The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round; the beer on the bus goes splashy-splash, splashy-splash; the people on the bus see bourgeois kitsch, bourgeois kitsch… That’s the Art Directors Club of Denver’s bus song. Feel free to sing it tonight at the annual First Friday…
I don’t know about you, but the holiday lull after Christmas simply screams “Go look!” And I must obey by bundling up the family to go cruise the mysterious streets in search of the flashiest holiday lights in town. I’m even Jewish, but what the hell; it’s probably some deeply…
I’m a holiday-light junkie and can’t wait each year for the season of garish and magical outdoings by the Denver Zoo and the Denver City and County Building and that crazy guy around the corner. But in a way, I’m also setting myself up for disappointment, I guess, because these…
The second annual Bough House fundraiser, which benefits the Rocky Mountain Children’s Law Center, has “stepped it up a lot,” according the RMCLC’s Sara Payne. The 29 artists who have interpreted the modern holiday tree will offer up their works a for silent auction at tonight’s holiday party, which takes…
Two years ago, the Parade of Lights was mired in Bill O’Reilly-stoked controversy over the question of whether Christian-themed displays would be allowed — but that’s ancient history now. “We had a nativity float last year, which looked fantastic,” says Sarah McClean, communications manager for the Downtown Denver Partnership. “We…
To hear Nuclia Waste describe her crowd-pleasing performance of “The Twelve Drinks of Christmas” — a spoof on the classic holiday song that finds Denver’s dearest Cycle Slut waxing progressively more wasted as the routine progresses — you’d think the holidays had gone to the heathens. But, no: During Nuclia’s…
There’s no shortage of “palooza”-heavy titles these days. By now the suffix should be, like, scrawled all over our cultural notebook. Adding to the frenzy is Breckenridge Resort’s Holipalooza. “It’s a way of packaging all the things we do for the holidays under one name,” says Kristen Petitt, public-relations director…
Denver’s independent boutiques always agree on at least one point during the holidays: They long to share with you their troves of shoppable riches, the sort you’ll never find at the mall. At least one, the modern-design stronghold Mod Livin’, 5327 East Colfax Avenue, puts its goods where its mouth…
As Dea Webb of Plastic Chapel almost sadly notes, the six graffiti artists included in Deep Freeze: Adjust the Thermostat — an exhibit opening tonight at Webb’s SoBo collectible-toy shop — may soon be too big for her tiny hole-in-the-wall. That’s because all six of them — Biff Baxter, Jason…
The tinny sound of ragtime-era recordings is not entirely listenable; technology was too new and primitive to capture the real spirit of the raucous, danceable music. Most people think of “The Entertainer” as the embodiment of the genre, but there was a wider variety of ragtime that has been mostly…
No, the Virgin Mary doesn’t get high on aerosol fumes, and Joseph doesn’t ride in on a skateboard, but in most other respects, The Nativity Story is less of a departure for Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown director Catherine Hardwicke than you might imagine. From the first glimpse of Nazareth…
Do artists actually see more than ordinary people? That’s what my high-school art teacher thought. So, apparently, does Nicole Kidman — or at least that’s the way she plays Diane Arbus (1923-71) in the celebrated photographer’s exceedingly curious “imaginary portrait,” Fur. Kidman acted around a prosthetic proboscis to win an…
I want to like Arthur Miller’s plays — and I do like his politics. But the truth is, I have trouble with Miller even at his best — with his lack of humor, ponderousness and stultifying self-pity, with his dated tropes and florid language. And The Price, currently playing at…
The Big Bang. Sometimes it’s nice not to have to think too much, to just settle back and watch a couple of frenetically energetic guys working really hard to earn your good will — and your entertainment dollars. Oh, and to make you laugh. The Big Bang posits the following…
A funny thing happened to photography on the way to the 21st century: It went from being degraded as an inferior way to convey aesthetic concepts to one of the most significant aspects of contemporary visual culture. The medium provides the foundation not only for a wide array of photo-based…
A lot of people make Denver what it is, but few have changed the face of the city the way architect Cabell Childress did (“Mind Over Matter,” August 5, 2004). Born in Virginia in 1932, Childress earned a degree in architectural engineering at Georgia Tech in 1954. After graduation he…
Breaking the Mold. In 2003, Connecticut collector Virginia Vogel Mattern donated some 300 pieces of contemporary American Indian art to the Denver Art Museum. For one of the special shows inaugurating the new Frederic C. Hamilton Building, Native Arts curator Nancy Blomberg has selected over a hundred works for the…
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (Warner Bros.) At long last, Richard Donner’s much-whispered-about “original version” of Superman II sees the light of day, and it quickly joins the ranks of the reconstructed Touch of Evil, Apocalypse Now, and Blade Runner as films made superior in the recutting and retelling…
By now, you’ve probably heard about Bully. It’s the game that was supposed to finally ruin America’s youth. Crusading lawyer Jack Thompson, the self-appointed schoolmarm of the videogame industry, called it a “Columbine simulator” and tried to block stores from selling it. Lou Dobbs — who hasn’t seen a videogame…
The Ant Bully (Warner Bros.) Criminal Minds: The First Season (Paramount) Dane Cook: Vicious Circle (HBO) The Ellen DeGeneres Show: DVD-licious (Warner Bros.) Foo Fighters: Skin and Bones (RCA) Hot Wheels Accelerators: The Ultimate Race (Warner Bros.) Joan of Arcadia: The Second Season (Paramount) Jamie Kennedy’s Blowin’ Up (Paramount) Little…
How’s this for some serious personal style? The self-appointed Disco Bicuits — Francois Palloux, Justin Cochran, Jason Barzel and Jerome Hermelin of Le Central — got down with their badselves during the annual Turkey Trot race to benefit the Food Bank of the Rockies. And while Cat doesn’t normally go…
Denver finally made an appearance on the super-groovy site The Cool Hunter: Roaming the Globe So You’re in the Know. So what got us there? The Hamilton building? The new Clyfford Still museum? The Lab at Belmar? Or maybe some of our local designers? Nope. Denver Water. That’s what got…
