It’s no secret, really, that art-making is at least one part science. But the husband-and-wife team of Tyler and Monica Aiello take it one step beyond. Widely known for criss-crossing visually between the worlds of art and science, together they reveal beautiful connections in their process-driven sculpture and paintings. Monica…
Inherit the Wind, the fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, might just be the greatest courtroom drama ever written, and its main theme — whether or not Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution should be taught in a public school — is as…
Pit bulls get a bad rap. Not only do the cities of Denver and Aurora ban most of them because of the public’s fear that the animals are aggressive or even vicious, but potential owners, wary of illegitimate dog breeders, often shy away from them. Abel Quintero is one of…
The 32nd annual Telluride Mountainfilm Festival officially runs May 27-30, but head west early to catch the free outdoor screenings at the Base Camp Outdoor Theater, new this year on the main stage in Telluride Town Park. The first is tonight at 9 p.m. and features director Tom Shadyac’s documentary…
Doing improv at a family theater isn’t easy. Performers have to keep their mouths and their ideas in check so as not to accidentally offend anyone. The Fillers have been doing this for the past five years at Bovine Metropolis, but with a new show, The Fillers — A Comedy…
As executive director of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Crested Butte, Dr. Ian Billick knows a little something about the power of place. “We’re located right outside Crested Butte in an area where people have been doing scientific research for a little over eighty years, and this kind of…
Road-tripping season is coming up, and if the outlandish cost of gas has got you thinking about reining in the epic scale of your travels, despair not: There’s plenty of weird stuff to see in our home state. Just ask Charmaine Ortega Getz, who’s so enamored with oddball attractions in…
It doesn’t take encyclopedic knowledge of the city and its streets to win the Cityscape Adventures Challenge, but it certainly helps. Over the course of three to four hours, you and your team of scavenger hunt specialists will be tasked with solving clues, finding historical landmarks and getting photos to…
Bill Plympton has got some crazy work ethic. Since he made his name as in animator in the late ’80s with the Oscar-nominated Your Face, a short cartoon featuring not much more than a goofy little ditty sung by a man whose face is meanwhile collapsing in on itself and…
Alpacas already look like some shit out of Dr. Seuss — all bowed legs, long necks, hairy tufts and wet, bulging eyes — but tonight they’re about to look even weirder. Ladies and gentlemen, brace yourself for the Alpaca Costume Contest, a part — most likely the best part —…
April Charmaine of Sol Vida Dance! Studio teaches kids to dance in her Sol Vida Youth Tribe and Tribal Tots ensembles, helping them hone their skills all year long. But in the spring, when it’s time for them to show off what they’ve learned to their families and friends, Charmaine…
Candy Darling, aka John Slattery of Forest Hills, was easily one of the most beautiful transsexuals ever; the blond bombshell and habitué of Andy Warhol’s Factory and films in the late ’60s and early ’70s (she starred in Flesh and Women in Revolt) attracted the attention of everyone from the…
Taking it all off is all in a day’s work for members of Colorado’s busy burlesque community. But the various troupes rarely mingle while they’re doing it, and many are downright competitive, because after all, a girl’s got to make a living! It would, therefore, take a very special cause…
Proms suck. Underneath all the glitz and limousines, they’re pretty much raging cesspools of ritualized awkwardness and expectations destined to go unfulfilled, populated by horny teenagers badly disguising their terror with clandestine booze — at least in execution. In concept, they could be so much more. Like Bike Denver’s Bike…
Stacey Johnson and her sister Kim Dahlquist first jumped into the flea-market fray several years ago when they conjured the Paris Street Market in downtown Littleton, which has since changed hands and moved to Aspen Grove. Their love of the flea, however, has never gone away, and lately they began…
Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail takes readers on a wild ride with three obsessed capsicum “gastronauts” — Kurt Michael Friese, Kraig Kraft and Gary Paul Nabhan — who motor across the landscape of Mexico and the United States in a self-described “Spice Ship.” Their goal: to explore,…
Although he’s been nominated for a couple of Academy Awards, Bill Plympton has always been a little too weird for the mainstream. His surreal animation, in which human forms are stretched, kneaded and punched to their breaking point, is frequently steeped in sex and hilariously gratuitous violence and is most…
Want to see a giant cat face with light-up eyes and a glowing field of poppies? So does Rianna Lee Brown. But to make it happen, she needs your help. The local artist, costume designer and performer has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund her ambitious new production, The…
Mortified author in questionTo say that my best friend and I have a unique relationship would be an understatement; what we know about each other goes beyond the basic ramifications of “girl code” and into the uncharted territories of period stains, untimely fart releases and bowel movements…
When T.J. Miller’s one-hour Comedy Central special airs, it will be a big deal. “It’s a big deal,” the comedian agrees. “I didn’t even have to do a half hour on Comedy Central — I went straight to an hour.” Maybe that’s because Miller, who was born and raised in…
A quick glance at A Knight’s Quest would probably make you think this is another old-school RPG clone, but trust us when we say that it’s not. It’s actually a pleasantly absurd, bizarre little game filled with so much oddball humor that, even if you don’t get all the pop…
It seems kind of self-evident that Harold Camping is a nut job. For the second time in an otherwise unremarkable career, Camping is currently garnering attention for yet another end-of-days prediction; using a formula of his own design, he claims to have mathematically calculated the date of the apocalypse –…
