The Allied Witches — an all-female subset of the Mercury Cafe’s Mercury Motley Players — comes out to play around All Hallows’ Eve every year, and in 2012, what better topic to tackle than an election? This year’s tragic comedy is titled The Presidential Election, and “it’s a charming play,”…
As its title implies, the Colorado-born traveling exhibit Return of the Corn Mothers has been around the mesa. And the result of photographer Todd Pierson’s five-year project documenting unsung modern women — metaphorically, the mythical Corn Mothers — of the Southwest, who’ve brought change to their communities through activism, creative…
Margaret Kasahara has been playing with the boundaries between East and West — and where everything meets in the middle — for about a decade, so she was a natural to create a companion exhibit to Kizuna: West Meets East at the Denver Botanic Gardens. Someone Like You, Kasahara’s exhibit…
While many people march to the beat of a different drummer, some create their own rhythm. Such is the case with Precious Hill, who is in two bands, Lunar Fire and Inti, and whose own music creates the soundtrack for her life. We stumbled on Hill in Uptown, and immediately…
The 2012 Mayor’s Design Awards, announced last night, celebrate a range of notable projects across six categories: I Wanna Live Here!, Oh, Pioneers!, Use It Or Lose It!, Eye-Catcher!, The City’s Gotta Eat! and Goin’ Rogue! This year’s winners include restaurants, breweries and livable properties, as well as such cultural…
Buntport Theater solved a sizzling crime caper yesterday when a sheepish kid returned the stolen laptop on which the company kept its mailing list and other vital files. The theft happened while Buntport was conducting one of its regular Third Tuesday Great Debate. Since this one coincided with the second…
You probably know him best from his weekly appearances on E!’s Chelsea Lately, where host Chelsea Handler frequently questions his sexual orientation and capitalizes on stereotypes related to his Asian-American heritage. But Jo Koy isn’t just a basic-cable punching bag. He’s been climbing his way up the comedic echelon for…
As the voice of wise-cracking robot Tom Servo and one of the original brains behind the cult sensation Mystery Science Theater 3000 — known affectionately to fans as MTS3K — Kevin Murphy helped elevate the act of jeering at shitty movies to an art form, leaving an indelible mark on…
Though Dia de los Muertos is officially November 2, this Saturday’s Day of the Dead Artist Trading Card Workshop should provide some good preparation. From 12:30 to 4 p.m., galleries in the Navajo Street Art District are inviting artists of all kinds to create miniature pieces of work in the…
At 11 a.m. today, a small group of dignitaries led by Mayor Michael Hancock will gather at the McNichols Building at the edge of Denver’s Civic Center (just named a national landmark) to cut the ribbon on the classical structure’s new lease on life. Built in 1910 as a Carnegie…
The seventh annual Denver Zombie Crawl this past Saturday was the biggest yet — but it got an unexpected assist from the third annual March for a World Without Police. The confluence of the two events downtown turned into a giant game of cops and grave robbers. Some zombies were…
Is there life after death? After eighteen years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit, most of them spent in the debilitating confines of death row, Damien Echols plans to find out. In 1993 Echols, then eighteen, and two other Arkansas teenagers were arrested and charged with the murders…
Today’s release date for Forza Horizon for Xbox, which takes place entirely in Colorado, got us thinking: In over forty years of video-game history, there had to have been a few other games set in the Centennial State. Little did we know, a veritable mountain of electronic entertainment has depicted…
Since becoming an adult (er, since I started having thoughts about things in a way that seemed adult-like), I’ve wanted to like haunted houses. I’ve wanted to like them so bad. It sounds dumb — desiring to enjoy something as inanely holiday commerce-driven as a haunted house. But I’m fascinated…
Davy Rothbart is famous for his love of detritus. Ten years ago, he launched FOUND Magazine, an exuberant, low-fi celebration of things left behind: love letters, Post-It notes, journal entries, birthday cards, shopping lists and other strangely revealing minutiae of human existence. FOUND’s pages are hilarious and heartbreaking; often, they’re…
Forza Horizon, the eagerly awaited new open-world racing game for the Xbox 360, takes place in Colorado, against the backdrop of the raucous Horizon music festival. Developed by UK-based Playground Games and published by Microsoft and Turn 10 Studios, Forza Horizon is the first game in the gearhead-thrilling Forza series…
Denver’s regular adult skate night, Down & Derby, is known for its costumes, but attendees went all out on Saturday in honor of Halloween. Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Thing 1, Thing 2 and the walking dead joined a surprising group of peers at the Exdo Event Center over the weekend…
Anyone who didn’t already know about Denver’s ghoulish annual tradition might have been tempted to run for their lives on Saturday. During Denver Zombie Crawl 2012, thousands of people dressed up as the walking dead and converged on the 16th Street Mall for what might be the creepiest crawl in…
Colorado’s longest-running science fiction and fantasy convention hit the Hyatt Regency in the Denver Tech Center over the weekend. The convention featured more than eighty speakers and events across three days, and it attracted hundreds of costumed attendees dressed as their favorite characters. Continue reading for our twenty favorite looks…
Loveland lost the annual race to open first this season to the neighbors at Arapahoe Basin, but first chair tomorrow at 9 a.m. will still be a hot ticket when the ski area marks the start of its 75th anniversary season with a top-to-bottom run on the Catwalk, Mambo, and…
Ask local filmmaker Paul Berry what BARK, showing at the Mercury Cafe this Wednesday, is “about,” and you end up with a shake-and-bake collection of themes and pop-culture references that include George Lucas, the Baghavad Gita, political satire, George W. Bush, buffalo on the moon and an implied post-modern anti-war…
El Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a holiday that honors the dead through altars, offerings, sculptures and dances. For the Aztec, who had been celebrating this tradition for more than 3,000 years before encountering travelers from Spain, death was not the end but the continuation…
