Even though we may have made the “wrong assumption, wrong conclusion” about the onslaught of “I’m a Mormon” billboards across the state, comedian Lori Callahan still sees a correlation. She can’t help but think that as the election draws closer, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s faith has a lot to…
The core philosophy of Corey Henderson and Dan Rollman’s book, The RecordSetter Book of World Records, is that everyone can be the world’s best at something — even if it is something ridiculous. They’ll sign their book tonight at the Tattered Cover LoDo and tomorrow at the Boulder Bookstore. In…
Denver’s Vintage Theatre took on a major project when its members decided to take on Avenue Q: The Tony Triple Crown-winning adult musical featuring Muppet-like puppets, made from scratch with big, flappin’ dirty mouths, isn’t cheap to to stage, nor is it your everyday song-and-dance…
The Muppet Movie is doing boffo box office; the puppets alone are enough to draw the crowds. But during their lengthy career, the Muppets have also cozied up to many celebrities — including the quintet profiled in our “Five most memorable Muppet movie cameos” post. DustyD One of them was…
Mark Lunning founded Open Press, a fine-art printmaker, in 1988, and since then, he’s been the facility’s master printer. But he’s also an artist in his own right, creating prints, paintings and sculptures. All three types of work are on display in Mark Lunning: New Paintings, Prints and Sculptures at…
Birger Sandzén. Though Birger Sandzén was born in Sweden, studied painting there and in Paris and later made his permanent home in Kansas, we in Colorado can claim him as one of our own. Sandzén found his muse here — in our stunning scenery — and after his first extended…
Cannibal! The Musical. Cannibal! The Musical began life as a movie written by pre-South Park and Book of Mormon Trey Parker, back when he was a film student at the University of Colorado. It starred Parker himself and Matt Stone, and later evolved — or perhaps degenerated — into a…
Fellow anthemic NPR darlings Arcade Fire and Radiohead might fiercely divide public opinion, but there aren’t a lot of Sigur Rós haters: People either love the Icelandic post-rock band or are content to let their ethereal sounds fade into the background. It follows that there probably aren’t going to be…
Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre is something of a comeback for the Finnish filmmaker. His warmhearted comedy of underdog working-class solidarity, made with a mixed Finnish-French-Senegalese cast in the French port city Le Havre, was the most warmly received movie — at least by the press — shown last May in…
I’d missed the first two installments of Jeff Daniels’s Escanaba trilogy — Escanaba in da Moonlight and Escanaba in Love — so I had no idea what to expect from Escanaba: 1922, which was written last but is a prequel to the other two. I had a vague idea that…
Seems like only yesterday that Working with Artists and the then-virtual Colorado Photographic Arts Center announced their impending merger, and indeed it was really only a few months ago. But no sooner did it begin to gather steam in its new guise as the New Colorado Photographic Arts Center when…
Copper Mountain opened its Olympic-sized 22-foot superpipe on Friday, in time for athletes competing in the The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) Sprint U.S. Grand Prix to work on their double corks before next week’s competition, December 5-10. That makes it the first 22-foot pipe of the season in…
You don’t need a lot of words to say a lot. For proof, check out these finalists for the short-short fiction contest sponsored by the Aspen Writers Foundation and Esquire. Entries were limited to 78 words, in honor of Esquire’s seventy-eighth birthday; they’re called “Aspens,” in honor of the other…
Denver’s not generally known for its old-world charm. We’ve gone straight from cowtown to modern city, it seems, and even our perception of “old-fashioned” has been contemporized for an urban audience. At Christmastime, though, there’s at least one tradition here that’s fiercely old-world, and that’s the come-and-go Christkindl Market, which…
Shop ’til you’re dropped! The all-consuming holiday chaos at malls — including one in nearby Falcon — captured in “Black Friday 2001: A soul-crushing compilation of humanity at its worst,” prompted this from Coco: Protests in Tahrir Square, tramplings in Walmart. No wonder the rest of the world hates America!…
It’s a non-holiday holiday today, and as such we thought we’d shine a light on the Papa John’s delivery driver and glow-dart blower Warren Hammond of Boulder. Hammond, umm, blew it, on the Late Show with David Letterman earlier this month. Watch the video below to see what we mean…
It’s Black Friday in America. When flat-screen TV’s at deep discounts cause annual madness. It’s like that scene in 28 Days Later, when a cluster of people become infected with rage and turn on one another like mindless flesh-craving monsters. Here’s a compilation of videos from today, Black Friday 2011…
When Meghan Throckmorton opened her tiny boutique Rakun, situated in a little house on the far northern edge of the Art District on Santa Fe, on First Friday in June, she knew it was a gamble; six months later, she’s still there, but not without wishing for more of the…
The photographs in Colorado Uncovered — a new book by photographer Darrell Pierson and his wife, Sherry Whitney, which places naked models before both manmade and natural landmarks in this state — can inspire lengthy study. But despite the inspired staging, the photos themselves were taken very quickly. After all,…
This weekend is all about one thing: spending. But we have a crazy idea: Don’t. We dare you. Those holiday gifts will all be there waiting at the stores after Black Friday and Saturday and Sunday. Promise. So instead of breaking your bank on buying a whole lot of manufactured…
If you also hate the holidays, you may enjoy professional smart-ass Adam Carolla’s one-man show on Sunday, December 4 at the Paramount Theatre. We have a pair of tickets to give away. Details below…
I’ve seen the Denver Center Theatre Company’s production of A Christmas Carol more than once, and as someone who was brought up on a diet of Mr. Magoo, Reginald Owen, that nice thick novel by Charles Dickens and, later, Bill Murray in Scrooged, I never tire of it: Well-played by…
