We’re here to help maintain your sanity and financial stability this holiday season with a couple movies, a photo show, dance parties, art and more. If you need some spots to blow off some steam after blowing two paychecks on stuff for yourself on Cyber Monday, we’ve got you covered…
Rory O’ Farrell is a mixed martial arts prizefighter, but with his matching shamrock chest tattoos and a red chin-strap, he’d look just as at home as an extra in a Dropkick Murphys video as he does in an MMA ring. O’ Farrell fights tomorrow night at Kick Down 87…
Yesterday, an 8-inch toy robot stuck to a pillar near Coors Field triggered hours of havoc downtown, culminating in the Denver bomb squad detonating the innocuous figurine in a hullabaloo of wondrous proportions. Wondrous, but also completely unnecessary. Clearly the little bugger wasn’t out to get anybody, and even if…
Before you even say anything, we already know: It’s probably the most boring name for a fashion show ever, and it also makes us think of homeless people. And that’s a shame, because The Volunteers of America Holiday Fashion Show is just as haute and sleek as any show with…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: All this month, Lohre will host receptions showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve. Check…
Marguerite Endsley wants to spread the word about something near and dear to her heart: pole dancing. And in the process, she wants to raise some money for a fellow pole dancer who recently suffered a horrific accident: 32-year-old Debbie Plowman, a mother of two from England who fell on…
There’s hardly any denying that MTV’s 16 and Pregnant is one of the most crassly exploitative shows ever made. Just the inherent nature of its subjects — pregnant sixteen-year-old girls — lends itself to portraying those subjects as frivolous, vindictive tards completely unprepared for the monumental task they are about…
Now that we’re officially settled into the holidays, it’s time to start looking for folks that have seasonal jobs. What better place to start than a holiday elf? For understandable reasons, our elf has decided to remain anonymous, but regardless of the anonymity, you should still get a pretty good…
It’s never too early to plant the seeds of life-long sexual neurosis; in this day and age of growing tolerance toward the scourge homosexuality, we’ve really got to step up our efforts to instill deep self-hatred in our children at an early age. That’s where Chased by an Elephant, the…
There comes a humbling time in the career of every blogger when he must face the fact that, for example, the article he wrote in February about Clair Bidez, Hannah Teter, Lindsey Vonn and Lacy Schnoor taking their clothes off for Sports Illustrated got more pageviews than anything else he…
In the soul-sucking spirit of this pointedly consumer holiday season, The Fabric Lab and Beauty Bar have come up with a better way to shop without bringing the mall into the equation. Starting tonight, the local fashion facilitators take over the bar from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. for the…
Laura Goldhamer’s artistic output is eclectic — the banjo-picking songstress brings her considerable talent to several instruments, art projects and bands — but tonight’s performance, after a hiatus from touring with the Boulder-based Dovekins on the Tour de Fat, will be particularly diverse. Aside from the video installations she regularly…
Theater can provoke a lot of reactions, but apprehensive nail-biting is not typically one of them. “You rarely see thrillers on stage that have a lot of suspense,” observes Meridith Friedman, the Curious Theatre Company’s playwright-in-residence for the company’s world premiere of Robert Lewis Vaughan’s Astronomical Sunset. Not so, she…
One does plants, the other is known for her fish: It was no accident that threw flower-sculpting clay artist Jean Smith and animal assemblage artist Deborah Jang together for a couple of intertwining shows at the Ice Cube Gallery. Smith’s Abstract Clay and Jang’s The Way of Things open tonight…
If there was a machine whose job it was to churn out Christmas stories — and it’s possible that there is — A Christmas Carol would be the default setting. Told and retold and told again for the past 150 years, its plot points are so ingrained in the collective…
The fifth collaboration of director Margarethe Von Trotta and actress Barbara Sukowa, Vision continues the proto-feminist canonization of Blessed Hildegard von Bingen (Sukowa), twelfth-century Benedictine magistra, scientist, visionary composer and literal receptor of visions. Cloistered at age eight, Hildegard grows into hardball politicking in the Holy Roman Empire as a…
When Michael Kirkland started Six Pack Sports – a coed social sports league that takes the standards (softball, volleyball and hockey) and turns ’em on their heads (no gloves for outfielders, played in a pool, shoes instead of skates) – his primary goal was to create an organization that was…
There are many types of sweaters – the cardigan, the sweater vest, the Cosby sweater – but none nearly as hideous as the Christmas sweater. Really, the fact that there might be any excuse at all to wear anything as garishly awful as, say, a Rudolph-adorned red-and-green pullover with rhinestones…
We, the citizens of Denver, have been running Denver Open Media for exactly four years. And we’re doing an excellent job. Members create the content that appears on DOM’s cable channels using equipment provided by the organization, and the community votes on what gets top billing on TV. It’s a…
In many ways, you could consider the Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt the Woody Allen of indie rock, a distinctly Big Apple auteur with a wry sense of humor and a neurotic outlook on love. In stark opposition to Allen’s garish personal life, however, the tabloid headlines on Merritt are pretty…
The Christmas season is a time for lights – just look at your neighbor’s sun-like display – but for beer drinkers, it’s also a time for darks: dark beers. Today, the Wynkoop Brewing Company will give more than a dozen breweries from Colorado and elsewhere a chance to show off…
“We’re unorthodox Jews,” says Rob Tannenbaum, co-creator of the comedy and music duo Good for the Jews. “My favorite Jewish singer was never Neil Diamond; it was always Joey Ramone.” The traveling show includes songs like “Jews for Jesus” and “They Tried to Kill Us, We Survived, Let’s Eat.” Following…
