Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. As usual, we’re rounding up your options for the weekend to come and the following week, and…
Talking to the Dead, which went up on the wall of the MacSpa the other day, is all about the occult as a commodity. Featuring a series of artsy Ouija Boards created by local artists and juried by Eric Matelski, the show reflects the season smartly and with panache, accompanied…
There are thousands of blue-collar jobs in the world, but few have the cultural appeal of the bike messenger. As Denver has become more bike-centric over the years and more people have been saddling up, the bike messenger’s job has taken on a glamorous appeal. But their heavy bags filled…
For all intents and purposes, it’s pretty clear from the book jacket that Gray Matter, by local author Nick Pirog, is a crime novel. Just the cover, which features a red, black and white color scheme and a stylized illustration of the Seattle skyline, was enough for me to guess…
Denver-based snowboard film crew SixEleven Productions drops the world premiere of Stop…Hammer Time! tonight at Gothic Theatre (6 p.m., $10, ages 16+), along with the Denver premiere of Pirate Productions’ Hooked and a mess of free stuff from SixEleven’s new sponsors, including Ride Snowboards…
Hey there, hepcat, wondering why your old lady’s so down on you? Probably because the flame has gone out of your relationship and your wardrobe options have been reduced to sports-themed warm-up pants — but it also might just be because you haven’t taken her out dancing in a while…
Except when they’re biting, stinging or otherwise annoying us, we spend most of our lives ignoring insects. But a closer look at our little exoskeletal fellow travelers can reveal not just utility, but beauty and deeper meaning. That’s the concept behind The Sacred Bug and the Insect, a group show…
Step out of the bright lights of the midway and into the shadow of the darkened side-show tent, where the wild things are. Strange beasts, stranger people and otherworldly relics await you inside. That’s the world explored in Claudia Roulier’s Peculiarities: from fish to freaks, opening tonight and running through…
Tucker Max is an asshole. He’ll tell you himself. “I do stuff that’s messed up,” he says. “Sometimes I even know it’s messed up while I’m doing it. The last thing I would ever say is that all my actions are defensible. They’re not.” A former honors student and graduate…
A vendor is hawking the Denver Voice outside of Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret — where at 6 p.m. tonight, Comedy in the Clocktower will raise funds to keep the urban newspaper alive. The Voice, a recipient of a 2009 MasterMind award from Westword and part of a growing group of papers…
It takes a certain amount of finesse to make a career out of cavorting around in a blue Lycra bunny suit. If there’s evidence that it can be done, though, it’s Scotty the Blue Bunny, whose flaming, hyperactive act is eclectic, always eccentric, and very hard to pigeonhole. Here’s how…
Anyone who lives in Oklahoma has heard of the annual prison rodeo in which inmates at the state penitentiary face down bulls and buckin’ broncs in a traditional format — albeit one guarded by armed corrections officers. The rodeo attracts thousands of spectators in what is both a chance at…
The National Sports Center for the Disabled gives sports fans a better way to get onto their favorite field or floor than running out there during a game and being tackled by security. For the fifth year in a row, the Fans on the Field ASICS 10K Walk/Run will visit…
Just in time for Halloween, the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life program has partnered with the Colorado Ballet to make your lifelong dream of learning to dance like a zombie come true. Grab your zipper-laden red leather jacket and head down to the Thriller! Dance Class, where you’ll learn…
Skulls and dead people might seem pretty spooky, and the two days of celebration might come fairly close together, but Halloween and Day of the Dead aren’t the same thing. Both tie in, to some extent, to the Catholic All Saints’ Day on November 1, but whereas Halloween is a…
Rick Gold is having a party on a train, and he challenges you to be so cool: “It usually takes about two to three years for stuff on the coast to seep into the interior, so to speak,” he says. “But Denver’s becoming pretty hip and cool. I wonder if…
Loy Merck of the Meadowlark observed the open-air street festivals of Mexico and had an idea: What if he threw a fest in the same spirit, where kids could participate and sell their work? Nice idea. Now in its third year, Merck’s Larimer Sidewalk Arts Festival provides just such a…
The Beats never completely go out of style, and every few years it seems like another book comes along to renew interest in the post-war, mid-century socio-literary movement led by such luminaries as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg is now the subject of a new film, Howl, that explores…
As a cross-cultural adoptive mother, I’ve read a hell of a lot of books on the subject: memoirs, treatises, psychology books, rants, you name it. But until I read NPR host Scott Simon’s Baby We Were Meant for Each Other, I’d never found an adoption book that rung completely true…
For as long as she can remember, Paula Poundstone has had a really short attention span. It was when she figured out she could use that to her advantage that she really took off. “When I first started doing open-mike nights in ’79, I’d spend days memorizing my jokes,” she…
If gig posters excite you almost as much — or more — than the shows they advertise, if you don’t feel like you really know a band until you’ve got its poster on your wall, or even if you just want to look at memorabilia from your misspent hippie youth,…
So, you think you want to bake cake? You might reconsider a career in confections after watching Kings of Pastry, 84 minutes of heart-pounding intensity in which sixteen French pastry chefs commune for three days in Lyon, France in a grueling battle to become the country’s Best Craftsman as judged…
