Two times a year, the Xeric Foundation gives out grants to comic-book creators so that they have the financial means to publish their work. One of this round’s recipients was local cartoonist Sam Spina, who last month used the grant money to publish Fight, the story of a champion who…
Improv theater is risky, especially when it calls for pulling an unsuspecting audience member onto the stage for the entirety of the show. Case in point, the Garner Galleria’s production of Blind Date, in which the show’s creator and only star, Rebecca Northan, hand-picks a fellow from the crowd to…
You can start planning now: The schedule for the 34th annual Starz Denver Film Festival, which runs November 2 through 13 at various venues throughout town, is now available online at the user-friendly Denver Film Society website. DFS member early ticketing opens Wednesday, October 19; the rest of the hoi…
If the world had a nickel for every time the world was supposed to end, let’s just say the world would have a whole boatload of nickels — but as not-at-all-unusual as it may be for the various pseudo-prophets and charlatans of history to predict the endtimes, it is somewhat…
The season of winter stoke is upon us: Wolf Creek, Arapahoe Basin, and Loveland Ski Area were all open over the weekend and, this being the 21st century, we found some sweet video coverage — including wild remote-control helicopter footage from A-Basin — for you to wistfully watch on this…
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra has made a lot of changes over the past few weeks, including hacking almost half of its performances in October and November. In September, more than twenty members of the CSO’s board of trustees resigned; Jerome Kern and his wife, Mary Rossick Kern, have been brought…
Once, when I was about eight years old, I rode my bike down a large hill made out of snow. That ended in one of the first serious injuries I ever sustained — a bruised rib — but it’s also a good example of why I’ve always loved roller-coasters: I…
When I heard about the family in Massachusetts that called 911 because they couldn’t find their way out of a corn maze, I couldn’t help but feel a bit smug. The corn maze on which the family met their doomed fate is seven acres — and the corn maze that…
The five-part “Women, War & Peace” spotlights the stories of women in conflict zones. Part two of this series, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, features 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee and her work in organizing the women of Liberia to unite, ultimately winning peace for their country…
One of the goals of art is to get people talking, and Not for Sale: Denver” target=”_blank”>Matt Scobey’s Not for Sale: Denver project has certainly accomplished that goal. Scobey has been putting art in unexpected places around town, offering clues to the locations on the web. Those who find the…
The party so bright you’ve gotta wear shades! Don’t be caught with your bib-pants down when the EPIC Foundation’s eighth annual 80s Ski Party rolls into town next week: This year every Goodwill store in the metro region sent its ’80s ski stock to the Goodwill locations at 21 South…
The most unpopular costume left at the Denver Center Theatre Company’s pre-Halloween sale is a coat from a production of Black Elk Speaks. Around twenty of them line the first of about eight long racks remaining at the Newman Center tor Theatre Education’s orange studio, arranged between a series of…
From the opening Hello Muddah voiceover narration lines of the piffle-stuft trailer for Chalet Girl, which with a single stone kills the dual birds of explaining the plot and setting up a rapid-fire series of dumb jokes, it’s clear that this will be no ordinary romantic comedy. No, friends, this…
Of Love Songs for Poomouse, which opens tonight in Boulder, this much we know: It stars Bobby Dartt, whose unique sense of humor and elan is central to the musical revue. And it is all about the love songs — during the first half, Dartt covers some favorites; in the…
If only because when you look back at the photos ten years from now, you may slap your palm to your face and think, “Did I really dress as the physical representation of WikiLeaks?!” And how many people did you see dressed as Zach Galifianakis’s “Alan” from The Hangover during…
Andrew Haigh’s IMDB filmography includes editing credits for Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and Hannibal Rising. He’s also written and directed two films, the latest being Weekend, a movie about two gay men that has little sex, a good deal of drugs, and lots and lots of talk — without a…
The Big Year, based on a 2004 book by former Denver Post writer Mark Obmascik and starring Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Rashida Jones, Anjelica Huston and Rashida Jones, among others, debuts in theaters nationwide today. But before The Big Year got the big Hollywood treatment, it was an…
Sarah Palin: You Betcha!, Brit filmmaker Nick Broomfield’s documentary-slash-hatchet job, opens today at the Denver Film Center. In the film, Palin is seen as a polarizing, sideshow personality in the world of politics — the equivalent of Lady Gaga in the realm of music. In the cage match for media…
It’s starting to get a little chilly in the evenings as October begins to push the leaves off the trees, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a ton of different activities to keep you busy this weekend on the cheap. We have some great films to check out, art exhibits,…
Too late, but lovely. Our Fast Forward contest is over, but we couldn’t resist sharing this entry from Sneshek: Her lips smell of lemonade, flavored by her Blistex chapstick and the memory of our first summer night on our first screen porch, and their taste is sweet and smooth upon…
The 2011/2012 ski season is officially upon us: Arapahoe Basin opened this morning and Loveland is opening tomorrow. Each will be open daily until well into the Spring skiing season…
Boulder native Tina Anderson didn’t jump on the beer-can art bandwagon on purpose — she didn’t even know it existed. “I had no idea beer-can art was a thing,” Anderson explains. “The only thing I was really thinking was that I kinda wanted to be a green artist. But I…
