You may have seen Beforeplay.org’s billboards around the city or memes (like the one above) floating around Facebook. Part of an ongoing campaign advocating safe sex and sex positivity, BeforePlay.org is using humor to connect with Coloradans in a way that is accessible and designed to spark a conversation. Formed…
When was the last time you took a walk to the post office or the grocery store? Today’s NE Walk Fest, both a celebration of walking and a learning event focused on two-footed activities, wants you to think twice about how you get around. Put on by the Stapleton Area…
For (Residency): Process to Consumption, a new work-in-progress exhibition opening this week at the McNichols Building, Lisa Gedgaudas wanted to make people uncomfortable — in a good way. As program director for Create Denver, Gedgaudas is the brains behind this project, one that unites artists with art enthusiasts to create…
Once upon a time, like twenty years ago, Lakeside and Elitch’s were comparable amusement parks of the turn-of-the-last-century persuasion. Yes, prior to being ripped out by its north Denver roots at West 38th Avenue and Tennyson Street and tossed carelessly into the Platte River area by downtown and rebranded as…
There was a time in the not so distant past when a social networking profile was a place to proclaim your relationship status with something more than the obligatory “in a relationship” or “single” statement. It was a grand gesture to be “taken,” complete with a glittery, GIF-y image of…
“There’s a certain kind of person who is into both cameras and bicycles,” says Mike Kone of Boulder Bicycle, who helped organize today’s Rocky Mountain Regional Camera & Collectibles Show and Colorado Custom & Vintage Bicycle Expo, a collaborative showcase and market for people who love vintage cameras or old-school…
The Sands Theatre in Brush wasn’t Colorado’s only rural theater that was having trouble transitioning to the digital age. Nineteen theaters expressed interested in the Save Our Screens initiative; thirteen applied for grants. Ten of them, including the Sands, raised the matching funds to become eligible and win grants from…
Joe Machetta isn’t the only member of his family to get hooked on the movie business. For more than fifty years, Machetta’s aunt and uncle, Edna and George Kelloff Sr., and their children ran Movie Manor in Monte Vista — the world’s only known drive-in movie theater with an attached…
Small-town boy Joe Machetta loved Las Vegas. “I used to gamble with Dino; he always liked the number-one chair. I always sat in the middle, with the rest of the guys on the other side; Dino always had three or four gals around him all the time,” Machetta says, crediting…
As a Denver neighborhood with a rich architectural history, University Park is home to houses of all shapes, sizes and legacies. This Sunday, May 4, five homes in the historic area will open their doors to the public for the University Park Home Tour, an afternoon event that benefits University…
While we may have those “300 days of sunshine” to brag about, Colorado is home to another weather cliché: the idea of “construction season.” Yes, no matter the time of year, it seems that all of our major roadways are being worked on simultaneously, from the mess that is forever…
Earlier this year, SOS Outreach and Workplace Resource collaborated to present the Design the Modern Board contest, for which they asked local design and architecture firms and art-school students to come up with unique snowboard art. Working with the simple outline of a classic board, artists and designers were encouraged…
Two years ago, friends Taylor Gonda and Kevin O’Brien realized that they didn’t just enjoy discussing popular culture, but that they also reveled in the High Fidelity spirit of connecting it to personal experiences. Thus the These Things Matter podcast was born, and Gonda and O’Brien began bringing special guests…
Two years ago, friends Taylor Gonda and Kevin O’Brien realized that they didn’t just enjoy discussing popular culture, but that they also reveled in the High Fidelity spirit of connecting it to personal experiences. Thus the These Things Matter podcast was born, and Gonda and O’Brien began bringing special guests…
Since the only frame of reference I have is my own, I talk a lot about growing up in the ’90s. Of course, I would also argue that that the ’90s was the best decade ever: Daytime talk shows ruled everything, Courtney Love was queen, and MTV didn’t suck yet…
Through conversations with friend and filmmaker Frederick Schroeder, comic artist and comic historian Dave Kellet realized that he needed to make a documentary on the life and art of the comic strip. Two successful Kickstarter campaigns later, Stripped was born. It’s a deep and thoughtful look at the world of…
The Berningers are a talented family: Tom Berninger is a filmmaker, and when his brother Matt, a member of the Brooklyn-based band The National, asked him to go on tour as a roadie, he obliged. Tom needed a job and some direction, and his brother’s request inadvertently offered both. Tom…
The Narrators features local writers, comedians and musicians who are brave enough to share revealing personal stories with total strangers. This month’s installment revolves around the theme of (TBD) but that’s just a loose guideline, says co-host Robert Rutherford. “Though generally The Narrators has been sold as ‘creative’ people,’ we…
Cathy. Luann. Hi & Lois. Calvin & Hobbes. Zippy The Pinhead. All are familiar names that readers have come to know and love through the tangible art of the comic strip. But it’s a medium that has lost valuable print space in an increasingly paperless world. What will happen to…
When veteran artists Frank Farrar, Valerie Savarie and Karrie York opened Valkarie Fine Art Gallery and Studio last fall, they wanted to create a place not just where they could show and make art, but make connections with other local creatives. This Thursday evening, April 17, the space will host…
If anything, the Pink Moon and lunar eclipse last night were a great break in the status-update monotony that usually plagues social networks — for a few hours, Scandal, Game of Thrones and the cockroach of all television shows, Breaking Bad, were not dominating newsfeed conversation. Instead, I was pleasantly…
Everyone loves “Doll Parts.” At least that’s the song the comes up any time I speak about Hole to a non-Hole fan. I’m not complaining. “Doll Parts” is arguably a better point of reference for the band than the other common conversation piece regarding Hole, which is the comment that…
