“A potent combination of moisture and arctic air left significant amounts of new snow throughout the high country over the last couple of days,” reports Colorado Ski Country USA spokesman Patrick Byrne. Translation? With some Colorado ski areas getting as much as nineteen inches of snow from this week’s storm,…
Christmas — or whatever you celebrate this time of year — is not a geek holiday. Sure, the togetherness and gift-giving and eggnog drunks are great no matter if you’re a geek or not, but it still seems like the holiday should throw us some kind of bone. It doesn’t,…
Boulderites — especially those in the city’s close-knit pro-cycling community — take bikes seriously. So it goes without saying that the annual Bike Art exhibition at the Dairy Center for the Arts is a big draw. The national show of more than 100 works in a variety of mediums is…
Ever since it opened in a shed off Archer Street in 2003, and in the five homes it’s had since then, the Denver Zine Library has been a community space where people can see handmade publications donated from all over the world — 15,000 zines in all today. On Friday,…
Yes, we know it’s hard to think beyond the next heating vent — but New Year’s Eve is coming, and no matter how cold it is on December 31, people will be looking for where they can have a hot time. And if you’re organizing a big event on New…
In a transitory town like Denver, many new parents find themselves stationed hundreds of miles from kin — and some moms, myself included, struggle to make it through the first year, feeling isolated while experiencing postpartum depression or struggling with breastfeeding. So, if it takes a village to raise a…
The life of Russell Baze, a steelworker in a Pennsylvania town just outside of Pittsburgh, may be drab and dreary, but he’s a good, hardworking man with a loving girlfriend. His younger brother, Rodney, has it tougher: A war vet suffering from PTSD, he hasn’t been able to readjust to…
Once, in the middle of the 2004 Tour de France bicycling race, the nine-man American team, led by Lance Armstrong, pretended that their bus had broken down en route to their hotel. As fans and the international press stood outside, cheering and taking pictures, the team, hidden behind high, tinted…
The breadth of director Shaul Schwarz’s documentary Narco Cultura is staggering. A hybrid of hard investigative journalism and incisive cultural criticism, the film, at its core, is about definitions of success and power, and how today those terms are shaped by the shared forces of poverty and celebrity culture. Schwarz…
This is it: Merry Christmas to All, and to All a Good-Bye is the last show at Heritage Square Music Hall — a strange venue that’s half true Western-style building, half pure Disney-level kitsch. If you’re already a fan of the 25-year-old troupe, catch this show immediately. And if you’re…
Among the offerings at Walker Fine Art is the standout Sabin Aell: Mond:See, a solo outing in the gallery’s main room. The show starts with a bang courtesy of the striking title piece, “Mond:See” (pictured), a mural that starts in the entry, then climbs the north wall and bleeds onto…
Catalyst. The beautiful grounds of the Denver Botanic Gardens are the ideal place to mount an outdoor sculpture show, and over the past few years, there has been one such presentation after another. This year, the theme is contemporary sculptors in Colorado. The pieces are picturesquely sited throughout in clearings…
Jackie and Me. Jackie and Me, Steven Dietz’s dramatization of a young-adult book by Dan Gutman, is a kids’ show, and also a remarkably flat and didactic one. It tells the story of a baseball-crazed boy named Joey Stoshak, who, with the help of a magical baseball card, goes back…
Fifteen years ago (December 4, 1998) an unusual movie was released…and roundly rejected: director Gus Van Sant’s off-puttingly faithful remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Fresh off the critical and commercial success of Good Will Hunting, Van Sant could’ve tried for another feel-good hit or a high-profile for-hire gig. Instead, he…
The Denver Zine Library has come a long way since it began in a shed on Archer Street in 2003. Making its way through six different spaces and tons of readings and events, the library has accumulated a collection of over 15,000 zines, which are available to the public for…
The holidays can be overwhelming. Shopping for presents. Wrapping presents. Listening to your kids complain about the presents you bought them. It’s enough to make anyone say bah humbug. Which is why the organizers of Cabaret Otaku’s Holiday Lights plan to play around with and poke fun at tradition, rather…
There is something inherently un-masculine about the typical holiday craft fair, and Stu and Nicky Alden of the design studio Ink Lounge Creative wanted to do something about it. And Holiday Mancraft, a gathering of local artisans and vendors selling an array of gifts made for men, by men, was…
“I know nobody listens to my radio show and thinks, ‘You know what this needs? Some dancers,’” says This American Life host Ira Glass. “And nobody sits through a dance show and thinks, ‘This needs some guy talking and playing audio clips.’” But that is just what Glass has done…
The holiday season is often called “magical” — and one big catalyst behind that magic is the sense of nostalgia that tradition evokes. Khyentse James is adept at harnessing that sense of nostalgic wonder: Her film-school studies, combined with several years of creating movie-worthy scenes, have made all of her…
After sneaker enthusiast Gary Hughes purchased a pair of knock-off Nike Heineken Dunks thinking they were the real deal, he wanted to avoid being ripped off again. So he created a sneaker exchange in a bar ten years ago; now called Dunkxchange, the international traveling sneaker-culture festival comes to Denver…
You know Akira back and forth. You can quote the key lines from Ghost in the Shell in your sleep. Anime standards like Sailor Moon, Bubblegum Crisis and Dragon Ball Z are all old hat to you. Don’t worry, otaku, there’s still undiscovered territory out there for you. “If you…
Sixteen years ago, Jimi Bernath created an event to commemorate the death of John Lennon, who was shot and killed on December 8, 1980 — but the annual Beatles/John Lennon Memorial Sing-Along is a more of a celebration of life. “The Beatles are perennial,” says Bernath. “They’re as popular as…
