FRI, 11/4 Freedom & Liberties, the new show at Capsule Gallery, leaves a lot of room for interpretation. “I have wanted to do a show on the theme of freedom and liberties for a long time because Bush, in his State of the Union speech, used those words an ungodly…
Rob Sanchez is a haunted-house connoisseur. He should be: His grandparents operated one of Colorado’s first-ever scare sites back in the ’60s and ’70s. “That’s what got me into the industry,” says Sanchez, who operates Haunted Denver, the city’s largest directory of spooky attractions. “My mother’s parents had a turkey…
TUES, 10/25 When the SuicideGirls come to town, the Denver Fire Department had better be standing by. The last time they were here, the fire marshal had to be called to the Larimer Lounge because the troupe had more than sold out the show, pushing the venue past capacity. The…
SUN, 10/16 “I had trouble with poetry when I was in school,” confesses Golda Solomon. “It wasn’t accessible. My life experiences didn’t relate to great British poets and all of that. I found that I related more to poets that told stories.” Solomon has plenty of her own stories to…
SAT, 10/8 Artists and the Hells Angels have a long and storied history. In 1965, freelance journalist Hunter S. Thompson introduced Ken Kesey to a few of the Angels he was writing about at the time. The grizzly road soldiers were smitten with the wide-eyed piper and accepted his invitation…
SAT, 10/1 I started listening to Johnny Mathis as a joke. Well, not a joke, exactly — but I first embraced his honey-dipped hokeyness with a punk smirk and an ear for kitsch. Years ago, a friend turned me onto the ossified tones of KEZW, 1430 AM, shortly before the…
SUN, 10/2 At 4 p.m. today, after workers remove the pew cushions and burn some incense, the annual St. Francis Day Blessing of the Animals will commence at St. John’s Cathedral, 1350 Washington Street. “There’s always a certain degree of joyful chaos because we get a wide variety of animals…
FRI, 9/23 The IMAX feature Mystic India: An Incredible Journey of Inspiration might not be as steamy as HBO’s new series, Rome — it’s a family flick, after all — but its visual pageantry, shown four stories high, can’t be beat. The film, opening today at the Phipps IMAX Theater…
By last year, the Regency Hotel had fallen a long way from the days when it served as Elvis’s crash pad. Under Art Cormier, the former owner of Smiley’s Laundromat, the once-elegant hotel had turned into a layover for day laborers and a major nightspot for Mexican immigrants — legal…
Malissa and Scott Spero Owners, ArmAzem Bookstore & Cafe 3215 East Colfax Avenue Years on Colfax: One week (they just bought the business) “We spent a year teaching ESL in Korea, and we were dreaming about owning a coffee shop. When we got back, Scott saw an ad on Craig’s…
Rats. That’s what many of the neighbors remember about the early days of Chamberlain Heights. And when it wasn’t the rats, it was the hos — crack or otherwise — who moved into their yards after construction took over the abandoned lot at East Colfax Avenue and Steele Street that…
“Rise, rise, shake your hips and move your thighs. You wanna see, you wanna see, see the Bolts come alive. Do it!” Two decades after graduating from Manual High School, Anna Jones still remembers her alma mater’s pep cheer. “I was such a white girl, but going to Manual taught…
TUES, 9/6 The metro area’s new Documentary Cinema Institute is still a young venture, but founder Carol Beeby’s hopes are high. She envisions the organization as a lifeline to local documentary filmmakers, eventually encompassing a study center complete with a film library, screening room and low-cost editing facility. For now,…
I can’t get over the new elevators. Even coated with layers of drywall dust and construction plastic, they’re an improvement — make that a miraculous improvement — over the last elevators here. They’re lit, for one thing. No Nazi swastikas are carved into the walls, for another. And there’s no…
FRI, 8/26 “It’s really hard to categorize,” says Andenken curator Ryan Riss, who is struggling to come up with a moniker to classify the five nationally recognized artists he’s assembled for MyMyHeyHey, an exhibit that opens tonight and runs until September 23. “I don’t want to say ‘street culture,'” he…
“Diesel smoke makes me horny.” As the resident tree hugger in a blue-collar excavating family, I cringe every time I read that bumpersticker on the back of my brother’s 1989 Dodge diesel. Even though I understand all the reasons for needing diesel — power, primarily, for hauling the big loads…
FRI, 7/22 The ascendancy of hip-hop as a cultural phenomenon has brought a kindred form of expression to the masses: the spoken word. Landmark proto-rap records by the likes of the Last Poets and Melvin Van Peebles more than thirty years ago paved the way for artists such as Michael…
SAT, 7/16 I briefly enjoyed a stint as the editor of über society magazine Hamptons, covering all the glamour and glitterati of that moneyed paradise. I always felt gleefully wicked and subversive about the fact that I, a small-town girl from Fruita, had become an arbiter of taste for this…
SAT, 7/2 If you’ve been itching for some dramatic romance but can’t quite bring yourself to watch Days of Our Lives or As the World Turns, Samuel Barber’s Vanessa could be just what you need. The work, which won the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1958, gets its regional premiere…
THURS, 6/30 There’s more to art than meets the eye. The new exhibit Beyond Visual, created by the kid-oriented Downtown Aurora Visual Arts, expands the sensory scope of artistic expression — and makes a big stink in the process. “They smell like mint, orange, strawberry, blackberry and cinnamon,” says DAVA…
SUN, 5/22 Last summer’s hi-dive-sponsored video scavenger hunt may have had a more lasting effect than organizers initially intended. The event brought together local filmmaking aficionados in a one-day quest to document a laundry list of strange things around town — including, but not limited to, filming themselves stealing something…
WED, 5/18 Okay, I admit it: I love car-heist and race-car movies. That’s my chick flick. Gone in 60 Seconds? Angelina Jolie and Nicolas Cage — c’mon, what’s not to love? The Fast and the Furious? Fast cars, fast music — again, what’s not to love? Well, yes, the scripts,…
