Fuck Fox. Not for FoxNews or American Idol or any of the other questionable shit the network has thrown out there in the name of entertainment over the years. People like what people like, however inexplicable that may be, so I couldn’t care less about any of that. No, Fox…
Most people who got called “nerd” in high school probably didn’t get a lot out of their prom experience, but Bop Skizzum’s second annual Nerd Prom offers a chance for sweet redemption. Nerds can don their best garb — whether it’s that slick jacket with the Dungeons & Dragons patches…
Some rock docs work because they document an important part of musical history. Some work because they tell a compelling, unique story. And some work just because their subjects are so completely and totally unhinged that you can’t look away. When all three come together, as they do in the…
If you haven’t checked into The Narrators recently — or ever, for that matter — there’s never been a better time. Over the past six months, Andrew Orvedahl’s storytelling showcase, which tasks local artists, writers, comedians and other creatives with telling true-life stories centered on a loose theme (and earned…
With its bizarre onslaught of sentient drugs, invisible aliens and time-tripping insanity, Don Coscarelli’s John Dies at the End (opening tonight at the Sie FilmCenter) is like no film you’ve seen before. Adapted from David Wong’s debut novel of the same name, John puts the fate of reality — not…
The LIDA Project’s newest show, RUR/lol (opening tonight at work | space), tackles the ever popular topic of robots and apocalypse. Whether because of our inherent mistrust of technology designed to replace us, a deep-seated suspicion that our artificially intelligent creations are likely to outlive us, or just an intuitive…
Love is weird. Most anyone over the age of, say, sixteen or so has at least one story of an ill-fated romance based on the old adage of “opposites attract.” Worse, it’s usually more “whatever will cause us the most confusion, chaos and, most likely, pain attracts.” That’s not to…
This year’s Festivus Film Festival, the sixth annual celebration of indie flicks, isn’t saving its best for last. Rather, it will explode out of the gates with a first night that puts Colorado filmmakers firmly in the limelight. “We have block that’s all local shorts, and a feature film called…
With its bizarre onslaught of sentient drugs, invisible aliens and time-tripping insanity, Don Coscarelli’s John Dies at the End is like no film you’ve seen before. “It’s about a silent inter-dimensional invasion of our reality, focusing on two college-dropout slackers who find themselves with the fate of the world in…
Benzodiazepines like Valium and Xanax are one of the most widely prescribed drugs in America — and one of the most addictive. In Death Grip, which came our yesterday, Boulder-based author, expert climber and former editor-in-chief of Climbing magazine Matt Samet chronicles his five-plus-year struggle with an addiction to the…
Great art does not always move units. Case in point: The Stooges’ 1973 album, Raw Power, was a complete flop commercially. But, as with the story about the Velvet Underground, it seems that everyone who did buy it must have been inspired to start a band, because forty years after…
If the thought of Valentine’s Day fills you with horror, why not celebrate its imminent arrival with a scary movie? The Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life program and Mile High Cinema are teaming up to show Pontypool for the second annual Heartburn Party. The Canadian cult classic is a…
As we head into the Super Bowl, most Broncos fans are still smarting from our defeat by the Ravens, who are playing in our place. And we’re asking ourselves, “What do we need to get over the hump next year?” Another running back? Sure, that’d be good. Maybe some help…
Dennis Quaid gets around. Since the late ’70s, he’s appeared in more than seventy films and television shows, playing everything from a deep-space fighter pilot to an dragon-slaying warrior, and always with a certain swaggering charm. This Friday and Saturday at the Sie FilmCenter, Mile High Sci-Fi is tackling one…
Cancer sucks, no matter what, but it really sucks when you’re a struggling musician without health insurance. The bad news is, that’s the situation for Denver’s Mike Marchant — whose work has appeared as Widowers as well as under his own name, and who was recently diagnosed with lymphoma. The…
The music of Railroad Earth isn’t easy to classify, although most people are happy to label it “jam band” and move on. Still reading? Good, because while there’s definitely some “jamming” going on in the live show, this is not some guitar-noodling Phish knock-off. Bluegrass lies at the heart of…
Sometimes the simplest concepts are the best — and you don’t get much simpler than the concept of the new podcast Bad or Not Bad. The name says it all, really — things are discussed and a verdict rendered: bad, or not bad? “That’s the short version, and what I…
The beach-party movie has fallen from its former pinnacle of popularity, but it still has its fans. Take writer/director Zach Clark, for instance. His latest film, Vacation!, resurrects the classic beach-party film formula, updates it for the 21st century and then twists it into weird places that Frankie and Annette…
Ten out of ten monkey’s-paw recipients agree: Wishes come with a steep price. The “magical girls” of the hit anime series Puella Magi Madoka Magica learn this lesson the hard way in an epic tale of sacrifice, friendship and unforeseen consequences. It begins when an odd little creature called Kyubey…
Handlebar, porn-star and pencil-thin: These are just a few of our favorite mustaches. Recent years have ushered in a renaissance in facial foliage unseen since the halcyon days of the ’70s. And tonight’s The ’Stache event honors that most manly of lip accessories. “It’ll just be fun, celebrating the mustache,”…
There’s surely some sort of official story behind the origin of the Used’s name, but it might as well describe the elements that make up the band’s music. The threads of pop punk, metal and even good old-fashioned rock and roll that are woven into the screamo-tinged tunes are well…
Mondo Generator started life as a Kyuss song, and the Nick Oliveri-penned tune offers a decent blueprint for the band it would later become: The Oliveri-fronted incarnation of Mondo tends more toward shouted, almost hardcore-style vocals, but otherwise you’re going to get pretty much what you expect from a Kyuss-spawned…
