New Belgium Brewing’s Clips of Faith Beer and Film Tour comes to Boulder tonight, featuring dozens of film shorts between ten seconds and ten minutes long. “The whimsical films have a focus on sustainability and/or craft beer, and it’s a nice way of celebrating both creative filmmaking and creative beer-making,”…
The TACtile Textile Arts Center has gone all steampunk this summer, beginning with the opening of the current show, Steampunk: Mechanical Science Meets Victorian Romance, in May. But the voluminous ostrich feather in the exhibition’s Victorian cap is tonight’s Steamed Fashion Show, a juried feast of plumed millinery and mini…
In her long writing career, Lisa See has covered China — and Chinese America — from a number of angles. But whether penning a memoir, a thriller or a historical novel, See comes off as a digger, a woman who spends a lot of time in the stacks and on…
Consider yourself lucky that famed writer and feminist icon Erica Jong is stopping in Denver to read from and sign her new book, Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex; she’s on her way up to Aspen to teach in the mountain town’s Summer Words extravaganza, and…
Walk, run or bike to Civic Center Park tonight for an outdoor showing of Field of Dreams, the first of this summer’s free Civic Center Bike-In Movies, a series of four flicks showing for free on an inflatable big screen in the heart of Denver. Movie-goers are welcome to set…
“Visual poetry”: An interesting concept, or two words never meant to be placed together? Decide for yourself at the “Moving Images” Poetry and Film Symposium, hosted by the University of Colorado and Naropa University. Billed as the first of its kind, the event will bring together these two “distant realities”…
Dancing, Swedish folk music, Vikings and traditional Scandinavian cuisine are just a few of the things you’ll find at the Scandinavian Midsummer Festival this weekend in Estes Park. The massive, two-day event is filled with folk activities ranging from the display of Viking tools to dancing around the traditional maypole,…
If you haven’t seen Johnny Depp and Tim Burton’s first film together, get your blanket ready for tonight’s Film on the Rocks screening of Edward Scissorhands, presented on made-for-the-event 35mm film stock. But first, take in the sounds of Denver’s own Ukulele Loki and the Gadabout Orchestra, a band that…
A normal outdoor music festival and a beer garden wasn’t enough for Copper Mountain Resort this year. The solution? Throw in some tomatoes, and then throw the tomatoes themselves. Make that two semi trucks full of squishy, smelly, beyond-ripe tomatoes. Now add in four bands and a ton of beer…
Jillian Allison says that some of the most ingenious miniatures she’s seen were Tiffany-style lampshades fashioned out of golf balls, jewelry and paint. Allison, the Coordinator of Education and Programs at the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys, explains that this kind of creativity is normal in the miniature…
Let us babeality, if you will, back to a time when the internets were hardly born and the original NES was king, a simpler time when 16-bit graphics came along and blew our fucking mind. For anyone who experienced that revolution, Mortal Kombat was a game you could never forget,…
What’s the best way to perk up a tired movie franchise? Most of the time, there is no way. But movie producers still continue to try by taking the old characters overseas and hoping the new locale will reheat the leftovers. Case in point: Cars 2. The film comes out…
Man, our heads are really in the toilet these days. Wait. Are jokes about boobs considered “toilet humor”? Whatever, this photo probably qualifies as a dirty joke, just because its funny to say the word “booby.” Technically, on this sign we saw outside the Vine Street Pub yesterday said “Boobby,”…
Aside from the weather being particularly fine, my bike commute on Bike to Work Day this morning was not a whole lot different that it usually is — most of my trip is on side streets as opposed to paths, since I live on the west side and apparently poor…
Realm of the Mad God has been in beta for the past year, but it finally saw its real release this week and holy smokes, it’s a time-sink if we’ve ever seen one. On the surface it’s simply a fantasy-themed MMO shooter, but underneath that it’s so much more, drenched…
Earlier this month, 303 Boards’ CLFX team skater Julian Christianson won the Denver stop of the Element Skateboards Make It Count contest series at the Lafayette Skatepark, earning a trip to skate at The Berrics in California with the Element pro team and compete in the Make It Count Finals…
The wall on the side of the Matchbox bar gets tagged. A lot. When it was still Orange Cat Studios in 2008, the city painted over art for fear it contained messages geared to disturbing the Democratic National Convention; former owner Sean Rice wound up settling with the city. And…
There’s something inherently unsettling about a person as perfect-seeming as Martha Stewart, something steely and cold within that gaze of practiced affability that belies a certain underlying strain. You get the sense that, like all things tightly wound beyond their breaking point, Martha Stewart must eventually explode. So it’s a…
The story of art in the twentieth century is well known. The center of the world in 1900 was in Europe, while American art was dominated by regionalism, a representational style derived from realism. With the rise of the Nazis and the advent of World War II, however, European artists…
A Ceramic Collaboration. To celebrate the fourth anniversary of his Plinth Gallery, which is specifically dedicated to contemporary ceramics, Jonathan Kaplan has mounted a show that highlights the clay scene in Colorado. Conceptually, the show has two parts, but it’s been installed as a single idea. The first part is…
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…
Oliver Tate (Craig Roberts), a rampant fifteen-year-old only child, has two presiding preoccupations, detailed in rapid voiceover throughout Submarine: a broody classmate, Jordana (Yasmin Paige), and the flatlined sex life of his parents (show-stealers Noah Taylor and Sally Hawkins), brought to crisis by the arrival of mom’s glam-guru old flame…
