There’s not much that’s Victorian about tonight’s Victorian Fetish Ball. There’s nothing repressed or prudish about the erotic party, and you’re more likely to see bare flesh than you are ankle-length skirts. (If it’s anything like past events, however, you’ll see corsets – lots of ’em.) Now in its twelfth…

Don’t be surprised if you come upon a group of unibrowed people tonight at the Tennyson First Friday art walk wearing circle skirts and extravagant beaded jewelry. The gaudy dressers will be channeling the spirit of Frida Kahlo for the eighth annual Beads, Braids & Brows, an art show and…

The problem with cheap apartments is that the walls are often very thin. Such was the case with the dilapidated place that friends Eddie Guerriero and Mitch Deprey moved into in San Francisco in 1987, where they soon began to hear, and eventually tape, drunken fighting coming from next door…

Don’t mess with Pam Grier. The Colorado-residing actress is known for her bad-ass roles in blaxploitation films like Foxy Brown and Coffy, which are both screening tonight as part of the Crest Film Series at Crossroads Theater. In advance of the screening, we took a look at the top five…

When pro tennis player Diane Van Deren was diagnosed with epilepsy, the only thing she found that helped stave off the seizures was running. “As I had an onset, a feeling of déjà vu that a seizure was about to erupt, what I would do is I’d throw my running…

“I’ve been to a lot of readings where you can’t wait for someone to stop reading,” recalls Fast Forward Press co-founder Leah Rogin-Roper. “Our readings aren’t like that.” The Denver-based press specializes in flash fiction, which Rogin-Roper defines as a “short short story.” With the word count capped at 1,000,…

Gorinto, the weekly food-and-music joint at the Mercury Cafe, is known for bringing together eclectic bands with a $5 vegetarian meal. And tonight, they’re adding film. Local filmmaker Kim Shively is curating a night filled to the brim with short films from local filmmakers, music, and as always, food…

In the early 1970s, behavioral psychologist Herbert Terrace designed an experiment to discover whether chimps could use language. At the center of the experiment was Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee raised in different homes, taught sign language and eventually brought back to the laboratory. James Marsh’s new documentary, Project Nim (at…

Parskid started creating graffiti in 1999, and over the years, his spray-paint art has made its mark on the fine-art world. A solo show of the Seattle artist’s self-described “illustrative imaginary landscapes” will open tonight at IndyInk; many of the ethereal pieces are nature-themed, featuring ghostly antlered creatures wandering in…

What do Bob Dylan, Heath Ledger and Elvis have in common? Their fashion sense: They’ve all worn Western shirts from Rockmount Ranch Wear, founded in 1946 by the late Jack A. Weil. Although its claim to fame is being the first company to add snaps to Western shirts, Rockmount is…

For those interested in down-dogging surrounded by giant pink bunnies, the Dikeou Collection has you covered. Last week, the fifth-floor art collection in LoDo hosted its first yoga class, which is set to continue every Wednesday afternoon. Vital Yoga’s Therese Chavez teaches the donation-based Anusara class in the colorful private…

Though it’s titled Faithful, the premise of Edge Theatre Company’s newest production tells a different story. The play opens with a depressed woman named Margaret, who, on the day she plans to commit suicide, finds out that her husband has planned to have her killed so that he can run…

You see a lot of strange things managing a multimillion-dollar steakhouse in New York City. A woman going commando and flashing the entire front section of the restaurant is just one of the many bizarre scenes that Carolann Valentino witnessed and details in her lively one-woman show, Burnt at the…