Two of the world’s most fashionable streets — Madison Avenue in New York City and Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles — now intersect in Denver, Colorado. Kristen and Paige Brown, a mother-daughter team, have opened Melrose and Madison on Old South Pearl Street. See also: Womenswear Wednesday: Chloe Sweem…
A game about a rectangular detective with a fedora-sporting cat as a partner may be the freshest idea yet to come out of Colorado’s anemic game-development scene. Hot Tin Roof is the latest project by Denver-based developer Glass Bottom Games, which made its first splash with the charming side-scroller Jones…
Halloween is still weeks away, but this weekend we’ve got some spooky primers, including a haunted walk through Castlewood Canyon and a zombie fashion show. But there are plenty of non-scary parties and art gatherings, too. Below we showcase ten cool things to do this weekend; for many more, check…
Every comedian has to deal with being vulnerable in front of a crowd of strangers. But few of them have as tough a job as transgender comedian Jordan Wieleba. While her comedy colleagues and large swaths of the Denver scene are endlessly supportive of, and charmed by, Wieleba, the club…
When Adam Sikorski designed the first Coloradical T-shirt four years ago, he intended it to be just one more thing in his repertoire of designs. He didn’t suspect that it would become his best-selling design, let alone that it would become a brand of its own. “It’s been a really…
This Friday, October 11, Taylor Gonda and Kevin O’Brien of the These Things Matter podcast will defend Waiting for Godot as actor Brian Colonna and comedian Andrew Orvedahl bring it for Waiting for Guffman in “Debating for Guffman,” the first off-kilter entertainment pairing of the 2013 Black Sheep Fridays season…
The Corvo Brothers, Marco and R. Gonzago, come from a filmmaking background, but their preferred art form is still photography. The Denver transplants manipulate multiple photographs to create dreamscapes that almost come alive as “one frame films,” explains Marco. This Saturday, October 12, at Groundswell Gallery, the brothers will present…
Geek culture is not a monolithic entity — far from it. Underneath the big tent of geekdom, you’ll find factions big and small, for every possible slice of nerd life. Few of us embrace only one slice of geek life, but even fewer of us are true polynerds, embracing any…
Anyone over 25 remembers him as heroic single dad Danny Tanner on Full House, or the jolly host of America’s Funniest Home Videos. But anyone plugged into standup comedy over the last decade also knows him as the desperately foul-mouthed comic with jokes so vivid and foul he makes William…
#39: Amanda Berg Wilson. Amanda Berg Wilson is a juggler of roles, who came to Boulder from Chicago, where she helped found the interdisciplinary performance group Striding Lion. And when she moved to Colorado, she brought with her an adventurously playful breath of creative fresh air. Once here, she founded…
I’m pretty sure the dumbest way to die is killing yourself upon discovering that faking your own death has tricked your forbidden lover into his or her own suicide. The second might be to get gutted in one of the jumbled, perfunctory sword fights that clang up the streets of…
Perhaps the best and worst thing about young teenagers is that they’re capable of what George W. Bush fans used to call “great moral clarity.” In HBO’s sure-to-make-you-bawl documentary Valentine Road, Aliyah, a student at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard, California, breaks down the differences between gayness and…
Evan Weissman believes that watching a game at a sports bar can be about more than just eating wings and drinking beer — though no one can deny the fun in those two activities. So the founder of civic-health club Warm Cookies of the Revolution is inviting people to watch…
The story of Matthew Shepard’s brutal 1998 murder left an indelible mark on the LGBTQ civil-rights movement. In the new documentary Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine, Shepard’s family, friends and teachers tell the story of the young man behind the headlines, piecing together an illuminating portrait of a…
One of the town’s gayest comedy shows makes a fabulous comeback tonight at Voodoo Comedy Playhouse. Hosted by Denver’s favorite transgender comedian, Jordan Wieleba, Altered Shtick is a wildly entertaining grab bag of comedy geared toward — though not exclusively for — the more sexually colorful comtingent of Denver comedy-scene…
The connection between the black-and-white of words and the physical verve of dance might not seem obvious at first, but with Dance & Text, a site-specific collaborative performance hosted by Counterpath, a small press, bookstore and performance/event venue at 613 22nd Street, choreographers Aynsley Vandenbroucke and Lauren Bakst and poet…
“In Colorado, you could probably register for three 5K races every weekend; they’re kind of a dime a dozen here,” notes Ashlie Reynoso, special-events manager for the American Lung Association in our state. “But this one has a unique flair, and that flair is the location itself. It’s one of…
Best known for penning Rosemary’s Baby and The Stepford Wives, author Ira Levin is responsible for some chilling cultural touchstones. The Vintage Theatre will bring one of Levin’s lesser-known — but equally frightening — works to the stage tonight for a well-timed Friday the 13th opening. Veronica’s Room tells the…
Clara Parkes coined the phrase “yarn whisperer” when she was working on her first book, The Knitter’s Book of Yarn, in 2006. “I was trying to describe what I felt people could become once they started to understand yarn better,” she explains, “because for so long in the knitting world,…
“The air is something very unique,” says Idan Raichel. “Landing in Denver and taking the first breath is something you remember.” Raichel is from Israel, and he’s one of the biggest pop stars in the world — but Denver is one of his favorite cities to play. “For Israel, it’s…
For those who grew up in the decade between 1985 and 1995, there was no cooler destination in TV land than Nickelodeon. Free of the artificial constraints of edutainment, the network delivered just what kids wanted: crass, silly shows bathed in torrents of slime. Unlike the safe, sanitized territory of…
Any director hoping to tackle Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning play Death of a Salesman has a huge hurdle to overcome; after all, many theater-lovers studied the work at either a high-school or college level and bring plenty of preconceived notions to the production. “One of the dangers of…
