Arts & Culture

What do ‘zines, pirate radio and hacking all have in common? For one thing, they all have subversive underpinnings, and for another, the folks who are into such things tend to like trading information: in cyberspace, by snail mail and under the table, in print and blogs. So when you…

SAT, 7/24 After Beavis and Butthead triumphantly save the world at the conclusion of Beavis and Butthead Do America, then-president Bill Clinton awards the cartoon heroes with honorary memberships in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. “Yes! Fire, fire,” Beavis squeals with delight. Indeed, it is hard to imagine…

FRI, 7/23 By nature, the curved, concrete, fly-away world of skateboarding simply flips off the literary world. It’s tough to imagine, after all, how a seat-of-your-pants extreme sport embraced predominantly by fourteen-year-old males and few tough, old hardcore adults in baggy shorts might have anything to do with the written…

Writer Joseph Campbell spent his life examining the archetype of the “hero,” and his concept of the hero’s journey in mythology is indelibly etched into our culture through vehicles such as Star Wars. The gang at Arts Street’s Comedy Theatre used the idea as the basis for (in)EXPLICIT: Parental Advisory,…

Over a century ago, you could buy almost anything in that area of Denver that would later be known as LoDo — a house, a horse, a whore. And even in the neighborhood’s darkest days — the ’60s, when the skid-row pawnshops were scraped off and turned into parking lots…

Thursday, July 15 Swallows return to Capistrano every year, but it’s the BirdHaus Bash that returns like a migratory flock to the Denver Botanic Gardens each summer. This year’s birdhouse auction, the tenth, comes to roost tonight from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at the gardens. Some 200 fanciful entries –…

Okay, so I was up on the roof the other night with my friend Glen, and we’re just laying there — sharing a case of tallboys, talkin’ about tractor pulls and tacos and whatnot — when all of a sudden, we see this light. Brighter than the headlights on my…

SAT, 7/17 Many Christmas mornings from my childhood stand out, but one occupies a special place. That vivid year, after the presents were opened and the stockings pilfered, we turned our attention to our beloved pets. The dogs found their way to their Yule bones as our curious cats began…

SAT, 7/17 Dodgeball, a “sport” that school boards have been trying to remove from the curriculum for years because it’s allegedly demeaning, is hot these days. From Ben Stiller’s Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story to the Game Show Network’s Extreme Dodgeball, the game’s a hit — although not among teens…

FRI, 7/16 “I became an architect because my girlfriend told me she wouldn’t marry a forest ranger,” recalls University of Denver architect emeritus Cab Childress. So he gave up scouting in the woods of Florida in favor of the drawing board and slide rule that his mother had given him…

THURS, 7/15 Dramatist Martin Moran was twelve when he began a sexual relationship with an older man he’d met two years earlier at a church camp outside Estes Park. The former Denver resident shares what he calls “that collision where a young, Catholic boy is suddenly in the arms of…