Sometimes it’s funny to put things where they don’t belong — like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop, or George W. Bush in the White House. That absurdist dissonance is the guiding principle behind MisCast, Paragon Theatre’s annual fundraiser and sendup show. The idea originally came from Nextstage, a now-defunct Denver…
The rivalry between the Red Riding Hoods and the Sugar Kill Gang comes to a head tonight at 6:30 p.m., when the two oldest roller derby teams in the state battle it out for the Rocky Mountain Roller Girls’ Home Team League Championships. “The Hoods have a long history of…
This should be illuminating: The Colorado Renewable Energy Society’s Denver Area Solar and Green Homes Tour aims to educate homeowners on solar and energy efficiency. “Part of our mission is to show people different ways to connect with the renewable-energy economy. It doesn’t just have to be solar panels on…
Design divas in New York and Los Angeles might consider Denver a couture cowtown, but that’s only because they’ve never encountered Fashion Denver, Brandi Shigley’s organization that works hard to bring this city’s fashionistas — and their adorable creations — to the public’s attention. To do so, Fashion Denver hosts…
Though the idea has been kicking around the University of Colorado for over fifty years, a new CU Art Museum finally opens today. The facility is in the just-completed Visual Arts Complex and comprises two buildings designed by Boston’s KMW and Colorado’s own OZ Architecture in an updated Tuscan style,…
Aspen’s four-day ski-and-snowboard film festival, The Meeting, gets under way tonight with the annual NEPSA Awards at the Wheeler Opera House. “The NEPSA Awards — that’s “Aspen” spelled backward — recognize local amateur filmmakers competing in the eighth annual film-shorts competition,” says Meredith McKee, spokeswoman for Aspen/Snowmass. This year, the…
With this round of the University of Colorado’s annual Arts and Culture Week, Boulder is getting a special treat: the national premiere of Nine Nation Animation, a program of nine animated shorts from around the world. “It was curated and put together by Jonathan Howell, whose day job is working…
Denver Urban Gardens, a literal grassroots organization, was founded 25 years ago to help start and support community gardens in diverse neighborhoods across the city. The quarter-century anniversary of this group is reason enough to celebrate — but today, DUG will also break ground on its hundredth community garden at…
A Christmas movie in September typically means either throwaway scheduling or advance Oscar positioning. And, for a while, Lovely, Still, a modest little picture from novice writer-director Nik Fackler, seems to offer little more than the slightly dismaying sight of two great old actors striving to do right by a…
Catherine O’Neill Thorn, the Westword Mastermind behind Art From Ashes, a local poetry program for at-risk youth, couldn’t believe that Denver wasn’t the first city to host a Running of the Gays. Turns out there have been similar events in settings as far away as Australia and as close (and…
Dr. Drew Pinsky, a specialist in celebrity addiction, is the host of Loveline, Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew, Sex Rehab With Dr. Drew and Celebrity Rehab Presents Sober House. But today at noon, he’ll be appearing in person, speaking at Arapahoe House’s Luncheon With Dr. Drew. Pinsky is a board-certified…
Think you can barbecue with the big boys? Prove it today, when a cartel of backyard grillers goes stroke-to-stroke against local caterers and restaurant chefs to find out who’s the hottest. Thrilla on the Grilla is being held in conjunction with the Castle Pines North Octoberfest, which will run from…
The fall art season is just getting under way, with several major shows open or about to open, including a few blockbusters. So this will be my last chance for a while to highlight interesting solos that fall short of that designation. Right now there are three worthwhile ones, all…
A Christmas movie in September typically means either throwaway scheduling or advance Oscar positioning. And, for a while, Lovely, Still, a modest little picture from novice writer-director Nik Fackler, seems to offer little more than the slightly dismaying sight of two great old actors striving to do right by a…
Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps doesn’t have the clean, fable-like arc of its predecessor, the tale of the Fox and the Gekko (Charlie Sheen’s upstart broker Bud, Michael Douglas’s Wall Street player Gordon). Only the buccaneer charisma of Douglas’s signature role obscured the “Clean business, clean soul” moral…
Published five years ago, Kazuo Ishiguro’s massively praised Never Let Me Go is set in an alternate universe where life has been extended and catastrophic illness eliminated, thanks to an evolutionary advance, namely the harvesting of vital organs from specially bred human clones. But that’s backstory. Despite its lurid premise,…
When I first attended a Buntport Theater Company production and found six people in the audience — myself and my friend two of them — I’d never have predicted that the troupe would make it ten years. Other smart and talented companies have fallen by the wayside, but the six…
Exposure. Eric Paddock is the Denver Art Museum’s first full-fledged photo curator to head up his own new department. To unveil the permanent gallery for photography in the Ponti tower, he’s put together Exposure: Photos From the Vault, highlighting a range of gems from the DAM’s collection. Collected in fits…
It was only a matter of time before The Daily Show and company got on the Glenn Beck bandwagon — really, Beck’s “Rally to Restore Honor,” pompously delivered from the same place and on the same day as Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, “I Have a Dream” speech, was too bloated…
Sizzle the cat — so named by his rescuers from the Fourmile Canyon fire possibly because his serious burns made them think of fajita meat — became notable this week for being the last pet found in the fire and not reunited with his owner. Now, he’s been claimed –…
Kate Feinsod’s South Gaylord Street boutique Pome is at once the product of her whim and of her sense of community-building and public service: She hand-picks every item in the store, according to her own unique tastes, and is such a fierce proponent of the buy local movement that she’ll…
Because it’s a slow news day, each Wednesday, we bring you the best of our weird internetz world in a collection of loosely related items about whatever topic we happen to come up with. Today, we’re thinking about robots, and the inevitable destruction they will one day visit upon human…
