Turning Frowns Upside Down

Mike Birbiglia is one dour clown. As the biggest star to come out of This American Life since David Sedaris, Birbiglia understands how to take the bitter flavors of life and sweeten them with humor. “There’s no subject that’s too sad and I won’t try to make funny,” says the…

Recipe to Remember

The nose knows. You walk into a room, and instantly a smell connects you to a memory. And when that smell is connected to food, it’s often a family memory. “Smell is such a powerful sense, and it lives in the base of your neck, where all your memories are…

Bad Religion

Ordained Lutheran minister Nadia Bolz-Weber took a rare path when she created the House for All Sinners and Saints, an ELCA mission church that truly opens its door to anyone, regardless of gender, race, beliefs, philosophy or choices in body art. “I wanted to start a church that I would…

Market Day at Night

Farmers’ markets come in all sizes, shapes and vibes, but the atmosphere of the new Broadway Farmers’ Market is definitively urban, with a nice measure of hipster thrown in. Right off the bat, it turns the tables on the usual early-morning affairs we’re used to by hosting its vendors in…

Flick Pick: The Grandmaster

The Weinstein Company’s 108-minute cut of The Grandmaster may not be the epic Wong Kar-Wai originally intended, but it’s fleet and silvery in its own right. In the late 1930s, an aging martial-arts master from Northern China, Gong Yutian (Wang Qingxiang), treks to the South to find its best fighter…

All-Around Fun

When you walk into Buntport Theater for Some Kind of Fun — the first show in the first season of Adam Stone’s Screw Tooth multimedia theater ensemble — you will see the bare warehouse as you’ve never seen it before, free of curtains and all pretense of being a normal…

The Gore The Merrier

Before Equinox Theatre Company could bring Evil Dead: The Musical to Denver, there were a few technical problems to be solved. “The technical challenge of the show was a little bit daunting,” explains director Deb Flomberg. “You need a singing giant moose head. You need trees that rape people. You…

The Scheme of Things

Donald Fodness might be the last great original: His whole seemingly chaotic shtick as an artist is really quite ordered — in some secret schematic laid out in his own head — and every line of every drawing and each element of every sculpture or installation is part of the…

Gathering of the Tribe

It’s been thirty years since a group of Denver artists desperate for affordable studio space found shelter in the vacant Sherman Elementary School and renamed it the Grant Street Art Center. In a move spearheaded by Pat Cronin, who was looking for a place to relocate her printmaking studio, they…

New Kid on the Stage

When Joey McIntyre joined New Kids on the Block on the cusp of turning thirteen, he used the music to get him through the difficult process of fitting in with the rest of the group — childhood friends who could probably finish each other’s sentences. He came back to the…

World Pieces

In a world where we are assailed with images and information on the Internet, collage is making a comeback. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art curator Petra Sertic noticed the trend and decided to address it, amassing eight modern collage artists from Colorado and beyond for BMoCA’s summer show, Cut and…

Denver Death Cafe launches at Wystone’s this weekend

To understand what a Death Cafe is, you need to know what a Death Cafe isn’t. It’s not a grief-support group for those who have lost loved ones. It’s not a morbid event where people draped in black talk about the meaningless void that death symbolizes for some. And it’s…

Five fashion events to attend in Denver in September

September is the start of fall and the biggest season for fashion. Here is a guide to five fashion events in Denver to keep on your radar this month. From films to fashion shows to tributes, we’ve got you covered. See also: Menswear Mondays: DJ Roberto DeJesus on his eccentric…

Mid-Century and Modern in Wheat Ridge Home Tour celebrates unique architecture

Celebrating the often-overlooked segment of beautiful architecture in Wheat Ridge, this weekend’s Mid-Century and Modern Home Tour highlights some of the area’s best preserved and painstakingly remodeled homes. Organized by non-profit Wheat Ridge 2020, this one-day only tour runs Saturday, September 7 from 1 to 5 p.m., when doors of…

Menswear Mondays: DJ Roberto DeJesus on his eccentric fashion

While Labor Day has come and gone, stylish menswear remains on the streets year round. This week we spotted local DJ and retail worker Roberto DeJesus, who has a different take on traditional fashion. Read here to learn where he shops at, what his style mantra is, and which style…

Photos: The 1950s Tiki Ball shined on Boulder last Saturday

A little bit of the South Pacific landed at the Millennium Harvest House in Boulder on Saturday, August 31st, in the form of the Voodoo Island 1950s Tiki Ball, which included a nine-piece Afro-Cuban orchestra, a Tahitian oasis of bamboo huts, palm trees, tiki carving, hula and fire dancers and…