The Snowsports Industries America (SIA) Snow Show that starts today at the Colorado Convention Center is mostly about business and mostly closed to the public. So if you want a piece of the action, get a job. Seriously: One of the primary parts open to the public is the SchmoozaPalooza…
As if to welcome the new year with some fresh business, the Denver Art Museum is bringing back its monthly, expect-anything event for adults, Untitled. And fully in the spirit of perfect timing, this initial session, Untitled #33 (Pledge), is all about kicking aside the already-broken resolutions and making some…
The 5th Annual Meanest Green Chili Cook-off & Sizzlin’ Jazz Benefit Concert is an attempt to prove that you can fight fire with fire. The beneficiaries of this year’s event — sponsored by the Hatch Foundation in conjunction with Services for Artists — will be victims of the Four Mile…
Do you have holey sweaters? Or a favorite woolen scarf worn by time and use? Fingerless mittens that aren’t supposed to be that way? Now you can fix ’em: Jaime Kopke, who once inspired Denverites with her interactive pop-up Denver Community Museum, is joining forces with coffee fanatic Megan Quicke…
During the time Erin Bakersmith has been running the Yoga Mat studio, she’s noticed some parallels between two popular physical activities, yoga and snowboarding. There’s the body-awareness aspect, as well as yoga’s calm, meditative feeling that some skiers and snowboarders also experience on the slopes, but the commonalities go beyond…
Curious Theatre Company’s current production, Circle Mirror Transformation, may not have much to do with homosexuality, per se, but as Sarah Benvenuti, Curious’s managing director, delicately points out, “I think the arts and the LGBT community have gone hand in hand for a long time.” Yep, the arts are kind…
You’ve probably seen Hal Sparks: He hosted Talk Soup a little over ten years ago, starred in Queer As Folk for five seasons and is a regular commentator on VH1’s I Love the 70s, 80s and 90s. But he got his start in standup, and comedy continues to be central…
Pub quizzes have been popular since the first day a cold draft beer trickled down the beard of a knowledgeable geek, though it wasn’t until recently that the quizzes became a national affair. But tonight, instead of the bulging biceps of most Bowl-related events, you’ll find a large collection of…
The Mile High City is already home to the Great American Beer Festival, but while that brew blowout attracts hundreds of brewers and tens of thousands of fans from here, there and everywhere, the Winter Brew Fest, which comes to a head tonight at 7 p.m. at Mile High Station,…
This weekend’s Winter X Games 15 marks the tenth year in a row that Aspen has hosted the X Games at Buttermilk. Getting a room won’t be easy and definitely won’t be cheap — but as always, the Games themselves are free for spectators. “We love having the crowds up…
Comedian Hal Sparks will perform the first of five Denver shows tomorrow at Comedy Works South. Sparks, who has hosted Talk Soup and starred in Queer As Folk, has been focusing more lately on his stand-up career. His comedy special is available now through Showtime, he has a CD coming…
Today is the birthday of Newman’s Own best selling product, the late Paul Newman, everyone’s favorite cool-eyed and irreverent actor/philanthropist. He can’t so much celebrate his birthday, being deceased, but everyone else can — and surely they will, running some retrospective of the man and his work. We, too, feel…
Lord knows how many times I’ve walked past this garage (attached to a semi-dilapidated abandoned house near the Westword office) and not given it a second glance, but for whatever reason, it happened to catch my eye the other day — probably because I happened to be carrying a camera;…
Big Air ski-jumping in Civic Center Park not enough spectacle for you? A call for fans and practitioners of high-flying acrobatics — on trapeze, hoops, fabric and other riggings — is now underway for Denver’s first Aerial Acrobatic Arts Festival, May 12-15, at the Oriental Theater. Billed as the first…
There are many differences between humans and house cats, but the main one is probably that, when humans are morbidly obese, it’s sad, but when cats are morbidly obese, it’s hilarious. So because pictures of obese cats just kind of cheer us up on the mid-week slump, and because it’s…
Let’s face it: If you build a 106-foot launch tower and then send competitors — some of them as young as 14 — careening down the face of it on skis towards a big-ass kicker for a competition like last night’s Nature Valley Big Air Challenge in Civic Center Park…
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: we’re really sick of zombie games. However, this was just too good to pass up. Namely because it’s really a survival game, not a zombie game — you could easily mentally substitute zombies for Mad Max-style psychos with cool mohawks and…
Kirsten Coplans thinks small. She lives and works simply in a tiny, eclectic Uptown matchbox of a house furnished with retro furniture and blooming collections: Chinese jewelry boxes with miniature drawers, Asian dolls, vintage glass casseroles patterned in fruity colors. Her studio, where she creates Pearl Clothing, her local line…
Proving definitively that nobody rocks a party like the gays rock a party, a teeming multitude of bears, twinks, butches, drag queens and the generally effete descended on Colorado’s most celebrity-friendly resort town this week for the 34th Annual Aspen Gay Ski Week, and they didn’t stop until at least…
Metropolitan State College has a special place in Denver’s art world. Not only does it have the biggest set of visual-arts departments in the state, but it has its own mini-museum, the Center for Visual Art, long a fixture in LoDo and now the jewel of the Santa Fe art…
2011: Year in Preview. Bobbi Walker, owner of Walker Fine Art, has employed a clever way to create an automatic group show by putting together examples of work by all of the artists who will be featured in duets this year. The show looks good, but what’s really neat is…
Hello, Dolly!Say hello to Hello, Dolly!, an old warhorse finding new life at Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. The musical tells the story of a meddlesome widow, Dolly Levi, who makes a living connecting people. Ostensibly trying to find a wife for half-millionaire feed-store owner Horace Vandergelder, she’s actually plotting to snare…
