By August, it’s easy to become deathly sick of cultural festivals, street fairs and mountain-bike races. So if you’re dying for something new, drop in on Saturday’s lively Cemetery Skills Competition in the maintenance area of Mount Olivet Cemetery in Wheat Ridge. Inspired by the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Thomas…
Sandwiched between the ultra-hip Lola and the perennially chi-chi Sushi Den, the Pearl Street Grill is an old-school oasis for easygoing drinkers. So why would I go in there and order a Pink Lipstick? Because in addition to offering a wide selection of tap beers, stiff margs and classic cocktails,…
SUN, 8/3 Winnie Wenglewick brought more than her furniture with her when she moved to Denver from Orlando two years ago. The improv theater entrepreneur also brought a novel, breakneck idea: the Extreme Playwright’s Adventure, a patented concept of her own invention that pits a dauntless crew of playwrights of…
SAT, 8/2 Slap on your saddle shoes, pile on the pomade, and head directly to LoDo where the sparks are flying at today’s Built for Speed: The Art of Kustom Kulture. The hep cats on 15th and Wazee streets are hooding the meters today and jamming the block with hot…
THURS, 7/31 This weekend in Boulder, a unique kind of theater will hit the stage: The Peanut Butter Players’ new musical farce Bratrace is not exactly children’s theater, but it’s truly family theater, the term used by writer/director Jo Anne Lamun to describe the intergenerational entertainment experiment, a kid-sized satire…
FRI, 8/1 The lowly limerick is “the Rodney Dangerfield of poetry,” according to the Limerick o’ the Day Web page. “Limericks proudly broke into what had been the one unbroachable frontier in proper English society: smut.” Smut is in the ear of the beholder, of course — and there was…
We use them every day — as closet organizers, drain un-cloggers and accessories for school projects and, at Halloween, for costumes. But how often do you really think about those vital pieces of twisted metal better known as hangers? Art-Gineer/I.D. Studio owner Kef Parker plans to change all that with…
For me, summertime means lazy afternoons lying on the dock or sailing the Great Lakes. So when my craving for liquid refreshment overflowed one recent evening, I gathered a few fellow Midwesterners and headed to the back patio at Hemingway’s Key West Grille for some waterfront atmosphere and lots of…
SAT, 7/26 After years of tolerating male-dominated music charts and watching mass-marketed boy bands hog the stage, female performers are giving the finger to the audition couch and bustin’ out on their own. National tours such as Lilith Fair and Ladyfest have set the precedent that chicks can riff, and…
SUN, 7/27 Although it’s a bit of a sideshow to the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver’s diverse Colorado Biennial showcase, the Colorado Film Biennial: 10 by 10 has also turned out to be its own three-ring circus. The ten finalists, chosen from nearly fifty entries in three categories, including narrative, avant-garde…
SUN, 7/27 Now is the time for some testifying on the merits of hip-hop life by brother KRS-One. The performer (born Lawrence Parker but known professionally as Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone), is in town to headline the July 26 Elemental Flavas show at Universal Lending Pavilion. But that…
FRI, 7/25 Downtown Denver will be buzzing today as the streets are infiltrated by a swarm of scooter enthusiasts participating in this year’s Shopping Ride, a highlighted adjunct event in the sixth annual Mile High Mayhem scooter rally. “Still pushing junk” is the theme as the two-strokers take the road…
Blue Raspberry Limeade Recovery Room 819 Colorado Boulevard 303-333-0569 Suffering from heatstroke? Although Denver is a full-on inferno these days, relief is as close as the Recovery Room, where a Blue Raspberry Limeade is just the drink to cool you off. Made with UV Blue Vodka, sour mix and a…
FRI, 7/18 If your joke repertoire includes more references to penises and priests than puppies and Pollocks, head straight to the Buntport Theater for tonight’s premiere performance of Kinky Comedy, a show by the Sick, Twisted & Wrong Comedy Troupe that’s based on America’s favorite taboo subject: sex. “All of…
MON, 7/21 Hold on to your helmets, because tonight Mr. Pacman, those intergalactic video-game playboys and local Atari rockers, unleash the PacFashion show on Panopticon, 60 South Broadway. Like Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome meets Tron, PacFashion is a full-contact show of primitive punk-entangled astrowear, with the models engaging the Mr…
SAT, 7/19 Kids stretch themselves every which way at KidSpree 2003, which is dubbed A Kid’s Eye View for all the obvious reasons. The annual event, hosted by the city of Aurora, is designed exclusively for the junior set and is one of the best available adventures for kids around…
SAT, 7/19 Imagine yourself cycling merrily through trendy LoDo, the Ballpark neighborhood and the Platte River Valley one Saturday morning. Where do you stop down there during the day, before the area’s nightlife heats up? If you’re certified, cultured city folk, you go to galleries. If you’re bohemian, perhaps you…
SAT, 7/19 There’s something that everyone from gearheads and grease monkeys to Snoop Dogg and Ice-T can agree on: The hottest way to blaze around town is chillin’ in a lowrider. So cruise on over to Six Flags Elitch Gardens today for the 2003 Lowrider Invitational. “These are the top…
“Callin’ out around the world/Are you ready for a brand new beat?/Summer’s here, and the time is right/For dancin’ in the streets.” Particularly in the Ballpark neighborhood, where the eleventh annual AT&T LoDo Music Festival hits the pavement this weekend. The two-day, four-block street party between Blake and Larimer and…
Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir? I still remember the giggly shock that struck me in middle-school French lab when I learned the true meaning of that erotic song. It seemed so titillatingly romantic, which is probably why I stuck with the language and ended up living in Paris at…
Denver’s once-friendly doggie daycare industry has gone to the dogs. Since Deb Steinberg opened the area’s first facility, Doggy Day Camp, in what’s now Centennial back in 1991, the industry has been breeding like crazy. Today there are thirteen doggie daycares in Denver alone. “This is the perfect example of…
MON, 7/14 At age 57, Essie Garrett just keeps on going. But even she admits it isn’t getting easier: One of Denver’s favorite long-distance runners, Garrett’s known for her one-woman cross-country fundraising marathons, which cover hundreds of miles, all in the name of one cause or another. One of her…
