The mandate at Oakland’s Highland Hospital, as one doctor says during Pete Nicks’s attentive vérité portrait of the place, is to admit people “just as much for their social conditions as for their medical ones.” And as the same guy wearily acknowledges, “The ER’s not the place to manage someone’s…
Fashion is never finished. For many, the new year signals the start of a cycle of goals dedicated to self-improvement and personal passions. One of those individuals is Erika Gamez, a student at the Metropolitan State University of Denver and a violinist whom we spotted in Writer Square because of…
For this week’s art review, critic Michael Paglia visited the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, where he took in a retrospective of pop artist Floyd D. Tunson. Tunston’s large body of work ranges from mixed-media installations to abstract paintings, and it earned high praise from Paglia, who called it one…
Running two nights only — tonight and tomorrow at the Newman Center for the Performing Arts — A Journey of the Human Spirit is an incredible three-part look at life before, during and after the Holocaust. Based on composer Viktor Ullmann and librettist Peter Kien’s fifty-minute opera The Emperor of…
For the third installment of “Guess where I’m skateboarding…” we reached out to a local skate company that wanted to showcase a few locals shredding a fresh spot. Now, you might have to actually be “in the know” in order to get this spot (if you can’t read, that is),…
I love that we live in a country that’s sexually open enough — not as much as some European countries, but that’s another list for another time — to allow for public education on how to have and give orgasms. Denverites, you have an upcoming class available at Anythink Library…
Sometimes the simplest concepts are the best — and you don’t get much simpler than the concept of the new podcast Bad or Not Bad. The name says it all, really — things are discussed and a verdict rendered: bad, or not bad? “That’s the short version, and what I…
The Aurora Century 16 will reopen tomorrow, less than six months after the July 20 shooting left twelve dead and dozens injured. Cinemark, which owns the theater, put up a Facebook poll to ask people whether the site of the tragedy should be reopened, 70 percent of those who responded…
Naked Walls is a one-night stand: On this very rare occasion when the expansive walls at RedLine Gallery are bare, new RedLine resident Amber Cobb and friends are inviting fellow artists to hang their own art there for one splendid night of showing and viewing. See also: – BYOB Denver…
On Monday filmmakers Anson Fogel and Skip Armstrong of the Carbondale-based collective Forge Motion Pictures released Cascada, a new adventure short produced in partnership with NRS, the Idaho-based gear brand. The film documents a trip to the jungles of Mexico with photographer Tim Kemple and some of the world’s top…
This past weekend, I flew to Chicopee, Massachusetts, to look at some babies. When my good friends had twins late last year, I immediately started planning to go and stare at them as soon as was humanly possible, because I knew these twins were going to be really cute and…
It’s not easy envisioning the perfect government, as the people at Evan Weissman’s Warm Cookies and Milk of the Revolution discussion at Buntport last night learned. And even when you manage to attract people to a “civic health club” where they can discuss differing views in a positive environment, someone…
Ed Baierlein has sold the Germinal Stage building, the space his company moved into 25 years ago…and where “no actor is every more than thirty feet from your nose!” But while Germinal will be leaving that theater at the end of this season, Baierlein plans to continue putting on shows…
A little-known chapter of indigenous Colorado history will unfold tonight when the History Colorado Center’s ongoing monthly lecture series presents “And Many Wore Moccasins: The Ute, Navajo and Blackfoot Nations and World War I,” with Dr. Timothy Winegard of Colorado Mesa University. See also: – Photos: Denver diorama finds new…
While temperatures were certainly frigid this past weekend, some people managed to remain stylish even in this cruel climate. One was Vladimir Von, a graphic designer from California who uses buttons, studs and patches to create his own look. Keep reading to find out what music Von is into, where…
This past weekend we fulfilled a journalistic dream, Anchorman-style, when we filmed a water-skiing squirrel named Twiggy performing at the Denver Boat Show. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen a tiny woodland creature wearing a lifejacket and being towed behind a remote-control boat in a kiddie pool in the corner…
If you had the chance to pull a Never Been Kissed — to relive your high-school prom and do it right this time — would you? Dozens of Denverites did just that, albeit for charity, at the Oriental Theater’s Arabian Nights-themed prom over the weekend. A portion of all tickets…
“Extravaganza” is not a word to throw around lightly, but the National Western Stock Show’s Mexican Rodeo Extravaganza holds up to that title with flair. The annual event features horse-riding, bull-fighting, trick-roping, traditional dancing and hundreds of cheering fans in the stands. Continue reading for the highlights, and visit our…
Just because the temperature’s dropping doesn’t mean you have to hole up inside and browse the dregs of Netflix for something new on instant watch. We’ve got three events this week that are definitely worth braving the cold for — and they’re all free. From a Motown night with free…
Evan Weissman of Buntport Theater describes his growing side-project Warm Cookies of the Revolution as a “civic health club.” All about getting people together to discuss community issues and have fun, the growing monthly event just naturally draws out ideas in a positive environment. This month, he’s invited three very…
Face it: Moustaches are in. That was clear at last night’s celebratory ‘Stache at Deer Pile, and in anticipation of that event, Sam Alviani and Bree Davies faced off with their own takes on moustaches. See also: – Mustaches: They’re gross, they scratch my face, and the Civil War is…
Lovers of the Denver diorama, rejoice! On Friday and Saturday, visitors to the History Colorado Center can watch the Lilliputian tribute to circa-1860 Denver being reassembled in the museum’s lobby. The much-loved exhibit, which was crafted in the 1930s by federal work programs workers, was cut apart in order to…
