Limber up your voice, brush up on your favorite Beatles tunes and head to the Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, today at 2 p.m. for the tenth annual John Lennon and Beatles Memorial Singalong. Join other Beatles fans in rousing renditions of favorite selections from the Beatles catalogue, along with…
Although he never set out to be the sentinel of the season, Brian Setzer has long had a knack for revitalizing forgotten genres: Beginning in the early ’80s, he and the Stray Cats reached the height of the rockabilly revival; in the ’90s, he and the Brian Setzer Orchestra set…
Rock and roll really can save the world. That’s the idea behind Fünde Razor, a 21-and-over charity event. Show up tonight at 6 p.m at the Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut Street, pay a $10 cover (plus donations, if you like), drink beer, buy $10 raffle tickets for kick-ass prizes and…
Explore the weirder side of the city today when the Bizarre Denver collective presents its Bizarre Bazaar, a showcase for local artists, musicians and community organizations. From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Brooks Center Arts, at 1400 Williams Street, will play host to nearly two dozen artists displaying their work…
According to Mark Lundholm, star attraction of the Comedy Addiction Tour, “There’s only one story worth talking about, ever; I don’t care if it’s the Bible or Harry Potter. And that story is redemption.” Lundholm knows this tale intimately. He’s a former substance abuser who polished comedy routines about his…
For me, fishing is all about luck. I have no idea which lure catches which fish, and one time I thought I had the big one on my line — but the hook was just stuck on the lake’s floor. For me, fishing is a lot like surfing: Even if…
Longtime Colorado entertainer Timothy P. Irvin is a talented musician and, as one of this region’s early importers of the Appalachian string music known as bluegrass, is considered a Rockygrass pioneer. But what really sets the man apart is the fact that he can play a mean nose trumpet. If…
I know there are people who would vehemently disagree, but I think dogs in costumes are pretty darn cute. I’m not talking about winter jackets or an everyday wardrobe; that’s disturbing. But when the occasion calls for costumes, why not? The Jingle Bell Run for Arthritis calls for costumes of…
This time of year, I have two goals: finding unique holiday gifts for my family and friends, and sampling all of the comfort foods of the season. Luckily for me, today’s Mission Wear Christmas Bazaar provides ample opportunity for both — plus, I’ll get to feel a little altruistic about…
Most economics students know the late Milton Friedman as an energetic booster of the free-market system. But to Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, who appears tonight and tomorrow to benefit KGNU radio, he was a considerably more sinister figure — a theorist whose…
Lately, television programming seems to be in a rut: Every other show features the race to be America’s Next Top Stylist/Chef/Designer/Model, and it all seems so scripted. Yawn. Tonight, get out of the rut and off the couch for an up-close and personal — not to mention live — experience…
It’s a sad day for local art aficionados and savvy shoppers alike. Local art maestra Lauri Lynnxe Murphy will be closing her gallery, Capsule Art and Event Center, at the end of the year because the building’s owner is tearing down the structure to make way for a parking lot…
It was March, and it was ten in the morning, back in the day, children, when the Ogden Theatre was still a wonderful film revival house. (I ought to know: I used to work there and still have the emotional Rocky Horror scars to prove it.) That’s when I first…
Denver Open Media, the non-profit organization that allows anyone to produce his own TV show and air it on public access, is celebrating its one-year anniversary — and you’re invited. It all starts with a telethon on Channel 57 from 2 to 6 p.m. Afterward, head to the studios, at…
Anyone who dreads the mall and suffers panic attacks over hard-to-shop-for friends and relatives could benefit from a stroll down Old South Pearl Street this time of year. The strip may be best known for its restaurants, but it’s also a 100-year-old shopping district lined with unique gift finds: clothes,…
Last Wednesday’s episode of Project Runway forced the designers to take on what might be the biggest single challenge on the show to date — menswear. When the 13 remaining designers had to swap their lithe, pretty female models who are always ready to wear every flowing, gauzy gown and…
We all have our ski and snowboarding, puffy, heavy, non-figure flattering coats. How to be a sexy, warm snow bunny is not my area of expertise. I hang out in the resort bars and get cocked, so I couldn’t care less about warmth. I am not an expert in the…
If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit, make pop-up cards or brew the perfect cup of tea but were short on dough, you might have discovered that the Denver Public Library offers all these things and more for free as part of their Fresh City Life programming. Initially intended…
Mark your Pocket PC calendars; Fall of 2007 was when television discovered the power of the Geek. Oh, sure, they’d dabbled in nerddom here and there, mainly in the second-banana roles that sitcoms are so rife with (Urkel, Screech, Potsie, etc.), or on reality shows, some of them blatantly using…
L.A.-based pop culturalist will present his kitsch-filled holiday slide show tonight from 7 – 9 p.m. at Steele Elementary School, 370 South Marion Pkwy., Denver. Check out this slide show preview sample of what you’re likely to see…
A modest television commercial proposal for Camobooty, the Denver-based fashion craze that’s currently sweeping the nation: FADE IN: Two burly hunters, STEW and LEW, are lying on the forest floor, their rifles at the ready. LEW: Darn it, Stew, there’s somethin’ different ’bout you today. Like you got yourself a…
Acid flashback or déjà vu? Who, having lived through the late ’60s, would have anticipated re-experiencing the spectacle of an arrogantly mendacious U.S. administration bogged down in an ill-conceived, undeclared, bungled, costly and apparently endless counterinsurgency? (Although who familiar with American history could doubt its recurrence?) Iraq isn’t Vietnam. Yet,…
