East Colfax is about to get lit, and not in the drunken way it usually gets lit. With a cool $200,000 in federal grant money burning a hole in its pocket, the City of Aurora is launching a public art project that aims to create a permanent light installation for…
Wikipedia may be the world’s largest online encyclopedia, but lately its increasing credibility and citation of sources have sucked out all of its fun. What if you just want something to laugh at, like a page of bullshit you’re never ever going to need to know or reference in real…
Stepping into its fourth year, the Feminism & Co. lecture series at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver has touched on topics ranging from female bodybuilding to polyamorous relationships, all in an effort to engage conversation about feminism and gender roles within non-traditional topic pairings. In advance of tonight’s…
Spike and Mike’s Sick and Twisted Animation Festival is a well-known powerhouse in the gross-out short film arena, which is why when it’s here in town this weekend you won’t want to miss it. If you’re not really certain what to expect, or if you happened to miss it when…
Glenn Beck may be crazier than Charlie Sheen, as I theorized yesterday in my post comparing the the two media darlings — both have a rich history of saying wacky shit and both lost their jobs as a result — but love him or hate him (and pretty much nobody’s…
The 2011 Reel Rock Film Tour doesn’t kick off in Boulder until September 15, but if you want to see your own exploits featured this year then now’s your chance: Enter your two-minute clip by July 15 for a chance at $500 and some sponsor swag, paltry compared to the…
The masses aren’t exactly clamoring for more experimental films. Not only is there exactly zero market for avant-garde film-making in the mainstream, but there aren’t even too many underground screenings of them, and even fewer people devote their careers to making them. Even so, says John Hartman, director of Indie…
“Sometimes,” observes Sara Horle, “the people who you trust the most are trying to kill you.” That’s her short synopsis of Mr. Spacky…The Man Who Was Continuously Followed by Wolves, the inaugural effort (produced by Horle) of the Catamounts, a Boulder-based performance group founded by Amanda Berg-Wilson, freshly back in…
Colorado Beer Week, a new eight-day celebration of the state’s craft brewers, began on April 8, but there are still plenty of events left, even if the details of some of them may change up until the last minute (keep an eye on the event website). Today’s $150 Birdies &…
The ice cream flavor that Ben & Jerry’s famously named after hippie icon Wavy Gravy provides a surprisingly apt simile for Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie, last year’s documentary about the Woodstock-era activist: Both are sweet, both are full of nuts (wokka-wokka) and neither has a lick of substance…
Spike and Mike’s Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation has been impressing, enlightening and grossing out audiences for 21 years, but that doesn’t mean it has run out of steam. While the early days of the festival were marked by the talents of Bill Plympton, Mike Judge, Matt Stone and…
Some might say that feminism is dead, but the Museum of Contemporary Art’s annual lecture series, Feminism & Co., says otherwise. The semi-regular examinations of art, culture, sex and politics delve into issues relating to women and gender using film, creative performances, discussions and more. This season, Feminism & Co…
Tonight at Bindery|space, the at-risk-youth outreach organization Prax(us) will screen Very Young Girls, a film documenting the lives of teenage girls who have fallen victim to forced domestic labor and sex trafficking — with the result often being that they are tried in criminal court as adults for prostitution. The…
Rob Roy is about as Scottish as they come. For one thing, there’s actual bagpipe music playing in the background when he talks on the phone. For another, he shares a name with one of the most famous Scotsmen of all time (famous enough, anyway, to have a cocktail named…
Six years ago, Paul Reilly, executive chef/owner of Encore on Colfax, and his wife, Shannon, had triplet boys, all of whom were born prematurely and, sadly, passed away from complications. To pay homage to their boys, Paul and Shannon, along with several of Denver’s top chefs – Matt Selby (Vesta…
Nothing assuages the guilt of getting inappropriately hammered more than doing it for a cause – and at the third annual Snuggie Pub Crawl, you’ll be helping the Multiple Sclerosis Society and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Denver. “If there’s a cause to rally around and some free beer, people…
Vail is renowned for its snow bunnies, air kissing, celeb-spotting on the slopes and star chef Kelly Liken, a Season 7 contestant on Bravo’s Top Chef and this year’s headliner for Taste of Vail, a three-day culinary orgy of food and wine that uncorks today in Vail Village. The festival…
The TED Talks date back to the 1984 international Technology, Entertainment, Design conference; these days they’re viral-media gold, thanks to the widespread sharing of the brief “ideas worth spreading” lectures online, and they’re also moving from global to local appeal with independently organized events like today’s TEDxMileHigh. “When TED started…
Don’t be late for this very important date: The twelfth annual International Edible Book Festival & Tea starts today at 4 p.m. at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and the featured authors will be eating their words within the hour. “All the entries are edible books, and for good…
You might not think that a particle physicist would be the best person to write a novel about damaged children and the friendship that grows between them over 25 years, but that’s exactly what Paolo Giordano did with The Solitude of Prime Numbers. The story follows Alice and Mattia through…
“I’m on a crusade,” Jenny Shank admits. “There are a lot of great writers here, but they set their books elsewhere. I’m on a crusade to have them write about Denver. It’s a great city.” And now she’s written a great book set in this city: The Ringer. The novel…
Somewhere in the last couple of years, so gradually it was hard to notice at first, Glenn Beck went from annoying and somewhat menacing to hilarious. While watching Bill O’Reilly remains basically like watching a talk show with the evil trees from The Wizard of Oz except the trees have…
