Fine art impacts Denver street style
When artistic people dress, they often create stylistic masterpieces almost as impressive as the masterpieces they work around. Just take a look at this week’s street-style subjects:…
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Showing 18283 - 18304 of 38218Guess where I’m biking near this pond and win a Denver B-cycle season pass
Welcome to the first installment of Guess where I’m biking, where I, the intrepid and incredibly hip fixed-gear cyclist, Britt Chester, will attempt to stump you as to where my tires take me. In our Best of Denver issue that recently hit stands, we revealed the location we believe to…
Art-O-Mat artist Kathy Fisher on making cigarette machine art
Five dollars buys you a collage by Colorado artist Kathy Fisher. Fisher creates collages for Art-O-Mat, the company that turns old cigarette machines into art-dispensers — one of which, since last month, has made its home at the VSA Colorado/Access Gallery on Santa Fe Drive. Fisher took some time to…
Gorinto lives on tonight with a Mission Supports fundraiser
When we last spoke with Corey Elbin — the one-man orchestrator of the Mercury Cafe’s weekly avant-garde food and music throw-down, Gorinto — he was unsure of the fate of the unique get-together. After curating, cooking, booking and running Gorinto on his own for the better part of two years,…
Reader: David Lynch’s movies too cool for you? Watch the Transformers
Dune “Cocktail” This scene from Dune made our list of David Lynch’s ten weirdest scenes, by film, which inspired one commenter to say that Lynch “sucks.”…
The new History Colorado Center is an architectural triumph
The new History Colorado Center, at the corner of 12th Avenue and Broadway, is clearly the most accomplished, developed and significant design ever done by Tryba Architects. In fact, the museum, which opens to the public on April 28, crowns David Tryba, the head of the firm, as among the…
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From a nature-doc angle, Chimpanzee is impressive stuff
Disneynature’s latest Earth Day release hunkers down in an Ivory Coast rainforest, taming its beasts-in-the-wild raw material into a family-friendly (though not totally sugarcoated) heroes-and-villains adventure, as did the brand’s previous film, African Cats. Chimpanzee follows energetic young primate Oscar, still reliant on his mother, Isha, for food and protection…
Even Zac Efron’s pecs can’t heat up The Lucky One
It’s Nicholas Sparks’s world; we just live in it. Sparks, in case you haven’t scanned the paperback racks lately, is the former pharmaceutical salesman who’s written sixteen bestsellers since 1995, when The Notebook was plucked from the slush pile by a wily publisher. The Notebook was the third Sparks work…
Marley is a heartfelt tribute to a mesmerizing performer
I spotted a bottle of something called Marley’s Mellow Mood, “a new line of 100 percent natural relaxation beverages,” in my neighborhood deli just a few hours after seeing Marley, Kevin Macdonald’s documentary on the reggae and Rasta emissary — a reminder of just how crassly the Jamaican legend, who…
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A quartet of plays makes up The Two of Us at Miners Alley
Novelist and playwright Michael Frayn is equally adept at comedy — his Noises Off may be the funniest and most intricately structured farce of the twentieth century — and high-minded, contemplative drama. In Copenhagen, for example, he has the ghosts of physicists Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg reminiscing about a…
Great Wall Story‘s interesting ideas are stalled by problems
When I saw the reading of Lloyd Suh’s Great Wall Story at last year’s New Play Summit, I thought it smart and entertaining, a lighthearted take on some pretty serious topics, but with one specific problem: Suh’s depiction of an adolescent boy, who behaved in ways I couldn’t imagine any…
USA Pro Cycling Challenge unveils 2012 posters
USA Pro Cycling Challenge organizers revealed the winning design in a national poster competition yesterday, by Montrose-based artist Leanna Johnson, and this morning gave us a first look at the winning poster for the Denver Time Trial stage poster, the seventh and final stage of the second annual race, by…
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Meet your 2012 slam poetry teams: Slam Nuba, Mercury Cafe and Minor Disturbance
Among the lines delivered at poetry slams, one is often repeated: “The point is not the points; the point is the poetry.” This has never been more true than over the last week and a half in Denver, when all three of the city’s national teams — Slam Nuba, the…
Keeping the U.S. Postal Service alive, one envelope full of porn at a time
I can’t claim to own this idea. I picked it up secondhand from my sister, who told me that when her friend gets junk mail with return envelopes that say “no postage necessary if mailed in the United States,” he sends it back. With stuff in it. What kind of…
Five all-too-familiar political power plays, as seen in Wicked
We’re not in Kansas anymore. Wicked took a classic villain of American folklore — the Wicked Witch of the West — and transformed her into Elphaba, a misunderstood victim, the prejudice against her and her green skin a clear parallel to racism. Even drenched in the saccharine coating of musical…
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Squire Lounge Comedy Night: It lives! It lives!
Denver’s comedy community despaired when heckler-ready Squire Lounge comedy night open-mike host Greg Baumhauer decided to call it quits. The comedy night was mean, it was ugly, it was the toughest crowd in town — if you could even get them to listen to you in the first place. But…
Reader: Breaking Away deserves to be on the best bike scene list
We’re on a roll! In honor of the upcoming Bicycle Film Festival, yesterday Jef Otte and Kelsey Whipple got the wheels turning with their list of the twenty best bicycle scenes in cinema, ever. “Bike porn, sweet,” says bpsycle. But there was one sour note…
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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…
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How not to get picked for CBS Big Brother reality show
CBS descended on Denver on Saturday to hold an open casting call for anyone interested in possibly being picked as a contestant on the upcoming season of Big Brother. While I detest reality television in every way, I took it upon myself to go down and try out. What I…
The twenty best bicycle scenes in cinema, ever
With rare exceptions for the Smart Car, the tandem bike and whatever those contraptions are in the Dr. Seuss books, the human evolutionary process basically stopped when mankind progressed from two legs to two wheels. If you need proof of the superiority of the cycle, look no further than film,…
Colorado skateboard film crews hit the streets with new spring edits
Some of our favorite local skate crews have been busy this month, dropping Spring video clips that will have you ready to take to the streets. First up… Ben Ericson and Tristan Minton’s 2012 Spring Street Trash edit (above) featuring the 303 Boards team…
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Feminism & Co. sells out a program on sex work
Selling out for the first time since moving into its basement home at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Friday night’s Feminism & Co.: Sex Work lecture had to turn many people away at the door. The expertly curated lecture series seeks out artists, scholars and women of all trades to…