Photos: The Santa Fe artwalk brings out the summer weirdos

First Friday is ostensibly about looking at art, but everyone knows it’s much more about free box wine and eyeballing the artsy weirdos that the monthly art-walk draws out — and while the festivities of course continue throughout the winter, it’s pretty tough to adequately get a freak on when…

Gotham Chopra isn’t just a chip off the old block

Deepak Chopra is a new-agey self-help spiritualist whose doctrines are rooted in Indian religion and culture; his son, Gotham Chopra, is an all-American boy who publishes comics and makes movies about superheroes across the ages. Together, they have written a new book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes: Harnessing Our…

Today in Stoke: Teva Mountain Games makes the most of POV video

If you skipped the action in Vail this weekend at the 10th annual Teva Mountain Games, never fear: Students from the Outside Adventure Film School camp held in conjunction with the games will be getting their footage featured online shortly (click here for an hour’s worth of awesome from the…

The Capitol Hill People’s Fair tried to sell us a whole lot of crap

One thing about the Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods’ People’s Fair is that it’s consistent. Now in its 40th year, the event brings out the best in Colorado people-watching, plus, you know, several stages of local entertainment and booths full of tie-dye, made-to-order art and, of course, “turkey” legs. (The consumption…

What week is it? A breakdown of obscure holidays, June 6 – 12

Well here we are almost a week into June, and all this time you’ve been missing out on all the commemorative months you could be getting drunk for right up until July — for example, did you know June is Dairy Month? No, you did not. More immediately, though, today…

The Grand Rapids LipDub: A tribute to my hometown

Few could have anticipated a decade or two ago, when I was a kid growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, what kind of toll the decline of the Big Three automakers would take on the whole state; back then, it was a solidly middle-class and blue-collar place to be from,…

Robots and lots of blinking lights at Gear Up tomorrow night

It’s not everyday you get to see an 8-foot-tall robot made of scrap metal or 2-foot minion playing projecting claymation off of its chest. Luckily, tomorrow, over ten artists will be displaying these and other works in several mediums including sculpture, lights and 2-D art in the robot-themed art show…

Comment of the day: Our Lady of controversy

The Virgin of Guadalupe is such an icon of Mexican culture that it can be easy to forget that she’s also an icon of Mexican Catholicism — and religion and art seldom mix comfortably. That’s somewhat the case with the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council’s Frida Kahlo and other Superheroes…

This Weekend in Stoke: Top 5 ways to get some action, June 3-5

Dive in! Red Bull Illume — “The world’s biggest action sports photography competition” — brings its touring exhibition to the Denver Performing Arts Center’s outdoor Galleria tonight through June 12 from 8:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., with massively large-format backlit prints of the top 50 finalists from 2010. Chris Burkard’s…

The Lion of Judah is this week’s most ridiculous trailer

After years of mind-boggling advances in the realm of CG animation courtesy of Pixar and, uh, everybody copying Pixar, it’s pretty impressive to see something as visually crappy as The Lion of Judah, an animated allegory for the Christ story from Rocky Mountain Pictures, which, thank God, is not based…

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, June 3-5, 2011

The best part about a three-day weekend is the shortened work week — just like that, it’s already Friday. But because you blew all your money on hangover cures on Tuesday morning, you’re all out of cash. It’s cool; we’ve got you covered with some cheap activities to get you…

Five ass-hats that ruin the movie theater experience for everyone

It’s sunny outside, with green foliage and clear skies — the perfect time to spend your day in an air-conditioned room with no windows wearing stupid 3D sunglasses, being bored for three hours straight. That’s right, it’s summer movie movie season, and every weekend brings a new event to your…

Hey. Bro. Sports: That hideous summer

Every day we edge closer to the hideous sports wasteland that is mid-summer–when all we’ve got is baseball and other sports are nothing but arrests, rumors and deaths both hilarious and sad. So let’s put off hiking, climbing and anything else outdoors, glue ourselves to our TVs and cling desperately…

Frida Kahlo gets the superhero treatment: A photo preview

Four the last four years running, the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council’s gallery on Santa Fe has done an annual show dedicated to Frida Kahlo, queen of the surrealist self-portrait and owner of the most celebrated unibrow of all time. This year, though, the gallery is doing it a little…