Some guys eat, sleep and breathe football. They die a little on the inside the morning after the Super Bowl, and they resort to watching arena football and reruns of old games on ESPN Classic all spring and summer. Other guys — the former players — are simply not content…
Vintage wine tastings, vertical coffee tastings and single-origin chocolate tastings are all so 2008, and I can’t wait to only see them again on I Love the ’00s in ten years on VH1. But an absinthe tasting? Now I’m listening. Ever since the anise-flavored herbal liquor made with wormwood was…
“Beneath the paving stones — the beach!” went the rallying cry when artistic agitator Guy Debord and thousands of other leftist, avant-garde students took to the streets of Paris in 1968. Not only did they nearly take down the French government in their mop hair, loafers and form-fitting sweaters, but…
Our record-high temperatures of late have everyone flushed with spring fever, and if you like to greet each impending season in style, head to Fresh, the Fashion Denver Spring Fashion Market, where you can browse the wears of over thirty local fashion and accessory designers. Brandi Shigley, founder of Fashion…
Blending history, science and geopolitics, Tom Zoellner’s Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock that Shaped the World delivers a gripping look at one of the most amazing and poorly misunderstood substances in all of creation. “The history of uranium is one of greed and scientific genius and paranoia and fear…
Everyone’s favorite human-vampire love match is coming to DVD: Stephanie Meyers’s best-selling Twilight book series, which hit the big screen last year, will be released for home viewing tonight. And to turn the release into an event worthy of such characters as Bella and Edward, Borders stores across the country…
Shuttle opens on Friday, March 20, for what’s likely to be a token theatrical run in an advance of a DVD release — and it’s lucky to receive even that much attention. Written and directed by Edward Anderson, who wrote the script for the 2008 Demi Moore underperformer Flawless, the…
The idea behind the old green slogan “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” is pretty obvious. Reduce the amount of packaging and/or waste you consume. Reuse what you can, and recycle what you can’t reuse. Well, the Harris Park Art Cooperative is taking that idea one step further with its Reduce, Reuse, Upcycle…
Explore the intersection of American and Iranian culture at Dialogue, a collaborative art exhibit presented by IRUS Art. The pieces on display were created by teams of artists split between the U.S and Iran, in media as diverse as paintings and interactive audio sculptures, and include a wall of works…
Poetry is hard — hard to read, hard to write. That’s why I admire the way poets like William Carlos Williams make it look easy by, for example, investing plums with complexity and transcendence. One of Williams’s modern-day literary descendents, Mark Doty, will read and discuss his own deceptively simple…
Does the idea of making a hollandaise make you shudder? Does coq au vin sound like some sort of disease? If you’re not a master of August Escoffier, the father of classical French cuisine, French Food for Springtime is the perfect class for you. Brought to you by the Alliance…
Back in the ’60s, my mother had an older co-worker named Aida whose nephew was Chet Helms, a San Francisco free spirit whose Family Dog Productions included Denver’s Family Dog concert hall for a couple of explosive years. It was through Aida that my brother and I came to possess…
They say tomorrow is always a new day, but if you happen to be a struggling artist or cultural nonprofit in Denver, that just might be true: You still have time to register for tomorrow’s fourth annual Create Denver Expo, hosted by the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs to provide…
Imagine being born on the same day as the woman you’re destined to marry, in beds directly across from each other, in the same room, in a small village hidden away in the high desert. Imagine that your young sweetheart’s grandmother has given you the perfect celestial moment for your…
Damien Hirst. You’d have to be living under a rock — or have absolutely no interest in contemporary art — not to know that Damien Hirst is a superstar, and that everything he makes is worth millions of dollars apiece. The tight solo at MCA Denver (formerly known as the…
Obviously, movies are an important part of Munchkins, Movies & Music, a biweekly event whose third edition takes place on Friday morning at the Oriental Theater. After all, the word itself gets second billing in the title. But specific films aren’t part of the draw, according to Scott LaBarbera, a…
That was the most offensive display of sexualized violence I have ever seen,” one wilting fellow in need of a camphor hankie was overheard saying in the elevator. Such blanching is the reaction Last House on the Left is trolling for, but I doubt it will be typical. Permissibility has…
Martin Scorsese may be presenting Matteo Garrone’s Gomorrah, but this corrosive, slapdash, grimly exciting exposé of organized crime in and around Naples comes on like Mean Streets cubed. Detailing daily life inside a criminal state, it’s a new sort of gangster film for America to ponder. Gomorrah takes its punning…
Susan, a mailwoman played by Erin Rollman, finds little meaning in her profession — but a lot of significance in the splat of birdshit on her windshield. Lovingly framing it with her fingers, she declares the thing “a bird poop angel” and bursts into a rapturous, American Idol-style song of…
She was in herself, like a woman near term, and did not think of the man, going on ahead, or the path, climbing upwards towards life. She was in herself. And her being-dead filled her with abundance. As a fruit with sweetness and darkness, so she was full with her…
Like many other people, I’m pretty bummed out about the closure of the Rocky Mountain News. But for me, it’s mainly because Mary Chandler (pictured), the paper’s ace art reporter, is now out of a job. Chandler graduated from the University of Missouri in 1970, and she’s worked in the…
Girls Only. The trouble with Girls Only, a two-woman evening of conversation, skits, singing, improvisation and audience participation, is that it’s so relentlessly nice. Creator-performers Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein have worked together for many years; at some point, they read their early diaries to each other and were transfixed…
