Les Miserables has been running for 25 years — making it the longest-running musical, well, ever. I caught the show in 1999, about halfway through its decade-spanning run; at the time, I was living Perth, Western Australia, and the performance was staged in the basketball arena where Perth’s professional team…
Sometimes, the best games only take a few minutes to play. Or, in the case of Terry Cavanagh’s Hero’s Adventure, about two minutes will suffice. It’s probably one of the shortest RPGs you’ll ever get a chance to experience, but if you happened to grow up in the mountains, it…
Surfing these wide interwebz day to day, we stumble across many things — some disgusting, some hilarious, some infuriating and many baffling — and at those times, there is really only one appropriate reaction: What the fuck is this shit? And so once again, mostly because it’s Wednesday, the day…
We came across this intriguing teaser for If You Want to Fly, from Carbondale-based Vital Films, Inc., while working on building out a mega-preview of all the many, many major ski and snowboard movie premiere events coming in September. It will be the second full ski flick from the company,…
For as long as I can remember, the Sunday comics have been about 80 percent crap. The culprit, mostly, is the glut of syndicate staples drawn by now-octogenarians or passed down to sons that, week after week, churn out the same hackneyed shitheap of lame character gags and dumb life…
For those interested in down-dogging surrounded by giant pink bunnies, the Dikeou Collection has you covered. Last week, the fifth-floor art collection in LoDo hosted its first yoga class, which is set to continue every Wednesday afternoon. Vital Yoga’s Therese Chavez teaches the donation-based Anusara class in the colorful private…
Last week we looked at some of the best early-bird deals on season passes at Colorado ski areas; now that details of the 2011/2012 Colorado Gems Card from Colorado Ski Country USA have been announced, we’d be remiss in not mentioning that its $10 price tag makes it a must-buy,…
There is plenty of pre-Internet stuff on the Internet, but Tweets of Old takes it to a new level — the really old stuff. Culled from late 19th and early 20th century headlines and brief newspaper stories, this account’s contribution to the Twitter-verse reminds us that there was a time…
Okay folks, this is pretty much the end of the summer-media blight, so prepare yourself and your pocketbook over the coming weeks for the onslaught of Christmas-gift media. Sure, it will only be September, but these people like to start early. Even still, we’ve got some great stuff coming out…
One of these things is not like the others: The Air Force Academy, Fort Carson, Focus on the Family, a sick zombie party. As Stephanie DeCamp observed in her write-up of Zombie Fest yesterday, Colorado Springs, our frothing neighbor to the south, is not exactly the most likely place punk-rock…
Colorado Creatives #94: Dylan Scholinski Dylan Scholinski has not lived an easy life. Born a girl named Daphne and sent at fifteen to a mental hospital with the diagnosis ‘inappropriate female,’ Scholinski spent the majority of his high school years training extensively in what his doctors considered proper femininity. “I…
Here’s why the Denver Modernism Show is so appealing: The mid-twentieth-century culture it so joyfully upholds was clearly the culture of the future, all shiny and new and space-age, the product of new technologies and post-war optimism. Here in the future, where things seem much bleaker, the elan of mid-century…
Denver is home to some awesome roller derby teams. In fact, we’ve got one of the best roller derby teams in the world right here: The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls, 2010 national champions of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association, roller derby’s international governing body. The team is skating toward defending…
Joseph Coniff. This smart and at times extremely funny show, titled Joseph Coniff: This Is What It’s Like, highlights the efforts of an emerging conceptual artist. Coniff, who studied at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, where he was a protegé of Clark “Drop City” Richert’s, is just…
Cats. There’s not much of a plot to Cats. You meet the Jellicles, with their cheerful faces and bright black eyes, who dance “under the light of the Jellicle moon”; the Ming-vase-smashing cat burglars, Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer; fat, elegant, gentleman’s club-haunting Bustopher Jones; and contrary-minded Rum Tum Tugger. The show’s…
The sleeper hit of the 2010 film-festival and indie-awards circuit, Mike Ott’s moody micro-budget Littlerock patiently observes the California road trip of college-aged Japanese siblings Atsuko (Atsuko Okatsuka, also the film’s co-writer) and Rintaro (Rintaro Sawamoto). En route to Manzanar (the filmmakers leave viewers to draw on their own knowledge,…
A group of thirty-somethings trapped in the amber of their high-school years attempt to bone their way into adulthood in A Good Old Fashioned Orgy, an ensemble sex comedy written and directed by Larry Sanders Show writers Alex Gregory and Peter Huyck. Technically, the orgy of the title is conceived…
Anne Nelson, a journalism professor, wrote The Guys very soon after 9/11, and the play closely follows her own experiences. Like her protagonist, Joan, Nelson could think of no real way to contribute — plumbers were needed, Joan tells us, but not intellectuals — until she learned of a fire…
It’s not that I wasn’t interested in the USA Pro Cycling Challenge’s last stage from Golden to the State Capitol in Denver yesterday — no, of course I was, it was a big deal — it’s just that my interest was mild enough not to overwhelm my simultaneous desire not…
Colorado Springs has a hard reputation to wrestle with, what with the Air Force base and Focus on the Family so near. And for a bunch of punk-rock and zombie enthusiasts, it seems like a hard kind of place to throw a good party, let alone one with enough cred…
Office workers of the world, rejoice! There is now a cure for the flat ass-syndrome that seems to creep up on the backsides of anyone who’s job requires sitting in a chair for nine hours a day, and it is called the Walkstation. What is the Walkstation, you ask? Why,…
Like a psychedelic gathering of Jules Verne honorable mentions, this weekend’s 2011 Kinetic Sculpture Race at Union Reservoir in Longmont pitted crazy Rube Goldberg contraption against even crazier Rube Goldberg contraption in a contest that wasn’t so much about speed as it was about sheer silliness: Competitors vied for supremacy…
