Final Friday started as a small block party last summer, and grew into a big celebration of a neighborhood and local business. John McCaskill, owner of Megafauna and co-founder of the series, says the idea for Final Friday was born from the need to grow his local business through local…
As Hustle Man on fellow standup comedian Martin Lawrence’s show Martin in 1994, Tracy Morgan gave TV audiences their first taste of his bullish humor. But it wasn’t until the eccentric comedian landed a spot on Saturday Night Live that his bizarre view of the world was given a proper…
At last, Colorado has transitioned from people complaining about cold weather to people complaining about hot weather. Geeks will have no reason to complain, though: The month of June is packed full of great geek activities, and nearly all of them are indoors in air-conditioned spaces. Better even than air…
There are openings all over town this weekend, and the art will transport you right out of this world. Here are just three of the artistic displays worth seeing this weekend… See also: Denver Chalk Art Festival…
Summer festivities are heating up here in Denver, and whether you’re a fan of indoor or outdoor fun, there are plenty of things to do this weekend that won’t strip your wallet bare — from the annual chalk art festival to an ice cream social to a SXSW benefit show…
This week’s cover story, “In Sickness and In Health,” tells the story of Jen Berman, a Denver attorney who lost her fiance, Doug Furcht, to brain cancer last year. Jen had already bought a wedding dress for their upcoming nuptials; after Doug’s death, she donated it to Brides for a…
Abracadabra: She’s out of the box with a wand of her own. Erica Sodos is a magician, psychic entertainer and motivational speaker currently in residence at the Mercury Cafe. In advance of her May 31 show there, The Magic Within: Psychic Explorations in Telepathy and Empathy, we chatted with Sodos…
The Western genre isn’t entirely comprised of spaghetti or John Wayne talking out the side of his mouth: From its earliest days, filmmakers were putting a comic spin on stories set on the dusty trail, with the genre hitting its apex between the mid ’70s and mid ’80s. We’ve gathered…
Now that Memorial Day weekend is over, Colorado’s summer tourism season is in full swing. And no part of the state is more eager to welcome visitors than the remote mountain regions that are finally thawing out after a long, isolated winter. The season kicked off in Silverton the first…
#78: Buntport Theater Brian Colonna, Hannah Duggan, Erik Edborg, Erin Rollman, Samantha Schmitz and (sometimes) Evan Weissman are Buntport Theater, and it’s not too far off the mark to think of this sextet of personalities as a single entity — that’s just how they work, slinging ideas back and forth…
A solo show from Xi Zhang is always a beautiful treat, and Bone, which opens tonight at Plus Gallery, will double your pleasure. As Ivar Zeile of Plus notes, Zhang “paints with a lot of experimentation and has been evolving with several different styles over the last few years.” And…
By nearly all accounts, the New York City of the late ’70s and early ’80s was a complete shithole. Crime-ridden, rundown and sketchy as fuck, it was the kind of place where you didn’t want to find yourself alone late at night (or even in the middle of the day…
When the FBI tried to track down Cowboy Bob, a repeat bank robber in Texas, they had no idea that they were looking for a single, middle-aged woman who used her heists to fund her ailing mother’s health-care costs. Tallas was a modern-day outlaw, making her tale irresistible to both…
We’re still adjusting to Seth MacFarlane as a big-screen star. Not just because his breakneck absurdist humor often demands that viewers pause and rewind, but because the man himself looks like a hand-inked cartoon, with his black, pupil-less eyes and an alabaster baby face that appears to reflect light like…
Remarkable as it seems, there’s still poetry to be found in the idea of kids tooling around with nothing much to do. Whether you grew up in a small town or a midsized-to-large city, in 1962, 1982 or 2002, you probably remember getting into a car, unwisely, with the first…
The triptych of masculinities at the core of director Jim Mickle’s Sundance hit Cold in July (he co-wrote the screenplay with Nick Damici) pulls double duty; it leads the viewer down a nerve-racking rabbit hole of violence, gore and clever throwaway wisecracks while anchoring the film’s sly musing on what…
There are a lot of things to like about Shrek: The Musical at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. Here are some of them: The Dragon. Manipulated by a handful of actors and with all her segments skillfully constructed and articulated, this Dragon is a major star, a riveting, literally huge presence. She’s…
Conceptual artist Tobias Fike, who’s been showing his creations around Denver for the past few years, is the subject of an elegant solo at David B. Smith Gallery titled Then and now and then. Fike is perhaps best known for his performances done with Matthew Harris, which are documented in…
1959. Dean Sobel, director of the Clyfford Still Museum, is the host curator for Modern Masters at the Denver Art Museum, and he’s done a companion exhibit at his own stamping grounds called 1959: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Exhibition Recreated. (Special tickets allow visitors to see both.) The backstory for…
A Lie of the Mind. Thundery weather and a voice in the darkness: At the very beginning of A Lie of the Mind, Jake is on the phone telling his brother Frankie that he’s killed his wife. Over his brother’s protests, Frankie insists on visiting his sister-in-law to discover her…
Boil Maleficent down to one newt’s nose-sized piece of advice and you’d get this: Don’t dump Angelina Jolie. It’s not a problem most mortals will face, but as seen through director Robert Stromberg’s lens, the antlered arch-villain of Sleeping Beauty is a sympathetic scorned woman, equal parts Gloria Gaynor, Princess…
The wooing of young-professional audiences has become one of the most important trends in the marketing of cultural attractions, from art museums to the ballet. And if you’ve been watching, you’ll have noticed that many of our cultural institutions support philanthropic “in” clubs that blend mingling at fundraising events with…
