Time for some plein speaking: This is the last day to see the 2010 Denver Plein Air Festival Exhibition, a show of pieces produced during the largest urban plein air event in the country. The Golden Triangle Museum District came up with the concept four years ago as a way…
It’s almost an affront to the word “news” that the Rupert Murdoch-owned umbrella conglomerate that oversees media outlets like Fox News and the UK’s The Sun is generically called News Corporation, since that term generally implies facts. Facts, however, have never been the specialty of either of those organizations, as…
New Year’s Eve is definitely an adult-oriented holiday, but The Children’s Museum has found the perfect solution — move the celebration from midnight to noon and roll out the bubble wrap for all to enjoy…
Colorado is a regional art center with literally thousands of artists displaying their work in venues around the state that are as varied as coffee shops and museums. Here’s a list of ten artists who made a difference with their work last year. It’s a wide-ranging group that includes one…
What is Smash Putt? Oh lord, what is it not? To begin with, it’s a wicked art installation: a gigantic pinball machine, a Rube Goldberg-esque robotic creation on a major scale, Mad Max at the Putt Putt, with cocktail swilling included in the fun. And lucky you: Smash Putt!, a…
For as good as we have it here in the USA, we definitely miss out on some amazing media due to the prudish nature of much of our culture. Not so in the land of the Danes. The Danish Road Council is a million times cooler than any DOT in…
The week between Christmas and New Year’s is the dumbest week — at least if you’re unlucky enough to be at work (which, if you’re looking at this, you most likely are). Everyone else is on vacation, there’s not a whole lot to do and you’re just apathetically coasting into…
How does running and jumping around a weird universe and avoiding spinning fans of death sound for a quick time-wasting exercise? If it’s your idea of a good lunch break, than Insidia is right up your alley. Insidia is a Metroid-style platforming game in the simplest sense of the words,…
In November we published The Edge, our annual winter activity guide and comprehensive insider’s resource to 25 of Colorado’s top ski areas. It turns out we missed quite a few: According to the ghost hunters at Colorado Ski Country USA, there are 169 ski areas in the state, including 140…
Dana Cain is the lady with her thumb in a million pies: The local maestra of event-planning throws several well-attended collectors expos, art shows, parties, chocolate fests each year. Her latest — and biggest — project is next summer’s Denver County Fair. But Dana is also an avid art collector…
For those old enough to remember, the website was once a novelty, a nebulous idea that companies knew they had to have, but nobody was really sure how or why. These days, it’s kind of the same thing with smartphone apps, speculates Amy Burkhardt, a first-time businesswoman who recently co-founded…
Many of my favorite films of the year are still awaiting wider release, so although this top-ten list wraps up my 2010, it can also serve as a guide to your 2011. My number-one film, in fact, sneaks into New York just three days before the year ends: The Strange…
Since we’re a heartbeat away from being sick to death of this month’s crop of Oscar-seeking masterpieces, we’ve decided to cast a quick glance forward to the ten 2011 films we’re excited to see. We’ve seen some of the below, and make no promises for the others, but, as ever,…
The gossip blogs are abuzz today about the Lindsay Lohan PR machine’s reaction to a movie in the works that’s reportedly based on her. In one corner, filmmaker Charles Castillo, who has repeatedly mentioned Lohan’s name with regard to his upcoming Dogs in Pocketbooks, but claimed today that the movie…
So you just got Microsoft’s new controllerless system Kinect for your kids for Christmas and you’ve spent the holidays jumping around your house, dancing and having an all around good time. Good news right? Finally your kid is getting off the couch and moving. Well, according to Fox News in…
There aren’t enough opportunities for local playwrights to please Frank Oteri. It’s a shortage that drove Oteri to create A Very Dark Holiday Playwright Festivus at the Vintage Theatre, a showcase that spotlights work from six local writers. The show includes an original comedy from Oteri titled “Intimate Information,” a…
It’s now post-holiday time, which means one thing in retail: gift cards. If your family decided to not bother getting to know you and instead gave you a card filled with imaginary cash to spend at your favorite store, that means you might be looking for some ideas on how…
Where a less puckish person might have dismissed these two leaning mailboxes near Cheesman Park as an example of poor engineering, at least one smartass saw an opportunity for love. Due to groundswell and personality issues, though, the mailboxes are expected to be acrimoniously separated by this time next year,…
Ever wonder what a bunch of dudes from the other side of the world make of our mountains when they come here to ride? Freeride.CZ, a “riders driven” online action sports magazine based in the Czech Republic, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week with the online release of director…
For nearly as many years as the old jump-slide-across-the-hood trick has been a part of the lore of buddy-cop movies and The Dukes of Hazzard alike, the old try-to-jump-over-something-and-fall trick has been a time-honored gag in failure caught on video. But that doesn’t make it any less funny when it…
As a social phenomenon, probably the most interesting thing about celebrity death hoaxes is that they are a social phenomenon at all. There’s no point to them. They’re not particularly funny (aside from the resulting lulz if the celebrity in question gets all offended about it), and they have the…
Wimmin power retrofitted as holiday heart-stirrer, Made in Dagenham recounts the real-life 1968 strike for equal pay by the 187 distaff machinists at the Ford plant twelve miles outside London. These unwitting soixante-huitards in Mary Quant hot pants and five-story bouffants are led by Rita O’Grady (Sally Hawkins), forced to…
