If plummeting temperatures have you dreaming of steamier situations, grab a pillow, make sure you’re wearing clean undies and head to Longmont tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. for the free monthly movie night hosted by the new Boulder branch of the Center for Sex Positive Culture. A double feature of sex-centered…
Breck’s Ullr Fest Parade is an annual winter spectacle dating back to 1963, and it’s one of the craziest events in Colorado. This year’s parade theme? “Still Crazy After All These Years.” When the parade gets underway on North Main Street today at 4:30 p.m. watch for half-naked revelers freezing…
The Flying O.H.N.O. Twins do a lot of things, but it’s also kind of hard to explain exactly what they do. Since the end of September, Donald Fodness and Alvin Gregorio’s (they’re the twins, you know) installation Shut Your Face Off has been intriguing and mildly confusing people at the…
Riva Sweetrocket’s lush pastels on paper — which look like oil paintings to the untrained eye — have been delighting Denverites for years. And she’ll undoubtedly pick up some new fans with her latest exhibit, Riva Sweetrocket: Extra Ordinary, which will be on display at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007…
As anyone who’s crawled the Art District on Santa Fe on First Friday knows, the stretch of Santa Fe Drive between Alameda and Twelfth avenues is filled with talent. So when Dana Cain started planning the second annual Art District Best of 2010, she wanted a discerning eye to judge…
Outdoor adventurers take on the wilderness with love – and a healthy does of respect for the beauty and awesome power of nature. They risk their lives for the thrill of negotiating self-imposed challenges and the reward of seeing the greatest vistas the world has to offer; they inspire by…
The Professional Ski Instructors Association, which is headquartered in Lakewood, will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary in 2011, starting with the annual Learn to Ski & Snowboard Month. The organization known as PSIA-AASI (it includes the American Association of Snowboard Instructors) partners each year with the National Ski Areas Association, the…
James R. Zingelman, better known by his stage name Rusty Z, is, in fact, a clinical hypnotherapist, but it’s unlikely that he’ll be helping anybody quit smoking at his show tonight. He may, however, convince you that you can speak Martian. “I’ve always been interested in it, since I was…
Just over a year ago, Heather Snow decided she wanted to do standup. Building her comedic chops around the city at open mikes, Snow noticed early on that with the small amount of time allotted to new comics, it was harder to hone her craft. Enter Ladies Laugh-In, a monthly…
Ocean Prime, a splashy new steak and seafood restaurant that will open on January 20 in Larimer Square, is hosting a preview tonight for Denver cognoscenti who put their money where their mouth is: Owner Cameron Mitchell and his crew are ushering in the New Year – and their new…
“Everyone comes to Estes Park in the summer, but winter is a best-kept secret, and this is our way of celebrating all of the amazing things that people can do in this great town — in winter and summer,” says Elizabeth Fogarty, project manager of the Estes Park Winter Festival,…
Last month, Torin Yater-Wallace, a fifteen-year-old skier from Basalt, finished in fifth place in the Winter Dew Tour’s Men’s Ski Super-pipe Finals at Breckenridge. Torin who? Exactly: Yater-Wallace is a product of the Gatorade Free Flow Tour, an amateur series that also serves as a feeder system for sending new…
“There weren’t many women out here on the ice twelve years ago, which is why I started all this in the first place,” says Kim Reynolds, the head chick behind the Chicks With Picks and Chicks Rock climbing clinics. “I like to think we’ve helped make ice climbing more approachable…
In the hallowed halls of things that are very, very serious, there are some questions upon whose resolution our society’s very survival depends. Serious questions. Very serious questions. Definitively answering those questions has long been the venerable mission of Buntport Theater — which has previously resolved such weighty issues as…
Quick: What do you know about diabetes? Chances are, not much — and that can be a problem for the millions of people diagnosed each year with what the Centers for Disease Control are now calling a full-fledged epidemic; the number of people worldwide with diabetes is expected to double…
In these parts, we don’t just call this a holiday: The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Marade — so named by former Colorado First Lady Wilma Webb to denote it as a cross between a political march and a celebratory parade — is known for being one of the…
Photography, an alchemist’s medium dependent on a manipulation of light and time, unfairly stands in that no-man’s-land between fine art and technical craft, and working to change that general perception is half the job of promoting the photographic arts. That said, the tenth anniversary of Working With Artists, a nonprofit…
Moleskins, alternative newspapers, Ray-Bans, beards: all stuff white people are into, or so says author Christian Lander, whose website spawned his first book, Stuff White People Like. Now he’s back to the printed page with Whiter Shades of Pale. The book’s primary goal is to look even closer at white…
Sample topics from Aziz Ansari’s stand-up repertoire: Craigslist, thread counts, Jamba Juice and his cousin Harris. In his hands, they’re all opportunities to screw with someone. Ansari has a big resumé that’s just getting bigger. He starred in MTV’s Human Giant and now stars in NBC’s Parks & Recreation. He’s…
What made Gilda Radner one of the all-time comic greats was her astonishing combination of fragility and complete disinhibition. She was raucous, sweet, lewd and confused. You really had no idea what she was likely to do at any given moment — spit, fall, collapse into uncontrollable laughter — nor,…
Over the past year and a half, Fascinations has been hosting “Let’s Talk Sex” events in every market. “It’s really important to us to provide open-source, accessible sex education through free classes,” notes Fascinations media specialist Shanna Katz. “Kink is part of the spectrum of sexuality, so in addition to…
You can leave your 3D glasses behind this weekend if you go to the fourth annual Festivus Film Festival, which takes over the Oriental and Bug theaters for three days and showcases more than sixty independent films. “We wanted to create something that focused on real indie films,” says festival…
