfax Community Network kids, ages five through twelve, will be revealed. The students, who’ve worked for six weeks with Teddy O’Connor (an artist who embraces both comic-book and sculptural forms), will…
Lonnie Hanzon, Wizard in Residence at the Museum of Outdoor Arts, is making magic again at Hudson Holiday, the annual festival that MOA sponsors at Hudson Gardens. Spread throughout the grounds, this is a light show for the ages: lavish and excessive, psychedelic, funny as hell, beautiful, whimsical and an…
Denver native Adam Cayton-Holland has been telling jokes professionally for a few years now (he described his start in standup on the cover of Westword in July 2004) but only recently moved up to headlining at the Comedy Works. With the lead gig comes more time on stage for Cayton-Holland,…
Time to scrub the slate clean: Today marks the start of the year when you’ll finally amount to something, thereby proving that your implacable father was wrong about you all along. And since you’ve got a lot to accomplish, you might as well get a jump on what to expect…
When an auteur as gifted as Steven Soderbergh takes on the story of an equally gifted performance artist, some kind of magic is almost inevitable, and that’s surely the case with the director’s new film portrait of the late Spalding Gray, whose mysterious suicide in 2004 still reverberates with his…
“Kids are king of the hill this week,” says Keystone Resort spokesman Ryan Whaley, the biggest kid on the mountain. “Wait until you see the Kidtopia snow fort this year — it’s humongous!” Kidtopia Family Week activities run December 27 through January 2 at Keystone and include a New Year’s…
For any parents who’ve ever foisted music lessons upon their unwilling offspring, the word “recital” will probably conjure up images involving stiffly combed hair, flubbed notes and the abject terror of kids getting their first taste of stage fright. But although it involves young musicians, tonight’s Tracing the Romantic Muse…
Five events, one venue: That’s the plan for the Mercury Cafe’s New Year’s Eve Celebration. And with numbers like that, the evening is sure to have something for everyone. The celebration starts at 5:30 p.m. with dinner, classical music and jazz provided by Local Color, Ron Tomasic and Nexus, then…
Quick, before grunge nostalgia sets in, party like it’s 1989 when Diamond Cabaret and After Dark host Lollipop, featuring performances by Young MC and Tiffany. Set those leg warmers and acid-wash jeans free to find their groove with the posse of national and local DJs spinning at both clubs, and…
One tattoo artist, 900 tattoos and 24 hours to break a world record. Local tattoo artist Kaos will set up shop tonight at the Hyatt Regency DTC, 7800 East Tufts Avenue, for a marathon inking session – an attempt to break the world record of 801 tattoos in a single…
Ring in the New Year with everyone’s favorite handicapped-molestation-victim-turned world-beater. That would be the Who’s Tommy, and the entire rock opera will be performed by Captain Quirk & Friends tonight at Miners Alley Playhouse. “I used to play in bands in college, and we’d do pieces of Tommy,” explains producer…
