Big First Friday!
If you're in Denver tonight, bring a stopwatch something motorized, because there's almost too many art shows to take in on one evening--Almost. By local, here's the breakdown. Rhino District Visionary illustrator Alex Pardee shows his creepy cute creatures at Andenken which includes a site specific installation and a host of ghoulish inkings. Head over to Hinterland to check out Down With The Sickness, a group exhibit exploring the neon now as embodied by Buddy Croissant, Travis Egedy, Sterling Crisping, Justin Beard and Drew Englander. As if he wasn't busy enough releasing a new album this week, and curating the Hinterland show, Egedy and his ...Read more
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tags: First Friday Art Alex Pardee Travis Egedy Sterling Crispin Justin Beard Buddy Croissant Matthew McConnell Andenken Vertigo Rhinoceropolis Composition Hinterland
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The Dead Weather at the Ogden
The Dead Weather is one of the best new bands I have heard in a long long time. Comprised of Jack White (White Stripes, Raconteurs), Alison Mosshart (the Kills, Discount), Jack Lawrence (the Greenhornes, Raconteurs), and Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age) this is a without a doubt a modern super group, and a side project nonetheless! The Dead Weather will be playing the Ogden Theatre August 17th at 8:00. Tickets are about $30, and while pricey, past shows have won critical acclaim, and from what I hear, are definitely worth the money. For more dates and info on their latest album, Horehound, visit www.thedeadweather.com. For tickets, www.ogdentheater.net....Read more
Michael Jones Book Release Party at the Draft House
Baobob Tree Press is proud to present Michael Jones, reading from his very first collection of poetry, Shadow lit, at the Drafthouse this Friday. He's one of the best poets out there and this book is long overdue. I've read it two or three times already. I dig it. It's great. You're going to want a copy. Pick one up at the Book Release Party. Details from the official press release have been cut and pasted below. See you there.iloveyou,Rob Hosted by: Baobob Tree Press When: Friday, Aug 7th, 8:00 p.m. until 1:00 a.m Where: &...Read more
Illiterate Presents CMYK + RGB!
On Friday, August 21st 2009 Illiterate brings its mission of creative collaboration to Denver's Space gallery with “RGB + CMYK”, an interactive arts event exploring the interactions between print and digital media. With print and digital installations, live screen printing, a conceptual fashion show and a print exhibition by some of Denver's most prolific contemporary artists and designers, “RGB + CMYK” places two forms of reproduction side by side asking the question on every newspaper publisher and online entrepreneur's mind: are these formats complimentary or in competition? Print Exhibit Twenty + artists are creating custom p...Read more
Down With the Sickness! Tonight!
Less than two hours from now (7PM) Down With The Sickness opens at Hinterland gallery, an exhibit featuring the paintings, sculpture, new media, and performances of a number of Illiterate contributors, including Justin Beard, Milton Croissant III, Sterling Crispin, Travis Egedy, and Drew Englander. "Down With the Sickness is a mystical and transgressive collection of artworks, new media, and performances from a group of Denver's leading up and coming art misfits and radicals. Explorations of the body, gender, identity, reality, and alternate states of consciousness are all licked and twisted in a fantastic cohesiveness that reflects aspects of our current cultural desires an...Read more
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tags: Down With The Sickness Milton Croissant III Sterling Crispin Travis Egedy Drew Englander Justin Beard Hinterland
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Old School Art Show
This Friday night at the Denver Art Museum, the Fabric Lab is putting on an event that will surely rock your tube socks off. Style Wars, a race to design a wearable and fashionable creations in 25 minutes, will be taking place alongside a yearbook photo contest (Gigbot will be there to take a nerdy pic if you don't want to bring that high school yearbook one), super rad old school art show, live music, and an old school pop quiz. Designers include Kotomi Yoshida, Mondo Guerra, Francis Roces, Katie Wells, Asha Trotter, and several more. Music will be a live dj battle between DJ Wigdan Giddy and the Postman and the fine art will be supplied by some incredible people including Deadly Daisy, Ada...Read more
Saturday Night Show at The Fox
Hello. My name is Get in the car, Helen. Before walking in on the woman I loved while she was in bed with this douchebag named Craig, I didn’t blog all that much. Not ever, really. But now, after walking in on previously mentioned woman in previously mentioned bed with previously mentioned douchebag, and after having had said woman leave me for said douchebag, I blog all the fucking time. I’ll be doing some of that blogging for Illiterate now. Blog #1 is an event announcement. HoneyHoney will be performing Saturday July 18th at the Fox Theater in Boulder CO. I haven’t actually heard any of their music yet, but I have heard nice things that have been said about it. ...Read more
Sonic Youth Comes to Denver
Touring for over 25 years, the iconic shoegaze band Sonic Youth is, yet again, on another North American tour. Making their rounds to Denver at the end of the month, this show is one not to be missed. Since most of the members are in their fifties, the chance of more tours in the future is diminishing greatly, so the opportunity to see them live this go around should not be passed by. The best part? Tickets are $30. The other best part? They still have the edge they were famous for in the 80’s. Playing at the Ogden with them Friday, July 31st is Michigan’s Awesome Color (www.myspace.com/awesomecolor). For more information about the show check out www.ogdentheater.net and to lea...Read more
Beats At Naropa At The Boulder Book Store
Over the however-many-dozens of years it's been since Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman started the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and Summer Writing Program at Naropa University, pretty much every Beat writer who's ever been labeled a Beat writer and was/is still alive has traveled to Boulder to teach and perform. Many of these readings were recorded and archived. William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlingetti, Gary Snyder, Ed Sanders, etc--they're all in there, inside the Naropa Vault, waiting to be let out and released upon the Beat Literature loving world.On Sunday, July 12 at 2:30 p.m. at the Boulder Book Store (1107 Pearl St) the Vault will be open. I have a friend wh...Read more
Tyler Burba Returns To Boulder!
Tyler Burba: poet, musician, publisher, Orson Welles aficionado, virtuoso shark wrestler, mysterious keeper of the secrets of supernatural halcyon, one of the greatest people I've had the thank-everything luck to meet on this planet and the keeper of the crotch-forged thesaurus' and other things that I could ramble on about right now but I really need to watch this disgusting horror movie the kid at the video store recomended to me called Martyrs before I have to be to work tomorrow, in a couple hours--this guy--not the video store guy--Tyler Burba--he'll be in town next week promoting the new Visit album, which has just been released. He'll be at the Burnt Toast, performing poetry and solo ...Read more