It’s a Sunday afternoon in New York, and Tom Tykwer and the filmmakers formerly known as the Wachowski Brothers are talking about Zardoz, that odd and ambitious 1974 science-fiction drama most infamous for featuring a gun-vomiting godhead and Sean Connery in a mankini. As a film that confronts viewers from…
At around the four-minute mark of my first viewing of the Cloud Atlas trailer, as the M83 track swelled to its bursting point and a hoverbike darted through future-Korea, I remember e-mailing and GChatting at least a dozen friends with a link to the preview and my take: “Holy Shit.”…
Raconteuse, epigrammatist, mythomaniac and peerless fashion editor Diana Vreeland (1903-89) might have loved words as much as she loved Balenciaga. As Harold Koda of the Met’s Costume Institute, for which Vreeland served as a special consultant from 1973 until her death, memorably says in this often charming non-fiction bauble, “I…
There are really two Halloweens: one for kids and one for adults, who love dressing up, too. And for the grownups, it’s a good time to let down your hair (and your fangs) and play-act for one wild, seasonal debauch. Here are a few places to have adult fun over…
The best way to get through a bad movie is by making good jokes at its expense. But to get through something that is legendarily bad, you’ll need professional help. Luckily, that’s exactly what you get with RiffTrax Live: Birdemic. The professionals are Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson and Bill…
Matthew Inman certainly has his own view of the world, and he shares it through the comics he draws and the quizzes he produces for his website, TheOatmeal.com. And people seem to appreciate that view. Last year, Inman drew a crowd of almost 300 people to the Tattered Cover for…
By the time he turned 36, Damien Echols had spent half his life on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. How he managed to sustain hope and sanity in the bowels of a supermax prison is just part of the story found in Life After Death (Blue Rider…
The Navajo Street Art District has been putting on Día de Los Muertos-inspired gatherings for more than two decades, and this year, it will feature an innovative addition: Galleries along the strip – including Zip 37, NEXT and Pirate – will invite revelers to create their own pieces of trading-card…
El Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is all about honoring the memories of deceased loved ones by celebrating their lives, and for the past twelve years, the Longmont Museum and Cultural Center has been furthering this tradition, holding events during which the community can learn about…
Today’s fifth annual Highland Haunt, in the Potter Highlands neighborhood, is more sweet than spooky, since it’s primarily for kids. The shops along 32nd Avenue between Clay and Zuni streets (which will be closed to traffic) will open their doors from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for little trick-or-treaters, while…
There are really two Halloweens: one for kids and one for adults, who love dressing up, too. And for the grownups, it’s a good time to let down your hair (and your fangs) and play-act for one wild, seasonal debauch. Here are a few places to have adult fun over…
Reptile lovers, rejoice: Everything that skitters, slinks or slithers will be found under one roof today at Repticon. Lizards, snakes, turtles and an assortment of non-reptilian creepy-crawlies will be on display, and all the gear you’ll need to make them at home in your home will be available for purchase…
In the late ’70s, Molly Ivins became the Rocky Mountain Bureau chief for The New York Times, but the writer was Texas through and through, and she returned to that state in 1982 to become a columnist. And she remained a columnist — an incredibly wry, insightful, hilarious columnist —…
El Diablo’s Día de los Muertos Celebration and Tattoo Artist Skull Show actually got its start four years ago at Jesse Morreale’s defunct Cherry Creek eatery, Tambien. But it was in the next year, when it was reincarnated at the newly opened El Diablo, that it really took off. And…
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…
