Film producer Chris Graves, who also runs Bardo Coffee House on South Broadway, first thought up the idea for his new Denver-based sitcom pilot, 13th and Pearl, fifteen years ago. “I used to hang out around 13th and Pearl back in the day, in the mid-90s, and I thought it…
We know it’s kind of torturous of us to keep showing you the new trailers for this year’s forthcoming ski and snowboard porn in the middle of July, but we just can’t help ourselves. Keystone and Breckenridge get some love in The Grand Bizarre, this year’s film from Poor Boyz…
If there’s anything we can learn from Return of the Jedi, it’s that you never want to get tossed into a large hole, probably because it’s actually a Sarlacc. Indeed, in the Star Wars universe and therefore also in our own a hole is never just a hole, and that’s…
Futurama has given us so much. Since 1999 it has offered us sex, drugs, violence, hooker bots, sewer mutants, Hedonism Bot, a fossilized dog, death by snoo-snoo, a big ball of garbage, hooker bots, Slurm, whalers on the moon, Morbo, toasters that feel love, Popplers, positron shooters, a were-car, worm-infested…
When it comes time to get out the sticky icky, do a few rips and get all airee, there’s no better thing to do than plop down in front of the tube and let that shit rain all over your mind-grapes. Sometimes you get all giggly and you want to…
Yeah, yeah. We’re a little late on the Kelly Oxford Twitter train — so sue us. The Canadian stay-at-home mom and tweeting goddess has been working with CBS over the last year to produce a show about her life — which, by all accounts, is funny. Even if you don’t…
All of these rain-soaked evenings have been keeping us locked indoors lately, and while we’ve got stockpiles of media to keep us entertained, that doesn’t mean we don’t want more. Of course, being that it’s summertime, the media conglomerates have all teamed up to narrow the spectrum of new releases…
It’s a telling fact that, in a movie that features talking animals (including a monkey that sounds like Gilbert Gottfried doing a Joan Rivers impression), the least believable conceit is how Kevin James has a really good-looking girlfriend — but that’s just one of the many fatal flaws apparent in…
Tickets go on sale on Saturday at 10 a.m. for the second annual Snowboard on the Rocks at Red Rocks. The September 16 event will feature the world premieres of three films: TB20 is the twentieth-anniversary installment of the Totally Board series from Standard Films, Familia 2 is the second…
Give anyone who wants it access to unlimited bandwidth, and people are bound to come up with some weird shit. Consider: Though there is no real available count, the number of videos currently posted to YouTube by some estimates is in the multiple billions. Some of these videos go viral,…
Broadly speaking, realist work with a conceptual component has been around a long time, but it wasn’t until the 1980s and ’90s that it really took hold, arguably becoming the stylistic choice for contemporary artists during that time. Now the idea is well established, and there’s no shortage of it…
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…
A true-life outlaw tale as stirring as it is tragic, the story of the Earth Liberation Front offers a DeLillo-flavored draught of high-proof righteous excitement. You can hear the pitch for If a Tree Falls — young, fiery 21st-century hipsters living double lives, burning down corporate buildings to protest environmental…
After ten years, seven movies, six Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers, four directors, two dead parents, one grating house elf and incalculable amounts of CG wizardry, pubescent growing pains, budding romances and apocalyptic fire and brimstone, we’ve finally arrived: Bespectacled Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) squares off against amphibian-faced Lord…
Every year, director Terry Dodd finds a play perfectly suited to the historic lobby of the Barth Hotel, with its long central desk and gleaming wooden furnishings, and stages it as a benefit for Senior Housing Options, an organization that provides humanistic, caring homes for indigent seniors in several facilities…
There are two things I’m allergic to, and no, these aren’t regular allergies like nuts or dairy. I’m allergic to onions — red onions and white onions, but somehow not chives. And sunscreen. Yes, you read that correctly. I’ll say it again: I’m allergic to sunscreen. Now before you go…
For many of us, media consumption is basically a religion. We don’t leave the house without a book, a game or a video — we have all of these things on our phones and our laptops and we attempt to make sure we don’t go a single second of the…
Colorado Creatives #95: Dr. David Grinspoon Science? Art? Bona fide space-nerd superstar Dr. David Grinspoon likes it both ways. By day an author and the mild-mannered curator of astrobiology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Grinspoon is also a musician and confirmed Dead Head, travels the country lecturing…
We’ve peed our pants many a time, but by far our fondest memory of it was when we peed our pants during John Carpenter’s Halloween (other memories: not so fond). JK, we’ve never peed our pants in our entire lives, but seriously, John Carpenter is one of the best horror…
Far across the sea in Pamplona, Spain, over the weekend, thousands of people gathered for some reason to run along narrow streets toward the sole ambition of not getting gored by a pissed-off bull. In Denver, the stakes were lower and the injuries far less grievous, but the good times…
On Sunday afternoon, we randomly wandered over to the 7-11 on Broadway and 3rd Avenue to find a parking lot overtaken by sweet cars. In the second annual “Bringing You Back To Broadway” car show, local promotor and DJ “Cruisin'” Dave Bos and his wife Sandi put together a day…
