Every day Westword receptionist Steve Burge gives you the fashionable view from the front desk. White may be the color of purity and innocence but methinks that smoldering glare hides much darker thoughts. Burlesque temptress, Orchid Mei, is stunning in this floor length evening gown and fur wrap as she…
Every day Westword receptionist Steve Burge gives you the fashionable view from the front desk. A wise man once sang, “Save a horse! Ride a cowboy!” Profound lyrics most certainly inspired by a shirt such as this. Editorial stud muffin, Jonathan, puts the “CO” in “Cowtown” and shows off some…
Slide Show If you chose to spend last weekend anywhere other than the Pink Elephant Room, you made a bad choice. Lucky for you, though, there will be ample chances to redeem yourself. Every Friday and Saturday, PS 1515, at the corner of Madison and Colfax, transforms itself into the…
The current exhibit at Metropolitan State College’s Center for Visual Art is interesting, though decidedly odd. It’s simply called Story, with no subtitle to help explain the idea behind it. This allowed its organizers, CVA director Jennifer Garner and assistant director Cicely Cullen, to build a group show connected only…
When Mark Travis died at the end of 2007, he had begun working on a series of politically themed pieces that were going to be presented at Space Gallery (765 Santa Fe Drive, 720-904-1086, www.spacegallery.org) this August to coincide with the Democratic National Convention. That plan was scrapped after his…
Color as Field. It’s no exaggeration to say that Color as Field: American Painting 1950-1975 is one of the best shows presented in Denver in a generation. Filled with a who’s who of American art — Still, Rothko, Frankenthaler, Stella — it’s like a brief vacation into a world where…
The King of Kong (New Line) Seth Gordon’s best-of-2007 documentary about the battle for Donkey Kong supremacy remains a work-in-progress: Billy Mitchell, the longtime titleholder dethroned by Steve Wiebe over the course of this hysterical, thrilling, and occasionally sad little film, recently reclaimed the throne — and Wiebe has vowed…
The very first time I saw the Wii’s motion-sensitive “Wiimote,” a single thought bounced in my head like a toddler on corn syrup: Finally we’re gonna get an f-ing brilliant lightsaber game. It was inevitable, a perfect match for the technology. Never again would I be caught doing the Star…
Morgan Spurlock makes us look bad, plus (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine. Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden’s Sugar, which premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival (and was inexplicably shut out at the closing-night awards ceremony), gets as much right about baseball as…
A fourth Rambo? The question isn’t why; it’s what took him so long. Was America’s avenging angel of meat just planning to sit out Fallujah and what we’re cooking up for Iran and Syria? (Oops — pretend that last part was redacted.) Sure, last time we saw John Rambo, twenty…
I’d like to see Closer again, not because the first viewing was overwhelmingly enjoyable or illuminating — although it was definitely interesting — but because the structure wasn’t immediately apparent, and you sense that it’s important to the meaning. When I got home and went on Google, I found an…
There are moments from Paula Vogel’s And Baby Makes Seven that stick with me: Anna, a pregnant woman, seated on a kitchen chair and smiling while her gay male roommate, Peter, cups one of her breasts, and Ruth, her lesbian lover, holds the other; Ruth fighting her alter ego, a…
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: 5 (Warner Bros.) Barn of the Naked Dead (Legend House) Bordertown (THINKFilm) Canvas (Universal) Chancer: Series 2 (Acorn Media) The Comebacks (Fox) Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Sixth Season (HBO) Daddy Day Camp (Sony) Damages: The Complete First Season (Sony) Drumline: Special Edition (Fox) El Cid:…
I’m way too old to be captivated by Kidrobot toys, and yet I inexplicably am — if I were richer, I’d have a houseful of Dunnys and Munnys and Zoomies and Labbits and IceBots. But I was raised on a steady diet of Denver Art Museum doll trolls, Cootie, Gumby…
‘Tis the season to celebrate and remember all things African-American, and Rocky Mountain PBS is going full speed ahead with its premiere of African American Lives 2, a new four-part series building on the momentum of 2006’s African American Lives. Featuring such notable Americans as Maya Angelou, Bliss Broyard, Don…
For Kingdom of Magic’s debut, Luke Fairchild and his White Dynamite cohort, Joe Ramirez, team up with drummer Devon Rogers for a relentlessly heavy bong-burner. Unlike their cannabis-cracked stoner-rock cronies, however, the trio keeps the riff tonnage at maximum and drops it hard. There are only two tracks, but they…
“Bob Marley is a staple in life, period,” says Lillian Marsh, event coordinator for tonight’s What About Bob? celebration. She has a point: The reggae master and activist — who would have been 63 now had he not passed away in 1981 at age 36 — is still influencing today’s…
The football gods are a fickle bunch. Despite the wishes of everyone not living within driving distance of a Revolutionary War battlefield, a championship-game showdown between Brett Favre — the most mythical Midwestern folk hero since Paul Bunyan — and the undefeated New England Patriots will remain a fantasy played…
If you’re not afraid to go a little out of the way for the chance to hear something truly unique, plan a trip tonight to the Syzygy Community House, 51 Paula Avenue in Rollinsville, for the Imbolc/Candlemas Celebration. The highlight of the evening will be the first Colorado performance in…
Tony Garcia is a Chicano baby boomer wading through middle age, a veteran of the Mexican-American civil rights movement and an aging artist who really hates standing in line. “There’s a whole list of shit that I don’t care about anymore,” says the executive artistic director at El Centro Su…
Poets hate war, especially this one. And they all do readings that push their own anti-war agendas. But that’s often just one lone voice screaming into the wilderness. “Wouldn’t it be nice to have thirty voices screaming into the wilderness?” That thought, posed by local poet Wayne Gilbert, sparked fellow…
Can you create a comic in 24 hours? That’s the question the comic-book world asks every October when it challenges cartoonists to come up with 24 pages in 24 hours, complete with story, art and lettering. Last year, several local comic-book artists took the “dare” — as 24HourComics.com calls it…
