Tomorrow evening brings the final entry in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s Sci-Fi Film Series at the Phipps Theater, with Gattaca closing the sequence out with a biological bang. As we have been doing lately, we caught up with the DMNS’ Curator and Department Chair of Health Sciences…
With its routine reliance on rumors and anonymous sources, sports journalism is almost as bad as gossip journalism when it comes to crappy sourcing, a flaw our sports guy Steve Weishampel gleefully pointed out was like getting the news from Craigslist in his rant about it last week. On the…
Attention, ski and snowboard bums: Vail Resorts has a job just for you. This winter you could be riding out the recession at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Heavenly and Northstar-at-Tahoe as part of the Sprint Snow Squad blogger team. For your trouble — a trifle, really — you’ll get…
As someone who has long been a champion for art in Colorado, you can imagine how delighted I was when, on July 16, the Bureau of Land Management greenlighted — with many required changes and provisos — the building of Christo’s “Over the River” along the Arkansas River between Salida…
15 Colorado Artists. The Kirkland Museum is presenting a historical show that tracks the beginnings of post-war modernism in Denver using the artist group 15 Colorado Artists as an index. The story goes that the Denver Artists Guild was hostile to modernism at the time. This led to a split,…
Cats. There’s not much of a plot to Cats. You meet the Jellicles, with their cheerful faces and bright black eyes, who dance “under the light of the Jellicle moon”; the Ming-vase-smashing cat burglars, Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer; fat, elegant, gentleman’s club-haunting Bustopher Jones; and contrary-minded Rum Tum Tugger. The show’s…
Money-back guarantees feel like such a remnant of the old economy. Does the depressed consumer class even expect companies to make good on their advertised word anymore? But perhaps the dream of free slices scammed from over-promising pizza parlors springs eternal. At least that’s the game being run on Jesse…
More than just the Hollywood It Girl of the moment, Emma Stone is a real actress, and in The Help, she gets an ostentatious, Oscar-baiting Big Scene in which to prove it. Stone is, to borrow a phrase from Bret Easton Ellis’s Twitter account, thoroughly post-empire — she doesn’t need…
Adam, an undergraduate, encounters free-spirited graduate student Evelyn (note the names, please) while working as a guard at the university art museum. Incensed by the town’s prudery, which dictated covering the genitalia of a statue of God himself with vine leaves, Evelyn is about to vandalize the piece by spray-painting…
The second film in her planned trilogy of subverted fairy tales, Catherine Breillat’s latest topples the tyranny of pink and princesses. The Sleeping Beauty, like last year’s Bluebeard, is based on a classic Charles Perrault legend. But Breillat reimagines the slumbering heroine as a gender insurrectionist, freeing her from her…
In time-and-money-wasting news, The New York Times recently ran a story on the Boston Public Heath Commission’s organization of a one-day conference on “healthy break-ups,” wherein area teenagers discussed dating and subsequent break-up etiquette on Facebook. Really? Of all entities, a state’s public health commission decided this kind of out-of-touch…
Theater seasons are revving up all over town, and as always they cover the gamut: serious, classic, thoughtful, imaginative, pandering, comic, adventurous, silly or just plain fun. On our random list of upcoming auditions, there’s something for everyone. Get out your head shots, confidence and chops, actors. And a sense…
Somewhat legendary Donkey Kong master and documentary film subject Steve Wiebe has dedicated all of his free time over the last several years to playing competitive Donkey Kong. He was the primary subject of the 2007 documentary, King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and has flirted with having the…
We survived another wedding season, folks. With August officially upon us, the chances of being invited to any more summer ceremonies is nearly over. Looking back on many blissful marital moments, however, we’ve learned a lot about what to do and, better yet, what not to do at weddings –…
Marvelous Mud at the Denver Art Museum is a truly awesome set of exhibits, and it’s something that every adult — and kid — can enjoy because of both its scope and its appeal to all ages. In fact, the DAM typically does a fantastic job of catering to kids…
The only things more creepy than miniatures, dolls and toys that are supposed to be creepy are ones that are unintentionally disturbing. And the kindly volunteers who worked this weekend were blissfully unaware of the darkly bizarre nature of some of the exhibits. I asked Bill and Sarah West, who…
The world premiere of TB:20 — the 20th anniversary edition of Standard Films’ Totally Board series — will be on Friday, September 16 at Red Rocks Amphitheater, where it’s the headlining film at the 2nd annual Snowboard On The Rocks film and music festival. Standard released the first full trailer…
Before email, before the interwebs, before hackers, there were phone phreaks. And before there were even phone phreaks, back in the ’60s, there was Joybubbles, a little blind kid with a 172-I.Q., perfect pitch and an obsession with the phone. Then named Joe Engressia, he was seven years old when…
Brian Bradley, a street artist who works under the name Frank Kwiatkowski, is a type 1 diabetic and his art focuses on his disease. He makes prints using traffic cones, a technique he came up with and has shared with other artists around town. He is this week’s cover story,…
When two people somehow switch bodies with a little help from a magical fountain, high-jinks must ensue, and those high-jinks must be followed by life lessons about love and friendship. It’s a formula as old as time — which is not to say it can’t work, and if there are…
Seven of the 28 skaters on the Team USA roster for the first-ever Roller Derby World Cup in Toronto in December are from Colorado. The lineup, announced yesterday, includes five skaters — Amanda Jamitinya, DeRanged, Frida Beater, Psycho Babble and Urrk’n Jerk’n — from the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight…
We unequivocally love the Berkeley district’s Horseshoe Market for a myriad of reasons, but mostly it’s a matter of the spirit of the thing, which is old and modern all at the same time: Its mix of vintage wares, unique handmades and trendy food and drink on wheels fits the…
