I first met Sandra Renteria when she ran Indigena Gallery, a socially conscious moving feast of folk and outsider art that last hung out on Santa Fe Drive before its owner packed it in to pursue other concerns. A rare free spirit whose feet are firmly planted on the earth,…
Before you ring up an expensive bar tab drinking Grey Goose or Belvedere martinis, you may want to invest some dough in learning the basics of booze. Sean Ziegler’s Lively Liquors course at Colorado Free University starts today with vodka, and Zeigler is pretty sure his students will be surprised…
Johnny Briggs embraced the motto “Live fast, die young” — literally; he passed away in 2000 at the age of thirty and left behind a local music scene well etched with his heavy-metal footprints and fans. The notorious strummer of Derailed and Hell’s Half Acre will be memorialized tonight at…
What’s happening at today’s CultureHeads extravaganza, taking place from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Paladium Event Center, 1320 West 62nd Avenue? A better question might be what isn’t happening. Promoter Ryan Vincent says he “wanted to make a spot for everybody to go,” and he wasn’t kidding. “The…
“People love bad taste — that’s the key,” explains the Kinsey Sicks’ Rachel (aka Ben). “Doesn’t matter what your sex orientation is. I’m a biased source, but we’re really amazingly fabulously talented and great.” Tonight is your chance to check out the Kinsey drag divas in person at Condoleezzapalooza, a…
“I just think it’s an excellent book,” enthuses Matt Kailey, staff writer for Out Front Colorado, author of Just Add Hormones and editor of the new anthology Focus on the Fabulous: Colorado GLBT Voices. For those who don’t know, GLBT is an acronym for “gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered” —…
Five years ago, Mark Siebert dressed up in a trucker cap and a flannel shirt, used some black licorice to gap his otherwise intact front teeth and walked into a convenience store at 2 a.m. to buy a can of beans with a bag of pennies. His brother Jeff was…
Growing up, I fully embraced the punk-rock do-it-yourself ethos in everything I did — from starting my own band and self-recording our albums to sewing my own clothes and silk-screening tees and patches. Fast-forward ten years, and I began to see the appeal of Buddhism to a highly independent type…
One hundred years after the first Curtis Park grand Victorians were built in the 1870s, the neighborhood was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Homes that had long fallen into disrepair started to see reinvestment. This weekend, some of the people who have put their blood, sweat, tears…
Sundance signals, for better or worse, the state of American independent filmmaking. Cannes keeps faith, for those who still believe, with the cinema d’auteur. And Toronto? The largest and most important film festival in North America seems to do nearly as many things as there are movies to see —…
Sixteen years ago, Ute Meadows Elementary School teacher E.J. Boillot began coaching the Jumping Eagles, a jump-rope team named after the mascot at Ute Meadows, in southwestern Jefferson County. Since then, jumping rope has gone from being a casual recreational activity to a highly competitive sport, and the Eagles, who…
The best thing about First Friday is the sheer variety of it all. So if you fell off the art bus on Friday last, you’ve already missed a fabulous mixed bag of hard and soft openings and more, featuring art both high and low. Among them are: The Buddy System,…
When I was ten, I thought I’d make a career out of belly dancing. I was the hula-hoop queen of my neighborhood, after all, and the professional stomach roll appeared just one step away. But after talking with Maria, the belly-dancer extraordinaire who organized tonight’s Delilah Evening Showcase, I learned…
“After years of people in Denver saying, ‘God, we wish we could hear you guys,’ and people going to absurd lengths to wrap wires around their houses to pick up our signal, or driving their car and parking on a certain spot on a hill to hear a program, we…
A young boy stripped of his birthright by a cruel and avaricious uncle sets out to gain the magical powers that will allow him to reap vengeance. Armed with black magic, he returns and kills his uncle and his uncle’s family. In a typical Hollywood film, the movie would end…
The only thing I’ve ever done that was remotely cowboy-like was ride a horse one terrifying afternoon in college. His name was Tank, and he tried tossing me into a body cast. Of course, I showed that big bastard a thing or two (mostly about what real fear sounds like)…
One man, one woman (or choose the gender match of your choice), a ring and a kiss: It all seems so simple, and yet it isn’t. These days, when you commit to marriage, you commit to weeks of intensive planning for a blowout that ostensibly happens only once in your…
Nick Sugar, who’s directing The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged), concedes that “there are liberties taken” in this comic adaptation of the ultimate bestseller, which opens tonight. And that’s an understatement of biblical proportions. Appropriately, the extravaganza begins with Earth’s creation and concludes with a number called “Armageddon:…
Remember sitting at your mother’s vanity when you were little and playing with all of her pretty potions and beautifully arranged cosmetics? Yeah, neither do I. My mom always had a drawer full of half-used eyeshadows, blushes and lipsticks thrown haphazardly together. And I haven’t done much better, as most…
1. Balls of Fury is a movie about: A) A former table-tennis prodigy (Dan Fogler as Randy Daytona) enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate the underground Ping-Pong tournament of a legendary Chinese criminal (Christopher Walken). B) Suppository jokes. C) Little worth discussing and even less worth seeing. D) All of…
Leonardo DiCaprio wants you to know that we are in serious trouble. No amount of artful chin stubble, it seems, will reverse the depletion of fossil fuels or help to slow population growth. Not even three Oscar nominations will save you; without an actual statuette, there’s nothing to wedge under…
It is as you’ve always suspected: Rob Zombie’s house is way cooler than yours. For one thing, the punk/metal god turned filmmaker has a twelve-foot stuffed polar bear in his living room. (Zombie to dumbstruck interviewer: “I know, right? How fuckin’ big is that bear?”) The bear presides over dozens…
