Recently, my pal Danielle convinced me to take a class called Cardio Tease and Tone at Tease Studio (1111 South Pearl Street), which offers pole classes and Pussycat Dolls-style burlesque workshops. “It’s for toning all the parts you tease with,” Danielle explained. As a burlesque dancer, this appealed to me,…
When my friends from back east talk about Denver, they come up with some pretty diverse images that often include ski vacations, canceled flights, Red Rocks and microbrews. However, never in anyone’s buck-wildest imagination would they expect to see thirty Longhorn steer driven down fourteen blocks of 17th Street in…
Television has just gotten bigger. The 150″ plasma Panasonic was unveiled this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It’s approximately eight feet by eleven feet, which means that it’s pretty much your living room wall. And if you buy one, you’re contractually obligated to change your name…
Well, they’re back. And two, at least, are bushy. David Letterman and Conan O’Brien returned to the air Wednesday night, each sporting a strike-beard, which apparently is a thing. Why, exactly, I don’t know. On Conan, it actually worked—it lent him a sort of gravitas, sort of a young Obi-Wan…
Here’s the question: should, in fact, old acquaintance be forgot? Has the venerable New Year’s Rockin’ Eve run its course? This isn’t so much about Dick Clark, or whether he’s ready for the pasture. He’s not. He never will be. Despite a massive stroke in 2004, which caused him to…
A great brooding thundercloud of a movie, Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood arrives as if from nowhere on a gust of critical acclaim, lowering over a landscape of barren mesas and hot, scrubby hills. Anderson’s epic, no less than his career, is both fearfully grandiose and wonderfully eccentric…
The story of how The Kite Runner’s Homayoun Ershadi got into movies is a bit like those fanciful tales of stars and starlets discovered by casting agents while sitting at the soda counter in Schwab’s Pharmacy. Only, in Ershadi’s case, he was driving his Range Rover through the streets of…
The fiftieth anniversary year of On the Road, Jack Kerouac’s classic, is officially over — but Jack is back. From 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Tuesday, January 8, the Denver Public Library’s fabulous Fresh City Life program will host the inaugural session of Stories That Could Be True, a…
After all the subtle hints, secret wishes and midnight prayers, it finally happened: Your man proposed. It was so romantic. The dinner that night was delicious, the wine was heady and the ring was perfect. And now that you’ve gotten your heart’s desire, the hard part begins. You have to…
Light is insubstantial and infinitely dynamic, rich with emotional associations and relatively easy to manipulate under the right conditions. such properties make it a fascinating artistic medium, one that Sliding Door Gallery, 554 Santa Fe Drive, explores in an offering titled In the Light of Thought: a Winter Celebration. The…
“I’m always thinking in shapes and colors,” says ceramicist Judith Cohn. “It’s who I am; it’s how I think.” Cohn’s Dust to Dust exhibit at Spark Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive, is a ceramic installation made up of about 300 abstract pieces layered in an archeological dig of a piece…
“You know Buntport — they’re kind of insane,” says Norma Moore, artistic director for Stories on Stage. Maybe that’s not what attracts you to a night out, but I can’t think of a better reason to head down to Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan Street, tonight at 7 p.m. for the…
Today’s Heart of the West: New Art/New Thinking symposium at the Denver Art Museum, 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, is one arm of an overall program dealing with the past, present and future of Western American art. The George Carlson: Heart of the West exhibit and its accompanying publication, New…
Holidays, shmolidays! They’re over, fartik! And what better way might there be to get past them completely than with an event as fresh as the year is new? While our Christian brothers and sisters drag out their half-dead trees and pack up the ornaments for another year, we Jews can…
Local Bush-administration whistleblower Sean Shealy, who’s penned a book called Corruption and Cover-Ups of the Bush White House Unmasked, is alarmed that most people — even the ones who already long to see W. unseated — don’t really know how unlawful our national leader has actually been, or why. Shealy…
I grew up on a steady diet of Jeopardy, part of a family so competitive about trivia that we produced a University of Colorado at Boulder Trivia Bowl champ/Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? contestant (not me) and warped the rest of us for life. To this day, my kin…
You may have heard of Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist known for saving hundreds of Jews during the Holocaust. But you’ve probably never heard of Varian Fry. After Nazi Germany invaded France in 1940, Fry, a New York City editor, volunteered to travel to Marseille to help anti-fascist refugees. He…
For most of us, our first concert involved a rock band or maybe a hip-hop act. But the initial gig witnessed by my son, Nick, was more unusual: Bugs Bunny on Broadway, which returns to town tonight. And it could hardly have been a better experience. During the early ’90s,…
As the first lesbian drama series, The L Word had to package itself very carefully to stay afloat in the cutthroat world of television ratings. Writer Ilene Chaiken and director Rose Troche (both bona fide lesbians) used the glamour gimmick, giving audiences a cast to drool over. Even the now-transgendered…
When Lauri Lynnxe Murphy opened Capsule Gallery and Event Center at 560 Santa Fe Drive in 2004, it was one artist’s gift to the Denver community: a place to show, sell and make art. Unfortunately, the evil forces of real-estate development will soon knock down and pave over Murphy’s beloved…
If you have better plans tonight than being filmed for indie television while participating in a bicycle scavenger hunt that ends with free beer and metal, party on. As for the rest of you, show some support for the courier class by riding down to Union Station around 7 p.m…
Veteran gamer and Colorado Cutthroat Connection founder Gregory Richardson expects the second annual Fall Fighter Frenzy to be among the biggest tourneys he’s staged to date, with two full days of play and more than $10,000 in prizes up for grabs. “Last year we had mad turnout,” he notes, in…
