Although the first Alamo Drafthouse opened less than a year ago, the Texas-based chain already has a second movie theater on West Colfax. The success of the location in Littleton prompted the company to extend its brand in metro Denver. The new Alamo will be part of the Sloans development…
Pura Vida in Cherry Creek North is opening its doors to the public for the first time ever this weekend, when it will host the inaugural edition of its new program, Sunday Afternoon Meltdown. The club invites yogis of all levels to wind down and recharge with a combination yoga…
“You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy our festival,” says Ely Hemnes, coordinator of the eighteenth annual Denver Jewish Film Festival, which opens tonight in the Elaine Wolf Theatre at the Mizel Arts & Culture Center, 350 South Dahlia Street. Curated over the course of a year, this multi-day…
It’s been in the works for a while, but Impulse Theater is finally parting ways with its home within the Wynkoop Brewing Company, where the performance space has been located for more than two decades. The long-running improv spot isn’t calling it quits; it’s looking for a new location. And…
When I heard that the last Furr’s Cafeteria in Colorado had closed, I was sad. But only in the nostalgic-for-something-I-haven’t-been-nostalgic-for-in-a-long-time kind of way. Furr’s had become a place I always talked about visiting as an adult — mostly to see if it was as good as it was when I…
The idea behind the University of Colorado Denver’s seasonal Mini-School series is simple: invite a wide array of experts who are interested in talking about their chosen fields, and then invite the public to come learn from them — for free. The school has had a successful medical series for…
The Winter X Games, which get started today at the base of Aspen’s Buttermilk Mountain, always go hard, with big air and high style. Thirteen of the Games’ eighteen seasons have taken place in Colorado, with the premier action-sports showcase attracting high-profile athletes and fans of all ages from around…
Craft Tech / Coded Media: Women, Art and Technology, an exhibition of digital, photographic and handmade work by artists working in various mediums and time frames, decodes — and sometimes debunks — gender stereotypes regarding technology. Curated by Deanne Pytlinski, assistant chair of the art department at Metropolitan State University…
Femcees: Lyrics Decoded, at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Thursday, January 23, will bring artists and academics together to talk about two things: women and hip-hop. Expounding on the museum’s current exhibition, Craft Tech / Coded Media: Women, Art and Technology, and specifically, Kelly Monico’s multimedia installation, “Bitches n’…
I’ve kept my mouth shut on the topic of professional sports for most of my time as a writer. I don’t even talk about how much I despise the majority of the culture that comes with it on Facebook (I save those complaints for Twitter). But I know I can’t…
A tribute to ice, snow and light, Paul Wertin’s temporary sculpture “Arches” opens tonight at the seventh annual Triumph Winterfest in Vail, when it will be illuminated with LED lights at dusk. Wertin began carving the icy structure from 120 blocks of ice earlier this month, creating a seventy-foot long…
Named for some of the most pleasant weather on the Western Slope, Banana Belt Days in Buena Vista kicks off this morning with an invitation to experience what the town has to offer, even in the colder months. “We’re typically a summer tourist town, but we have some wonderful winter…
Cutting-edge technology has always allowed National Geographic to take viewers deep into unreachable areas of the globe. Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D — starting its IMAX theater run today at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science — goes a step further: Instead of exploring the vast expanse of…
Evita, the famous story of Eva Perón, is a timeless tale about the First Lady of Argentina; it takes viewers from her life as a girl from a poor rural family through her rise as a political figure and spokeswoman for the underprivileged. Though Perón died at the age of…
Better known as his drag-wearing persona Divine than as a multifaceted actor, the late Harris Glenn Milstead spent the latter half of his short but notorious career trying to prove that he was more than just a queen. That effort is chronicled in I Am Divine, a documentary showcasing Milstead’s…
The largest show of its kind in the Rocky Mountain region, the International Sportsmen’s Exposition, which opens today at the convention center, is an outdoor enthusiast’s dream. Hundreds of vendors and merchants presenting the latest in hunting, fishing and camping technology and services will converge under one roof for a…
Best known for his roles in the John Waters cannon of cult films, Divine had a short career highlighted by his ability to play trashy women, wayward gals, doting matrons and overzealous sex pots. While he found fame in the seedy underside of Hollywood, the actor also worked to be…
Racines just started a five-week-long celebration of its thirtieth anniversary as 2013 came to a close. But it’s the restaurant that will be doing the giving today: Stop in for a meal any time before 10 p.m. and Racines will donate 10 percent of your check to The Center, a…
Yesterday, while attempting to almost kill myself while sputtering onto the ill-designed Sixth Avenue freeway entrance at Lowell Boulevard, I zipped up behind an XTerra with a bumpersticker that read “Nope.” I always laugh when I see this political statement, mostly because it, too, is ill-designed — I mean, it’s…
“They claimed that I opened up the sexual revolution. I was just doing my job, and enjoyed every bit of it,” says Bettie Page in Bettie Page Reveals All, a new documentary that tells the story of a pinup girl who remained so far from the spotlight that she was…
The most iconic pinup model in pop-culture history, Bettie Page — with her winking face and gorgeous body — has been loved by fans around the world for decades. But after abandoning the spotlight at the height of her underground career, in the late 1950s, Page all but disappeared…and took…
It was a single act of vandalism that was the last straw for Fistell’s Electronics. “We had an RCA sign on the building and it was stolen last year — my dad just gave up,” says Howard Fistell, whose family has owned Fistell’s Electronics since 1936 in some incarnation or…
