Heather Dalton has been part of the Denver music scene for decades, as a musician and TV show host and producer. Her latest project, Sounds on 29th, is a live performance and comedy show gearing up for its third season on local TV stationCPT12 this spring. A collaboration with director…
The Denver Public Library is seeking local music for a flagship program it’s preparing to launch this spring called Volume Denver. “We were talking about how we really wanted to do something to get some content that you can’t find at Walmart or the other big-box stores,” says Joan Hansen…
Work parties, especially around the holidays, can be awesome, or they can be full of awkward, even horrible, interactions. I recently attended a Westword fiesta that had a little bit of both. Mostly, it was great: free food and booze and plenty of chances to rub elbows with some of…
Any time is a good time to donate to the Denver Dumb Friends League, but it’s during the cold winter months that the shelters — both animal and human — have an even greater need for support. Now through January 5, the Denver Dumb Friend League’s three locations — Quebec…
There is something inherently un-masculine about the typical holiday craft fair, and Stu and Nicky Alden of the design studio Ink Lounge Creative wanted to do something about it. And Holiday Mancraft, a gathering of local artisans and vendors selling an array of gifts made for men, by men, was…
We discuss weather in this state (and on this blog) a lot. If you’ve ever made small talk with a stranger here, then you know that weather is a hot topic, especially now that Mother Nature — or global warming, depending on what you call it — has decided to…
The fourth annual Victorian Holiday Home Tour kicks off tomorrow, November 30, inviting visitors to get an intimate look at some of central Denver’s oldest and grandest homes. A tradition that has fast become a local favorite, last year’s event featuring local mansions saw more than 800 people through the…
Ringing in the eighth and final night of Hanukkah, this evening’s Festival of Lights is a party tailor-made for everybody. A BYO-menorah lighting celebration is just one part of the Colorado Hebrew Chorale’s annual interfaith gathering of song, dance and generous servings of latkes. Joined by the Rocky Mountain Ringers,…
Hosted by local comic Ben Roy and featuring a performance from Jonny 5 of Flobots, tonight’s Raise Your Glass, Raise Your Voice fundraiser benefits the Denver Voice, a nonprofit newspaper that works to end the stigma of homelessness: Not only is the newspaper a method of communication for the community,…
Ah, the blessed holiday known as Black Friday. It’s the day we celebrate what it means to be an American consumer. The doors to most stores will open at the crack of dawn and the deals will roll out, giving shoppers unbridled access to cheap stuff that will become our…
After several months of displacement, the 20th Street Gym’s competitive boxing program is headed back to its home at the 20th Street Recreation Center in downtown Denver. Coach Robert Baca, who’s run the program for almost a decade, says he’s decided to take one of two options offered to him…
With the holiday devoted to overeating upon us, we’re looking down at a full day of stuffing our faces, participating in awkward family interactions and probably even a little Tryptophan-induced napping. But since the extended Thanksgiving weekend technically begins tonight, there is still plenty of time to get out of…
Last month, Denver DIY house venue and show space Mouth House was shut down by the cops for good. As far as house venues go, it had a good, three-year run. Undaunted by surrounding gentification, Mouth House sat in the midst of Five Points, minding its own business in a…
Exactly a month ago today, the Mouth House was closed, and two of its tenants are due in court today facing charges of distribution of alcohol without a license. On Saturday, October 26, just as the first band was starting its set at the DIY house venue, two undercover cops…
With the pricey switch from 35mm projection systems to Digital Cinema Projection on the horizon, small-town movie theaters face a crisis. As of 2014, the majority of new films as well as re-releases coming out of Hollywood will no longer be produced on 35mm, and the equipment needed to show…
In 2010, Adam Lerner was presented with what looked like a collection of pieces from the Russian Avant-Garde masters. Though the origin of the works was unverified, he showed them anyway — a potentially career-shattering move for Lerner, who had recently taken the position of director at the Museum of…
Poet and conceptual writer Robert Fitterman tackles a heavy topic in his latest work, Holocaust Museum, a recontextualization of captions for photographs displayed in the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. Fitterman sees modern poetry moving toward appropriation as a means to critique and create conversation around a…
In 2010, Adam Lerner risked his career and his credibility to show a collection of 181 unverified, unauthenticated Russian avant-garde works at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, where he had just become curator. Tonight, Lerner and the institution celebrate the release of From Russia With Doubt, a book detailing…
Like every kid in high school, I was forced to fulfill a gym requirement. At George Washington High School, we had the option of taking aerobics — which I secretly loved, because I dreamed of one day making my own instructional workout videos. Each day our weird instructor — who…
I have been boxing at the 20th Street Recreation Center — Denver’s oldest public recreational facility — for more than four years. And while the boxing fitness class is a relatively new addition, 20th Street has also been home to a legendary competitive boxing program for over seventy years, one…
The idea behind Attention Homes’ Sleep Out for Homeless Youth is to give people a chance to sleep in someone else’s shoes. Now in its second year, the fundraiser invites participants to support National Runaway and Homeless Youth Awareness Month by spending a night outside in the cold. The evening…
Coach Robert Baca is ready to fight. He’s all business — calm and poised, dressed in slick patent-leather dress shoes, pressed slacks and a blazer, his signature stone face looking out at the crowded community room — but the name of the game peeks out from beneath his jacket, where…
