Dive into a world of sky pirates, menacing cephalopods and bustier-clad lasses in Queen Victoria’s Floating Garden of Secrets and Natural Wonders, the world’s first full-length steampunk opera. Set in a dystopian future, the show tackles issues such as climate change while mashing up influences from Jules Verne to Gilbert…
If you don’t love the idea of a horror-film festival inside the haunted hotel that inspired The Shining, you don’t really love horror. Clearly, the people behind the Stanley Film Festival do, because that’s exactly what they’ve delivered with this inaugural fright fest. “It’s more than just showing films; it’s…
Just because Star Wars inspired the name, don’t make the mistake of thinking the geeky goodness of May the Fourth Be With You stops with George Lucas’s saga of a galaxy far, far away. If it’s got a robot, a spaceship or an alien, it’s fair game today. “The idea…
Dive into a world of sky pirates, menacing cephalopods and bustier-clad lasses in Queen Victoria’s Floating Garden of Secrets and Natural Wonders, the world’s first full-length steampunk opera. Set in a dystopian future, the show tackles issues such as climate change while mashing up influences from Jules Verne to Gilbert…
Dive into a world of sky pirates, menacing cephalopods and bustier-clad lasses in Queen Victoria’s Floating Garden of Secrets and Natural Wonders, the world’s first full-length steampunk opera. Set in a dystopian future, the show tackles issues such as climate change while mashing up influences from Jules Verne to Gilbert…
Getting in shape is never easy. But if you need extra motivation to exercise, how about running from a hungry, undead predator in the Vampire 5K? “People always say they’d never run unless they’re running from something,” says race co-founder Scott Jones. “And what better to run from than a…
Battles of the bands are typically a chance for unknown acts to get in front of larger crowds. That description hardly fits Bop Skizzum. The band has been around for long enough to amass a sizable fan base, and they’re not exactly at the level where picking up a handful…
Stoners the world ’round will celebrate the highest of all holidays this Saturday — 4/20, in case you got so baked you’d forgotten — and the high-minded here in Colorado are in for a special treat. Not only is the stuff legal here, but we’re blessed with cultural institutions that…
From original shlock like Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus to “mockbusters” like Transmorphers, the Asylum knows how to turn low budgets, D-list actors and bad CGI into the cinematic equivalent of store-brand junk food: They’re even worse for you than the real thing, but still strangely satisfying. In celebration of…
Stoners, start your bongs. Now that weed is legal in Colorado, connoisseurs of the sweet leaf can be catered to in nearly the same style as wine and beer aficionados have been for years. To kick off this pot-culture trend, the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema is pairing the dope classic Half…
Heavyweights of the local animation scene will gather tonight to show their work at the Denver Animated Pixelshow. Organized by Patrick Sheridan of the Emerging Filmmakers Project, Gio Toninelo of the GI Joe Fest and Dylan Otto Krider of the Ones and Zeros Pixelshow, the effort brings together some of…
Denver’s animation scene gets a turn in the limelight when the Denver Animated Pixelshow comes to the Bug Theatre Thursday night. More than two hours of locally made animated shorts will be screened, with most of the filmmakers on hand to talk about their work and answer questions. And you’re…
If there’s a record you just have to have for your collection, no matter how obscure, you’ll probably find it at the Denver Record Collectors Spring Expo. Now in its twentieth year, the expo remains one of the very best places to find those long-lost gems. “We get people looking…
“The skate shop, for me as a kid, was always a place you go and check out the artwork on the bottoms of the boards,” says Rob McKendry of Park Hill Skates. “All of that stuff made the shop look like a gallery. That’s where I’m going with my shop.”…
Some artists treat their albums as opportunities to reinvent themselves, exploring new musical terrain at every turn. Others view each release as an iteration in the process of discovering their ideal musical space. Thankfully, Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens falls into the latter category. The territory he’s been exploring as Morriconez and…
Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is a film that inspires strong reactions, and people have been trying to pin down what it’s really about almost since the day it was released. With Room 237, first-time feature director Rodney Ascher has gone deeper down the rabbit hole than anyone before him, bringing…
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema Littleton will host its first-ever Quote-Along tonight, and it’s chosen one of the most quotable films of all time to kick things off: The Big Lebowski. For those unfamiliar with the concept, a Quote-Along encourages the audience to recite the best lines of the film as it’s…
The bummer thing about watching The Big Lebowski in a theater is that reciting your favorite lines along with the movie tends to be discouraged — and no film demands such recitations quite like Lebowski. If you want to watch and quote along — without some clever jerk telling you…
Vie for supremacy and a shot at reliving childhood glory on the Connect Four battleground — while drinking beer — at the third annual Connect 4 Kids tournament tonight. “When we started three years ago, there was this resurgence of people in Denver wanting some of that childhood nostalgia,” explains…
There are precious few opportunities in life to assist a human puzzle piece and his comely, sword-swallowing sidekick defeat a mutant goldfish. When such an opportunity does arise, it’s best to seize it without concern for danger or reward. Luckily, in the case of Daniel Crosier’s Showdevils Kickstarter campaign, the…
The intersection of craft and art is where you’ll find the Ladies Fancywork Society. The artist collective, made up of mostly anonymous members, turns traditional crafting techniques such as knitting and needlework into full-on guerrilla art. Exhibit A: the short-lived ball and chain the group famously added to the Big…
Week after week, the tension has been ratcheting up on TV’s The Walking Dead, and now it’s time for the final showdown. After all the negotiation, confrontation and betrayal, the big payoff is coming, and a big payoff calls for a big stage. That’s just what you’ll find at Not…
