When you think cool, you probably don’t think of toy trains. Indeed, you probably picture the toy-train enthusiast as a portly, avuncular loner with way too much knowledge of railroad history and an even greater willingness to share that knowledge with anyone who will sit still long enough for him…
Take a little art, a little comedy, some music and an interview, then throw them all together on stage with a colorful host. Sounds like the golden age of late-night, right? That’s the spirit Onus Spears aims to re-create with Rawlitix. “This series, it’s everything — all kinds of art…
More than three decades ago, rock and roll stood on the cusp of two possible futures: Would it follow the path set out by punk, with its abrasive roar and cut-to-the-bone simplicity, or would it follow the path of Springsteen and his ilk, embracing nuanced singer-songwriter rock that appealed to…
Beliefs are funny things. From aliens to talking snakes, people believe in some pretty ludicrous stuff, and the rationalist comedians of The Evolution of Comedy tour are here to have fun with that. This Sunday, November 11, Ian Harris, Jason Resler and Maurice Northup will be at Comedy Works to…
The father of the modern zombie, George A. Romero, came to town Wednesday night, and I was there. Not there in the audience — there, on stage, introducing one of my heroes, a man I consider to be one of the most important and influential filmmakers of our era. And…
People believe in some pretty funny stuff, from virgin birth to Bigfoot. For Ian Harris and his partners in The Evolution of Comedy show, all of those beliefs are fair game. “Even the most seemingly rational people, who might not have a particular religion or something, they still have some…
When the Faint released Danse Macabre in 2001, it seemed like a nostalgic look back at the intersection of ’80s new wave and post-punk. Now, after the waves of dance punk, electroclash and synth pop that followed in its wake over the past decade, the record seems positively prophetic. It…
Ever wonder why zombies are so popular? Or why you have to destroy their brains to kill them? Or even what modifications your trusty Subaru might require in order to become an effective zombie apocalypse escape vehicle? All these questions and more will be addressed tomorrow, November 7, at the…
The heart of the noir genre is the hardboiled detective, but your typical noir doesn’t pit him against furries and Lucha Libre wrestlers. For that, you need a farce noir, and that’s exactly what you get with The Honey Cooler, debuting tomorrow, November 7, at the Hi-Dive. Farce and noir…
Denver has zombie walks, zombie proms, zombie races, zombie car washes and zombie fashion shows, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a pair of Denver filmmakers have launched an ambitious zombie documentary. Alexandre O. Philippe and Robert Muratore, the pair behind the Star Wars doc The People Vs…
If you’re only going to see one thing at this year’s Starz Denver Film Festival, you should go big. “If you’re going to just see one movie — I guess it counts as one movie — see the fifteen-hour documentary The Story of Film,” says Keith Garcia, Denver Film Society…
Reptile lovers, rejoice: Everything that skitters, slinks or slithers will be found under one roof today at Repticon. Lizards, snakes, turtles and an assortment of non-reptilian creepy-crawlies will be on display, and all the gear you’ll need to make them at home in your home will be available for purchase…
The best way to get through a bad movie is by making good jokes at its expense. But to get through something that is legendarily bad, you’ll need professional help. Luckily, that’s exactly what you get with RiffTrax Live: Birdemic. The professionals are Kevin Murphy, Michael J. Nelson and Bill…
If you find those roads that diverge in the wood and end up taking the road less traveled, what kind of music do you expect to hear on your journey? Maybe some kind of really weird genre mashup, like “extreme chiptune dance metal”? (Hey, we said this road was less…
As the voice of wise-cracking robot Tom Servo and one of the original brains behind the cult sensation Mystery Science Theater 3000 — known affectionately to fans as MTS3K — Kevin Murphy helped elevate the act of jeering at shitty movies to an art form, leaving an indelible mark on…
When you see the walking dead clogging the streets this weekend, don’t grab your bug-out bag and head for your zombie-proof cabin in the woods. This is not the start of the undead apocalypse we’ve all been waiting for — just a dress rehearsal of sorts. Apparently, someone declared Saturday,…
Denver is a zombie town, and you don’t have to look any further than today’s Zombie Crawl for proof. Once again, thousands of the living dead will march up and down the 16th Street Mall for fun, to collect food for Food Bank of the Rockies and to try to…
New York’s Freelance Whales is another big, bustling band that collects instruments like kids used to collect Pokémon cards, then deploys them in ebullient arrangements of soaring indie pop. Before the group unleashed its 2009 debut, Weathervanes, on the world, it tuned up by busking at subway stations, making for…
The full lineup of the 2012 Starz Denver Film Fest won’t be released until next week, but fans of the weird, dark and twisted elements of the festival’s programming got a sneak peek Friday when the festival’s Watching Hour lineup was revealed. This year’s batch of late-night favorites includes the…
Alongside such achievements as the aqueducts and roman numerals, the ancient people of what is now Italy made some noteworthy progress in the field of fun. In other words, they knew how to party. The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is recognizing that tradition Friday, September 28 with Bacchus…
Forget rock stars. When it comes to banging heads, no one partied like the Romans, something you can try yourself tonight at Bacchus Raucous: A Party in Pompeii, at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. The bash is being held in conjunction with the new DMNS exhibit A Day…
The curse has struck again. “It is cursed. It is the Così curse. You can call it that,” says Cabaret Otaku’s Christina Marzano Haystead. For the second time in a year, the alternative opera troupe is cancelling its planned update of Mozart’s famous Così Fan Tutte called Così: The Series,…
