Bike messengers, avid cyclists and racing newbies, strap on your helmets for the Mile High Messenger Challenge 2012. In the grand tradition of unsanctioned alleycat racing — informal city bike races — this all-ages competition is a test of speed and safety, with a series of checkpoints, package pick-ups and…
Stacy Peralta helped shape both skateboarding and pop culture, first as a ’70s-era skater with the Zephyr team, and later as the man behind the camera for a series of Bones Brigade videos starring the skater army he assembled, including Tony Hawk, Steve Caballero, Rodney Mullen, Lance Mountain, Tommy Guerrero…
Spring is in the air, and while humans hit the tanning salons and browse the swimwear aisles at local stores, canines can get in on the action at the Doggie Swimsuit Fashion Event, which takes place today in Westminster at the Unleashed by Petco store. “We got a bunch of…
Today’s discussion and signing of Digging Snowmastodon: Discovering an Ice Age World in the Colorado Rockies, by Ian Miller and Kirk Johnson, will reveal “new dirt on the Ice Age dig,” promises Miller, paleontology curator at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and one of the lead scientists on…
We’ve all roamed around Craigslist at one time or another, looking for couches or jobs or something to do. And after seeing so many friends “dating or at least hooking up through Craiglist,” playwright Sean Paul Mahoney decided that the time was ripe for the free online listing service to…
Windsor James and David Reyes, two local skaters on the 303 Boards shop team, are blowing up big this month with the release of the final segment of Mystery Skateboards’ Color Theory video series. James is from Colorado Springs and just turned pro; Reyes is from Denver and is expected…
In 1919 rancher J. Frank Norfleet got swindled twice by a roving group of slick con artists, who cleaned him out of $45,000 with a fake stock-exchange scam similar to the “Big Con” operation in The Sting. But rather than embrace defeat, Norfleet became the “boomerang sucker.” He spent the…
UPDATE: Mondo won, as you know. Read all about it here: “It’s a celebration, bitches! Mondo Guerra wins Project Runway All Stars”Denver designer Mondo Guerra is about to emerge from the Project Runway vortex after a two-year stay, and he’ll be the latest personality to try and prove that there…
For this spring’s Logan Lecture series at the Denver Art Museum, Modern & Contemporary curator Gwen Chanzit chose to focus on five artists whose primary concern is for the materials they work with. Postminimalist artist Richard Tuttle, whose sculptural works weave in and out of various mediums and techniques while…
We now take a break from all the Zak Bagans is/isn’t a douche discussion to salute a real arts happening in this city: The Bringing Back the Arts concert Sunday night at the Bluebird Theatre, a project spearheaded by First Lady Mary Louise Lee that featured eight groups from Denver…
Once a film reaches the status of Casablanca — retired to the vault of such designations as “classic,” “legendary,” “timeless” — fans begin looking at the picture through the lens of their own memory. As with Star Wars or The Big Lebowski, devotees of Casablanca will always remember the first…
Artist Kym Bloom takes playing with her food to the next level by making art out of Peeps, Chicklets, candy hearts and Jolly Ranchers (among other candies). Bloom melts the candies with a butane torch, molds the melted forms together on a surface and finally coats the piece in resin…
Raise your hand if you’ve had this (or a similar) experience before: You walk into a retail store and approach a group of salespeople. They are talking to each other in their seemingly normal voices, but when you ask a question of the group, you get a response from one…
Everyone’s favorite eccentric Renaissance man, William Shatner, is in Denver for his one-man performance of Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It this evening at the Buell Theatre. For Shat-nerds, seeing this show will be a lot like making it with an alien hottie. And for everyone else who needs…
On a Tuesday night on the cusp of spring, when a young man’s fancy turns and the cruelest month looms just days away, you could do worse than head to Lakewood to hear great verse declaimed at the seventh annual Poetry Out Loud state finals. Declaimed, emoted, and embraced –…
If social media is the communication tool of the future, the Denver Public Library doesn’t want to be left in the dust, and that’s why the library will launch its ambitious Creating Your Community (CYC) social archive — a participatory opportunity for people to share stories of their Colorado heritage…
Fans of Zak Bagans jumped to his defense after Tiffany Fitzgerald suggested that the Ghost Adventures host didn’t act very professional in last Friday night’s segment, which featured several Denver landmarks — including the Peabody Mansion, the Tivoli and Phil Goodstein. “Phil Goodstein is a goddamn national treasure,” she wrote,…
There are usually interesting shows on view near the corner of 37th Avenue and Navajo Street, but rarely as interesting as those on view at two galleries right now. Nate Baldwin: Commanding Comprehension, on display at Pirate (3655 Navajo Street, 303-458-6058, www.pirateartonline.com), is made up a single painting — a…
Clyfford Still. For the opening of the Clyfford Still Museum, founding director Dean Sobel has installed a career survey of the great artist. Clyfford Still: Inaugural Exhibition starts with the artist’s realist self-portrait and features his remarkable post-impressionist works from the 1920s. Next are Still’s works from the ’30s, with…
The Drowsy Chaperone. The role of the Man in the Chair is the spine for The Drowsy Chaperone, and the primary reason that this lighthearted, inconsequential and very silly show is so much fun to watch: Without him, it would just float off into the ether. But with him, we’re…
Director Joshua Marston demonstrated his ability to sustain almost unbearable dramatic tension in his debut feature film, Maria Full of Grace. His sophomore effort, The Forgiveness of Blood, illustrates an impressive deepening of that skill. Working from a script co-written by Andamion Murataj and with a cast of non-professional actors…
If no one watches, then they don’t have a game,” a teenager says in this faithful if cautious adaptation of the first volume of Suzanne Collins’s astronomically successful dystopic YA trilogy. A withering indictment of omnipresent screens, endless spectacle and debased celebrity culture, The Hunger Games was inspired, the author…
