Event promoter Dana Cain puts on a lot of shindigs every year, but to date, none have been as magnificent as the Denver Modernism Show, an enormous flea market, juried art show, pop culture and design expo, tiki lounge and love paean to mid-century style and shlock that she stages…
Few things in life are sexier than skull fragments, charred flesh and the ticking of a cold, dispassionate mind. Or so Bones would lead you to believe. The hit Fox police procedural stars Emily Deschanel as the stunning Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan, a brilliant, socially awkward, emotionally distant investigator who…
In a bygone era, men with fedoras and skinny ties roamed the streets of Vegas, looking for action and engaging their classy vices. That era is mostly gone, but today, if only for a day, the Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival is bringing it back. “What can be expected is a…
The crack of spitting chiles and the scent of their hypnotic char perfuming the early autumn air is something we look forward to every year in Denver. But before the parking lots along Federal Boulevard turn into orgies of chile-heads and chile roasters, there’s the Chile Harvest Festival at Lakewood’s…
The goddess of love is taking her tithings from pedal-pushers today to benefit Greenhouse Scholars, a Boulder-based nonprofit offering college scholarships, mentoring and academic support to high-performing, under-resourced students. Now in its third year, the ladies-only Venus de Miles has tripled in size: Ride priestess Teresa Robbins says she’s expecting…
If you’ve been missing out on the folksier segment of the Colorado music scene, head up Boulder Canyon to Nederland this weekend for the annual NedFest, where local Nedheads like Vince Herman and Great American Taxi, Bill Nershi’s Blue Planet and Mountain Standard Time share the bill with headliners (Nedliners?)…
Because Wednesday is 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 bringing you one that isn’t exactly new, per se, and also isn’t entirely…
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This year’s Denver Modernism Show has more angles than a Gropius house: fashion, style, architecture, design, retro schlock. But the show’s juried gallery of works primarily by Colorado artists (curated by Lauri Lynnxe Murphy) is unquestionably one of its premier slants. And while the official prize-winners will be determined by…
It wasn’t the first time I’ve needed a joke explained to me — it happens pretty much every time I accidentally read Marmaduke and end up feeling baffled and vaguely upset. But while I’m at this point accustomed to not getting the jokes of that zany Dane, I generally expect…
If the success of the Denver Modernism Show is any indication, Denver loves mid-century Modernism and its ruling principles of clean lines and futuristic thinking. All across the front range, we’re suddenly frozen in the headlights of Mad Men and all that rad retro style that comes with it, and…
We know the deal: You’re looking for ways to waste time at work, and we’re here to help you waste it. Hence, Browser game of the week, where we’ll comb the depths of the Flash game vortex and pick different games for you to waste away your Wednesday with. We’ll…
If you didn’t make it to the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival in May, check out the encore this week at the Mountain Summit in Aspen, August 26-29 at the Wheeler Opera House (tickets here)…
It all started thanks to some mellow bro, or some totally cool chick, in Brooklyn. No one can be sure, except that they were in Brooklyn, naturally. In any case, this stalwart individual sat down one day and drew some equilateral triangles over the face of a woman in a…
One needs only to examine the etymology to know the concept has been around a while –whether it actually exists or not, it’s guaranteed nobody will be watching Heidi Montag’s now-infamous but as yet unverified “sex tape” on VHS. Even so, since its inception in the camcorder age of the…
Who is Lebresus? Where did he come from? What’s up with the halo and the badass beard? Is he any relation to the big J.C.? We first noticed Lebresus last week. He was spray painted onto a window of the castle-sized Sports Authority at 10th and Broadway, catty-corner to our…
If the success of the Denver Modernism Show is any indication, Denver loves mid-century Modernism and its ruling principles of clean lines and futuristic thinking. All across the front range, we’re suddenly frozen in the headlights of Mad Men and all that rad retro style that comes with it, and…
The media of today is hard to keep up with — it comes from so many directions and in so many forms that it’s next to impossible to keep track of your favorite artists, let alone new ones. Because we’re devoted to your convenience, we’re going to pick five things…
The Denver Art Museum, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science — the big museums get all the love. But what about the smaller ones, those odd little enclaves devoted to more obscure aspects of our past? Like, say, black cowboys? It’s not often we hear about the contribution of…
Some people just stand out. Whether their style is cutting-edge, quirky or just well-executed, they make you want to know: How do they do it? Because we work for you, we’re finding out. Each day, we’ll hit the streets and talk to one person who catches our eye and makes…
There’s no telling whether Al Stults Jr. was being straight or making a double entendre when he pointed at the chicken breasts and told a Safeway clerk he liked “the large ones,” but one thing is sure: When he got 86’d out of said Safeway, the situation became ridiculous. And…
The Bag Monster is a shameless ham. Speaking with an affected Cookie Monster rasp and standing in the midst of an installation of about 45,000 disposable plastic bags–the amount of bags one person will typically use in a lifetime–in Skyline Park, he’s not shy about confronting passers-by with his cause…
