When Frank Warren famously handed out hundreds of postcards in 2004 to strangers on the street, asking them to write down a secret and send the cards back anonymously, the big surprise is that they really did it. It was such a popular project, in fact, that Warren turned it…
In the closing moments of the trailer for Fast Five, while the central cast is dramatically slow-mo walking toward the camera and away from the sunset as if to say, damn, lookit how badass we are, there is a curious incongruity: In that shot, there are eight people, not five…
With The Simultaneous Chess Exhibition being hosted by Todd Bardwick in the Colorado Mills Mall this weekend, we’ve been thinking a lot about the weirdness that is chess dorks. While not exactly worthy of the cover of People, these often reclusive weirdos have been involved in their fair share of…
According to certain scientific estimates, there are currently four katrillion applications and websites devoted to voting on pictures out there in the world, but if an app developer can think a a new riff on that concept, there’s always room for a couple more — particularly if they involve winning…
Get dirty! Head to Fruita for the 16th annual New Belgium Brewing Fruita Fat Tire Festival this weekend, where organizers have dropped most of the pretense in favor of letting people go ride during the day and then party all night. Don’t miss the Clunker Crit junker race on Saturday…
The monthly transitional weekend is one of our favorite types of weekends. It’s like you enter the weekend thinking to yourself, “Gee, April is great,” and by the end of it you’re like, “Shit, it’s May already?” It’s a bit jarring, really. While you’re busy writing out those rent checks,…
The middle east may have its camels, which are admittedly pretty awesome, but here in the Americas we have llamas. And also alpacas, which are kind of like mini-llamas. Unlike llamas, though, alpacas are not for carrying things; specifically, they are bred for their hair, which is a lot like…
The art of stealing art is a long lasting one — since the dawn of the civilized era, people have been copping other people’s ideas and running with them. On some levels, there’s no real shame in it, but when stealing is turned into a profitable business, things start to…
For over a decade, BINDERY | space has been home to some of Denver’s best and weirdest experimental theater under the direction of the LIDA Project, which has been its driving force for most of that time, in addition to providing a place for a number of other like-minded companies…
Kumail Nanjiani isn’t exactly your typical comedian. Where most spend their time complaining about things they hate, Nanjiani attacks the things he loves, which happens to be activities of a decidedly nerdy persuasion: Videogames, horror and science fiction all have a place in his routine. You’ll be able to find…
There’s no denying that canv.as is pretty cool. Still in closed, invitation-only beta testing, the site is the latest project of 4chan founder, Christopher Poole, and it basically takes the meme-generating concept of /b/, 4chan’s random board, and adds social networking and a whole lot of neat-o features — but…
Remember that video of the three women in polyester suits dancing to an overdubbed version of “Walk It Out?” This video, which showcases a very serious, unnamed interpretive rollerblader, is kind of like that — but he goes next level, taking his dancing to the streets. Watch the secret footage…
It’s Always Sunny in Colorado, Bucky O’Connell’s love letter to the local skateboarding scene, premieres tonight at the Bluebird Theater with screenings at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. The film, presented by 303 Boards and Toebock Media Group, features countless recognizable spots around town and nearly a dozen of Colorado’s…
Precocious children are nothing new; they’ve been around for as long as there have been embittered adults to be annoyed by them because of their infuriating innocence, and because they haven’t yet squandered the limitless potential of their youth on cocaine and get-rich-quick schemes like we did. On the other…
Any American art venue director lucky enough to nab Nick Bantock’s first retrospective and first show of any kind in the United States would be ecstatic, but for Cynthia Madden Leitner of the Museum of Outdoor Arts in CityCenter Englewood, it’s also personal, almost to the point of embarrassment. She…
It takes a good round of networking to connect like-minded groups and form a community, and that’s the thinking behind Red Drinks Denver, a new fashion-world take on the Green Drinks model, which was devised to unite people working in the environmental arena. A democratic event dreamed up jointly by…
Art created with high-tech elements — movement, sound, light — may strike us as being futuristic until we realize that it’s been around for quite a while. “Technology has been used in art for many decades, and we’ve now reached a point of looking back,” says Jill Desmond, the curator…
Back in 1963, Hal Gould, a successful commercial and fine-art photographer, began putting together photo shows in his role as exhibition director of the Colorado Photographic Arts Center. Building off that experience, in 1979 he opened Camera Obscura Gallery a block from the Denver Art Museum, at 1309 Bannock Street,…
Bev Newcomb-Madden can relate to the housewife-protagonist of While We Were Bowling. The play (which she’s directing) follows the travails of a traditional family unit in Buffalo, New York, as the cheerfully kitschy ’50s melt into the psychedelic ’60s. “I was a young housewife, too, when this was all going…
Comprising veterans of Denver’s punk-rock scene, the Pitch Invasion took its name from the phenomenon of a crowd at a soccer game getting unruly and invading the field, also known as “the pitch,” and taking events into its own hands. Last year, the band — made up of Mike McCrory…
The Cherry Creek Sneak, now in its 29th year, has become one of the biggest races of the season, attracting more than 10,000 runners. Last year, Competitor magazine named it Denver’s best running event. The secret, according to race promoter Patrick Downing? Free beer. “The five-mile race is the main…
Troy Rarick, owner of Over the Edge Sports in Fruita, used to laugh as mountain bikers blazed through town with their bikes on top of their cars, on their way to better-known destinations like Moab, oblivious to the singletrack paradise they were passing by. Sixteen years ago, he decided to…
