Before the impressive Lord of the Rings trilogy (and the slew of Oscars he received) made Peter Jackson a household name, he was already a revered icon among horror fans for the brilliant, insane zombie opus Dead Alive (aka Braindead). The movie is probably the finest example ever of the…
W. may be less frenzied than the usual Oliver Stone sensory bombardment, but in revisiting the early ’00s by way of the late ’60s, this psycho-historical portrait of George W. Bush has all the queasy appeal of a strychnine-laced acid flashback. Hideous re-creations of the shock-and-awful recent past merge with…
Hurricane Katrina may have driven off a large segment of New Orleans’s African-American population, the providers of much of the city’s character. But in one sense the deadly storm was a uniter, not a divider: Only three years ago, the devil wind brought together much of the country in contempt…
Michael Frayn’s brilliant Noises Off is one of the cleverest, funniest farces ever written. This is a play within a play — actually, a play outside a play. It depicts the struggles of a third-rate company touring the English provinces in a corny sex farce called Nothing On — lots…
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…
In six billion years, the sun will swell into a red giant and toast Earth. In two billion years, the Milky Way will collide with another galaxy. Asteroids, black holes, space microbes, supernovas and sun flares — these are just some of the ways the world could end. Where will…
Is it possible to drive across the country and never stop at a single gas pump? Author Greg Melville knows for a fact that it is possible; he and an old college buddy, Iggy, did it in 2006, driving Melville’s 1985 Mercedes station wagon powered by vegetable oil. And Melville…
When Boulder-by-way-of-Canada newgrass musician and banjo virtuoso Jayme Stone blows into town tonight to perform in Swallow Hill’s Daniels Hall, he’ll arrive with more than just his five-string. Thanks to a seven-week stint in Mali, he’ll bring the knowledge and experience of two unknown musical ancestors, along with the konou…
Just when you thought there couldn’t be a bigger creep in the White House, along comes Charles H.P. Smith. “He’s a horrible guy,” says media contact Bob Wells. “Everything he does is bad — greed, torture, blackmail. He’s not based on any one president — wink, wink — but it’s…
It’s that time of year again, when nothing is more inviting than a shivery, spine-tingling ghost story. And that makes the new Hunger Artists Ensemble Theatre production Haunted the perfect evening out. “I’m part of a paranormal research investigations team,” explains playwright and Hunger Artist Maggie Stillman, “so when we…
Indulge your taste for the bizarre detritus of Western civilization tonight at the Found Footage Festival, a national touring act that presents some of the strangest moments ever captured on video. Curators Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have been collecting cast-off videos from thrift stores, garage sales and dumpsters since…
The people behind today’s Manifestation Celebration have been traveling with World Wellness Weekend and other fairs around the country, but this event is something different. “One of the big concepts that we’re presenting is the concept of conscious evolution and the fact that as individuals and on a planetary level,…
Come down to Enchanted Grounds, 8800 South Colorado Boulevard in Highlands Ranch, for the fifth annual Denver 24-Hour Comics Challenge, where comic art-ists will create a 24-page comic from scratch in 24 hours. It’s a feat that tests the limits of both endurance and imagination. Organizer Stan Yan of Squid…
How much do you know about hops? If you know that they’re female flower cones as well as agents that preserve and add aroma to beer and balance out the sweetness of malt, then you’re ahead of most people, but you can learn even more at today’s second annual Fresh…
“One of the most fun things about Denver in the fall is all the layering we get to do,” enthuses Fashion Denver founder and LIBRA Fall Fashion Market organizer Brandi Shigley. This season’s market is called LIBRA because “it’s the sign for October, and the idea of bringing balance to…
Chelsea Handler, who headlines a benefit gig tonight, may not be taking over the world, but she seems to be in charge of a nice-sized chunk of it these days. Chelsea Lately, her nightly E! talk show, which finds her dishing about celebrity foibles and other insanity with undisguised glee,…
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more inspirational speaker than Erik Weihenmayer. In 2001 he became the only blind man in history to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The next year, the 33-year-old completed his seven-year quest to climb the Seven Summits, the highest mountains of each continent. His…
“The whole reason I love writing about history is precisely because it’s so juicy,” says National Public Radio essayist turned best-selling author Sarah Vowell. “There’s so much death and violence and pettiness and jealousy and the occasional high-minded idealist.” That’s certainly the case with The Wordy Shipmate — the excuse…
Kitchen tales wear well. Anything, after all, that’s set behind the scenes and revolves around plates of food, glorious food, in constant degrees of preparation, can’t help but grab your gut…literally, figuratively and in every way possible. Fried: Surviving Two Centuries in Restaurants is a new, foodie-friendly history/memoir/personal tall-tale by…
Oh, my gosh, will you look at the Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails? They are just adorable today! See how that top brings out the colors in their unique LUPEC eyes? How that pair of jeans perfectly hugs those LUPEC curves? And those shoes! I have to…
The works of local artist Viviane Le Courtois never fail to fascinate, but her latest installation (and the centerpiece of Trickle Down, a show of works by Le Courtois, John Lopez and Andrew Englander at Plus Gallery’s intern-run Object + Thought, 3559 Larimer Street) will go a step beyond by…
Before the impressive Lord of the Rings trilogy (and the slew of Oscars he received) made Peter Jackson a household name, he was already a revered icon among horror fans for the brilliant, insane zombie opus Dead Alive (aka Braindead). The movie is probably the finest example ever of the…
