One Hip in the Grave might be a strange title for tonight’s belly-dance extravaganza, says Chris Keating, aka Chaya, who helped produce the performance and teach the students who are performing. It came about, she explains, because, “We were just thinking of a clever, Halloween-themed belly-dance name, and we thought…
Levi Leipheimer smashed Lance Armstrong’s record at the Leadville Trail 100 mountain-bike race this year, and Rebecca Rusch smashed her own women’s record on the course, finishing 22nd overall and ahead of most of her male competitors. Still, Race Across the Sky director Frank Matson, from Denver-based Citizen Pictures, says…
Katie Goodman makes it no secret that Broad Comedy, her all-female, song-and-dance sendup of politics and pop culture, has a bit of a feminist bent. “If it’s not political,” she admits, “it’s kind of women-centric.” It’s fitting, then, that the Vancouver Fringe Festival winner and critically acclaimed dame of theatrical…
The reasoning for a silent film festival was ultimately pragmatic: “I didn’t have any speakers,” explains Wendy Manning, marketing director for the Denver Pavilions and organizer of the Short, Sweet & Silent Third Floor Film Festival. All the same, Manning wanted to do something to commemorate Denver Arts Week, November…
The Denver Zine Library collects and shares a bounty of zines both local and national with the community; artist Dylan Scholinski’s Sent(a)mental Studios draws attention to individuals or groups affected by suicide through artwork and art therapy, particularly at-risk youth. Together, they share both community values and space at 27…
Project Angel Heart, the Denver nonprofit that prepares and delivers more than 400,000 nutritious meals each year to people coping with life-threatening illnesses, is joining forces with several local restaurants, catering companies, dessert dens and cafes for A Taste for Life, a gustatory graze-athon that raises funds to support the…
“The Colorado Ski & Snowboard Expo is your last big chance before the season really gets under way to find out about the best deals and packages on lift tickets, season passes, gear, soft goods, and everything you need to have a great season in the mountains,” says Jennifer Rudolph,…
Last year’s inaugural Lumberjack Crawl surprised organizer Kiki Nichols. “At one point I counted, and we had close to 200 lumberjacks who had joined up with us,” she says. “People who hadn’t dressed up went out to their cars and grabbed utility gloves and were like, ‘I’m ready to join.’…
You know the type: usually defined as a bit geeky and a tad cool, with a penchant to blow their cold hard cash on twelve-inch plastic platters.They’re record collectors. Perhaps it’s the satisfying crackle of a needle on vinyl or the lovingly crafted artwork that accompanies an LP, but records…
Get ready to shake your booty, drink till you drop and party like a rock star, because tonight is the grand-opening gala celebrating Denver’s swanky new Four Seasons hotel, and it’s going to be a hot one. “This is going to be a once-in-a-lifetime party,” promises Dana Berry, spokeswoman for…
MCA Denver is hosting a rare treat for art enthusiasts tonight. Legendary artist Christo will present a lecture on his controversial work-in-progress, Over the River — for which he hopes to drape portions of a forty-mile stretch of the Arkansas River in a translucent fabric — in conjunction with the…
Okay, Tim and Eric fans, you finally have a reason to leave the house. While Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim have five years of public access-style TV craziness under their belts, that wasn’t enough, because now they’re taking their absurdist comedy on the road with the Tim and Eric Awesome…
Butchering a buffalo is bloody, smelly work. It takes strength, it takes time, and it draws flies by the hundreds. The Plains Indians and white buffalo hunters did it as often as they could, following the herds, hunting them, breaking down the animals they killed on spot. While that would…
General William Sherman once said that “war is hell” — but what he should have said is “war is hellarious. Or at least it is when adorable animals are all dressed up and cute. Because anthropomorphizing our fellow inhabitants of the animal kingdom is one of the strangest things humans…
Copper Mountain and Keystone both open on Friday — sick day, anyone? — which means it’s time to start waxing up the old sticks for early season snow conditions. If you’ve never done it yourself or need a refresher (or if you’re just looking to sip some wine and meet…
If you know what a /b/tard is, then you know moot. /B/tard, of course, refers to the special kind of antisocial nerd who frequents 4chan’s /b/ (extremely NSFW, that link) — a random, anonymous, no-rules repository of obscure coding jokes, a disturbing amount of child pornography and pretty much every…
Charged with the task of interviewing the common folk of Denver for Westword, my weekly quest to speak with interesting characters about the pressing issues of our time found me in an alley on Capitol Hill, where I found a part-time graffiti writer who identified himself only as Kodak. He…
Sexy, hilarious, deep, irreverent, transcendent, unique, delightful, disturbing: The films of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar are all these things and more, further buoyed by strong performances, memorable leading ladies and the director’s own inimitable imagination. And what could be more wonderful, on the brink of winter and hectic holidays-to-come, than…
In television history, perhaps no single show has ever been quite as revolutionary as The Jerry Springer Show — not that many people would see that as a good thing. All the same, over the course of its twenty-year history, Jerry Springer, along with a cast of strippers, transvestites, trailer-dwellers…
Anyone under about 35 will have fond memories of playing Oregon Trail in the computer lab at school at some point. It was never entirely clear why, but it was always under the guise of some form of edutainment. Either way, it was a pleasant reprieve from the typing tutor…
It’s a story that would chill the bones of anyone who’s ever seen Poltergeist: In the 1890s, the city of Denver decided to convert a disused cemetery into what is now Cheesman park, hiring the unscrupulous contractor E.W. McGovern to perform the work of moving the bodies — except instead…
Scientists in Morrison recently announced the discovery of teeny-tiny brontosaurus footprints. The most amazing thing about them? They appear to show that the baby brontos were running on their hind legs. From Matt Mossbrucker, footprint discoverer and Morrison Natural History Museum director: “In the end, we might have a baby…
