As a university town, Boulder has a reputation for supporting both the avant garde and the cultural underground. Tonight, for instance, the Univerisity of Colorado boulder will host the multimedia program Invasion 2012, featuring works by students of new media technology-arts ground-breakers Mark Amerika (who teaches Remix Culture) and Mark…
Websites are not the only way to get news about Denver. We love learning about this city by reading the fliers posted on billboards and light posts around town — fliers that usually hype band gigs, advertise garage sales, or lament lost pets. One flier in particular caught our eye…
This Saturday, thousands of people will don their most garish Christmas sweater, head to City Park and participate in the first Denver Ugly Sweater Run. In honor of this auspicious display of festive garb and unfettered tackiness, and to possibly inspire you to join the ugly-ass fun, we searched high…
On Saturday, December 8, filmmaker Buck Harrison will be presenting the world premiere of One Degree Celsius, his documentary following a year in the life of the artists and athletes behind Denver-based Icelantic Skis. Harrison says he set out to make a small film about an independent ski brand with…
A crush of holiday markets will divide and multiply over the next two weeks, giving proof to the notion that Colorado is a hotbed of talented crafters, artists and creatives. Only a bona fide Scrooge couldn’t find a place to shop on the list below. And you’re likely to want…
The year 2012 was a big one for creeps — living, breathing, oozing, killing-Batman creeps. So we asked Village Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl to choose the year’s twenty baddest from the scores of contenders. Continue reading for his picks — a spoiler-free selection of this year’s spookiest screen villains…
Do you know what a “Dirty Sanchez” is? How about “The Rickshaw” or “The Ambush?” Hint: all of these are sex positions, and sexy knowledge like this will come in handy for competing in the X-Rated Spelling Bee on Saturday, December 8, at Rooster & Moon. There will be sexy…
Gio Toninelo’s Little Denver photography exhibit went up a week ago, but if you want to meet the artist and hear what he has to say about making the world look like a toy, tonight’s the night. From 7 to 8:30 p.m., Toninelo will be at Pablo’s Coffee for a…
Bree Davies is a native, one who loves Denver with a passion — and is understandably protective of this city. And so this week she offer this advice “from a Colorado native to a transplant: Your altitude problem is my attitude problem.” Although some didn’t appreciate the sentiment — or…
The burgeoning multi-media empire known as So-Gnar puts on awesome events like the So-Gnar Snowboard Camp Tour and Shred Circuit contest series, then turns around fun little video edits within days to help fuel the stoke. Last week we previewed the kickoff to the 7th annual Snowboard Camp tour at…
Local comics Andrew Orvedahl and Adam Cayton-Holland are as well-known in the Denver standup scene as you can be without moving to L.A. and starring in a children’s movie. After working their way up through the local ranks, Orvedahl and Cayton-Holland (the latter a former Westword scribe) launched Los Comicos…
The folks behind Unit E, the art space at 1201 Santa Fe Drive that won our Best DIY Gallery in the Best of Denver 2012, are used to big parties on First Friday. But on November 2, they got more action than they’d bargained for: Co-founder Gregg Ziemba was busted…
Update: Congratulations to Nerdgasm and kmurtaugh08! You’ve each won two tickets to the film. Check your email for details on how to claim them Original post: During the last decade, few movies have inspired as much box-office awe (and costumed panic) as Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. Or…
There’s no audition necessary to be a part of Harmony: A Colorado Chorale’s all-inclusive chorus. “That is part of our mission — to make sure everyone feels welcome,” says William Loper, artistic director for the chorale. At 7:30 p.m. this Saturday, December 8, at Messiah Community Church, anyone who loves…
There are advantages to living in the same town as Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett), the queen of burlesque emcees. Case in point: Tonight’s Bawdy Beggars Roadshow at Bar Standard, which starts at 8:30 p.m. and costs $10 general admission, $25 for front-row VIP seats, is something you’d usually…
Joel Haertling is one of Boulder’s more unusual fixtures: a globetrotting advocate for experimental film and music, over the years he’s worked with Stan Brakhage and toyed with noise as Architects Office, all while curating the Boulder Public Library’s free film series. See also: – Architect’s Office is a one-man…
Michael Roberts just offered up ten Colorado-connected hotties, ingenues and reality-TV stars — everyone from Jessica Biel to Pam Grier. And while one reader thinks that “‘reality’ and ‘star’ should never, ever be used in the same sentence,” another had a more pressing concern… A woman scorned. See also: -…
Earlier this fall, Bobbi Walker celebrated her tenth anniversary as the owner of Walker Fine Art by throwing a big bash that attracted a who’s-who crowd from the art world, in particular those from that local powerhouse the Denver Art Museum. Walker has built up a good reputation for her…
Becoming van Gogh. Timothy Standring, the Denver Art Museum’s curator of painting and sculpture, is the brains behind the very compelling, very interesting and, most of all, very successful Becoming van Gogh, on display now. When we think of van Gogh, we are actually only thinking of the work of…
Dixie’s Tupperware Party. Dixie is a booze- and sex-addicted, trash-talking, child-neglecting ex-con from Alabama who holds Tupperware parties in her trailer, and she’s invited you to this one. Dixie’s Tupperware Partyat the Galleria really isa Tupperware party — you get a name tag and raffle number when you come in,…
An empathic, absorbing tale of the old and the beautiful, Starlet tracks an unlikely intergenerational friendship in the San Fernando Valley. Florida transplant Jane (Dree Hemingway) is employed by one of the area’s main engines of commerce, breaking into the XXX industry and cheerfully working adult-movie trade shows. When not…
Early in Waiting for Lightning, skateboarder Greg Hunt utters a surprising truth as he marvels at the giant ramp Danny Way has put together in order to jump the Great Wall of China: “They would never let anyone build something like that here.” It’s a throwaway remark that’s also an…
