On Sunday night, a fellow judge and I careened around all the road work downtown, attempting to look at the 21 windows that are all competing in LoDo Aglow, an annual decorating contest sponsored by the LoDo District. Not only did we find an impressive official expression of holiday cheer…
If you’re one of those local loonies who gets as stoked about skiing uphill as skiing down, this one’s for you: Breckenridge-based adventure racer Monique Merrill is the featured guest tonight at 7 p.m. at the REI Denver Flagship store, 1416 Platte Street, where she’ll be talking about the thrills…
Of all the expressive media, probably the most exclusive tend to be poetry and abstract art. They’re dense, demanding and heavily symbolic, and they’re hard to interpret without some background of study — all of which gives them a reputation for elitism and pretension. Still, those same qualities are what…
Here’s to you, Wikipedia, settler of barroom bets, supplier of obscure facts, primary source of 80 percent of papers written for freshman comp. You are our favorite way to waste time on our smartphones, the first thing that comes up when we type “coprophagia” into Google; indeed, you’re the very…
Secret Santa shopping got you down? Head back to the drawing board at 6 p.m. this coming Sunday to whip up some pin-ups at Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, where Shotza Ouzo and Chalita Bang-Bang (a playful duo who frequent Denver’s burlesque stages) will pose merrily as you scribble away. According…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning December 1, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve…
You haven’t really experienced the holidays until you’ve seen the historic and elegant Grant-Humphreys mansion on Quality Hill in seasonal dress, with poinsettias lining the grand staircase and light streaming into the first-floor sunroom. That was the setting last Sunday for Fashion Denver’s quarterly shopping spree, Vixen, a festive holiday…
If there’s one thing you can count on in life, it’s the potential for ensuing hilarity when you combine dudes with things that go fast — and to that end, it’s hard to think of a better vehicle for it than the snowmobile, a machine built almost solely for the…
As we’re heading straight into Christmas, the new-release rack is starting to get more and more bare, but there’s still enough worthwhile new media this week to highlight. We can’t say the same for next week’s releases, but since you’ll probably be getting a stockpile of wrapped and delivered goods,…
When you share a bill with Gwenyth Paltrow on Conan O’Brien’s step-down-but-still-in-the-game TBS vehicle, you know you’ve sort of made it. Such was the case last night for T.J. Miller, the latest in an increasingly long line of semi-stars to come out of Denver’s East High School that also includes…
Like many art forms, the craft of standup comedy is, for the most part, a boys’ club. “We wanted to take back the night,” jokes participating comedian Alicia Jacobs of Ladies Laugh-in, a monthly comedy showcase happening tomorrow night at 8 p.m. at Beauty Bar. Started back in July by…
While most television commercials pander to humanity’s desire for love, affection and acceptance, some ads go straight for our most primal instinct — that is, to employ a lawn mower for transportation to wonderful far-off climes in search of our ‘happy place,’ while carelessly wreaking havoc on our fellow man,…
Holiday shopping, Colorado-style: Tonight is the annual Men’s Shopping Night at Outdoor Divas in Cherry Creek, 2717 East Third Avenue (or head to the Boulder store tomorrow night, 1133 Pearl Street), and these divas have us dudes all figured out: They’ll be plying us with pizza and Oskar Blues brews…
The Denver Art Museum blockbuster Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs is scheduled to run through the first week of the new year, and although the museum no longer estimates attendance during a show’s run, it’s clear that Tut has been popular. Additional buzz has been generated by…
Isca Greenfield-Sanders. An up-and-coming New York art star is the subject of a beautiful solo, Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Light Leaks, in the David & Laura Merage Foundation Gallery on the first floor of MCA Denver. The exhibit has been curated by Nora Burnett Abrams, who has also done an accompanying catalogue…
Dixie’s Tupperware Party. Dixie is a booze- and sex-addicted, trash-talking, child-neglecting ex-con from Alabama who holds Tupperware parties in her trailer, and she’s invited you to this one. Dixie’s Tupperware Party at the Galleria really is a Tupperware party — you get a name tag and raffle number when you…
Based on his own series of popular-on-the-Internet short films, Finnish writer-director Jalmari Helander’s Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale creates something of a new origin story for Santa Claus — or, rather, re-introduces with dark glee some of the original pagan myths that have long been glossed over by the market…
Jeff Bridges is God and, as image-captured from the original 1982 Tron, also the devil in Disney’s mega-million-dollar reboot, Tron: Legacy. The notion of a tragically split persona might have been scripted to give the new movie a measure of emotional gravitas, but why bother with writing when Tron: Legacy…
It’s taken almost two years for the bonkers, exhilarating same-sex romantic comedy I Love You Phillip Morris to finally reach theaters. Premiering at Sundance in January 2009, the movie was a near-casualty of nervous-nellie U.S. Distributors — more comfortable with innocuous gay genres like the homosexual weepie or the martyr…
Though I’ve managed to skip all Sugarplums, Scrooges and Child’s Christmases this year, I couldn’t avoid the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s A Christmas Carol. Director Philip C. Sneed’s readers’ theater approach — few actors, a cappella Christmas songs, minimal glitz, functional rather than exquisite sets and costumes — puts the focus…
When the clock struck twelve, did you strike out? No matter how disappointing your worst New Year’s Eve may have been, the winners of our My Worst New Year’s Eve essay contest have you beat. Read their stories below — then see our comprehensive, up-to-date event listings for dozens of…
It was one of the most egregious and highly publicized miscarriages of justice in American history: the murder of Emmett Louis Till, a sixteen-year-old black boy who was brutally murdered for the alleged crime of flirting with a while woman in rural Mississippi in 1955. Though the obviously guilty perpetrators…
