Last August, Denver International Airport unveiled its ambitious plans for a hotel, an RTD commuter rail station and an RTD bridge (pictured) over Peña Boulevard. All had been envisioned as a coherent, interconnected and singular group of structures by architectural superstar Santiago Calatrava (whom I wrote about on August 5,…
What with Free Comic Book Day coming up and all, there are plenty of events and activities this week dedicated to nerd-core man-children who never gave up the comic books they loved as children — but there’s also at least one devoted to actual children. Tomorrow night brings BASH, the…
Who doesn’t love puns? Here’s a commercial that banks on the obvious answer to that question: Nobody doesn’t love puns. Everyone loves puns. If you disagree, then you simply haven’t found the right pun yet. It will come to you, don’t worry. Perhaps that perfect pun is just around the…
Colors collided on the brick walls at the Lucid Gallery on Saturday night, with styles of art from photography to 3-dimensional figurines created by over fifty Denver artists, while yet more artists created live paintings mid-floor, using about fifteen nude volunteers as canvasses — girls wearing nothing but panties and…
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…
When the computer mouse in its modern form was introduced to the general exactly thirty years ago as part of the Xerox Star workstation, nobody could have predicted the extent to which it would revolutionize our existence, ushering us one step further away from the esoteric world of DOS systems…
These aren’t your normal healthy snacks from the countryside that make you feel loved and appreciated just by eating ’em. No, these NYC snacks don’t fuck around, so don’t give ’em any trouble, you hear? Unless you want to end up like Mr. Hotdog, floating in the Hudson, half-eaten by…
For an intolerably long time, there has been a gaping void in the soul of Denver, and that void is the shape of a giant blue box somewhere in the suburbs where price-tag-conscious hipsters can get their simultaneous fix of trendy, affordable, ready-to-assemble furniture and Swedish culinary delights at the…
The phrase “end of an era” has lost much of its meaning because it’s been so overused, but I can’t think of anything more appropriate to say about the impending closure of the Camera Obscura Gallery. In business since 1980, Camera Obscura was among the first galleries in the country…
In Japanese, “sawagi” is so defined: Uproar, commotion, revel, excitement, hubbub, ado, merrymaking. In plain English, it’s a hell-raisin’ party, though tomorrow night’s SAWAGI! Raising a Ruckus for Japan, a joint effort of Naropa University and Kansuke Productions to raise funds to send bottled water to the quake-shattered Tohoku region…
When we first came across Rhombus Jerk, a new webcomic series from Joe Flores, we were delighted, charmed and slightly terrified by the innocuous but totally random humor embedded in each panel. Over time it has tackled subjects like “Wookie in a UFO,” “Reimagined Famous Logos,” and other surreal but…
In advance of the Arvada Center’s production of The Lady With All the Answers, which starts its previews tomorrow night, we started researching the woman the play was based on: Eppie Lederer. Known to the public for 47 years as advice columnist Ann Landers, Lederer was a fascinating lady. And…
Tonight’s after-hours Science Lounge at the Museum of Nature And Science invites Dr. Bridget Coughlin, museum curator of Human Health, to speak on tattoos and the biology behind the marriage of ink and skin (and all its squirmy, bacteria-laden possibilities.) But the topic of art will go beyond permanent body…
Thanks to the internetz, we have spied for you today a little slice of South Africa via a commercial for a snack we’ve never heard of, from a company we’ve all heard of. It’s more than a little aggravating to discover that other countries get different, and possibly more-than-likely better,…
Ah, life’s eternal questions, like “Why do words sounds so weird if you say them a bunch of times in a row?” and “What if, like, when you looked in the mirror you were seeing the real you looking at the fake you and you’re the fake you” and “Wait,…
Performance artist/seamstress/activist/do-gooder Frau Fiber’s message is rooted in old-school proletariat values; with that in mind, she focuses specifically on the undervalued garment worker, a workforce icon and punching bag of capitalistic society with a history of struggle against poor labor conditions and wages. She’ll be leading a workshop tonight at…
Denver photographer Mark Sink has often worn more than one hat. In addition to taking pictures, he’s built a reputation as a first-rate photo curator and ran his own exhibition venue, Gallery Sink, for many years. He also served as the interim director of MCA Denver in the ’90s, and…
In the quiet hour of 4 o’clock this morning, the Ladies Fancywork Society struck again. The organization, devoted to epic works of guerrilla knitting, brought to completion what is arguably its biggest project yet (or at least since it knitted leg-warmers onto Borofsky’s “Dancers”): knitting a giant ball and chain…
While the Denver ComicFest this weekend wasn’t as full of crazy costumes as it’s counterpart, StarFest, it was full of ridiculous comics. We sifted through the bins to find these five bizarre comic book covers…
As city-dwellers, we see an average of probably hundreds of buildings every day, most of which we will never step inside. And for the most part, that’s fine, but there are always those buildings that pique our interest, that make us think, “huh, I wonder what’s in there?” This weekend…
The seventh annual all day, all access Doors Open Denver event runs tomorrow and Sunday, giving walking tour access to dozens of public and privately owned buildings. Snoops and historians alike can visit different structures throughout the city, ranging from recent turn of the century architecture to the century before…
Three years ago, the original fiberglass horse from Donald Lipski’s “The Yearling,” who’d been keeping watch over the Denver Public Library since 1999 atop an incongruously giant red chair, stepped down. “Scout,” as he’d been informally named, was swapped out in favor of an identical bronze clone of himself for…
