A normal outdoor music festival and a beer garden wasn’t enough for Copper Mountain Resort this year. The solution? Throw in some tomatoes, and then throw the tomatoes themselves. Make that two semi trucks full of squishy, smelly, beyond-ripe tomatoes. Now add in four bands and a ton of beer…
Jillian Allison says that some of the most ingenious miniatures she’s seen were Tiffany-style lampshades fashioned out of golf balls, jewelry and paint. Allison, the Coordinator of Education and Programs at the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys, explains that this kind of creativity is normal in the miniature…
Let us babeality, if you will, back to a time when the internets were hardly born and the original NES was king, a simpler time when 16-bit graphics came along and blew our fucking mind. For anyone who experienced that revolution, Mortal Kombat was a game you could never forget,…
What’s the best way to perk up a tired movie franchise? Most of the time, there is no way. But movie producers still continue to try by taking the old characters overseas and hoping the new locale will reheat the leftovers. Case in point: Cars 2. The film comes out…
Man, our heads are really in the toilet these days. Wait. Are jokes about boobs considered “toilet humor”? Whatever, this photo probably qualifies as a dirty joke, just because its funny to say the word “booby.” Technically, on this sign we saw outside the Vine Street Pub yesterday said “Boobby,”…
Aside from the weather being particularly fine, my bike commute on Bike to Work Day this morning was not a whole lot different that it usually is — most of my trip is on side streets as opposed to paths, since I live on the west side and apparently poor…
Realm of the Mad God has been in beta for the past year, but it finally saw its real release this week and holy smokes, it’s a time-sink if we’ve ever seen one. On the surface it’s simply a fantasy-themed MMO shooter, but underneath that it’s so much more, drenched…
Earlier this month, 303 Boards’ CLFX team skater Julian Christianson won the Denver stop of the Element Skateboards Make It Count contest series at the Lafayette Skatepark, earning a trip to skate at The Berrics in California with the Element pro team and compete in the Make It Count Finals…
The wall on the side of the Matchbox bar gets tagged. A lot. When it was still Orange Cat Studios in 2008, the city painted over art for fear it contained messages geared to disturbing the Democratic National Convention; former owner Sean Rice wound up settling with the city. And…
There’s something inherently unsettling about a person as perfect-seeming as Martha Stewart, something steely and cold within that gaze of practiced affability that belies a certain underlying strain. You get the sense that, like all things tightly wound beyond their breaking point, Martha Stewart must eventually explode. So it’s a…
The story of art in the twentieth century is well known. The center of the world in 1900 was in Europe, while American art was dominated by regionalism, a representational style derived from realism. With the rise of the Nazis and the advent of World War II, however, European artists…
A Ceramic Collaboration. To celebrate the fourth anniversary of his Plinth Gallery, which is specifically dedicated to contemporary ceramics, Jonathan Kaplan has mounted a show that highlights the clay scene in Colorado. Conceptually, the show has two parts, but it’s been installed as a single idea. The first part is…
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…
Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a rampant fifteen-year-old only child, has two presiding preoccupations, detailed in rapid voiceover throughout Submarine: a broody classmate, Jordana (Yasmin Paige), and the flatlined sex life of his parents (show-stealers Noah Taylor and Sally Hawkins), brought to crisis by the arrival of mom’s glam-guru old flame…
From Tad Friend’s New Yorker profile of Anna Faris to the glass-ceiling-shattering pressure assigned to last month’s Bridesmaids, a case could be made that 2011 will be remembered as the year the film industry (finally!) acknowledged its institutional misogyny, took steps to reverse it, and even learned that letting chicks…
The Divine Sister features some of Denver’s most talented actors, reliable creators of deep and memorable characters in artistically ambitious venues — and all of them having the time of their lives here, hamming, capering and slamming home the cheesiest jokes imaginable. The insanely over-the-top script by Charles Busch is…
House arrest isn’t just for political prisoners, Pol Pot and Ponzi scheme artists anymore. In the last few years, many celebrities have had the pleasure of serving hard time in the comfort of their own cushy homes — including Lindsay Lohan, who was placed under house arrest on June 17…
It wasn’t a big surprise to Sophia Dixon Dillo that a few technical problems cropped up during the installation of her Light and Line show at Ice Cube Gallery this morning; when you’re working with some 25 miles of fishing line, there are bound to be a few snags, so…
So PrideFest may be over, but we’re not done being obsessed with gay dudes on Twitter. In fact, Cazwell’s performance this weekend in Civic Center park was worth another post on its own, but we’ve already discussed why we stalk his Twitter, so that’s probably more than enough. However, it…
Best-selling Chinese-American author Lisa See, who will read from her new book Dreams of Joy tomorrow evening at the Tattered Cover, is an extraordinary researcher: Her fierce desire to get the details right has taken her around the world, to museums and libraries, and even into the small worlds of…
Just because it’s summer doesn’t mean we can’t all sit indoors and consume entertainment. After all, the hotter and nicer it gets outside, the more you need to just relax and unwind in front of the TV or a good book. Unfortunately, there are apparently no books being released this…
It’s coming up fast on Bike to Work Day in Denver tomorrow, a day when many fledgling cyclists will discover the joys of a commute on two wheels. But it’s not all fresh air and feeling fine — it can also be really scary — so as a daily cyclist…
