What do Walt Whitman and Broadway theater have in common? Both contain multitudes. Bad jokes aside, Denver Center Attractions’ 2012 lineup is filled with contrariety. It kicks off this January with a production of Bring It On: The Musical, a high-octane comedy about cheerleading, and ends in October with the…
Once upon a time in 2005, I unknowingly enrolled myself in the “Fag Hag Placement Program” at the local mall. Yes, when I applied for a job with a certain retailer, I was unaware that I was also going to be fitted with the right gay for me, a lifelong…
BurlyCute’s Cora Vette has heard a lot of misconceptions about burlesque. While some think of it simply as “that stripping stuff,” others are totally clueless to the fact that it involves nudity, expecting the tame pop star antics of Christina Aguilera and Cher in the misleadingly titled film Burlesque. In…
The Mystery Skateboards Color Theory Summer Tour comes to town tonight with a 6 p.m. autograph session at 303 Boards (1338 East Colfax Avenue), followed by a full team demo at 8 p.m. at the Denver Skatepark (2205 19th Street). The Mystery team features Denver’s own local skate hero David…
Homing pigeons are amazing birds. From a young age, they have the ability to find their way home to where they were raised from hundreds of miles away. This ability — which has yet to be fully understood – made them perfect for delivering messages in ancient Egypt, where people…
Marc Maron’s comedy style is honest, often unforgiving and occasionally enlightening. He might be best known by many for his podcast, “WTF With Marc Maron,” but first and foremost he’s a standup comedian. Marc Maron will appearing at Comedy Works Downtown starting tonight and running through Sunday for seven different…
If you’re not basking in the glory of the Miami Heat’s loss in the NBA Finals, I don’t know what to tell you. The superstar-laden Heat, who last summer were essentially handed the championship when LeBron James and Chris Bosh joined Dwayne Wade in Miami in an overly dramatic half-hour…
There are some movies you’ll watch on TV no matter how many times you’ve seen them before. Yesterday, I called these “catnip movies” and unloaded my list of flicks that grab my attention and keep it, commercials and all. Among the movies on my list were Westerns with Clint Eastwood,…
There’s nothing like found footage to showcase a wide cross-section of humanity’s most maladapted, inept and bizarre, and as far as that goes, nothing beats the original. Since 1991, Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have been collecting old VHS tapes, and in 2004, they started editing down the weirdest and…
When artist Frank Warren handed out 3,000 postcards to strangers in 2004, inviting them to write down their secrets and mail them back, he probably didn’t anticipate that the PostSecret project would grow into what it is today: an ongoing blog, several books and a traveling exhibition — the latter…
The new Allan Houser blockbuster at the Denver Botanic Gardens is the show that’s getting everyone’s attention this season, but Between the Real and the Imagined, the contemporary installation by artist, curator, scholar and Ho-Chunk Indian Truman Lowe that’s tucked into the nooks and crannies of the Boettcher Memorial Center,…
While slowly recovering from back surgery, Jimmy Sellars created a series of digital sketches on an iPad that he describes as “humans either turned into rabbits, for no apparent reason, or wearing prosthetics to turn them into a rabbit.” The darkly whimsical personification refers to Rabbit’s iconic connection to the…
Hair-metal homage/Broadway smash Rock of Ages opens at the Buell Theatre tonight, bringing the era of hairspray and Hollywood dreams to life with the music of Styx, White Snake, Bon Jovi and more. As the aptly named Drew Bowie, former American Idol contender Constantine Maroulis plays a Sunset Strip bar…
For the second time, MCA Denver director Adam Lerner has decided to devote the entire museum to a single exhibit — in this case, Another Victory Over the Sun, a show about darkness and light. “We have great local and international artists,” says Lerner, “but the most dramatic experience for…
International Go Skateboarding Day dates back to 2004, when the holiday was established by the International Association of Skateboard Companies (IASC) to help promote the sport and mark the start of summer. “Most of us skate every day anyway, so really, it’s just an excuse to have a big event…
The relationship between Denver Urban Gardens and the locally oriented eatery Root Down began last September at a cooking contest. “We had a big picnic in Ruby Hill Park celebrating the groundbreaking of our 100th community garden,” explains DUG spokes-woman Abbie Harris. “We had an Iron Chef-style competition where we…
“Can I quit now?” Michael D. Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, e-mailed an aide as the waters were rising around New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina hit. “Can I go home?” Soon enough, he did – but not before President George W. Bush made Brown a permanent punchline…
Jelly wrestling, anyone? Next-door neighbors Beauty Bar and Jelly Cafe neatly define the term “coexist” in their friendly proximity on 13th Avenue; though one welcomes the nightlife and the other operates mainly in the sunlight, the bar and the pancake cafe are joining forces to create a float for this…
There is no filmmaker in history as simultaneously loved and hated as George Lucas. When his Star Wars trilogy was suddenly turned into a six-film disaster, enthusiasts felt that he’d betrayed them and, in the words of one fan in the film The People vs. George Lucas, “raped their childhood.”…
Downhill mountain-bike racing is as thrilling to watch as it is for the crazies who put life and limb on the line to bomb the hills, and the craziest of them will be at SolVista Bike Park at Granby Ranch through Sunday. “This year, the town of Granby stepped up…
If herding cats is notoriously difficult, then training cats to do acrobatic tricks must be nearly impossible. Nearly, but not entirely, as proven by The Amazing Acro-Cats, a group of house cats who can perform such mind-bending feats as walking tightropes, jumping through hoops and playing in a five-piece band…
There’s always a lot of excitement over Bike to Work Day and the accompanying morning festivities, but when it’s time for the long ride home, enthusiasm seems to ebb. That’s why the LoDo ad agency Cactus has been hosting its Bike From Work Bash happy-hour party for the last three…
