“Are giant bears walking through downtown Colorado Springs?” asked a nitwitted FoxNews anchor last week, after video of the dumpster-diving bruin outside of the Edelweiss German Restaurant in Colorado Springs aired for the umpteenth time on the network. And Fox wasn’t alone; the schnitzel-hunting bear became an instant celebrity around…
The public art that RTD has been commissioning for light-rail stations — and we’ve been profiling this summer — is just the latest wave of transportion related work. Stephen Batura’s painting “Winter Crossing” originally hung in Union Station — but with all the construction going on there, this piece of…
No summer is complete without a marshmallow roast around a campfire — and you can check that item off your to-do list this week with Bluff Lake’s final fireside chat and evening of s’mores. Other free fun in Denver this week includes the first film in the Denver Public Library’s…
Editor’s note: Artist Charlie Boots is part of the inaugural pair of PAIR residents at Denver’s Powerhaüs Studio. As part of his residency, he and his fashion-designing counterpart will be reporting from the real world via Show and Tell, as they learn the ropes from studio mentors Mona Lucero, Lauri…
At this station, you’ll want to keep your eyes down — because Scott Parsons’s “Ha-no-oo Star Calender” lies beneath your feet. We looked up Parsons, so that we could talk with the artist about the vision behind this piece. See also: – RTD art: Scott Donahue at the Alameda station…
For its fourth fun and foot-cramping year, the Running of the Gays returns with a three-block “marathon” open to anyone brave enough to don heels for the cause. A benefit for Art From Ashes, an organization that empowers youth through poetry workshops, the Running of the Gays is a collaboration…
You won’t need to raise money with Walter White-style drug-manufacturing in order to have fun in Denver this weekend. From a celebration of the gritty meth drama Breaking Bad (and a TV show-inspired art show) to a public art tour to the third annual Denver County Fair, there’s a lot…
The final eight episodes of Breaking Bad will begin Sunday. Over the course of five seasons, the series has established itself not just as one of the best shows now on TV, but as one of the best ever — maybe the best ever. On the eve of this final…
Germinal Stage Denver is leaving the building: Late last year, Germinal Stage founder Ed Baierlein announced that after 26 years in the now-crumbling north Denver theater at 44th and Alcott, he was selling the property and the forty-year-old company would vacate the space after one last golden season. See also:…
Civic Center Eats will sport a very tasty addition today: DPL Connect, a tricked-out trike that peddles (and pedals) a collection of free books (tomes being purged from the collection) and also serves up a wi-fi hot spot. The book bike made its debut yesterday on the Garden Block of…
For ten years, The Room has been confounding and entertaining audiences. The film’s strange blend of inept performance, oblique writing and haphazard direction has earned it an ever-growing cult audience that can’t get enough of the movie’s unique charms. Sure, by most standards it a “bad” film, even a terrible…
Next stop, Alameda. Scott Donahue says he designed “Hand Up” to express ideas about history and multi-cultural issues. He recently took a few minutes to talk about this sculpture that enlivens the Alameda light-rail station. See also: – RTD art: Brian Swanson’s chess pieces at the 16th and Stout streets…
As part of a collaborative group of filmmakers working hard under the name No Coast Artists, Andrew Schneider sees the world of cinema as a place where movies are art made by and for everyone. When the Fort Collins-based group set out to create its first major film production, Whensday,…
Welcome to a new column called Geek Speak, in which we take on an aspect of geek culture each week. There is nothing quite like The Room. It’s one of a handful of movies considered “the worst movie ever” that has somehow managed to find an enduring audience. For those…
#54: Laura Shill Laura Shill calls her work “a collision of collecting, costuming, performance, installation and photography,” and as you might expect, it’s always intriguing: The many-faceted artist, currently a studio resident at RedLine, is known of late for labor-intensive stuffed fiber installations that envelope and shelter the viewer with…
If you thought the fall was prime time in the art world, think again. This summer has seen an unprecedented exhibition season in the Denver area, and, as might be expected, the big players are predominating. None is bigger than the Denver Art Museum, currently featuring the third in a…
Catalyst. The beautiful grounds of the Denver Botanic Gardens are the ideal place to mount an outdoor sculpture show, and over the past few years, there has been one such presentation after another. This year, the theme is contemporary sculptors in Colorado. The pieces are picturesquely sited throughout in clearings…
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). The Colorado Shakespeare Festival staged a pretty good version of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)five years ago, so we’re not sure why the CSF decided to bring it back this season. The show, written in 1987 by Adam Long, Daniel Singer…
There are twists aplenty but few surprises in Wasteland, a warmhearted but routine heist drama from first-time writer-director Rowan Athale. After serving time for crimes he didn’t commit, 22-year-old Harvey (Luke Treadaway, terrific) returns to his Yorkshire, England, home town intent on revenge against Roper (Neil Maskell), the neighborhood drug…
When David Gordon Green introduced Paul Rudd to Emile Hirsch, the two actors didn’t click. It was an awkward seafood dinner. “Emile just started talking about something — girls, maybe — and I was doing a piss-poor job of trying to follow along,” recalls Rudd. “And when Emile got up…
Movie stars shouldn’t be subject to the rules of gravity, as we mere mortals are. One of the great pleasures of watching actors is to see them move, and when yesterday’s youngsters start creaking, we feel it in our joints. That’s not to say actors can’t age gracefully, or that…
If there’s one nuance mainstream comedies have yet to learn, it’s that “empathetic” need not mean “likable” — audiences can feel for characters they don’t necessarily want to be. The hit black comedy Horrible Bosses, which had three angry underlings plotting murderous vengeance against their you-know-whats, should have been a…
