While we were researching asteroid movies for Monday’s honorary tribute to Earth’s near collision with an oncoming asteroid, one thing was pretty apparent: In the late ’90s there were a relative shit-ton of asteroid/meteorite/comet/basic space-junk-getting-hurled-at-Earth movies. Turns out, Michael Fairchild, author of Rock Prophesy, Hendrix researcher for the Experience Music…
Earlier this year, we postulated that Michael Bay’s entire career has been about punishing the audience for their awful taste — namely, their taste for his work. He’s tried racism, homophobia, assaultive cinematography and editing techniques, objectifying every women in a 1,000 yard radius, graphic violence and complete incoherence. The…
Not to belittle the tragedy or anything, but it’s pretty rare that a person’s manner of death is so custom-tailored to that person’s life as that of Ryan Dunn, the Jackass star who died in what was doubtless an epic explosion when he careened off the road in his Porche…
Weekly avant-garde food and music party Gorinto changes things up a bit this evening at the Mercury Café with The Edible Cadaver, a night of gory delights and human-like edibles. This Wednesday night’s foodie spread will be body part specific, from the Severed Melon (a mix of fruit, cured meats…
Five years ago, New Belgium sales rep Matt Jones got together with Mike Helms, the manager of Woody’s in Golden, to decide on what they call a “common practice” of brewery and bar promotion. The plan: Woody’s would attract customers every Tuesday during the summer by giving away free New…
If Colorado’s highest peaks have been calling your name and you’re ready to bag some fourteeners, stop by REI Denver, 1416 Platte Street, tonight at 6:30 p.m. to join the kick-off event for the the Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center’s Multiple Summits for MS…
It was a big year for Basil in 2008, the year the beer-bringing robot made his big debut via a Joel Warner-penned feature in Westword and his first appearance with inventors/parents Jim and Louise Gunderson, which he made at Cafe Sci Denver, an open forum devoted to chatting about science…
Winona Ryder is so cool, Johnny Depp tattooed “Winona Forever” on his arm when they were engaged. Her first audition was a monologue from Franny & Zooey. Generation X has a crush on her. And we forgive her for the shoplifting. Actors do way worse things. Inspired by our Winona…
Ever since Roger Ebert tweeted “Friends don’t let jackasses drink and drive” roughly twenty seconds after Jackass star Ryan Dunn drunkenly died in a fiery wreck (after which the film critic reportedly cackled wildly for another twenty seconds through his hideous jaw), the internets have been astir with what the…
If you’re an outdoorsy type, then summer’s the time for playing in the mountains, hiking the grasslands, surfing the Great Sand Dunes, etc. If you’re the nerdy type, then summer’s the time to climb into your hammock (couch, basement, whatever), curl up with a good book (movie, comic, video game,…
The PlatteForum formula — pair a resident artist with a classroom of kids to co-create a body of art for a culminating exhibition — is currently in the able hands of sculptor and DU adjunct professor Kevin Curry, who often reclaims machinery, signage and the parts of technology to instill…
Fans of fantasy are probably already familiar with Jacqueline Carey, who’s just completed the third book in her third New York Times-best-selling trilogy revolving around the world of Terre D’Ange and gods and goddesses intervening in mortal life; the latest novel, Naamah’s Kiss, continues the story of Moirin, who’s facing…
First of all, we want to give a shout out to Thomas Lennon for including in his brief Twitter bio that he was on The State. The comedian, actor, writer and producer has been involved with dozens of projects since the short-lived ’90s MTV skit show, but Lennon knows what…
Rock climbing legend Pat Ament began bouldering and free-climbing near Boulder in 1958 when he was a student and gymnast at the University of Colorado, and spent his formative years learning from the best of the best. His relationship with mentor John Gill helped shape his own career not only…
Next time you think you might take a little run in Washington Park, watch out: Cory Lamz is watching, and he’s waiting to group you into a categories. According to Lamz, after all, there are only five types of people who run in Wash Park, so you must be one…
Every so often, usually in more (ahem) modestly incomed neighborhoods, you see them: businesses who offer weird and somewhat dubious combinations of services (my personal favorite of yore: The Quik Stop & Bail Bonds that used to be on South Federal). In an effort to highlight the brave practitioners of…
When an artist does work that is ahead of his or her time, it usually means the work is under-appreciated or even unnoticed. To some extent, that’s what happened to John Haeseler, who, beginning in the 1970s, created pieces that responded to both dada and pop art while addressing social…
15 Colorado Artists. The Kirkland Museum is presenting a historical show that tracks the beginnings of post-war modernism in Denver using the artist group 15 Colorado Artists as an index. The story goes that the Denver Artists Guild was hostile to modernism at the time. This led to a split,…
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…
Alleged to be compiled of found college-project footage from a group of missing students, Trollhunter begins as an investigative report by aspiring Norwegian Michael Moores, trailing RV-driving loner Hans (Otto Jespersen). Suspected of bear poaching, Hans is revealed instead to be the field agent in a government conspiracy to cover…
For a movie called Larry Crowne, it sure is tough to get a solid read on the character of Larry Crowne. Directed, co-written by and starring Tom Hanks in the title role, the film seems to want to be some kind of post-recessional pick-me-up, an “It Gets Better” video for…
Nobody cries, “Stop the presses!” in Andrew Rossi’s Page One: Inside the New York Times; no one would dare. There’s a palpable fear that it could actually happen. Rossi’s documentary, which might have been called “Inside Baseball: Inside the New York Times,” opens with a montage of the press in…
