We all know rocks stars can party, but that’s nothing compared to partying like a porn star. Tonight, more than a dozen of Colorado’s top adult-film stars will be pursuing ultimate decadence at Wish Nightclub’s Party Like a Porn Star. Wish (511 West Colfax Avenue) has partnered with Shotgun Willie’s…
In all the brooding and debating over I-70 ski traffic and how to fix it or give people a way out of it — with a train — one little detail is usually missing: Denver al-ready has a Ski Train. Its 69th season providing stress-free trips to Winter Park and…
Sure, you could always wait till tomorrow to start your New Year’s resolutions — but who wants to take up jogging while nursing a vicious hangover? Here’s a better plan: Head to Crested Butte for the second annual Frozen Buns 5K Resolution Fun Run and get a jump start on…
That spark of spontaneous creativity that some people can evoke is wonderful to witness, and at tonight’s performance of the Gypsy Cab Co., you’ll get a chance to watch nearly a dozen local performers ham it up on stage in two long-form improvised performances. “We call it Gypsy Cab because…
Today is the first day of Kwanzaa, the seven-day celebration of the humanist principles of Nguzo Saba. Each day is thematic and replete with Afrocentric spoken word, craftmaking, music, dance, games and the pouring of libations. Celebrations for Umoja (Unity) day commence at 1 p.m. at the Blair-Caldwell African-American Research…
Dear Santa: This year I’d really, really, REALLY like some belly dancers, strip teasers, magicians and a comedian. P.S.: Can you also include a midget? Believe it or not, I’ve sent this letter to the North Pole for the last fifteen or so years, and Santa has never delivered. Sure,…
Everyone wonders how fine artists find inspiration and become influenced through other mediums, which is why the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver’s Open Shelf Films program is so freakin’ brilliant. “Each artist gets a shelf, and they fill it with sources and inspirations of their work — whether that’s something…
It’s sad but true: All good things must come to an end. And that includes Buntport Theater’s innovative (and hilarious) live sitcoms. The company started experimenting with Magnets on the Fridge in 2001; its current live sitcom, Starship Troy, follows a crew aboard a flying garbage truck — in space…
The real Lola Montes was one of the wildest characters of the nineteenth century, a dancer, actress and courtesan who was romantically involved with both Franz Liszt and the Bavarian king Ludwig I, who made her a countess. Fittingly, she was memorialized in the 1955 film Lola Montes, by Max…
When you’re listening to music, you don’t want to leave too much of a carbon footprint. In fact, you want to be sure that the only emissions emanating from the stage are the by-products of flyin’ fiddles and bangin’ banjos — am I right? So rest assured that when we…
“For too many people,” says Marty Jones, organizer of Wynkoop Brewing Company’s thirteenth annual Beerdrinker of the Year contest, “the term ‘beer drinker’ conjures up a man in underwear and an ill-fitting T-shirt watching professional wrestling and drinking flavorless beer. But that is not the crowd we see.” Jones’s crowd?…
New Year’s Eve means the future is almost here, and to welcome that sci-fi time yet to come, FM magazine and Automatica Media are bringing The Future Party to the hi-dive and Sputnik tonight. “The future is our theme,” explains FM’s Tuyet Nguyen. “I suppose it sort of plays into…
As regular readers of this column know, I have a special place in my heart for the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Sure, it’s far away and in the heart of a town known for its right-wing religious zealots. But there’s so much art history associated with Colorado Springs that…
Michele Mosko grew up in Denver but spent most of her adult life in New York working as an art dealer. A few years ago, she moved back and opened a tiny gallery just steps from the Denver Art Museum’s Martin Plaza, in front of the Hamilton Building. Michele Mosko…
An O. Henry Christmas. Amid the cascade of Christmas Carol remounts, Hallmark Card family shows and limp holiday parodies, this musical arrangement of two O. Henry short stories — “The Last Leaf” and “The Gift of the Magi,” created by Peter Ekstrom — is a refreshing option. “The Gift of…
Gary Culig has been playing the reluctant Macy’s elf, Crumpet, in The SantaLand Diaries at the Bug for the last decade; there are people in this town who have faithfully attended every single year. But Culig is now living in New York and has found it more and more difficult…
Back in the early 1980s, when I was a graduate student in Boston, a prominent professor I knew was accused of sexually harassing a female colleague. This man was a compulsive flirt who couldn’t get within feet of a woman without coming on to her, so I wasn’t altogether surprised…
Two years ago nearly to the day, Will Smith and Italian director Gabriele Muccino released The Pursuit of Happyness, one of the most underrated of recent Hollywood movies, which starred Smith as a single father navigating a hand-to-mouth existence on the streets of San Francisco. Writing at the time, I…
Adam Helms. This solo in the MCA’s Paper Works Gallery is the New York artist’s first museum show anywhere. In his works on paper and in a monumental sculpture that conjures up a shooting blind, Helms explores political themes, especially armed struggle. He takes images of different radical and extremist…
For so major a movie star — at least, once upon a time — Jim Carrey seems to make a lot of awfully minor films, several of them over and over again. Isn’t Yes Man, in which Carrey’s self-absorbed Debbie Downer greenlights every bad decision in an effort to reinvent…
The King loved Christmas. No, not Wenceslas, Elvis! And Chris Barber (aka the Velvet Elvis) loves Christmas, too — so much, in fact, that every year for the past two years, he’s channeled the King for the annual Blue, Blue Christmas Show. Barber returns to Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe…
Cultures all around the world — well, in the northern hemisphere, anyway — have ritually celebrated the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year. Because once the solstice is over, the planet’s north side begins tilting back toward the sun, bringing longer days and more sunshine. And who doesn’t…
