Our world is full of advertising. Everywhere we look, it’s buy this; feel like that. That’s a given. We’ve come to expect it — maybe even enjoy it sometimes as a subtle reminder that we’re not alone. “Other people want excellent bleaching power from their laundry detergent too? Gosh, I…
If you think about it, there is really only one attraction for TV taped live: that deep in our most schadenfreude-drive hearts, we’re secretly hoping something gets fucked up — the local TV news really has little else going for it. And in that respect, this Fox affiliate out of…
Ah, Fat Tuesday, the day when cheap plastic beads are somehow transformed into a currency for getting drunk girls to show you their tits. It’s like the frat-bro version of Cinderella, except the fairy godmother is the dollar store, and at midnight you just piss your pants and fall asleep…
While party people are likely celebrating Fat Tuesday by hitting the streets and getting sucker punched by as much beers as their gut can handle, some of us prefer to spend our days indoors consuming mass amounts of media and feeling sorry for ourselves for not having any friends. Thankfully,…
While Ben Roethlisberger apparently gets a get-out-of-jail-free card for his numerous rapes on the well-known “Bro, I was wasted” defense, over in Utah, they do things a little differently: BYU forward Brandon Davies was dismissed from the Mormon University’s basketball team last week for having sex — consensual sex –…
In 2009, Tracy Ross, senior editor for Backpacker Magazine, won a National Magazine Award for her December 2007 essay The Source of All Things, a story quite unlike any of the tales of outdoor adventure she’d previously written. The essay centered on a hike she took as an adult with…
All week we’ve been hearing word that snowboarder Mark McMorris landed a first-ever triple cork 1440 in the terrain park at Snowmass during filming for the forthcoming TransWorld Snowboarding: Park Sessions video, and now TransWorld has the must-see video…
March has been declared the Month of Photography in Denver, with many of the city’s different galleries and other art venues mounting shows of photos or other photo-based works. One unusual offering is the duet at Walker Fine Art (300 West 11th Avenue, #A, 303-355-8955, www.walkerfineart.com) titled Triggered Momentum, which…
Emilio Lobato and Sangeeta Reddy. Mixed-media artist and painter Emilio Lobato is surely near the top of anyone’s list of abstract artists in the region. His work relates well to that of the late Dale Chisman, as both artists studied with Mary Chenoweth at Colorado College. His latest creations, many…
When it comes to the fine arts, the artists themselves are rightly the main subjects of scholarly and critical interest. But collectors, so important but often overlooked, can actually make art history if they have enough money behind their acquisitions. What’s brought this to mind is a recent experience I…
Emilio Lobato and Sangeeta Reddy. Mixed-media artist and painter Emilio Lobato is surely near the top of anyone’s list of abstract artists in the region. His work relates well to that of the late Dale Chisman, as both artists studied with Mary Chenoweth at Colorado College. His latest creations, many…
As aficionados of Puppy Bowl can attest, attaching stories to the comings and goings of animals is surefire entertainment. Veteran nature filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert pitch their documentary, The Last Lions, as a single-mother weepie-thriller about a lioness and her cubs with an impassioned psychological commentary, majestically intoned by…
If Jane Eyre is not the greatest of the Great Books with a permanent position on required-reading lists, it may be the most frequently filmed: At least ten cinematic versions of the story have been made, dating back to the dawn of the silent era — more, if you count…
Cheerfully diffident, garrulous yet uninflected, blithely self-absorbed, the mumblecore brand proliferates: Last year’s star vehicles Greenberg and Cyrus introduced the concept of mega-mumble. The low-budget musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench pioneered mumble-chord; Tiny Furniture was part psycho-drumble, part sit-cumble. Premiering with the latter at last spring’s South…
Written in 1939, Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes is showing its age — both in the dated characterizations and the high-pitched, melodramatic tone. This is a serious melodrama, though, exploring the shifting of an era as, thanks to industrialization, the old order in the American South gives way to the…
There is no Mardi Gras parade in Denver, but you don’t have to trek all the way to our nation’s Francophone capitals (namely St. Louis and New Orleans) for some marching madness tomorrow. CarniVail, which started yesterday and goes through the end of the week, hits the streets of Vail…
In beautiful Nederland lies the dry-iced body of the deceased Bredo Morstøl, a Norwegian man who believed science would one day allow for his reanimation. As such, the town for the past decade, has hosted “Frozen Dead Guy Days,” complete with a parade of hearses, a coffin race, and tours…
#98: Sabin Aell Austrian-born Denver artist Sabin Aell — mixed-media artist and photographer, maker of unusual jewelry, graphic designer, gallerist and curator — casts a ray of sunshine down among the warehouses of RiNo: Not only is Hinterland, the gallery she and husband Randy Rushton run in their living space,…
John Kasaona has helped pioneer a dramatic revival of wild lands in his native Nambia through a program called Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC), where members of rural communities, including former poachers, have been handed the mantle of protecting the wildlife on their lands by the government. Kasaona…
Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah is now open at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and if you are like us, it has awakened a deep desire to live our lives as pirates, right here in Denver. This can be a challenge, given that we are…
The exquisite corps is an oddity generally only seen in literature. If you are an exceptionally obsessive lit nerd and/or have taken eighth grade English, you’ve probably encountered it somewhere: someone begins a story with a sentence and other people finish it, sentence by sentence, without seeing any part of…
The season of Catholic holidays re-appropriated as excuses to paint your face and get hammered is upon us! Tomorrow is Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday for you non-French speakers. But we say leave the Gras to the French — what do we need that for when we’ve got Middle Name…
