Summer doesn’t officially end for another few weeks, but this is the last big weekend of summer fun for most folks. Fortunately, there’s plenty of fun to be had, right outside your front door and all along the Front Range. Here are ten ways to have fun this weekend without…
Brian Regan is one of the very few comedians who’s achieved an arena-headlining level of success on the appeal of his jokes alone. Regan’s observations on everyday peccadilloes and his emphatic delivery have won him generations of fans, from Mormon elders to precocious young comedy nerds in training. Unlike many other…
The Avenue Theater, long known for comedy, has been undergoing a prolonged transition since the departure of artistic director Bob Wells. The Avenue is a shabby, comfortable and unpretentious theater that you could always visit in your grubbies for a drink or two and a relaxing evening, though every now…
The Steve Jobs documentary from Alex Gibney (Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine) is worth seeing even if you’re tired of Apple fanboys — if only for the curious parallels between Apple worshippers and the members of the Church of Scientology, the subject of Gibney’s other recent doc (Going Clear)…
There’s a knot of tough, tender, persuasive scenes near the end of Isabel Coixet’s life-advice drama Learning to Drive. These are muscular enough that, had they come earlier, they might have powered the movie — the filmmakers’ hearts might be in the right place, but the film’s doesn’t kick in…
The first famous tennis player was King Louis X of France. Nicknamed Louis the Quarreler for his domestic politics, meaning he was likely a real pain to the ref, King Louis is renowned for two facts in athletic lore: He invented the indoor tennis court, and, after a hard, hot…
Director Alex Gibney’s choice to follow this spring’s Scientology slam Going Clear with the fascinating portrait Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine might seem like an about-face. The first documentary clinically eviscerated a religion that everyone loves to loathe. Apple CEO Steve Jobs, however, is adulated to an incredible…
A comedy too listless to bother crafting jokes or comic incidents, a character study centered on a sweet-natured prick it’s hard to believe could actually exist tumbleweeding into a job at a lube shop, 7 Chinese Brothers is a go-nowhere shrug of a movie, the kind of indie that might…
Sometimes a face is enough to anchor a movie. In writer-director Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth, Elisabeth Moss plays Catherine, a young city dweller who, after recently suffering both her father’s death by suicide and a crushing breakup, treks to the country to spend a week with her best…
A sense of humor will take you far in life, even along a daunting stretch of the Appalachian Trail. In his hugely popular 1998 book A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson chronicled his attempt to hike the full length of the trail, from Georgia to Maine, accompanied by an…
Within the town hall that is my Facebook newsfeed, I recently raised an issue that has been bugging the shit out of me — parking, and Denver’s increasingly frustrating lack of skills in this arena. As Denver gains hundreds of thousands of new residents with this latest boom, the ability…
#13: Peter Miles Bergman Peter Miles Bergman is well schooled in both art activism and the craftsmanship of modern communication arts, and when he’s not teaching at Metropolitan State University Denver, he’s printing books and zines and creating art pranks in cahoots with the Institute of Sociometry, a guerrilla art…
Plans? We don’t need no stinking plans. From the beginning, the plan for the tiny house has always been in flux. A lot of my initial ideas have been scrapped for lack of practicality – for example, a back door/escape hatch and the idea of having a washer and dryer,…
September is dedicated to getting back to business. For everyone from returning students to migratory birds, the long days of sun-dappled leisure are over and work begins anew. While comedy never takes time off, it’s in particularly fine form this month. From living legends to cutting-edge talents, from classy theaters…
Labor Day weekend is almost here, and you never got to take that summer road trip. It’s not too late! Here are eight reasons to head for the hills this weekend. 8) Telluride Film Festival Friday, September 4 through Monday, August 7 The Telluride Film Fest has long been an…
Guests perused the latest in bondage wear while ogling fiery performances and each other at the Exile 4 Fetish Ball, a gathering for like-minded BDSM fetishists dressed in leather, spikes and other strange devices this past weekend. Photographer Ken Hamblin was there to catch all the action on camera. Now…
It’s the first Tuesday in September, which means it’s World Art Drop Day. Denver Arts & Venues is celebrating World Art Drop Day by dropping clues and miniature blue bears around Denver that resemble Lawrence Argent’s “I See What You Mean”; Arts & Venues will be taking photos of the blue…
Denver’s fashion scene is filled with everything from markets to parties to pop-ups. Here are six can’t-miss events in September; watch for updates later this month. 1) Spruce Grand Opening 6:30 p.m. Thursday, September 3 4347 Tennyson Street To call Spruce a clothing store is oversimplifying things. Husband-and-duo…
With the cooling of the season comes the cooling of hot properties at the ol’ cineplex. But fear not, because Denver is ripe with plenty of alternative cinema fun, and the city’s best non-blockbuster venues have this month’s movie treats on lockdown. It’s time to harvest, so grab a basket…
Indie design blogger Jeanne Connolly loves to see how creative people put their houses together. In this series, she shares some of her favorite homes, taking us inside the unique private spaces of metro Denver and beyond. Colorful poetic phrases, reclaimed materials and bold block letters grab your attention, while…
Ready to replenish that book pile on your nightstand? Revisit a favorite mystery series, get inside the head of an autistic man or brush up on your Star Wars lore in anticipation of the December release of Star Wars: Episode VII at book signings this week in Denver. Margaret Coel,…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. “Art is something I’ve always been drawn to — no pun intended,”…
