Maybe it’s because the skaters have names like Psycho Babble and Britches n’ Hose, but the running commentary provided by roller derby announcers can at times sound like narration for an X-rated movie or a horror flick. Yesterday’s bout between Denver’s Rocky Mountain Rollergirls and the Nashville Rollergirls at the…
Residents of Barnum love their neighborhood, and several added their own reasons why to Jef Otte’s “O, Barnum! An ode to Denver’s least desirable neighborhood.” Otte loves the activity, the weird stores around Federal Boulevard, even the fact that although the area’s named for P.T. Barnum, the legendary showman never…
Visiting the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art is like taking a trip to grandmother’s house — if your grandmother was an obsessive, eminently wealthy hoarder with great but scattered tastes, that is. There are piles upon piles of furniture recognizable as antiques but from a plethora of periods…
While some people might look askance at a klezmer-funk-hip-hop collaboration, world-renowned klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer sees the combination as completely logical. “Funk is the root of hip-hop,” he explains, “so you’re taking two traditional musics with hip-hop as the common denominator and bringing them together.” And they come together in…
Denver fashion fixture and Project Runway Season 9 contestant Fallene Wells showed off her Tim Gunn skills at yesterday’s Cut ‘n’ Sew event. Amidst the H&M hoopla at Denver Pavilions beginning at 10 a.m., local designers Melissa May, Tricia Hoke, Rachel Marie Hurst, and Heidi Busk participated in the speed-design…
In honor of Nigel Tufnel Day, we present our Top 11 picks for weekend adventure. “These go to eleven.” A pair of skis pointed for the Park Lane terrain park jump line on Peak 8 for opening day of the 50th anniversary season at Breckenridge looks like an 11 to…
Counterpath was founded in 2006 as a small press publisher, but since then it has expanded into much more. The nonprofit now not only publishes experimental work, but is also a physical space that sells other small press books and hosts art installations, readings, and film screenings. Tonight at 7…
Ever since he attained cinematic immortality with a moving performance as Ranger Jones in last year’s live-action adaptation of Yogi Bear, T.J. Miller has been pretty much the greatest thing to come out of Denver ever. But the best part is, he loves us back: Six months ago, the East…
Things are starting to slow down a bit with Thanksgiving creeping up on us, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still a little fun to be had on the cheap this weekend. In fact, you can hit up a date night with the Buntport Theater, a midnight movie, a clothing…
Tonight, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, one lucky person win a date with Buntport Theater as a part of MCA’s Black Sheep Friday Dating Game event. In honor of the 60s show that inspired this local happening, we’ve compiled a collection of the top five celebrity appearances on The…
The Starz Denver Film Festival might be your best chance to see the Oscar contenders, the big-name indie films and movies with Sundance logos all over them, but if you’re looking for something a bit more odd, you’re best bet is going to be the Denver Underground Film Festival, which…
Chuck Morris has been a roller derby fan since he was ten years old, and in 2010, he made news by bringing the Denver Roller Dolls to the 1st Bank Center in Broomfield and then attracting the 2011 Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) Championships to that venue for this…
Denver photographer Anna Newell Jones began to realize a couple of years ago that she was much too obsessed with things. For her, the need to consume manifested itself into a big pile of debt. That’s when Newell Jones put her well-shod foot down, foregoing her need to feed on…
The Bureau of Land Management’s efforts to remove thousands of wild horses from public lands — supposedly for their own good — has generated outrage among mustang advocates across the country, as well as numerous YouTube glimpses of the brutality of the roundups. Now a documentary having its Denver premiere…
The Ice Palace will open its doors at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center at 5 p.m. today — which means that Santa Claus will finally be in the house. Er, the mall. The Ice Palace — a fancy name for a faux icicle-covered indoor forest — will feature six-foot-tall snowglobes…
Sleeping outside in the cold wind is not a common beauty regimen. And so camping out for H&M’s opening yesterday certainly didn’t equal beauty sleep. In fact, with crews starting to set up a runway and booths at midnight, sleep was impossible for many of the campers. In fact, by…
The H&M store at the Denver Pavilions — the first in Colorado — opened at noon today. but last night a few lucky shoppers, fashionistas and gawking members of the media got to attend a “VIP Party” at the new fashion hot spot. Photographer Jim Wills brought back these photos:…
A Streetcar Named Desire opened this past weekend at Germinal Stage Denver. Juliet Wittman’s complete review will run in our November 17 issue; in the meantime, here’s a capsule critique:…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. His choice for today: You’ve Been Trumped. Check out the full pitch…
This is one in a series of posts in honor of Denver Arts Week that salute some of our favorite people and places on the arts scene. I have watched my younger brother, Evan Kutz, build his artist’s portfolio since he first got into trouble for doodling on a wall…
What would you do for a $10 H&M gift certificate? Would you 127 Hours it? Give away a Klondike bar? Wait in the cold for seventeen hours? With pink eye? By midnight last night, over thirty people were lined up at the Denver Pavilions, waiting for today’s noon opening of…
Valerie Savarie’s art lends itself well to the assertion that the message is the medium. The books she chooses to cut into, the string she sews to the cover and the characters standing at the door she’s cut open represent the message of her pieces. The meaning in the content…
