Now celebrating its one year anniversary, Denver’s all-female sketch comedy group, Ladyface, has become a strong counterweight to the booming male stand-up scene, often hosting the boys from Grawlix and Fine Gentleman’s Club in their sketch-comedy vignettes, and working the mic themselves as solo acts. “They’re both totally different, but…
Short of cash and wondering how you can have fun this weekend? Don’t worry. Whether you want to burn your mouth on chiles, see a rare 1930s samurai film or ride around on public transit all day as part of a competition, the town will be full of things you…
What marks a resident of this state? Our Latest Word blog just served up You Know You’re From Colorado When Tumblr top ten, which includes this as number seven: You never understood why the Fellowship in LOTR had so many issues crossing the pass, when you trudge through that kind…
The 35mm films are in place, and the University of Colorado Denver music students have their instruments ready. The Denver Silent Film Festival runs tomorrow through Sunday at the King Center on the Auraria campus, with screenings of silent-era classics and some lesser-known gems. We asked artistic director Howie Movshovitz…
In two weeks, the Denver Cruisers’ riding season will officially end for 2012, but not without a bang: Last night, hundreds of cyclists gathered on Talk Like a Pirate Day dressed as pirates, sailors, nymphs and a few seafaring shades in between. We guess you could say all hands were…
The Fritzler family will go down in history as proud, card-carrying Coloradans — in large part because this LaSalle family has already made its mark in corn. For the past twelve years, the Fritzlers have created epic and (mostly state-centric) corn mazes, the most recent of which honors Broncos star…
It took a lot of planning and hard work by the Denver Gay and Lesbian Flag Football League to land this year’s Gay Bowl XII, which officially kicks off tomorrow at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. Bidding for the games began back in 2010, when the Denver Gay and Lesbian Flag…
Denver’s two premiere roller-derby leagues are headed to Richmond, California this weekend for the Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Association (WFTDA) West Region Playoffs — aka the “Bay of Reckoning” — and there’s a halfway decent chance that the Denver Roller Dolls (#2 seed, behind Portland’s Rose City Rollers) and…
In all of its forty years, Denver’s Su Teatro has never performed a more iconic work than the satire I Don’t Speak English Only. And considering that nearly everything the troupe and artistic director Tony Garcia touch is entrenched in Chicano culture and activism, that’s saying a lot. See also:…
Pulitzer finalist Dava Sobel is definitely a star — the asteroid 30935 davasobel is even named after her. And tonight you’ll be starstruck when the Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company offers a free reading of Sobel’s play And the Sun Stood Still, which dramatizes the events that led Nicolaus Copernicus to…
Sign porn! Denver is a showplace for amazing signage from across the decades. For proof, look no further than #denversignporn, a popular Instagram hashtag. That’s what Michael Roberts did, and then compiled some of the best examples of this particular brand of porn in this Latest Word post…
For some reason, I’m never ready for the onslaught of shows that are unleashed at the beginning of the fall season each September. If I stop to think about how many noteworthy exhibits have opened in the past two weeks or are about to open — and how many I…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist that starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with some odd takes on…
Pee-wee’s Playhouse, a Saturday-morning staple for Gen X-ers who were, at the time, way older than the time slot’s intended audience, represented the pure, uncut mainstreaming of the late-1980s art scene in New York’s East Village. The first season was even shot on the upper floor of a former neighborhood…
There’s something startlingly noncommittal about many of the initial reviews of The Master that leaked out following the impromptu screenings that writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson organized in 70mm-equipped houses across the country, and later in response to the film’s official bow at the Venice Film Festival. This is perhaps the…
In the early decades of the twentieth century, millions of people fell ill with encephalitis lethargica, a disease that seemed almost supernatural or like something out of a fairy tale: These people froze. They experienced a suspension of all life and activity, becoming silent, still and comatose, sometimes for decades,…
The new, semi-gritty indie About Cherry is all about a semi-reluctant slide into the porn industry, and it’s also the first mainstream feature co-written by a busy porn actress, Lorelei Lee, otherwise famous for double penetrations and clothespin bondage. This shouldn’t strike us as very strange. Every screenwriter needs a…
A critic’s report from a film festival like Toronto, where something like 300 features were unveiled from September 6 through 16, can be something like a Rorschach test — or, at least, it can be something like the Rorschach test depicted in Paul Thomas Anderson’s TIFF entry, The Master, in…
There’s always something interesting on the walls of VSA Arts/Access Gallery + Studio, which provides classes, studio time and wall space to artists who live with some form of disability. A must-stop venue on Santa Fe Drive, VSA has a reputation — and a Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the…
Denver runners, rockers and residents are well acquainted by now with the hallmarks of the Sports Authority Rock ’n’ Roll Denver Marathon: the bands, the cheerleader squads, the tangle of road closings. But this year the local cycling scene will be part of the mix, too: The inaugural Rock ’n’…
When composer David Amram was commissioned by Woody Guthrie’s family to write a tribute to the folk legend, he experienced an intense bout of writer’s block. “I really believe in ecology, but I must’ve poured through a tree and a half of paper that hit the wastebasket without ever being…
If you’re familiar with Fitness on the Rocks — the annual free fitness concert at Red Rocks — then you might have a general idea of what to expect from the OMG! Fitness Concert today at the Denver Coliseum. “I worked at 24 Hour Fitness a long time,” says Alex…
