In Abattoir, the new novel by local horror authors Christopher Leppek and Emanuel Isler, an aging building gets renovated into trendy lofts, but its violent past remains hidden beneath the new surface. The duo’s second novel — following 2001’s Chaosicon — is, as Leppek puts it, a “haunted house on…
Want to know more about the science behind your favorite science-fiction films? Check out the Denver Film Society’s Sci-Fi Film Series. This program, produced in partnership with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, pairs speculative films with real-life scientists who explain what’s real and what’s not. “This is a…
A slaughterhouse, long closed and abandoned, is remodeled into a trendy condo development. Problem is, the fear and death that marked its former incarnation lingers, and the new residents are in for something darker than your typical overbearing HOA. To top it off, the only person who knows what’s happening…
When Denver fashionista Brandi Shigley took over Sputnik’s bingo night from Ben Kronberg, she added her own twist to things. “We call it Blingo. Every week, we have a different designer sponsoring the night, so not only do you get to win the money, you also get some cool fashion,”…
Get a leg up on the titans of the spider world tonight at Legend of the Tarantula, a class for adults created to complement the Butterfly Pavilion’s new exhibit of the same name. That show is a Victorian-themed peek into the life and times of everyone’s favorite giant arachnid —…
There simply aren’t enough steampunk fantasy novels about airships and pirates and zombies, which makes the work of Cherie Priest all the more precious. Her latest, Dreadnought, continues to explore the world introduced in her breakthrough novel Boneshaker, an alternate history that’s come to be known as “The Clockwork Century.”…
If you’re the type of guy who knows that you really only need two tools — duct tape and imagination — to solve any problem, you’re probably already a longtime fan of Red Green. And if you’re not, tonight’s Denver stop on the Red Green: Wit and Wisdom Tour is…
One, two, three ROCK. Unless you had paper, this round belongs to me. At least, it would if we were facing off in tonight’s Bands for Lands RPS Tournament. At long last, the ancient sport of Rock Paper Scissors has its own full-fledged monthly tournament here in Denver, sanctioned by…
German DJ/producer Martin Roth has dubbed his take on dance music “NuStyle,” which involves blending elements of minimal techno, trance and electro into something that, if not “nu” enough to deserve its own genre classification, is at least a relatively fresh take on progressive house. Sounding like a tougher take…
America. Who doesn’t love it? No one, that’s who, because America is fucking awesome. But who loves it most? There’s a real question. And today we have the answer, thanks to this stirring, utterly patriotic power ballad we discovered via a YouTube search for “worst music video ever.” So that’s…
Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. As usual, we’re rounding up your options for the weekend to come and the following week, and…
In 2003, local songwriter Gregory Ego — formerly of the band Ham Hoc War Lox — released a CD called I Want to Be a Billionaire, which included a song with the same title. The tune didn’t get a lot of attention — until now. Earlier this year, Ego began…
German trance duo Cosmic Gate — Nic Chagall and Bossi — has spent the last decade producing exactly the kind of slick, spacey trance you’d expect from a German trance duo named Cosmic Gate. It’s big, it’s shiny, it sounds best after 2 a.m. with a head full of illicit…
If gig posters excite you almost as much — or more — than the shows they advertise, if you don’t feel like you really know a band until you’ve got its poster on your wall, or even if you just want to look at memorabilia from your misspent hippie youth,…
Just in time for Halloween, the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life program has partnered with the Colorado Ballet to make your lifelong dream of learning to dance like a zombie come true. Grab your zipper-laden red leather jacket and head down to the Thriller! Dance Class, where you’ll learn…
Step out of the bright lights of the midway and into the shadow of the darkened side-show tent, where the wild things are. Strange beasts, stranger people and otherworldly relics await you inside. That’s the world explored in Claudia Roulier’s Peculiarities: from fish to freaks, opening tonight and running through…
Except when they’re biting, stinging or otherwise annoying us, we spend most of our lives ignoring insects. But a closer look at our little exoskeletal fellow travelers can reveal not just utility, but beauty and deeper meaning. That’s the concept behind The Sacred Bug and the Insect, a group show…
The old “cut up magazines and make it look like a ransom note” approach is so old school, it may have existed before there was a school. But it’s fallen so far out of favor that when it’s occasionally revived, it’s hardly fair to call it cliche. Throwback maybe –…
Man, do we love robots. Especially when those robots are bringing us the latest and greatest DFA sounds. We’ve been wearing out our copies of LCD Soundsystem’s This Is Happening for a while now, and just as we’re thinking it’s time to give it a rest comes a new slice…
When you think solo acoustic guitar, what comes to mind? Some classical finger-picking perhaps? Or some some folky jerkoff at a party, who needs John Belushi to come along and set his ass straight by smashing his guitar? Or maybe you think of looping alien soundscapes with a Western feel…
There’s something admirable about an artist who just does their own damn thing, who doesn’t give a fuck about trends or tastes, and who couldn’t care less about how cool they look — or don’t look. Ladies and gentleman, Loke Wilson is just such an artist. In the cold, dark…
Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. As usual, we’re rounding up your options for the weekend to come and the following week, and…
