Rebel girls and rude boys, this one’s for you: tonight’s Punk Rock Karaoke invites everyone to sing along with his or her favorite songs for a good cause, as the Denver Health Collective hosts a traveling repertoire of punk hits. The karaoke project makes its first stop in Denver –…
Calling all rebel girls and rude boys! Tonight’s Punk Rock Karaoke is a sing-along with a circle pit tailor-made for you. A traveling collection of studio-recorded karaoke tracks, the Punk Rock Karaoke Collective brings classics by Bikini Kill, the Clash, Descendents and more to the stage for a night where…
Overweight for most of her life, local trainer Tarrah Lee received a heartbreaking wake-up call when her father passed away from a heart attack. At 25, Lee herself was looking down at a lifetime of unhealthy eating, and the life event moved her to make a serious change. Now a…
Whoever said that tattoos are addictive is an idiot. Like “issues” or “projection,” addiction is psychobabble-related spillover, a word that suffers from a flippant overuse and strays from its meaning. As a recovering addict, I can’t see a connection between my tattoos and a desire to keep getting more until…
Pacha Play began when the clothing line’s local mastermind, Edica Pacha, wanted to expand her work as a photographer and installation and performance artist. “I started sewing as a way to get a little more creative and interactive with some of the work I was doing. I just started making…
With the “Focus on the Families” theme setting the tone for this year’s PrideFest, there will be celebrations all over the city this weekend. While the official focus of the all-inclusive family fun is The Center’s Denver PrideFest 2013, which will be at Civic Center Park this Saturday, June 15…
In light of the recent passage of the civil-unions law in Colorado, this year’s two-day PrideFest 2013 will celebrate with “Focus on Our Families,” a weekend highlighting inclusion and equal rights. “LGBT family rights have really come a long way now that we have relationship recognition,” says Dani Perea, marketing…
Kalyn Heffernan took the name of her band, Wheelchair Sports Camp, from the summer camp that she first attended in 1997 and where she eventually became a counselor. The free week-long summer camp offers tennis lessons, swimming classes, rugby, basket-ball and more to physically disabled youth ages five to eighteen…
Art is happening everywhere, all the time. That’s the premise of Lakewood’s third annual INSPIRE Arts Week, starting today with a free open house and dress rehearsal for the Lakewood Symphony. Grown out of a grant project that asked the city what a rich arts culture would look like in…
As frontwoman for Wheelchair Sports Camp, Kalyn Heffernan is a busy emcee: Her band is currently on tour with Flobots and, from the road, the musician has been organizing a benefit show for the Colorado Junior Wheelchair Sports Camp. Celebrating its thirtieth year in 2013, the week-long camp — from…
Settling in to write about my feelings on this year’s Denver PrideFest, I was interrupted by a text message from my friend David, a grown man I lovingly refer to as Liza, my “gay husband.” His texts, like his real life persona, are always worth my undivided attention: He thinks…
It’s no secret that in Colorado, we’re graced with a ton of sunshine — so much, in fact, that we brag about it (300 whole days of sunshine a year, if you just moved here last week and haven’t heard). In honor of our great weather and equally boast-worthy bar-and-restaurant…
Local athlete-turned-model-turned-jewelry-designer Megan Kaltenbach brings a lot of love to the work she creates. For MKaltenbach, her handpicked line of necklaces, bracelets and earrings, the craftswoman makes sure each piece of agate, turquoise, onyx and amber is to her standards. “It’s a long process, because I’m very picky; all of…
Koffi Toudji is a welcome,well-known face around Denver: He’s the founder of a traditional West African drum-and-dance ensemble, leader of Koffi Togo Vibe Band and a teacher and performer at the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. But Toudji also arranges summer tours from the U.S. to his native Kpalimé in…
The comedians performing in The Duel: An Improv Cagematch may not be fighting to the death, but they are fighting to stay alive into the next round of this improvisational showdown, which pits two comedy teams against each other every Saturday night at the Voodoo Comedy Playhouse. “Each team is…
Sarah Kate Baie has seen Mixed Taste — the recurring lecture series kicking off tomorrow at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver — grow exponentially over the last nine years, from its early days at Belmar to its current, summer-season mainstay status at the MCA. Programming curator Baie and her…
As I sat in a coffee shop yesterday, camped out with my laptop and a mission to actually get some writing done, I knew full well that I wouldn’t really get anything accomplished. Not because I’d be distracted with the mundane cruising of Facebook for hours at a time like…
Earlier this year, Marion Street Tattoo was officially certified as a green business by the Denver Department of Environmental Health. The only tattoo shop in the city to currently hold the title, the business hopes to set an example for other tattoo shops. Owner and artist Ryan Willard and says…
In Scatter My Ashes At Bergdorf’s — opening tonight at the Sie FilmCenter — the story of a colossus retailer of couture is told from many angles. Famous customers, fashion designers, critics and Bergdorf’s own employees help frame the New York department store’s tale, through a mix of lore and…
When Film on the Rocks announced its 2013 summer line-up and The Big Lebowski was nowhere to be found for the second year in a row, fans were upset. But the Denver Film Society has saved the best for last: The non-profit announced last night at the season opener of…
A decades-old tradition, the CHUN Capitol Hill People’s Fair at Civic Center Park is one of the largest festivals of its kind in the country. But the community gathering, which opens today, is far from old-school: This year the fair will offer its first-ever health and wellness area, devoted to…
Once summer is no longer marked by the end of the school year, what’s a grownup to do? Tonight’s Summer Camp With Adult Drinks at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver aims to answer that by inviting guests to unwind on the museum’s rooftop deck with hand-crafted cocktails, live music,…
