Last weekend, French professional Counterstrike players LDLC beat out seven other teams from across Europe and the Americas at X Games Aspen, raking in $25,000 for their win. This weekend, some of those opponents will continue the fight at Clutch Con, a convention and high-stakes video-game tournament at the Crowne…
It’s Super Bowl weekend, which is cool, except for the fact that our boys in orange and blue won’t be there. And after last year’s Super Bowl, taking in a game featuring the Seattle Seahawks is like watching your ex-girlfriend go on a bunch of Tinder dates. To take your…
2015 Faculty Triennial Vicki Myhren Gallery 2121 East Asbury Avenue Over the past decade, Dan Jacobs, the director of the University of Denver’s Vicki Myhren Gallery, has built an impressive exhibition roster and presented one interesting show after another. In his related if distinct role as the curator of DU’s…
#39: Lauren A. Wright Though 2015 Biennial of the Americas artistic director Lauren A. Wright is a hometown girl, she spent nearly a decade abroad in the United Kingdom, where she explored international trends in art as a curator for Turner Contemporary and also worked on special projects for Tate…
When filmmaker/breast enthusiast Russ Meyer passed away in 2004, he left two simple statements on his gravestone: “King of the Nudies” and “I Was Glad to Do It.” Indeed, Meyer infused such joy into the taboo world of exploitation films that every one of his titles seems less like work…
The 1980s may have been over for more than three decades, but the nostalgia for excessive decadence remains. This Saturday you can relive the ’80s at Robusto Room, Lone Tree’s cigar bar and cocktail lounge, at Fast Times at Robusto — a bash named in honor of the classic ’80s…
Ghostbusters reboot was revealed earlier this week. Predictably, the Internet lost its collective mind at the news. Plenty of people were excited, but a much louder, much more obnoxious contingent took to every troll-friendly platform available to declare this new take on the busting of ghosts to be a travesty…
There are few hard-and-fast rules in screenwriting, but here’s one I think we can agree on: Something’s gone wrong if your crowd-pleasing family drama asks audiences to hope a child’s father proves to be a crackhead. That’s one baffling turn in Mike Binder’s Black or White, a movie about race…
While many of Oscar’s big shots clock in at more than two hours, some filmmakers remain committed to telling unique and inventive stories that don’t require viewers to set aside an entire night to enjoy. The Academy Award-nominated short films run the gamut of topics and tones. Yet together they…
Writer-director Stephen Belber’s inspiring, generous Match is so good that it’s like some kind of trick. In what can only be characterized as a verdant collaboration between the director and the irreplaceable Patrick Stewart, the film offers a vivid portrait of a huge-hearted Juilliard dance professor named Tobi Powell who…
5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche. “At the center, it’s a really sweet love story — and the funniest show of the year. I actually think that’s true. People who think women can’t be funny? Well, they should come and take a look at this.” That’s director Edith Weiss’s description of…
Charles Parson and Collin Parson. Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center museum director Blake Milteer has put together a major duet, Continuance: Charles and Collin Parson, taking advantage of the unusual circumstance in which a father and son are both committed contemporary artists. It makes sense to link Chuck to his…
Musique concrète pioneered the notion of composing directly with sound, often ignoring the common rules of melody, rhythm and the like. “It’s the idea that there’s these sounds you hear around that are familiar and have their own emotive content, and that you can kind of reduce it to those…
The late Russ Meyer, king of the exploitation film, had an eye for the ladies, and he centered his goofy pictures on stories about bored housewives with heaving bosoms looking for satisfaction, or on buxom badass babes out to tear rotten men a new one. From snapping photos for Playboy…
“There’s so much of me out there that one could wonder, ‘What am I going to get seeing him in person?’” says astrophysicist and all-around science guy Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. “What I do know is that when I’m on stage, it’s almost like we’re one on one.” So if…
The best part in any sword-and-sorcery epic is always the big battle — the fierce cries of the combatants, the ring of steel on steel, and the sweet sight of the bad guys falling to the ground after they’ve been decapitated by the hero. Now you can get all of…
Evan Weissman, one of the programmers behind the civic health club Warm Cookies of the Revolution, says he and his cohorts have wanted to create an event about how busy everybody is for quite some time. “We were talking about this idea that everyone is so busy — or feels…
We’re one month into 2015, and by now, many of us have already given up on our New Year’s resolutions — if we ever kept them to begin with. Whether your promise to stop drinking was sabotaged by the bottomless Bloody Mary bar or your new acro-yoga gym membership has…
Just because the Broncos fell well short of the big game and it’s come down to two of the most hated teams in the nation is no reason to skip the Super Bowl. After all, there’s still the commercials and the halftime show — and, hell, one of those awful…
With universities now offering scholarships to League of Legends players and head-to-head gaming scheduled to appear at this month’s X Games in Aspen, video games are getting more respect as a competitive activity. Beginning today, Clutch Con, a three-day tournament and convention organized by Arvada’s Clutch Gaming Arena, will draw…
“It’s huge for us to have the whole industry right in our back yard, because we’re from here, all of our skis are made here, we ski here, and now most of our business is done here through the SIA trade show,” says Icelantic Skis co-founder Ben Anderson, who will…
Beets Read and Rant Productions Aurora Fox My mother grew up in what is now Slovakia, and she used to tell a story about one of the Russian prisoners who’d been sent to work on her family’s farm during World War I, when she was still a little girl. It…
