Britt Chester

David Choe's piece looks like a million bucks...or is that $20 million?

​The Terminal Kings project was billed as bringing "world-class" art to Denver -- a city that many of us would argue already has world-class artists. But when street artist David Choe, along with Sam Flores and Highraff, was hired to create giant murals that Denver International Airport's Art and Culture program will use as barricades at DIA as the South Terminal expansion project progresses over the next five years, it also got upper-economic-class art.

That's because when Choe did some work for the first Facebook headquarters back in 2005, he took his payment in stock. Stock that could be worth $200 million when the Facebook IPO goes through.

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Why do photovoltaic cells have p-type and n-type layers? *

What causes stars to twinkle?*

If you know the answers to these questions, you might qualify for the winning team of the Colorado Science Bowl. You might even be smarter than a Cherry Creek High school student!

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My Teenage Angst host Megan Nyce

​As a willing participant at Friday night's My Teenage Angst on-stage diary-reading event, I had some pre-show fears: What if my entries weren't as funny as I remembered them being? What if other people's entries weren't funny? What if the whole thing fell apart because someone unintentionally read from a journal that was actually really sad? What if I didn't have anything cute to wear?

Fortunately, none of my jitters were justified.

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Scenes from the 2011 Denver County Fair.

​It's not too early to make plans for the second annual Denver County Fair -- which has been moved to the second weekend in August, starting on Friday, August 10 and running through Sunday, August 12, with extended hours.

"We won't be up against the Dragon Boat Festival, the last week of Renaissance Faire and Cheyenne Frontier Days," fair organizers Tracy Weil and Dana Cain note. "Produce will have more time to ripen, and we'll get to celebrate the last weekend of summer vacation for Denver Public School students!"

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​Gene Sobczak, who was a VP and marketing guru for the Colorado Symphony Orchestra when he left in 2007 to head the Arvada Center, will soon be making beautiful music with the CSO again: The symphony board has appointed him to replace interim director Jim Copenhaver, who returned this fall to help the orchestra through a financial shortfall that also saw a number of boardmembers bail.

And Sobczak's appointment isn't the only positive sign at the CSO. Six new boardmembers have signed on.

Here's the full release:

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​The Colorado Symphony Orchestra has been working hard to make it into the black for the 2011-2012 season by adding extra shows, making personnel cuts, pushing its fund raising and promising, in general, to do things differently. But it's unlikely that a planned $90 million renovation of the Boettcher Concert Hall will happen any time soon despite the fact that voters approved a measure in 2007 that would have raised two thirds of the cost by selling bonds. That's because the CSO hasn't been able to raise its share, $30 million.

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​The photographs in Colorado Uncovered -- a new book by photographer Darrell Pierson and his wife, Sherry Whitney, which places naked models before both manmade and natural landmarks in this state -- can inspire lengthy study. But despite the inspired staging, the photos themselves were taken very quickly.

After all, when you're revealing the naked truth of the Big Blue Bear, or Mesa Verde, you don't have much time.

See theColorado Uncovered slide show here.

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​Time ran out last week for Adam Leech on Kickstarter.com. The Colorado Springs entrepreneur known for his vintage clothing and collectibles store, Leechpit, had been trying to raise a large sum of money to complete his documentary, A Nickel and a Nail: The Original Hobo Nickel Story.

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Anaquad-Kleinert.

​The Bureau of Land Management's efforts to remove thousands of wild horses from public lands -- supposedly for their own good -- has generated outrage among mustang advocates across the country, as well as numerous YouTube glimpses of the brutality of the roundups. Now a documentary having its Denver premiere at the Starz Film Festival this Friday digs deeper to show how the BLM is messing with one herd in southwest Colorado, in the aptly named Disappointment Valley.

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"Mustang," by Luis Jimenez

​Quit horsing around! It's time to come clean about how you feel about the public art at Denver International Airport, a collection that includes everything from Gary Sweeney's beloved "America, Why I Love Her" to the loved, and loathed, "Mustang," aka Blucifer, the devil horse.

From 5 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday, November 1, DIA and Arts & Venues Denver will hold a town hall meeting at Crossroads Theater, 2590 Washington Street, to discuss a DIA Art Master Plan that will "establish creative direction for the facility's existing cultural assets, and help guide the commissioning of new artworks."

Find a complete list of the current DIA artworks here; find our picks of the DIA artworks most likely to make conspiracy theorists go off here. And remember: Just say neigh!

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