If you’re reading this, someone you know — and probably you, too — uses Instagram, the smartphone photo app that has approximately 1 gazillion users, was sold last month to Facebook for $1 billion and, most important, is the latest vehicle for everyone to take photos of themselves in the…
Second City Chicago is this country’s Mecca of funny. Among its famous alumni are John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Steve Carrell and Tina Fey. It also happens to be the place where Frank Caeti, formerly of MadTV, and Matt Craig, a former Saturday Night Live writer, first met and performed together,…
Keith “Scramble” Campbell’s studio moves around: sometimes it’s at the Five Points Jazz Festival, sometimes at the Fox Theatre and other times it’s at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. In fact, Campbell has painted at so many concerts that he has created a database-driven web site where you can look up one…
Pat Milbery wears many hats (and helmets), but professional musician is not one of them. That doesn’t deter him from being curious about the art form, however, and pushing that interest into the unknown. Over the winter, Milbery teamed up with Pretty Lights Music artist Michal Menert and Colorado-local clothing…
Marc Wilhelm has not seen Indie Game: The Movie yet, but he’s already a fan. At 7 p.m. today, when the film comes to the Denver Film Center for a special presentation, he and his family will watch it for the first time — and maybe, just maybe, the documentary…
You like the idea of those outdoor screenings where folks lounge around on lawn chairs and watch movies under the stars, but you’re not so thrilled with the usual titles, which are mostly family-friendly second-runs of the lowest common denominator, or cult favorites you’ve seen hundreds of times. But now,…
When Bob Dylan picked up his Medal of Freedom last week, he was wearing a Rockmount Ranch Wear shirt. Steve Weil, president of the Denver-based company, recognized the model — and says Dylan is a long-time fan of the snap-button shirts. But while Dylan’s fashion sense may be above reproach,…
With a taste for new art and old buildings and a love of hard work, Mina Litinsky was one of the handful of people who invented LoDo as an entertainment district. She opened a pioneering business there, the Sloane Gallery (1612 17th Street, 303-595-4230), in the early 1980s — before…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist. Clyfford Still: Inaugural Exhibition starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with…
Japan’s Hirokazu Koreeda has always been an astute observer of all human behavior, but his greatest gift as a filmmaker seems to be his capacity to work with children. Koreeda doesn’t direct them so much as let them react to the universe he has created. The siblings at the center…
Arriving in theaters on the back of a portentous ad campaign, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus assumes the air of something more than a summer movie, a blockbuster-with-brains that links the genesis and the ultimate fate of mankind beyond the stars. It is, incidentally, the story of an ambitious mission gone wrong…
In her book The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution, Elisabeth Lloyd, philosopher of science, provides an exhaustive investigation into the female orgasm. After exploring many theories about the orgasm’s origins and purposes, she concludes that it is a vestigial trait like men’s nipples, a…
Summer in Colorado is as refreshing as that first sip of cold beer after you’ve weeded the garden, as restorative as an afternoon in one of Denver’s new beer gardens, as full of fascinating facts as a tour of one of the state’s breweries, whether a behemoth like Coors or…
Radium was hot at the turn of the twentieth century. Discovered by Marie Curie in 1898, it quickly became big business. People loved radium. They put it in watches, in dials, in paints. They figured it had some kind of curative powers, so they also put it in toothpaste, in…
Lakewood Gulch, a trickling tributary in west Denver that feeds into the South Platte River, was once a pretty good place to disappear. The area was overgrown and full of as much concrete as it was weeds; many people used it for what street artist Peter Miles Bergman calls “unsanctioned…
Ron White is best known for his appearances on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour with fellow comedians Jeff Foxworthy, Larry The Cable Guy and Bill Engvall. But his signature cigar, glass of scotch and conversational delivery has made him popular with a wide audience. White uses his personal life and…
Kurt Lewis won the Best New Theater Space award in 2008 for Crossroads Theater, the ambitious Five Points space he’d developed, but he ran into financial and health problems. And in January 2010 Denver took over Crossroads, adding it to the city’s Arts & Venues lineup. Now Lewis would like…
There are endless lists to be made about Wes Anderson films: best music moments, best drug references, best Bill Murray scenes…. Fans of Anderson treasure every second of his films, often committing whole passages to memory; many can mimic the characters on screen, and they’re always up for a repeat…
If you’re from Denver (or you’ve lived here for more than eight consecutive months) you know how small it can feel; it’s like three degrees of separation between you, your favorite barista at Pablo’s and your best friend from eighth-grade summer camp. Because that favorite barista is also your yoga…
We’re a forensics-obsessed society, if what we watch on the boob tube is any indication. And who doesn’t get lost in a well-written police procedural after reading the first paragraph? What a crime leaves under its own dirty fingernails fascinates us, and the thrill of step-by-step discovery, with all its…
Josiah Hesse’s First Friday travels took him to both Broadway and Santa Fe, where Side Show, the gallery run by Sarah and Larry Polzin and Adam Buehler, was celebrating its first anniversary…
What do you wear to collect the Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama? If you’re Bob Dylan, a Rockmount Ranch Wear shirt. Looking at photos of the May 29 ceremony, Rockmount president Steve Weil saw that Dylan, a longtime fan of the snap-button Western shirts, was in a Rockmount…
