The Clyfford Still Museum opens to the public at 10 a.m. Friday, but you don’t have to wait that long to be enveloped in abstract-expressionist magic. There are hundreds of poster featuring eight of Still’s works scattered across Boulder and Denver — and if you’re up for a scavenger hunt,…
“I like the idea that music is somewhat ear-bending or mind-bending,” says Erik Peterson, a Colorado Symphony Orchestra violinist who founded the chamber music group EarWarp. He’ll be taking the stage at the Concert Hall at the Denver School of the Arts at 7 p.m. tonight, along with Abby Raymond,…
In 1989, U.S. Marine Leo Brunnick was in the jungle, training a group of Thai Royal Marines. He gestured to the top of a hill and told the Thais to run up there. It was the best position — easy to defend and difficult to invade — and a simple…
Visiting the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Art is like taking a trip to grandmother’s house — if your grandmother was an obsessive, eminently wealthy hoarder with great but scattered tastes, that is. There are piles upon piles of furniture recognizable as antiques but from a plethora of periods…
Time to loosen your belt — your wallet is about to get fatter. Effective January 1, 2012, Colorado’s minimum wage will go up by 28 cents per hour — from $7.36 to $7.74 for salaried employees and from $4.34 to $4.62 for tipped ones…
Denver fashion fixture and Project Runway Season 9 contestant Fallene Wells showed off her Tim Gunn skills at yesterday’s Cut ‘n’ Sew event. Amidst the H&M hoopla at Denver Pavilions beginning at 10 a.m., local designers Melissa May, Tricia Hoke, Rachel Marie Hurst, and Heidi Busk participated in the speed-design…
Sleeping outside in the cold wind is not a common beauty regimen. And so camping out for H&M’s opening yesterday certainly didn’t equal beauty sleep. In fact, with crews starting to set up a runway and booths at midnight, sleep was impossible for many of the campers. In fact, by…
What would you do for a $10 H&M gift certificate? Would you 127 Hours it? Give away a Klondike bar? Wait in the cold for seventeen hours? With pink eye? By midnight last night, over thirty people were lined up at the Denver Pavilions, waiting for today’s noon opening of…
MASTODON at OGDEN THEATRE | 11/9/11The Dillinger Escape Plan stole the show a bit last night. The band started off with a driving drum beat introduction that shook sternums. After leaping on stage, lead singer Greg Puciato screamed into the mike, “Let’s cut the fucking bullshit,” and he and his…
If affordably priced Scandinavian designs are your heart’s desire, join the crowds who’ll be packing the new H&M store that opens in the Denver Pavilions at noon today. The 20,000 square feet of retail space should hold 500 people, according to spokeswoman Laura Schottland. And through opening weekend, employees will…
“It’s a forced near-death experience,” says Nick Polizzi about Ayahuasca, a hallucinogenic drink used in the Amazon region to cure everything from depression to cancer. Polizzi the Denver-based director of the Sacred Science, a documentary which takes eight very sick people from the United States and Australia and drops them…
With 146 feature films and 128 shorts over twelve days, the Starz Denver Film Festival is like Christmas for film nerds. And the stars will certainly be leading the way during the three biggest nights of festival — Opening Night, Big Night and Closing Night — which will high-light films…
Elvis Costello finally made his Sesame Street appearance last week with a number-orientated rendition of “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes.” The show is a well-tread, 42-year-old road that has included a charmingly sweet Tony Bennett, an unexpectedly fitting LL Cool J, and corny inspiration from NSYNC and Backstreet…
PAPER BIRD at HI-DIVE | 10/31/11Paper Bird stomped and harmonized its way through a raucous set last night at the hi-dive. The opening song started slowly, but Paper Bird quickly announced that this wasn’t an average show with an effortless and tight cover of TLC’s “Waterfalls.” While horns blared and…
The melody of Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Going to Take It” floated in and out of downtown for thirty minutes Saturday. While the cries and tub-thumping of Occupy Denver protesters were louder, and the people dressed up as gorillas for the Gorilla Run seemed stranger, Denver’s first city-sponsored performance piece…
This past Saturday, we were on hand to witness Playing Apart, the performance art piece featuring ninety students from Bear Creek High School’s marching band playing Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Going to Take It.” The first city-commissioned performance art piece got varied reactions, from students being offered money and having…
There’s something so sweet about sweet. The cavemen knew it, and were willing to risk limbs and whatever other body parts weren’t covered in hair in order to grab honey from beehives. Over many, many thousands of years, the preferred form of sweet evolved from honey to all kinds of…
Tomorrow afternoon, all ninety members of the Bear Creek High School marching band will be strutting around downtown playing their instruments, individually. Each high schooler in Playing Apart (First mentioned on Backbeat) will be dressed in street clothes and playing for a mile or so (in the same territory as…
President Barack Obama announced last Friday that the vast majority of U.S. troops — about 39,000 of them — would be out of Iraq by December 31. But not everyone is happy about the imminent end of the ten-year-involvement, including Emad Hussain, a former member of the Iraqi Olympics Committee,…
Crimson Canary, the second restaurant from the owners of Interstate Kitchen & Bar, opened at 6 p.m. today in the former home of Mona’s at 141 South Broadway. The Italian-American restaurant is named after a 1945 who-done-it. As co-owner Joey Newman told Cafe Society last week: “We’re drawing from the…
Trick-or-treating always seemed so harmless. Sure, candy isn’t great for your teeth — but are those little morsels of sugary-goodness more sinister than we ever imagined? A common argument against marijuana is that it’s a “gateway drug” — but what if Halloween candy is, too? After all, long before candies…
In 1998, near Española, New Mexico, someone severed the foot from a bronze statue of Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate with a saw. The statue honored the man who had served as New Mexico’s first Spanish colonial governor, from 1598 to 1608. Española, about 150 miles from Acoma, was…
