#53: Daniel Crosier Since graduating from the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in 2000, under the tutelage of sculptor Chuck Parsons, Daniel Crosier has put his hands in plenty of new projects: He’s been a neo-kabuki performance artist with his group OFM: OdAm fEI mUd, transformed wood-burned illustrations…
Rob Zombie can do better than 31. For proof, just watch any other Rob Zombie movie. The musician-turned-filmmaker’s body of onscreen work is as nasty and brutal as you’d expect of a metal singer whose first band took its name from a pre-Code horror film, but it’s also been marked…
Writer/director Osgood Perkins has been peeking at my Shirley Jackson book collection, and he’s already read through my favorites: The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Jackson, who penned chilling ghost stories and moral tales in the ‘40s, ’50s and ’60s — like her…
This summer, as the start of an abstraction extravaganza, Space Gallery presented Expanding the Dialogue: Part One (which I reviewed September 14), and now Expanding the Dialogue: Part Two is on view. While the first show explored the subtlety of certain approaches, the second takes the opposite tack, looking at…
Hundreds of runners went ape at the thirteenth annual Gorilla Run on October 22. This year, the event benefiting the Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund moved from downtown Denver to Westminster, where the 5K fun run/walk wound up at the Westin Westminster for a vine-swinging Silverback After Party. Monkey see, monkey…
If you’re a vulnerable young woman who gets hit on by lecherous older men, you might think that you could do worse than having a guy like Henry at your side. He has a low tolerance for ass grabbers, for one; he’s known to take such bird dogs by their…
America never understood Oasis’ hugeness. By that I don’t just mean the band’s epochal mid-’90s global popularity or the nationalistic fervor it stirred in the U.K. I mean, simply, its hugeness of sound. In the States, only the ballads connected, the glorious/meaningless Beatle raptures “Wonderwall,” “Live Forever” and “Champagne Supernova”…
The owner of the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park has a favorite story involving his flagship property. It involves a wedding and a couple of overly hydrated llamas.
A Denver-based videography company called Studio C3 has been making insane time-lapses of the most haunted places in Denver. Using a Gh4 camera, photographer David Kaufman made his way around the Mile High picking four haunted spots to showcase. The fantastic four he chose: Molly Brown House, the Croke-Patterson Mansion, the Brown Palace Hotel and the Lumber Baron Inn. A separate time-lapse features one haunted spot in particular: the stagecoach ruins found in Penrose, Colorado, which includes a legend of a “grey lady” guarding the space.
It’s rare for a franchise, especially in the horror genre, to actually get better as it progresses — doubly so if the final part of said progression is a TV series. Yet in six-part miniseries form, currently airing on the you-didn’t-know-you-had-it Pop network following a broadcast in Australia earlier this…
Before we get into the matter of Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, we must first address the issue of the man actually playing Jack Reacher. Resolved: Tom Cruise has absolutely nothing in common physically with author Lee Child’s crime-solving ex-military drifter. Cruise is famously diminutive; Reacher is famously tall and…
This season of gourds and ghouls is full of family-friendly activities. The fall festivities kick off in he mountains this weekend and extend through early November. Keep reading for our ten favorite autumn events.
The zombie invasion was sudden and swift. There were at least a hundred of them, with gaping flesh wounds and bulging eyes, moaning and dragging their feet as they scoured their surroundings for fresh brains. It was an alarming sight for the bride and groom who happened to be taking…
The sun was shining in downtown Denver on Saturday, October 22, but the good weather didn’t keep a horde of zombies — thousands of zombies — from overrunning the 16th Street Mall. Here’s what it looked like at Ground Zero on the mall, courtesy photographer Aaron Thackeray. Now see the…
If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s the philosophy that inspired Denver International Airport to not only acknowledge all the conspiracy theories that started flying even before the new airport opened two decades ago, but celebrate them. As part of the fun, last week DIA hosted a costume party…
A man in a hospital bed is having a lively conversation with the woman sitting in a chair by his side. Amid all kinds of teasing and laughter, Sander explains how he came to be injured: something about the scent of a certain perfume, taking an elevator he’d been warned…
One of Broadway’s longest-running businesses is packing up its wig boxes and high heels. Studio Lites, which caters to Denver’s burlesque and drag communities but is a treasure trove for anyone looking for a wig or some bling, will close its location at 333 Broadway by the end of the…
The witching hour is nigh, which means it’s prime time for exploring haunted houses — including City of the Dead, a 30,000 square-foot Henderson haunt overrun by the most horrific zombies the metro area has to offer. City of the Dead is open nightly through Halloween; for information and tickets, $22.99…
Just in time for Halloween, two novels dealing with eerie Colorado themes are haunting local bookstores. One is a fictionalized channeling of one of the state’s most celebrated and puzzling historical figures, while the other is a semi-comic mystery dealing with seances, Riverside Cemetery, cab driving and other scary topics. …
Save your money for those big Halloween bashes; there are plenty of opportunities for free fun over the next few days. You can test your knowledge of scary subjects, debate the meaning of nationalism and kick back with cartoons. Check the Westword calendar for more entertainment opportunities this week. Horror…
Between The Night Manager, Veep and now Chance, a new Hulu series adapted from a nasty Kem Nunn novel, Hugh Laurie has had an exceptional year in television. The Hulu program stands out slightly above the rest, considering its resonant dialogue with the Oxford-born Laurie’s most famous role. Like House,…
Used book stores come and go in this town. In recent years, more have been going than coming, thanks to keen competition from online outlets and the growing popularity of Nooks and Kindles. So it’s an occasion for celebration when two antiquarian bookshops — one an old friend, the other…
