Corky Scholl started his Save the Signs campaign with an unsuccessful Kickstarter run. But his dream of restoring the best of this city’s classic neon signs is still going strong, focusing first on returning one artifact — the rescued sign from Denver’s legendary but long-defunct Sid King’s Crazy Horse Bar…
If you liked the book Fifty Shades of Grey, then SPANK! The Fifty Shades Parody, the pun-heavy musical performance by Mills Entertainment that opens today at the Paramount Theatre, will be sure to release your inner god — or goddess. And if you couldn’t stand E.L. James’s disgustingly popular mild-kink…
Writer, critic and colorful Algonquin Round Table yakker Dorothy Parker was really born to be a character in a play; known in her heyday for her caustic tongue and running witticisms, she left behind a diverse body of work, from comic poems to Hollywood scripts. And her life story was…
Throw on a fancy suit and fedora or a beaded flapper dress and get ready to taste some legal booze at the first annual Prohibition Party & Brew Fest. Today’s Roaring ’20s-themed soiree is more than a celebration of the eightieth anniversary of the end of the booze ban; it’s…
The biennial National Conference for Media Reform is descending on Denver from April 5 through April 7, and the confab will kick off from 7 to 11 p.m. tonight with an official pre-party at the Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, hosted by Jason Bosch’s ArgusFest, Free Press (organizer of the…
In its first new production since a run on Broadway, playwright Sharr White’s The Other Place will make its Colorado debut at the Dairy Center for the Arts tonight. The Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company’s staging of the play tells the story of Dr. Juliana Smithton, an esteemed scientist who’s been…
Andrew Novick is such a hardcore collector of stuff that he even collects memories with his camera. Sometimes they have to do with food, as in the case of his new exhibit, Sweet Tooth: 1000 Photographs of Desserts (that I ate). Novick says he’s been shooting pics of desserts for…
After tonight’s 7 p.m. screening of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno — part of the Sie FilmCenter’s collaboration with the Colorado Photographic Arts Center on photography in film, and a work that the center’s Keith Garcia calls “part experimental film that never came to fruition and part restoration” — lets out, it…
There’s plenty to be happy about at today’s One Past 5 Happy Hour/Doors Open Denver Kickoff, when several local agencies will celebrate coming together to present the annual architectural open house that returns this weekend (April 13-14). Historic Denver Inc. jumped in by sharing its One Past 5 signature fundraising…
“It’s right out of a cheap melodrama,” one character remarks in From Up on Poppy Hill after a particularly extreme twist of fate — yet this film’s gentle storytelling manages to extract the emotional payoffs of melodrama without ruining one’s suspension of disbelief. A film about fathers and children, and…
There’s nothing in the world quite like the University of Colorado’s Conference on World Affairs, whose 65th edition starts today. A universal grab bag of global issues, taken up in more than 200 lectures, concerts, roundtables, film screenings, panels and dozens of celebrity appearances, the annual event is all free…
No matter how much designers and marketers might try to stereotype fashion as menswear and womenswear, style remains rebellious and defiant by nature. Local taste-maker Ryan Bailey, a biology major and Washington native, embraces his own skin — and looks flaw-free while doing so. Continue reading to discover his style…
Alamo Drafthouse made a big splash when it opened last month in Littleton. Fans of the Texas chain’s other locations, we even gave it a Best of Denver Award for Best Movie Theater — Food/Drink, one of over 170 awards in just the Arts & Entertainment section alone. But one…
We thought 2012 was a banner year for comedy in Denver — but only three months into the new year, comics like Ben Roy, Adam Cayton-Holland, Sam Tallent and Kristin Rand are setting the stage for this once-intimate scene to be blasted into national recognition. With so many great comedy…
When Denver-based fine-art photographer Eric Schwartz set out to photograph people with tattoos, he didn’t expect to find a detailed history underneath the artwork. After a chance meeting with California tattoo legend Edward “Chuco” Caballero at a national tattoo show, the story for Schwartz’s first film, Tattoo Nation, began to…
The middle of June isn’t that far away, so it’s not too early to begin planning for Denver PrideFest 2013, scheduled for June 15 and 16 this year in Civic Center Park. Sexy `80s pop star Taylor Dayne will headline the Center Stage on Saturday, followed on Sunday by sassy…
I drove by Smiley’s Laundromat last night and felt one of those annoying sighs cross my chest — a chest pain caused by the sight of possible improvement to a place that I used to enjoy for its utter sketchiness. Smiley’s is closed right now for “remodeling,” its windows papered…
AnomalyCon, Denver’s steampunk- and anachronism-themed festival, is more than just the (awesome) costumes. The third annual convention this past weekend attracted hundreds of science-fiction fans across genres for role-playing tournaments, contests, games and even high tea. Photographer Danielle Lirette captured a behind-the-scenes look of of the alternative-history event’s setup; continue…
Steampunk fans were treated to not one, but two separate genre-bending celebrations over the weekend. While the third annual AnomalyCon took over the DoubleTree Hotel in the DTC for three days, the Church nightclub ended the weekend with its own steampunk ball on Sunday night. Continue reading for some of…
One of Denver’s most beloved pieces of public art, “I See What You Mean,” better known as the Big Blue Bear, got hit by a big smear of green paint over the weekend. There have been other pranks involving Lawrence Argent’s sculpture of a giant bear peering inside the Colorado…
At some point during their comedy careers, every standup has to deal with a heckler. A truly annoying heckler can derail even experienced comedians as well as make audiences uncomfortable. While most hecklers think they’re being funny and can be shamed into silence with a pithy rejoinder from a talented comic, there are a few heckler sub-species that simply refuse to shut up, regardless of the comedian’s reaction.
While most of the world celebrated the resurrection of ol’ J.C., there were several weird developments — both real and satirical — in an even more implausible resurrection: that of Chris Brown’s career. After becoming the most hated man in show business, Breezy has defied logic by continuing to brawl…
