Lots of authors dream of their books scoring glowing praise from the New York Review of Books, topping the bestseller lists, getting optioned for a Hollywood movie. But getting turned into a musical? How often does that happen? That could be the fate for Nine Lives, a nonfiction account of…
Why people love to disappear, like Shoeless Joe in Field of Dreams or Harry Potter in Goblet of Fire, into the depths of a cornfield is hard to ascertain. One supposes it has to do with our overall love of fresh air and mystery, especially when accompanied by the crispy…
Artist, humorist, DJ and man-about-town Bill Amundson has been part of the Denver landscape for more than thirty years, and I’ve known him for most of that time. Far, far away in a another life, I managed the Ogden Theatre, which was then a prehistoric Landmark repertory cinema, and Bill…
Gotta love Loveland, where, in the race to claim earliest opening day honors in North America yet again, they’ve already got snowmaking crews on the mountain. After getting hit with a bit of the real deal yesterday, Loveland’s snowmaking crews went to work under the full moon last night, which…
When we interviewed Mondo Guerra back in July, just in time for the premiere of Project Runway and before an episode had even been aired, we already knew he was going to do well: Just from the designer profiles, it was clear that Mondo was far and away the weirdest,…
If your response to the question above was not “yeah. Hell yeah!” then you are a sad soul, my friend, and your dreams have died. Because if the idea of gators in the mountains doesn’t capture your imagination, pry its toothsome jaws open and wrestle it to the ground like…
Some people will try and tell you that $10 won’t get you much these days. To those people, we say “you’re wrong, sir,” because every weekend in Denver there is more than enough to do for 10 bucks and less. This weekend you’ll find an art museum grand opening, barbecue…
Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. As usual, we’re rounding up your options for the weekend to come and the following week, and…
Women are catty. Every time they go out, it’s like they’re all like, “Girl, don’t even,” and then the other one’s like “WTF did you just say to me?” and then they ineffectually slap each other until they comically fall into a pool. Even when women appear to be cool…
Time flies, doesn’t it? It seems like every year, Halloween is once again upon us with more ways to dress up as a slutty animal, profession or mythical creature than ever. Slutty minotaur? Why not? Slutty zombie? Somebody’s got you covered. But as cutting-edge as slutty things can be, there…
It speaks to the popularity of the 16th Street Mall pianos that, on my way down to see 91-year-old ivory-tickler Lenore Frederick’s informal piano send-off, I passed a high school girl pounding out a Rihanna song a block away — by most accounts, the second-hand outdoor uprights have been an…
It’s no secret that the interwebs hate Justin Bieber — after all, it was basically 4chan (really NSFW, that link) that sent the phrase “Justin Bieber syphilis” to the top of Google searches a couple of months ago. The hate is understandable, perhaps, or at least predictable. However good Bieber…
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 and chocolate fests each year. Her latest – and biggest – project is next summer’s Denver County Fair. But Dana is also an avid art…
We’ve been dutifully posting news of just about every ski & snowboard film premiere in the area this month — yes, we’re just as stoked for the snowy season as you are — and here comes the motherlode: Head up to Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House tonight for The Meeting, Aspen’s…
When you go through all the trouble of writing a book — and perhaps you don’t have any illusions of grandeur about being the next James Joyce or anything, but even a just-okay book requires an enormous amount of creative energy and personal investment — it must be tough when…
There are many jobs in this world. Some are so bizarre you probably don’t know they exist; some you might have had no idea people actually make a living at. In an effort to highlight some of these jobs, we’ve started a new series detailing the origins of people actually…
Poetry is the structural rhetoric used to evoke emotional qualities. Rap is, at the etymological root, the chanting of rhymed lyrics in time to a beat. The literary facet of poetry has been around for ages, long before the stories were translated into reading interpretations, while rap was used in…
The Absinthe Films Sphere of Influence Tour makes its way to Denver tonight at 7:30 with the local premiere of NowHere at the Esquire. Featured riders Marie France Roy, Dan Brisse, Bode Merril, Cale Zima, and Annie Boulanger will be in the house with some Sharpies, and proceeds from the…
Lakewood’s Heritage Center has a huge toy collection, and the institution is showing it off in a new exhibit called The Science of Toys. “What we have is all your favorite toys from your childhood, divided up into five different science concepts,” says Heritage Center curator Jamie Wilms. “The concepts…
The 2010 Denver Biennial is a citywide celebration of the artistic, intellectual and political progress of the Western Hemisphere’s 35 nations. In honor of the month-long event, the Denver Art Museum brought in the work of photographer Edward Ranney to highlight its New World collection of Spanish Colonial and pre-Columbian…
Andrew Lloyd Webber may be famous for the elaborate, but Rod Lansberry, director of the Arvada Center’s regional premiere of Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, thinks he can do the play one better. “Webber productions tend to be spectacles,” he says, acknowledging that, as a regional theater, the Center doesn’t exactly have…
He was a visionary. He was a lightning rod for controversy. He was bigger than Jesus. He was John Lennon, and although his life has been examined in countless books and films, few of those have focused in-depth on his formative years — the subject matter of the biopic Nowhere…
