Danny Newman is pretty confident Denver will become zombie capital of the world. No, he’s not predicting an outbreak of a government-created virus that turns the populous into shambling (or running, whichever you prefer), flesh-craving monsters, but he does think that this past weekend’s “Zombie Walk” on the 16th Street…
Young poets from Denver’s slam poetry scene have taken their words and images far beyond the confines of the city. The HBO special Brave New Voices premiered this week and featured performances from Minor Disturbance, Denver’s very own youth Slam Team led by Ken Arkind. The special, co-produced by hip-hop…
It’s an odd thing when your interview subject casually mentions that you can Google her name and watch her get banged out. It’s even weirder when it turns out to be true — because I’m not going to lie: I did. We’re talking about the nuances of porn presentation, and…
Glorg is a simple game with no pretenses at being something bigger. In fact, it’s so simple you can play the thing and eat a sandwich at the same time, which is pretty much our ideal lunch break. If you’ve played the likes of Diablo and its kin, you’ll see…
If there’s anything we can learn from ICP, it’s that clowns, no matter how evil, are still pretty much clowns. Sure, they may be wielding knives and sporting menacing face paint, but at the end of the day, they’re still piling into the clown car and being perplexed over the…
Dana Cain is the lady with her thumb in a million pies: a local maestra of event-planning who throws several well-attended collectors expos, art shows, parties and chocolate-fests each year. Her latest — and biggest — project is next summer’s Denver County Fair. But Dana is also an avid art…
In an effort to showcase the broad character of Denver’s diverse populace, Westword’s own Ben Dayton is doing random interviews with random Denver residents about random topics, randomly. Today he joined Jen McGriff on a bench while she waited for the westbound 15 bus. What follows is their quick conversation…
Gregory Hayes: Re-Seeing New Works is an elegant and very grown-up solo on display at Rule Gallery (227 Broadway, 303-777-9537, www.rulegallery.com). It showcases the recent efforts by Hayes, an emerging artist who lives in New York, where he’s in grad school. But he also has a Colorado connection, having done…
archiTECHtonica. This is one of several shows put together by CU Art Museum director and curator Lisa Tamiris Becker to herald the opening of the institution’s new building. It’s paired with a show made up of related objects from the permanent collection. Becker invited an international cast of artists who…
The 39 Steps. This show is uninhibitedly silly — a take-off on a 1930s Hitchcock film, which itself was based on a novel by John Buchan. The plot didn’t make much sense in the movie, and it makes even less sense in this farcical comedy by Patrick Barlow, who takes…
As suggested by its title, Allen Ginsberg’s game-changing poem “Howl” is essentially performative — and so is Howl, the Sundance-opening quasi-biographical movie by Oscar-winning documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman. Howl the movie — which, in addition to touching on Ginsberg’s early life (and successful coming out), dramatizes the poem’s…
When we first see Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, the final adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s “Millennium” trilogy, she is being transported to a hospital in Gothenburg, bloodied almost beyond recognition, the result of a bullet put in her brain by Zalachenko, her barbaric…
Inside Job, Charles Ferguson’s followup to his Iraq War gut-twister No End in Sight, is a documentary that inspires less shock and awe than sickening ire. The movie opens with the cautionary tale of little Iceland, an idyllic nation so stable that, as put by one local, it enjoyed “almost…
It’s nothing new for conservatives to have a reverse-boner for the “liberal media” — take Sarah Palin, for example, who cited the mean ol’ media as a chief reason for her abandonment of the Alaska governorship, interestingly to pursue a career in media commentary with the decidedly non-liberal Fox News…
*To answer a question from a reader: No, there were not actual sex acts going on at this party. We thought it was clear this was a silly work of adult-themed satire based on our research of Victorian fetishes. We apologize for any confusion. -ed. It’s always the most repressed…
In the wake of accusations of religious intolerance, and the fear of a subsequent drop in admissions applications, the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs has for some time been reaching out to cadets of non-Christian sentiments, including Pagan and Wiccan faiths. But just don’t let on that you’re gay,…
The Loveland Ski and Arapahoe Basin Ski areas opened on Sunday, October 24, and Monday, October 25, 2010 respectively, ushering in another season. Soren McCarty brings back these photos from the slopes. See the full slideshow here: Opening Days! Loveland and A-Basin…
What are the tell-tale signs of gentrification in Denver? Higher home prices? Brightly painted condos? Whole Foods? How about fancy baby strollers and yoga studios? Or, most tell-tale of all, people pushing fancy baby strollers from the yoga studio to Whole Foods in order to purchase coarse sea salt, almond…
No smoking. No touching. No suing. No eating. Every haunted house explains your basic rights upon entering, informing you that you enter at your own risk. Field of Corpses may want to add another disclaimer: BYOB (Bring Your Own Barfbag). Photos by Aaron Thackeray — see the full Field of…
We already warned you that the holiday pre-game was about to hit, and that hasn’t changed. There are new releases for everyone this week, whether you’re a fan of foreign films, multi-player online games or neuroscience. We’re a bit partial to the MMO for reasons that will be obvious in…
If you’re at a loss for what to do with all that footage of villains roping damsels in distress to the railroad tracks, then take heart, my friend, because Short, Sweet and Silent: A Third-Floor Film Festival wants your silent film. In observance of Denver Arts Week (November 5-13), the…
Butchering a buffalo is bloody, smelly work. It takes strength, it takes time, and it draws flies by the hundreds. The Plains Indians did it as often as they could, following the herds, hunting them, breaking down the animals they killed and taking away the meat, the skin, the bones,…
