Sandra Day O’Connor is a true inspiration. Not only did she serve as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for 24 years, but she was also the first woman to ever serve on the Court (and her nomination was confirmed 99 to zero by the United States Senate…
We drove an old faux-wood-paneled station wagon packed with six of us plus backpacks, tents and coolers. All for a music festival at the tip-top of Maine. Ironically, the craziest event on that trip had nothing to do with music, cramped quarters, camping, lighthouses or stopping for lobster rolls at…
This year, Denver is bringing Earth Day to the people. Its Earth Day Fair — which for the past few years was a small exhibition in the Webb Building for city employees — has been opened up to all residents and will be held in Civic Center Park. “It’s probably…
Anyone who thinks of progressive music as either willfully difficult or excessively airy-fairy will be disabused of that notion by this Seattle outfit’s take on the approach once known as art rock. Tracks such as “White Mystery” are propulsive and accessible even as they eschew hackneyed structures for more adventurous…
When it comes to organized religion, Erkekjetter Silenoz, the guitarist/ songwriter for Norway’s Dimmu Borgir, considers himself to be an equal-opportunity hater. “I think most people — at least our fans — know our stance against religion,” he says, his accent as deep as a fjord. “It doesn’t have to…
Austin’s Ghostland Observatory is more than just another pair of sweaty dudes making party music. Aaron Behrens and Thomas Turner crank up the heat on this formula by combining filthy French electro with ’60s soul and plenty of ’80s synth pop. While Turner churns out beats that butts can’t resist,…
“So Jayne Cobb and Spock walk into a Denver hotel…” sounds like the start of a particularly geeky joke, but it’s the truth today as Starfest 2008 brings the actors behind those movie roles (Adam Baldwin and Zachary Quinto, respectively) — as well as several other big-name genre stars —…
Yeasayer isn’t worried about the apocalypse. In fact, it has a song about it called “Final Pass.” Its advice is simple: When the end comes, dance. “There’s some article,” reports Yeasayer guitarist Anand Wilder, “about how some ridiculous number of congressmen believe it’s their duty to bring about the end…
Slide Show! Wilde Dancebar and Lounge celebrated its “soft opening” last week, and with two floors, two bars and lots of dark corners perfect for dark deeds, owner John Costelloe seems to hold the key to Denver’s newest, gay hotspot. The boyz were pretty, the girlz were sassy, and the…
Slide Show! Having already filed their taxes, or not, these Denverites were looking relaxed and warm and happy to be wearing their spring clothes for a change. By Molly Kreck…
With the weather this week, it’s hard to deny that spring is in the air (at least until we get that one last cold snap that’s bound rain or snow on our parade). So here’s to a sunny Colorado spring full of flirty, feminine dresses. The dress is a staple…
Despite Colorado’s refusal to accept the truth, it is technically spring. Do you hear me, Colorado! It’s spring!!! It’s spriiiiiiiiiiiiiing!!! And you know who’s going to celebrate spring, in spite of it all? This girl! Denver actress, Chelley Canales, throws caution to the wind (that is currently blowing snow around…
For pure cinema, nothing rivals a high-stakes, full-tilt poker game — unless it’s somebody landing on Ventnor Avenue with two houses, or sending an opponent to the backgammon bar with double threes, or laying down a four with a bloodcurdling cry of “Uno!” Add poker to the long list of…
For a movie built around questions of failed ethics and duplicitous behavior, Street Kings is just as dishonest as its characters. Though conceived as yet another sobering frontline report on law enforcement’s ever-expanding gray area, director David Ayer’s grim police thriller mostly plays as one long dick-measuring competition. You sense…
For those growing up in weatherbeaten West Texas, someone notes early in Laura Dunn’s The Unforeseen, “nature becomes God.” A God that hands out abundance at times, to be sure, but also one who snatches away crops, farms and livelihoods in a single wrathful whirlwind. To master one’s plot of…
It’s nice when a game comes along that pleasantly surprises you. I admit, I judged Viking: Battle for Asgard by the screenshots, writing it off as yet another one of those grimy, violent games so plentiful that they’re almost their own category: the “Bloodletting in Brown Clothes on a Cloudy…
The Merry Wives of Windsor tells the story of Sir John Falstaff — but not the cunning, cowardly and hilarious knight of the history plays, the Lord of Misrule who led astray a young Henry V and represented all the joys of drunkenness and revelry. No, this version is pretty…
Anyone who’s spent time in class listening while a self-important academic spins webs of obfuscatory words around a relatively straightforward idea, who has felt almost annihilated by the sheer number of those words, will sympathize with Carol, the perplexed and ultimately vengeful student in David Mamet’s Oleanna. If, on the…
The Baseball Show. Evil, malaprop-prone Vincent Vascombe, owner of the Beloit Bulldogs, is determined to hold on to his star player, Bill “The Bomber” Dawson. But Dawson — aided by his smart, competent fiancée, Helen — has plans for the majors, and there’s a talent scout hanging around. So Vascombe…
There’s been so much going on in the Denver art world that we reached a critical mass of activity during the last month or so, especially considering that spring is typically light. In addition to multiple shows at the Denver Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, there was…
There’s a lot going on at Plus Gallery (2350 Lawrence Street, 303-296-0927, www.plusgallery.com), which has two solos on display and is featuring two other artists in small presentations. And there’s some news: Plus will be moving to 25th and Larimer streets this fall. Denver architect Steve Chucovich has been hired…
George Carlson. Put together by curator Ann Daley, who has shaped and defined the Western collection at the Denver Art Museum, George Carlson: Heart of the West deals with the career of an accomplished neo-traditional artist who looks to the century-old Impressionist style for inspiration. The Carlson exhibit includes nearly…
