Denver’s got its share of gate-crashing marching bands — something I’ve always said you can’t have enough of — but, hey, even flash-mobbing avant percussionists and electronic troublemakers wearing sombreros with Christmas lights have to eat. Scott Banning of the itchy-O Marching Band writes persuasively about that need:…
Nick Bantock is charming and soft-spoken, hardly and at the same time every bit the superstar that he’s become, all because of the unique little idea he had twenty years ago for a book that’s also a collagist’s romantic assemblage containing pull-out letters and postcards, all loaded neatly between two…
I go back a long way with Old South Pearl Street, and while it’s no longer as sleepy as it once was (that, by the way, is a good thing), it still exudes a heady mixture of old and new Denver: Brick facades and Victorian houses, shady trees and kids…
Jason Bosch sees activism as a way of life: The local champion of the great unwashed (and founder of the leftward-facing ArgusFest film series) seems to make no distinction between getting up in the morning and helping his fellow man. When he returned to town a little more than a…
Over the last couple of weeks, about twenty would-be contestants took a chance and submitted video auditions for Fortune Valley Hotel and Casino’s It’s Vegas, Baby! lounge act contest, which sought parodists, comedians, singers, burlesque performers, magicians and other performers of the ilk. The winner will get a gig at…
The Denver Center Theatre Company is opening its 2010/2011 season on a light note: Patrick Barlow’s screwball adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal film noir. The 39 Steps opens for previews tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Ricketson Theatre of the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex, Denver Performing Arts Complex, featuring a…
Brent Bingham, the Agoge Warrior, has been in the business of teaching defensive martial arts for more than twenty years. Sometimes he dresses up his training in a pop-culture overcoat — for instance, he also offers a Zombie Defense Tactics track — and for kids, from ages 5 or 6…
While the Suburban Home Records 15th Anniversary Weekend actually gets underway tonight, when Mike Howard and the local label’s Virgil Dickerson spin Suburban Home tunes at Sputnik beginning at 10 p.m., the whole thing really gets rocking across the street at 3 Kings tomorrow. Along with the ongoing loud and…
That old reefer madness has us in its spell: The time is ripe in Denver for a revival of Reefer Madness (aka Tell Your Children), the 1938 anti-pot propaganda film directed by Louis Gasnier. The subject of various revivals over the years, now as a work of comedy, Reefer Madness…
When Denver-based Suburban Home Records celebrates its fifteenth birthday this weekend, a spate of live music and general partying will roll through the house at 3 Kings Tavern. But down under the dance floor, in the subterranean Phoenix Gallery, there will be a different kind of celebration going on: Creative…
A year ago, former bike messenger Jen Nordhem put on the first Femalley Cat, a bike race ridden in conjunction with the Bicycle Film Festival, as a competitive outlet for women bicyclists, who don’t have as many opportunities to be badass on the road. The guys, who know all about…
From his vantage point in the Denver poetry scene as a co-founder of the Mercury Cafe’s poetry slam team, Ian Dougherty saw that a lot of young poets out there want help with improving their work. But, especially in the slam-poetry arena, there’s not a whole lot of instruction going…
Denver actor/comedian/poet Matt Zambrano is the free spirit behind 10 x 10: Deviations on a Theme, a new variation on the open-mike concept at the BINDERY | space, 770 22nd Street, home of the Lida Project and other left-of-kilter visiting performance groups. But in the hope of setting it apart…
The Denver Cruisers: You gotta love ’em. Their whole schtick is totally noncompetitive, law-abiding and aboveboard. And their weekly themed community bike rides, which are free and fun and ridden in costume, are organized solely in the name of having a good time. Nothing more, nothing less. Tonight, they’ll be…
I’ve known Joy Barrett for a while: Coincidentally, she took over a job I once held, tending beads at the defunct Skyloom Fibers. But I didn’t really meet her until she opened her own jewelry boutique, Studio Bead, in the Highland Square shopping district. It seemed like there was nothing…
It’s only $500, but it’s $500 more than any of these folks had before, an amount that could be crucial to a small business owner mounting a grassroots startup on the local level. And if nothing else, YesPleaseMore’s first Starter Grant program public vote probably proves the true power of…
Either you like Stanley Kubrick or you don’t, but if you fall in former category, you probably can’t get enough, even when it hurts to watch. I, for one, can’t count the number of times I’ve seen Dr. Strangelove, which has to be one of the most stunningly, insidiously funny…
Last February, an MTV production team took over the hallways at the Denver School of the Arts to film an episode of If You Really Knew Me, a new kind of reality show (described ad infinitum as a true-life version of The Breakfast Club), where kids from different backgrounds and…
Somehow, bicycles, graphic design and DIY culture have all become so entangled in a passionate love-grip that each is almost synonymous with the other. That’s especially true in Denver, where all three reign supreme in indie circles, and we like it that way. For that reason, we also love Artcrank…
Can it already be First Friday again? There’s lot of art to be seen and good times to be had, so put on your walking shoes and go out into the night on the last great weekend of summer. After the jump, find our suggestions about where to head…
What to do on a Sunday night, when perhaps you’ve pigged out all day at A Taste of Colorado or Rockabilly and Ribs? And, duh, you don’t have to get up early the next morning? Switch on KBDI-TV/Channel 12 at 11 p.m. September 5 and be enlightened, when the locally…
The modern furniture design company Knoll has its own museum in East Greenville, Pennsylvania; a traveling design show that originated there, The Furniture of Eero Saarinen: Designs for Everyday Living, will now make its way into Denver’s mid-century wonderland, the Kirkland Museum, opening tomorrow for a run through the end…
