The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was one of the most controversial horror movies ever made — so controversial, in fact, that it was banned for many years in several countries. That statement wasn’t really the point of my rant the other day about the upcoming remake of Texas in 3D,…
At first, the Straw Rappers’ message isn’t quite clear. But as you get through the minute and a half “Sickness” segment you realize: These dudes aren’t talking about the common cold, they’re talking about Jesus. Cleverly disguised as License To Ill-era Beastie Boys inspired rodeo clowns, this duo makes praying…
The Denver County Fair this summer is already going to be a historical occasion — it is, after all, the first county fair ever for Denver — but it just got even more historic: Today, event impresario Dana Cain announced that the fair had acquired the services of Barry Fey,…
In their book, One Nation Under Sex, Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach are looking for high profile sex scandals that the history books might have missed. That might sound like a book filled with hearsay and smut, but the purpose isn’t so much to bring down our nation’s leaders, but…
Photographer Ian Shives has added more than 40 stunning new images for the paperback edition of his hit 2009 coffee table tome The National Parks: Our American Landscape, many of them shot while on assignment for National Parks Magazine. Tough gig, right? Actually… Ask him about the extreme conditions, ranging…
A person would have to be damn pretty self-assured to bill herself as a “goddess” of anything, but when it comes to advice, Amy Alkon is as qualified for the title as anyone. Since starting her career dispensing advice to random strangers on a New York street corner with two…
Here’s how producer Britta Laree likes to describe Breach, a new musical from Evolution Theatre Company: “It’s like Pygmalion on acid.” Pygmalion, of course, is the play that inspired the musical My Fair Lady, and Breach offers a similar plotline: An ambitious New York record executive finds a Long Island…
There’s nothing new about a two-person exhibit; galleries host them all the time. But Bleached, a joint show at CORE New Art Space featuring Cal Duran and Claudia Roulier, offers a refreshing variation on the concept. For this “solo two-man show,” as Roulier calls it, the duo became a kind…
For the past four decades, the craft beer industry has been primarily a man’s game — from brewery ownership to brewery employees and the drinkers themselves. But that’s changing, thanks to both the delicious complexity of the product (something women surely enjoy as much as men, if not more so)…
The Chamber Music Series hosted by the Denver School of the Arts Orchestra might just be the local classical music world’s best-kept secret, but not for any particularly good reason. Programmed by and featuring DSA visiting artist Erik Peterson, a Colorado Symphony violinist, and friends, the series is anything but…
Westword Beer Man Jonathan Shikes wasn’t born with a pint glass in his hand, and that’s the main reason he cried so much. Even now, he still acts like a baby when he’s not enjoying a delicious beer. But he’ll drink his fill tonight when Ska Brewing and Old Chicago…
The newly renamed Aurora Arts District has had a tough time of it. Formerly the East End Arts District, the downtown Aurora area that roughly extends a block either way from Colfax between Clinton and Geneva streets, has been faithfully hosting Second Friday art walks without getting much of a…
No local festival directly showcases the creative community more perfectly than Create Denver Week, an annual city-sponsored May series of cultural events that includes the flagship Create Denver Expo, a purposeful gathering of minds all marching to different drummers. The rest of it operates like a huge invitation to Denverites…
Create Denver Week will end on a girly note today with Your Sunday Best, a meeting of Fashion Denver’s local stylistas and the Denver Handmade Alliance’s crafty crews under the elegant roof of the Grant-Humphreys Mansion. This marks the first time a Fashion Denver quarterly market and the DHA’s trademark…
Josh and Tran Wills love their art collection. And the accumulation of works, picked up over the past ten years, is worth far more to the local fashion-forward couple than its collective monetary value. “They are almost like tattoos for us,” notes Tran, each piece with its own unique story…
This city has dozens of formidable dough-slingers, but tonight at Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria at the Vallagio at Inverness, 10111 Inver-ness Main Street in Englewood, and tomorrow night at Marco’s Coal-Fired Pizzeria Ballpark, 2129 Larimer Street, owner Mark Dym is parading the ingenuity of two of the most celebrated pizzaioli in…
In the introduction to their new book, One Nation Under Sex, authors Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach outline their mission pretty explicitly: “We are not out to dish gossip; we want to add a new dimension to American history.” That dimension, not surprisingly, is the sexual history of our leaders,…
It takes just three skills to be an air-guitar master: technical merit, stage presence and airness. That last one is a bit of a mystery to both the audience and the judges, but for participants in the U.S. Air Guitar Regional Championships, it’s the one thing that will set them…
Forget swimming: Event planners in Montrose have paired the 36th annual Black Canyon Ascent six-mile run on Saturday and the eighth annual Mission to Ride century bike race on Sunday with this weekend’s Montrose Wine and Food Festival for a triathlon worth traveling for. “I can’t think of any race…
There’s nothing like a 100-mile bike ride to start cutting into that pasty layer of flab that’s been accumulating around your waistline like delicious, delicious pudding all winter, but there’s also nothing like the risk of grievous bodily or bike failure to keep you from actually doing it. That’s where…
The 2011 Kaiser Permanente Colfax Marathon is the fourth-largest charity partner race in the country, says race spokeswoman Liz Easterly, with 73 partners and more than 8,000 runners expected. It’s also become one of the biggest celebrations of the city, starting and ending in City Park and making its way…
When Chelsea Handler makes her occasional appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the tension is almost palpable. In terms of comedy, Handler is like the anti-Leno, the yin to his yang; if he was pro-life, then she’d be an abortion pro. “I don’t like people who have babies…
