Something about this recent run of three-digit-degrees days and Monday’s closing day at Arapahoe Basin have us looking forward to next ski season already, and it turns out we’re not alone: On Monday director Josh Berman and the Denver-based ski porn specialists at Level 1 Productions released the first trailer…
CU-Denver MBA candidate Andrea Burns first conceived of the idea for LoyalTee — a fledgling business that creates T-shirts celebrating favorite (and sometimes esoteric) local haunts — as a class project. “I was aware of a few different companies that were basically doing the same thing in different parts of…
Sadly, the long weekend is over, the hot dogs grilled, the American-flag T-shirts put away and the illegal fireworks spent — but if there is one bright spot as we trudge back to our various jobs at the universal soul-dissembly factory, it’s that we have our memories. In photo form…
Several hundred people came together on Saturday in Civic Center Park for the Denver edition of SlutWalk, a gathering of women and men seeking to bring attention to victim-blaming and shaming of victims of sexual assault and rape. The movement, which began in Toronto in January in response to a…
It’s not an easy task to self-publish a book; it’s a laborious process that involves a billion details that seem to crop up at the least opportune times, it’s costly, and the reward for all your toil could very well be…pretty much nothing. But that’s exactly what local author Ryan…
Going back to work after a three-day weekend sucks, so take a few minutes to deviate from your expected tasks and plan your evening. Today promises some exciting new releases, which translates to exciting new ways to bond with yourself, whether it be chillaxing in your hammock reading a new…
On Saturday, VegFest 2011 took over the exhibition hall at Jefferson County Fairgrounds; among the lifestyle products available were these chaotic yet controlled abstract paintings by vegan artist Ken Voss. And more — including aromatherapy for dogs and paper products made from elephant dung. Keep reading to see what we…
Yesterday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board approved the addition of ski and snowboard slopestyle events at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. The announcement came yesterday from the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa, and follows an April announcement that ski halfpipe will also be a…
The Cold War was America’s perfect war. Hear me out on this one: No matter what their purpose, whether just (World War II) or crass (the Vietnam War), wars are ultimately pretty depressing. They involve a lot of dying in horrifying and gruesome ways that leave their participants forever scarred,…
From my point of view, solo shows, and retrospectives in particular, occupy the top place in the hierarchy of art exhibitions. But group shows organized around a theme are a close second, and they are a staple of the summer season. At the moment, there is an astounding array of…
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…
Tender irony and dark humor abound in The Human Resources Manager, Israeli director Eran Riklis’s latest account of bureaucracy colliding with burgeoning compassion. This followup to 2008’s Lemon Tree, based on the novel A Woman in Jerusalem, by A.B. Yehoshua, hits the road when the restless personnel director (Mark Ivanir)…
There’s a scene in Horrible Bosses in which Jennifer Aniston, playing a dentist who habitually sexually harasses her weakling male hygienist (Charlie Day), repeatedly says the word “pussy.” Her character is trying to intimidate his, while the filmmakers attempt to shock the audience with the spectacle of this lady rom-com…
When I think about the Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s Romeo and Juliet, the predominant image is of Jamie Ann Romero as Juliet, longing to consummate her startlingly sudden marriage and leaping onto the bed, arms outflung, to implore the night, “Give me my Romeo.” At this point, she doesn’t know that…
Some of the best acting you’ll see anywhere. A brilliantly putrid set design. Haunting sound effects. Taut direction. On an Average Day is a first-rate production — but unfortunately, the play itself feels like an early exercise, full of sound and fury, signifying not much of anything. John Kolvenbach is…
Mo money mo problems, the Notorious B.I.G. posthumously noted back in the late ’90s — and for him, it was certainly true: By the time he said it, he was, after all, dead. Another way of putting that is that money can’t buy happiness — in fact, it probably does…
Tonight, First Friday attendees can take a break, grab a drink and a doughnut and raise money for Youth on Record, a non-profit that provides music classes for young people in treatment facilities, at Tattooers on Deck, a silent auction bidding off custom-painted skateboard decks from several tattoo artists, including…
While cruising last winter’s Fancy Tiger Holiday Handmade show, we chanced upon the most delightful booth: Featuring paper dolls, prints and cross-stitched buttons by crafty Canadian partners Sara Guindon and Samantha Purdy, who together comprise the Pin Pals, their table offered up something truly original and more than a little…
Holy crap, have we forgotten how much the computer has made our lives easier. We’re not talking about the non-stop stream of free porn — we’re talking about word processing. What’s word processing? Well, if you’ve forgotten (or weren’t born yet), word processing was how we first were able to…
Get ready to give up any excuse you might have for not staying active and living a life of adventure: This weekend the National Sports Center for the Disabled is hosting No Barriers Summit 2011 at Winter Park “to promote innovative ideas, approaches and assistive technologies which help people with…
With the classic noir flick The Maltese Falcon screening at the Esquire this weekend for Midnight Madness, we’ve been thinking a lot about our favorite noir films, from the classic era to the modern. While there are a few archetypes in the genre, many think it always stars a detective,…
