Over the Weekend: Untitled #33 (Pledge) at the Denver Art Museum

I have to admit I wasn’t quite in sync with Friday night’s Untitled theme at the Denver Art Museum: Pledge. Pledge? It had something to do, they told me, with artists making creative pledges to accomplish certain things and how to keep museum installations well dusted; people, they said, could…

Photos: Geek Bowl V at the Fillmore, 1/29/11

The 2011 version of the Geeks Who Drink Geek Bowl, the fifth annual granddaddy of useless trivia, went down on Saturday night at the Fillmore Auditorium. The tournament kicked off with a rowdy musical theater performance, where the performers bellowed “Fuck Philly” through motifs of hip-hop, chorus line and gospel,…

ThunderCats‘s new look: Why so serious, Lion-O?

Once upon a time, cartoons were silly. Consider the original Batman series of the 1960s, a show so jokey it had villains named both The Laugher and The Giggler and starred a not-exactly-ripped-but-still-wearing-spandex Adam West playing the world’s most block-headed straight man — even Tim Burton’s late-’80s reboot of the…

Street Art: Color fields in the alley

Lord knows how many times I’ve walked past this garage (attached to a semi-dilapidated abandoned house near the Westword office) and not given it a second glance, but for whatever reason, it happened to catch my eye the other day — probably because I happened to be carrying a camera;…

Your moment of lulz: “Today’s trolls are online”

Close to twenty years after the slang was first coined in those primitive internets forums of yore, at least one Fox News affiliate out of Los Angeles is on the case, intrepidly investigating just what it is that the kids are saying nowadays. Last week, the station dedicated fully three…

Stupid ad of the week: Snickers shark attack!

When you are introducing a new product to the populace, it is important that your ad campaign make a strong first impression. You might try associating this new item with an A-list celebrity, or you might open with a clever joke. You might also go on a serious hallucinogen bender…

Over the weekend: CSO adds a multi-media twist to Dvořák

Antonín Dvořák had strong misgivings about making the long journey from his native Bohemia to the United States. “America is full of Indians and wild animals,” the Czech composer declared in 1892, after the prestigious National Conservatory of Music offered him a teaching post in New York City. Despite his…

Last chance! The Art District Best of 2010 closes next week

If you read Westword with any regularity, you will know that we’ve got a boner for compiling “best of” lists. It’s a win-win situation. It’s our job to keep up on this stuff, so they’re easy for us to put together; you have a real job and not enough time…

Camel’s appeal to hipsters is ironic, but not in a good way

Keeping in line with Camel’s historically “urbane” branding strategy, the tobacco company has for the last few months been pushing a series of specially branded cigarette packs commemorating select cities known for their cool: Austin and Seattle, for example, have been highlighted. And while those cities have well known reputations…

Warhol in Colorado: Mark Sink’s 15 Minutes of Fame

When the exhibit Warhol in Colorado opens for public viewing today at DU’s Myhren Gallery, one of the show’s major components will include photos taken of Warhol by Colorado photographers in the early ’80s, when the pop artist visited Fort Collins amid much hoopla for a major exhibition of his…

Fountain Lady strikes back, and five other unbelievably stupid lawsuits

Cathy Cruz Marrero, the Pennsylvania woman now famous for starring in a viral video — wherein she falls into a fountain at the Berkshire Mall while texting — appeared on Good Morning America with her attorney, James Polyak, yesterday. Marrero and pal Polyak are currently pursuing a possible lawsuit against,…

Smell-o-vision: Sense BMoCA and the aroma of art

Using the works of Stephen Batura as inspiration, perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz will combine sight and scent for a live audience tonight at Sense BMoCA, where she will mix up new perfumes on the spot toward the end of answering one of life’s most persistent questions: What does this art…

How to get my job: board game designer

When you sit down to play a game of Monopoly or Scrabble or whatever, you probably don’t think much about how the game is a system of rules and balances initially figured out by one or two people. Those rules, combined with the social experience, are what Nate Hayden is…

Street art: Yarnbombers hit Washington Park

We’ve taken admiring notice before of the local knitting fiends, such as the Ladies Fancywork Society, who are brightening up our cityscape with tags of public art and that burst of wildflowers along the tedious fencing of the Union Station project. Now the mayhem has extended to sculptor George Carlson’s…

Tonight: DADA and Dana Cain launch an Art Collectors Summit series

Dana Cain makes no secret of her blossoming identity as a collector of works by local artists, and is always looking for ways to share her fervor: Her latest, the Art Collectors Summit series, debuts this evening during the Art District in Santa Fe’s Third Friday event, offering gallery-goers a…

Warhol in Colorado: John Bonath’s 15 Minutes of Fame

When the exhibit Warhol in Colorado debuts tonight at DU’s Myhren Gallery, one of the show’s major components will include photos taken of Warhol by Colorado photographers in the early ’80s, when the pop artist visited Fort Collins amid much hoopla for a major exhibition of his works, assembled by…

Can Anne Hathaway cut it as Catwoman? A look back at the pun-tastic legacy

Fresh from the movie news wire comes the announcement that Anne Hathaway will play Catwoman in the third entry to Chris Nolan’s gritty Batman series, inexplicably titled The Dark Knight Rises (probably because these movies make everyone involved a lot of dough). The character was introduced in the first official…

Rick Griffith’s Westword cover gets spoofed around town

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and if that’s the case, everyone involved in coming up with the cover image for Westword’s recent feature on local type and design maestro Rick Griffith — and the list includes photographer Eric Magnussen, Westword Art Director Jay Vollmar and Griffith…