The Ellie Caulkins Opera House was south of capacity for the Starz Denver Film Festival’s closing night, which made some degree of sense, because the flick being showcased was The Artist, which is both black-and-white and silent. Yet the film, by French director Michel Hazanavicius, manages to encapsulate the reason…
National Geographic announced the finalists for its 2012 Adventurers of the Year awards on Friday, and they include two Boulder locals: Cory Richards, the first American to complete a winter ascent of an 8,000 meter peak, and Nick Waggoner, whose South American ski epic made for one of the year’s…
The instructions for Saturday night’s inaugural And Then She Saved Clothing Swap clearly stated that participants be at Super Ordinary Gallery by 7 p.m. to set up their outfit outposts and be ready to trade beginning at 7:30 p.m. sharp. I caught gallery owner Tran Wills at 7:23 p.m., right…
Another clothes call! Arts & Venues Denver will host a fashion forum tonight for local fashion/accessory and jewelry designers, which it describes this way: “This is a forum to LISTEN & HEAR from YOU! We want to know from you as designers what will be the best for this creative…
While H&M fans waited for the first Colorado store of the Swedish chain to open at the Denver Pavilions on November 10, some of Denver’s best designers showed off their skills in a Cut ‘n’ Sew competition emceed by Project Runway contestant Fallene Wells, and sponsored by the Denver Art…
Every sports team needs super-fans — and that includes roller derby teams. Twelve of the best from around the country are at the 1stBANK Center this weekend, competing in the WFTDA Championships, and several brought their most rabid supporters — you know, the guys (and gals) who are willing to…
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…
