It’s an American rite: For the last big fling of summer, you round up the kids, pack the car and head west toward a couple of days of freedom, get away from it all, breathe the fresh mountain air. At least, that’s what I expected when I set out for…
We all know the story: You go out into the world, seek your fortune, get rich and famous and return home to a parade in your honor that ends in the mayor presenting you with the key to the city. At least that’s what always happens to me. I’ve got…
Somehow, bicycles, graphic design and DIY culture have all become so entangled in a passionate love-grip that each is almost synonymous with the other. That’s especially true in Denver, where all three reign supreme in indie circles, and we like it that way. For that reason, we also love Artcrank…
There’s always that threshold, the line where culture becomes so awful that it somehow turns awesome — and that’s a hard line to force. The unwritten rule of things that are so bad they’re good is that they must be unintentionally awful; most of the time, things that are deliberately…
Can it already be First Friday again? There’s lot of art to be seen and good times to be had, so put on your walking shoes and go out into the night on the last great weekend of summer. After the jump, find our suggestions about where to head…
Ignite Boulder’s 12th installment of blog-style rants presented as multi-media performance art was held last night at the Chautauqa Theatre. Speakers expounded on subjects ranging from why waitresses are uniquely positioned to adapt to a post-apocalyptic society to the epic profundity of children’s picture books…
One whiff of today’s Tour de Coops event — a self-guided tour of chicken coops, goats, bees and culinary gardens in Boulder back yards — might make you cry, “Farm animals? Not in my back yard!” Which is cool; no one’s saying you have to harvest your own food and…
What to do on a Sunday night, when perhaps you’ve pigged out all day at A Taste of Colorado or Rockabilly and Ribs? And, duh, you don’t have to get up early the next morning? Switch on KBDI-TV/Channel 12 at 11 p.m. September 5 and be enlightened, when the locally…
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…
In our self-involved culture, there are a lot of really sad things, but perhaps none sadder than the continued corruption of yoga as a spiritual discipline. First, there was pilates, in which we conveniently removed the gobblety-gook “religious” component and made it a workout for businesspeople on the go, like…
Some people will try and tell you that $10 won’t get you much these days. To those people we cry foul, because every weekend in Denver there is more than enough to do for ten bucks and less. This weekend is a bonus: With Monday being a holiday, we get…
The modern furniture design company Knoll has its own museum in East Greenville, Pennsylvania; a traveling design show that originated there, The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Everyday Living, will now make its way into Denver’s mid-century wonderland, the Kirkland Museum, opening tomorrow for a run through the end…
It’s probably the oldest form of printmaking, he notes, but multimedia artist Jacob Custer is using it in some unusual ways. Fresh off an MFA from Indiana University’s Herron School of Art, Custer is back in town with Introspected, a complex installation of what looks something like hallucinogen-induced trees with…
Trust me, you don’t have to be a boomer to love the Denver Modernism Show, but you do have to have a certain sense of style. During my sojourn there last Friday and Saturday, I saw people of all ages, from WWII-era grannies to babes in backpacks. But I also…
A tiny oil on copper painting–less than 9×7 inches–was put on display yesterday at the Denver Art Museum in the European and American art galleries in the Ponti Building. The painting, entitled “Rembrandt Laughing,” by — you guessed it — Rembrandt, was discovered in 2007 at a country auction in…
YesPleaseMore is way more than a temporary retail space. And it’s even more than a cheerleader for the local artists and businesses who sell their wares in the Denver Pavilions pop-up shop (heads up, btw: This incarnation of YesPleaseMore closes forever on September 15, although, as the “pop-up” moniker implies,…
If you give the people a choice, apparently, the people will choose the most boring option — also, the people are evidently big fans of the deep south. In a completely precedented move, the city announced its pick for this years One Book, One Denver, and yet again, it’s a…
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…
Resident theater companies have been on their way out for decades. One of the last was at the Denver Center under Donovan Marley, whose loyalty to his company meant that first-rate actors could actually make a home in Denver — while audiences reaped the benefits. That’s an economically unsustainable model…
Some people are scared of Barbie and her seemingly anti-feminist position in pop culture. And those people are just plain terrified of Bratz dolls and their big-eyed whorishness. But some dolls… some dolls aren’t disturbing because of your social views, or for reasons having to do with the ways you…
You’re Pacman. You live in a maze, and your only activity is to eat things: small white dots, the occasional larger white dot and, under the right circumstances, some vaguely squid-looking guys that want to kill you, but even after you eat them they keep coming back to life like…
There is plenty of street skating in Denver, but if you’re looking for a one-stop shop for terrain, check out the Denver Skatepark. Open from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily, this concrete oasis includes a handful of bowls, ranging from a three-leaf clover type with bowl depths of three…
