Genghis Con XXXII kicks off today, and to celebrate the weekend-long board-gaming fest, we’ve decided to create a handy guide for people looking to attend. Since it runs over the course of four days and is filled with hundreds of events, you’re going to need our help — and a…
Tune in to the Discovery Channel tonight, when Ryan Van Duzer (Boulder’s “Out There Guy” endurance athlete and adventure journalist) gets dropped off at Angel Falls with a bunch of annoying people and has to help them find their way out in Out of the Wild: Venezuela. Better yet, head…
As a cultural construct, video games are better known for blowing shit up and somehow causing rape than as a scholarly pursuit. Still, like any other form of entertainment, video games engage us, capture our attention and, perhaps, alter the way we see the world — and examining how they…
When Telluride skiing legend Johnnie Stevens offers a Ski Into History tour, he’s not the only one working: Every person on the tour has to ski along with him. “Johnnie Stevens is an uncommon asset in this ski resort,” says Beth Roberts, assistant director of the Telluride Historical Museum, which…
Mare Trevathan of Curious Theatre loves Circle Mirror Transformation, the comedy by Annie Baker that opens today at Curious; it’s her favorite production of the season.“It’s a play that’s told through the filter of an acting class, with theater themes,” explains Trevathan, an actor, director and theater-immersed person in her…
Among its many outreach programs, Curious Theatre Company’s Curious New Voices curriculum for youth is one of the strongest, and certainly one of the coolest: In progress since 2004, the program matches young playwrights ages 15 to 21 with guest mentors, under the auspices of Curious founding member Dee Covington,…
When the folks at Buntport Theater acquired a sheet of artificial ice, they knew they had to create a skating show. And — given the strange and roundabout pathways by which their collective brain functions — that naturally put them in mind of Franz Kafka. Kafka on Ice, first staged…
Pieces of art from all over the country will be displayed in Bras, Bangles and Bunions, a collaboration of the Colorado Women’s Caucus for the Arts and TACtile Textile Arts Center. “It was a project that the WCA had thought of some years ago, and we just hadn’t gotten around…
Ask Matt Doubek what he and fellow artist Sam Mobley have cooked up for Every Good Cowboy, their new show at Pirate: Contemporary Art, and he’ll tell you, “Barbecue!” Indeed, at tonight’s opening reception, there will be scorched meat, as well as a compendium of Western art-inspired works by the…
It’s rare for aficionados to encounter an opera they haven’t seen dozens of times before and whose arias they can’t comfortably warble in the shower — and that’s part of what makes Opera Colorado’s Rusalka exciting. The opera is rarely shown in the United States, and has never before been…
The local branch of Green Spaces, a New York-based start-up for start-ups, will celebrate going totally solar today with a grand reopening party at 9 a.m. at its headquarters, 1368 26th Street. Since 2009, the ecologically minded space has offered Denver entrepreneurs a shared place to work and grow their…
The Next Level Church is teaming up with the Gothic Theatre and Free the Girls on a massive clothing drive, but they only want one thing: your bras. Yes, a church, a rock venue and the cause-focused company have come together to collect your new and gently used undergarments at…
There are thousands upon thousands of abandoned animals holed up in shelters throughout Colorado, including the MaxFund, a Denver-based no-kill sanctuary that not only provides pet-adoption services, but also a no-cost spay and neuter van that travels up and down the I-25 corridor, stopping at police stations, trailer parks and…
Cyclists in Leadville have been letting thin air go to their heads since at least 1889, when the Cloud City Wheelmen first brought together a group of hardy local gents and their penny-farthing bikes for early acts of extreme sportsmanship at 10,154 feet, predating the town’s modern endurance-sports craze by…
The Denver Roller Dolls are looking to break some hearts at the end of this season, when they’ll host the 2011 Women’s Flat Track Derby Association’s national championships on their home turf for the first time and attempt to wrest the national title from their local rivals, the Rocky Mountain…
Baily Rose has been involved with the Titwrench festival since its inception two years ago, “helping with different fashion installations and performances both years,” she explains. “I came up with the idea of doing an art show called On Being a Woman in late summer, and I thought the only…
Fans of Project Runway know all about Denver’s own fashion darling, Mondo Guerra, who was a finalist last season. For one of the challenges, Mondo had to create a textile pattern using computer software. “He created this pattern that was purple squares with this plus sign all outlined in yellow,…
In a metaphorical sense, the heart is what makes us love. In a literal sense, the heart is what pumps our blood — you know, the copious blood that gushes out of our necks when we get decapitated. Perhaps it’s that discrepancy between the metaphorical and the literal that makes…
Unlike video games, which are generally considered to be a solo affair, board games require players to come together. This sense of community is the driving force behind Genghis Con, a twice-yearly convention that attracts players of all shapes, factions and backgrounds for an epic weekend of gaming, conversing and…
There are few artistic journeys longer and more involved than the process of getting a novel from idea to print — and few more daunting. Luckily, the Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s Story of a Book is here to help. Helping is the main purpose of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop. “For some…
The last time Reyna Von Vett’s naughty alter ego, Cora Vette, attempted to pay homage to the Moulin Rouge with her team of burlesque Burlycute beauties, she received a cease-and-desist letter from the Moulin Rouge itself. “We got sued by the French,” she says, which is why the name of…
Adam Carolla has long been one of the most prolific talkers in comedy – he co-hosted Loveline for ten years, The Man Show for five and, since 2005, his own talk show, first on the radio and now as a daily podcast. Unscripted conversation suits him. “The biggest laughs are…
