Instagram is a cultural touchstone, a way for photographers — pro and amateur alike — to compete, collaborate and share their work with the world. And there’s plenty in Colorado to share — from breathtaking mountain scenery and gritty urban sights to aerial acrobats and adrenaline junkies caught in the…
With the arrival of green grass and pleasant evenings, some Front Range theater groups are moving outdoors, sending out invitations to bring the family and get cultured out under the stars. Here’s where to take in some theater this weekend, indoors or out. Theatre on the Green Series, Chicago Founder’s…
iZombie is about as sunny and optimistic as the zombie genre gets, which of course isn’t all that much. Even by supernatural standards, it’s a bloodthirsty canon, demanding regular sacrifices of innocents and grisly feats of skull splitting and cerebellum cannibalizing. The CW’s Seattle neo-noir boasts plenty of both to…
Counterpath Press may be homeless right now, but it hasn’t lost its way — as evidenced by the program the 2013 MasterMind winner has planned for tomorrow at the Dikeou Pop-Up: Colfax space, where four very different authors — Nick Montfort, Michael Friedman, Sanaz Fatemi and Graham Foust — will…
For Mary Poppins, P.L. Travers created a legendary children’s book about a nanny who descends on the stuffy, upper-class Victorian household of the Banks family and proceeds to tame two unruly children and enlighten their parents with discipline, kindness and magic. The book had a lasting effect on me when…
As waterlogged Denverites take their first tenuous steps out into the sun after an unexpectedly soggy May, a bounty of fine comedy shows await. The torrent-quenched giggle gardens are blooming anew with more opportunities than ever to laugh away the balmy evenings. Between the reunion of a cult-favorite sketch comedy…
In bands like Six Months to Live and The Babysitters, Gregory Hill earned a reputation for embracing the weird and refusing to pander to expectations. His work as a novelist has followed the same path: His debut novel, East of Denver, the tale of a man who drags his Alzheimer’s-afflicted…
As spring swings into summer, it’s time to put your best-dressed foot forward. There are plenty of fashion events in the first half of June, ranging from trunk shows and workshops to hair shows and fashion parties. Here are the seven best places to look your best, in chronological order. …
Twenty years back, at the height of the UFO boom, the truest believers in alien abduction scenarios would argue that their most compelling evidence was the commonalities between regular people’s stories of nighttime visitations. Even under hypnosis, “abductees” testified to remarkably consistent waking-dream terrors: an alert immobility, shadowed and mostly…
The first line in Entourage is a good indication of what the next 104 minutes will bring. Peering through a pair of binoculars while a speedboat carries him toward a yacht in the dazzling waters of Ibiza, Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon), the big brother of megastar Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier),…
There’s a point in City Park, on the backside of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, where you can see the city skyline just perfectly. The foreground is patched in with rolling acres of green surrounding Ferrill Lake and its companion boathouse and bandstand. In the background, you can…
When John Cusack was launching his career in the ’80s, Brian Wilson had gone from rock star to living lore — a brilliant Bigfoot. “People would have Brian Wilson encounters,” says Cusack, who plays Wilson in the new biopic Love & Mercy. “In L.A., people would say, ‘Oh, I was…
The Melissa McCarthy of Spy is different from the one who rose to prominence by shitting in a sink. Bridesmaids scored her an Oscar nomination, and for the ceremony, McCarthy donned a glamorous rose gown with a diamond collar and belt. But in the years since, Hollywood has continued to…
Though its obituary was written a generation ago, abstraction is back with a vengeance in contemporary art. This week, I’ll look at a set of four solos and a small group effort at Robischon Gallery, along with a super-simpatico solo at Rule Gallery. The festivities at Robischon begin with Don…
Artist Lauri Lynnxe Murphy started writing about The Mayday Experiment, her project that calls for building a tiny house in which she will tour the country, talking about the dangers of climate change, recently sat down in the midst of another spring rainstorm to think about the seventeen things she…
After more than five years at their small shop at 1668 Marion Street, Marion Street Tattoo had to move: The city is booming, and the storefront that houses the shop and a photography studio will be torn down when the entire block becomes an apartment complex. Marion Street owner Ryan Willard got…
It’s appropriate that when the lights go down on Wednesday for the start of the thirtieth annual Chautauqua Silent Film Series, they’ll do so in an auditorium that’s been screening movies longer than any other venue in Colorado. On July 21, 1898, the Chautauqua Auditorium hosted a traveling exhibitor displaying…
RiNo’s Final Friday, hosted by the MegaFauna boutique, returned on May 29 for another summer season of dancing in the streets to live music, shopping vendor booths and visiting local businesses along Walnut and Blake streets. The event continues every last Friday through August; find more information online. Photographer Danielle…
To try to explain an Everything Is Terrible! show is to try to describe the most haunting fever dream that has ever rolled through your brain: It’s like the terror of sleep paralysis, but with a weird comedy aftertaste. The artists behind EIT!, led by the mysterious shadow figure of…
What does the world sound like when you’re Brian Wilson? When you’ve made a record that sounds like cirrus clouds look — as Wilson did with the Beach Boys’ small modern miracle of harmony, 1966’s Pet Sounds — all bets are off when it comes to the way ordinary aural…
Literary events in the metro area this week will take you from the silly to the sublime: Play a round of “Where’s Waldo” with Momo the dog or fall under the spell of a novel rooted in the Canadian prairie. And if putting words together is your passion, Lighthouse Writers…
In Diva Watch, we’ll profile the passionate, diverse and fascinating performers who light up Denver’s drag community. We’re expanding on our Diva Dozen list from earlier this year by asking a series of questions to get a peek underneath the make-up. Meet Valerie Shearz, a Denver native who’s honed her…
