The ten best geek events in Denver in April

April showers bring May flowers, but we geeks don’t have to wait a whole month to reap the benefits of this one. This month is loaded with great times for geeks of every stripe, from pinball wizards to devotees of ’80s cinema, and numerous points between. Dig in to this…

Boulder Tattoo Project film premieres this week

After the Boulder Tattoo Project commissioned world-renowned poet and 2013 Guggenheim fellow Anne Waldman to write a love letter to Boulder, “Boulder Zodiac” was parsed into 218 segments and tattooed onto the bodies of 218 volunteers last fall. Some of them got complete phrases, some just commas — and then…

First Annual March for Absurdity brings weirdness to the streets

Denver’s First Annual March for Absurdity convened at Market street RTD station yesterday afternoon. Whimsical accoutrements abounded at this small but dedicated gathering of weirdos, united in a defiantly pointless exercise for the sake of spectacle. But oh, what a spectacle. While the marcher’s assembled costumes were all decidedly bizarre, the real show was on the baffled faces of passersby as they tried to figure out just what the hell was going on.

Photos: The steampunk people of AnomalyCon

The neo-Victorian look was hot over the weekend at AnomalyCon, where steampunk aficionados gathered for elegant, hardware-laden cosplay and camaraderie and all things con, as well as live music by Clockwork Flamingo and Keldari Station. Photographer Danielle Lirette caught the people of AnomalyCon in full dress, from another century. See…

Nine best fashion events in Denver in April

Time to clean out your closet, putting away all the cold-weather clothes. Need to update your wardrobe for spring? There are plenty of events where you can find inspiration this month, from the much-anticipated Denver Fashion Weekend to trunk shows. Here are our nine favorite fashion events for April. See…

Under the Gunn recap: Benefit Cosmetics real women

Last week the remaining designers on Under the Gunncompeted as teams vying for the prize of having their mini-collection sold in Francesca’s stores. Team Oscar and Shan won the challenge, and to their surprise Francesca’s selected two pieces to feature in its collection. At the end of the show, Natalia…

Artist-run DATELINE gallery launches tonight in RiNo

When artists Adam Milner and Jeromie Dorrance decided to open an exhibit space in what’s essentially their living room, they did so in a spirit that’s both DIY and not DIY, by putting together a well-crafted show that covers a national gamut of contemporary work by five colleagues in the…

Movies for high tea: Top ten period dramas

Are you a prudish nostalgic looking to sip some tea, nibble on crumpets and harken back to the good old days when servants were servants, aristocrats were aristocrats and monarchs bred with each other over and over and over again, holding onto their estates through thinly veiled incest? Do you…

Another 100 Colorado Creatives: Tyler Beard

#95: Tyler Beard The collage work of Kansas native Tyler Beard features textures, landscape and hard angles meeting in zen simplicity and sometimes flying off into sculptural planes. The results are interesting enough to have ended up in the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA Denver and Aspen’s Anderson Ranch,…

Stanley Film Festival will open with Doc of the Dead

The Stanley Film Festival just announced its opening-night film and other special, scarey events for the four-day fest, which kicks off April 24 at the historic Stanley Hotel. “The Stanley Hotel is consistently voted one of the most haunted hotels in the world, and they give over 75,000 ghost tours…

Enemy is Denis Villeneuve’s finest work since Polytechnique

“Chaos is order yet undeciphered” is the on-the-nose epigraph that opens Enemy, a forgivable sin in light of how gloriously enigmatic everything that follows is. Denis Villeneuve’s shared dream of a film takes the simple premise of a man glimpsing his doppelgänger while watching a movie and mines every bit…

Bloody Floody: Noah Wants to Be a Mad Epic

To hear Darren Aronofsky tell it, in the interviews he’s given recently to the New York Times Magazine and the New Yorker, there was no way in hell he’d let his special-effects extravaganza Noah, years in the planning, be your run-of-the-mill, candy-ass biblical epic. The ark built by Russell Crowe’s…

Sabotage Is a Belt of Bourbon After Years of Sipping Diet Pepsi

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s name is only about one-seventh the font size of the title on the poster of Sabotage (formerly Breacher, formerly Ten), his third attempt — after the full-auto Western The Last Stand and the goofy Stallone-co-headlined prison-break joint Escape Plan — in fourteen months at a post-gubernatorial comeback. A…