Shopping at the light and airy Room is like visiting the loft of your most stylish friend: You wish everything could be magically transported to your own home. “This furniture really strikes a chord,” says owner Merlin Parker, who opened Room two months ago. “Everybody who comes in here seems…
If you’ve always longed to experience the Burning Man Festival but don’t have the funds or the gumption to travel into Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, you can get a feel for the experimental-arts celebration this summer at the Apogaea in Dreamtime, Colorado’s first regional Burning Man event. This weekend, the…
WED, 3/24 Tracy Turnblad has big ambition and a bigger bouffant. It’s 1962, and the tubby Turnblad dreams of dancing on TV’s Corny Collins Show, but when she splits hairs with the program’s most popular pre-pubescent starlet, she’s tossed into a teenage tangle that could crush her curls and squash…
WED, 3/24 Get down and dirty this afternoon at a lecture and chisme with Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, author of The Dirty Girls Social Club. “I’m going to talk about the dangers of stereotyping, because I think everyone is stereotyped,” says Valdes-Rodriguez, a former reporter for both the Los Angeles Times and…
SUN, 3/21 Cyclists throughout the state know Team Evergreen as the club that, among other things, assembles the annual torturefest called the Triple Bypass (motto: “For those who dare”). And while that grueling July test of body and sanity continues to be the hallmark of the club, Team Evergreen offers…
Perhaps the biggest complaint about Mayor Hicklenlooper’s first choice for the recently announced, fledgling One Book, One Denver campaign — Leif Enger’s Peace Like a River — is that it’s too easy, a bestseller chosen for its appeal to a wide literary palate. And besides, how does a small-town yarn…
It is almost impossible to turn on the television or flip through a magazine these days without seeing depictions of smiling, happy people finally enjoying life again — thanks to the mood-altering pills they’re taking. Boulder-based performer and playwright Jennifer Berry has a major problem with such advertising. In Big…
The hot new Zengo wants to fire up Denver’s restaurant scene — and exotically named cocktails that combine Latin and Asian influences are just the right fuel. My favorite is the cool yellow Huetzi ($8), made with Bacardi and mango rums along with fresh mango, ginger and lime juices; it’s…
As the Colorado Avalanche wraps up another Tuesday-night home game at the Pepsi Center, Flash maneuvers his way through LoDo looking for fares. “This is such a dead-end job,” he says. “My back is killing me and my ass is numb.” Flash has been driving for Metro Taxi for just…
FRI, 3/12 Thoroughbred Fighting Ferrari may not have won at the races, but the long-shot pony became a hero of the silver screen after galloping through a first-place performance as Seabiscuit in the equine saga of the same name. Ferrari will be just one of the “horseonalities” featured at this…
Whether you’re looking for sparkly shamrock barrettes or bright-green rugby shirts, Irish Times is your one-stop shopping spot this St. Patrick’s Day. “St. Paddy’s Day is completely different from the other 364 days of the year,” says owner Kris Bergquist. “It’s like Christmas.” And while holiday paraphernalia is currently front…
“Wherever violence continues, everyone is the loser. It takes very little to turn the peace of one day into the violence of the next. It is also true that individuals can make a difference in the favor of peace,” says Oscar Arias S´nchez, one of the Nobel Peace Prize laureates…
St. Patrick’s Day is my favorite holiday, and this year I’m going to start things off right. So bright and early next Wednesday morning, you’ll find me tucked into a cozy booth at the Squealin’ Pig Irish Pub, holding tight to a glass mug and sipping an Irish Coffee ($5.25)…
SUN, 3/7 John Leguizamo has never been afraid to make audiences squirm. As the Latino comic once said, “That’s my philosophy: Offend them all equally. You know we all have something wrong with us!” Leguizamo blasts into town to share his hilarious characters, jarring life commentary and personal anecdotes in…
SAT, 3/6 Alpine skiers, telemarkers and snowboarders can all hit Vail Mountain big time at today’s bump, big-air and rail competition — part of the 2003 Mogul Mania Series. Open to all ages and skill levels, Mogul Mania’s amateur and professional head-to-head dual mogul competitions and the two-hour Mogul Mania…
TUES, 3/9 Slurp some slippery suckers during tonight’s sixth annual Oyster Eating Competition at the Boulder Jax Fish House, where competitors with stomachs of steel will down as many raw oysters on the half shell as possible in ninety seconds. “We’ve seen people pack oysters into a pint glass and…
I always pictured John Wayne as a whiskey-straight-up kind of guy. But the Duke must have downed at least one margarita in his 72 years, because the sign hanging over the long wooden bar at the Minturn Saloon — which boasts the Minturn Mountain Margarita as its house cocktail –…
WED, 3/3 T. Coraghessan Boyle is everywhere these days. His latest novel, Drop City, a finalist for last year’s National Book Award, has just appeared in paperback. He has a short story in the current issue of Harper’s and another in an upcoming New Yorker. A new novel, The Inner…
SAT, 2/28 Kick up your heels at this weekend’s Colorado Shred Symposium freestyle footbag tournament — the sport better known to most of us as hacky sack. “Hacky Sack is a brand name,” explains Mile-Hi Shred Club member Sunny Dawn Freeman Genz, who is hosting the event. “But people who…
To mark the fortieth anniversary of the Beatles’ invasion of America and Denver, cruise down to the historic Brown Palace Hotel (where the lads stayed after playing at Red Rocks on August 26, 1964) for a special Beatlemania Overnight Package. “There was a line of people three deep all the…
I believe in ghosts. Not the spooky, haunted-house kind that live in basements, but benevolent beings who watch over us from beyond. And while I never got to meet Doug Fleischmann in the flesh, I could swear I felt the warmth of his spirit when I entered Luca d’Italia. Killed…
THURS, 2/19 After a ten-year absence from the Colorado History Museum, the 10th Mountain Division: Soldiers on Skis exhibit marches back into the spotlight today, retooled and ready for another tour of duty. “This is an important part of Colorado’s history, so we felt it was important to update it,”…
