What’s better than scoring a perfectly fitting designer dress or a one-of-a-kind pair of shoes on a shopping expedition? Snagging the good stuff at a decent price — or, even better, for free. This weekend, Fast Geek Boutique will host its first-ever Spring Cleaning Clothing Swap and Fashion Denver will…
Besides blowing the mind of everyone who ever heard it, Sgt. Pepper broke a lot of ground: The album radically expanded the concept of what pop music could be, in the process inventing the studio technology needed to make it happen. There’s probably not another person alive who can articulate…
Julie Puma had a month to put together her new show, Let’s Get it Straight, and she diverted from painting, her usual medium, into snapshot aesthetic photography. The biggest challenge for Puma wasn’t the medium, however. Rather, it was spotlighting her own personal life. Let’s Get it Straight” offers a…
The sinking of the RMS Titanic is one of those reliable touchstones that can always be used as a time-keeper for historical fiction. Although only the fifth most deadly shipwreck of all time, it is undeniably the most famous. The drama of one of the most expensive, “unsinkable” nautical marvels…
Star Trek and Star Wars and all that descended from them inured us to the real hardships of space travel by making it look so easy. But what was it really like for Yuri Gagarin, the first man to ever leave Earth’s atmosphere and orbit the planet? The Soviet cosmonaut…
Bree Daves discovered how the other 1 percent lives when she went to Beaver Creek for a night, and shared her discoveries in “Five things destitute dames need to know about shacking up in fancy hotels.” Among other things, you do not wear the fluffy robe from your room to…
The story of the Evil Companions goes something like this: Several decades ago, a secret society of Denver writers would meet, drink and gab at downtown watering holes, and while the conversations might have been deep, they weren’t always pretty. But when the Evil Companions concept was resurrected in 1992,…
Even people born decades after the Beatles first banded together know that Eric Clapton played lead guitar on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” as well as many other Fab Four facts. Those truly obsessed fans won’t want to miss composer and engineer Scott Freiman, arguably the world’s foremost expert on…
Ever since Jill Warner and her husband, Erick Roorda, opened Mod Livin’ ten years ago, they’ve been fielding questions about Charles and Ray Eames on a daily basis: “What did they design? How can you tell which pieces are theirs? Why are they important?” But it wasn’t until this year…
What does it mean to be a sex worker? Former tradeswoman/current erotic performance artist Cassandra and professional dominatrix Mistress Djuna will answer that question at tonight’s installment of Feminism & Co.: Sex Work, part of an interactive lecture and performance series at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver that explores…
Open mikes in San Francisco circa 1994 tended to be ruled by male poets emulating Charles Bukowski and Henry Rollins, explains writer and Sister Spit co-founder Michelle Tea. “There was a lot of obnoxious drunk-dude energy at all of them,” she says, laughing. So Tea and writer Sini Anderson started…
Austin Weishel is hot stuff. Not only is he a firefighter in Loveland, but he’s also an artist who’s designed a monument to arson dogs that is destined for a fire station in Washington, D.C., as a national salute to these canine crime-fighters. Unlike the dalmatians that were used to…
America has long had a tumultuous relationship with its mentally ill, and Ralena Gordon has spent the last five years documenting it in a photo collection she’s named The Empty Places. Tonight at the Mercury Cafe, 2199 California Street, she’ll discuss her work at a fundraiser that she hopes will…
If you play with the facts a little, Buntport Theater’s Tommy Lee Jones Goes to Opera Alone is based on a true story: Two members of the troupe went to the Santa Fe Opera, where they purportedly saw Tommy Lee Jones, sitting…alone. At the opera. Beyond that, it’s pretty much…
Chip Walton, artistic director of Curious Theatre, says he’s having such a blast rehearsing Becky Shaw that he’s almost sorry the play is opening this weekend. “There’s a great, wry sarcasm” to the script, he explains. Playwright Gina Gionfriddo told him she was influenced by the movies of the 1940s…
Denver is home to a number of historic architectural treasures, and at this weekend’s eighth annual Doors Open Denver, you can tour over eighty of them for free. Want to travel 21 stories to the top of downtown’s D&F tower, which was the country’s third-tallest structure when it was built…
It’s easy to poke fun at the differences between Denver and Boulder, but for many people living with disabilities, the distance between the Capitol and the Flatirons — and the hassle of traveling between the two towns — is no joke. Tonight, PHAMALY takes the laughs on the road with…
Everything’s coming up Titanic at the Denver Central Library, where in commemoration of that tragedy a hundred years ago today, guests will gather in the B2 Conference Center for a Titanic Survivors Brunch, reminiscent of one that might have taken place on the RMS Carpathia, the first ship on the…
Shawn Sheehy has been creating pop-up cards and books for years, and after he moved into his first-ever house (and spent a summer gardening in his new yard), he was inspired to create Pop-Up Wildflowers, a curriculum focusing on everything from accurate, three-dimensional pop-up renderings of flowers to botanical certification…
Dos Casas, a culinary extravaganza that benefits Brent’s Place, a local nonprofit that provides hope and help for kids stricken with cancer, will pack the house with distinguished chefs: Jamey Fader of Big Red F; Goose Sorensen of Solera; Pete Marczyk of both Marczyk Fine Foods stores; Troy Guard of…
The Bicycle Longmont Film Festival gets rolling tonight and continues through Thursday. “The fundamental principle behind this and everything we do is to get more people on bikes more often,” says Scott Conlin, boardmember of Bicycle Longmont. “We want people to connect or reconnect with cycling and have a great…
Look out: The punks are coming, and they’re about to flood the town in a big way, beginning with a new MCA Denver satellite show, Richard Peterson and the Art of a Warrior Tribe, opening tonight at Gildar Gallery. Curated by the MCA’s Adam Lerner, it’s one cog in the…
