There’s something about the work of Athol Fugard — or at least about this particular work, The Road to Mecca — that reminds me of the plays of August Wilson. It has the same rich sense of place and culture, the same emotional complexity and the same kind of humanism,…
It’s been close to a decade since the gore-spattered snowball of the zombie fad started rolling — check, for example, George Romero’s filmography, which boasts zero Whatever of the Dead flicks between 1990 and 2004 and five in the time since — and as this Halloween approaches, it’s once again…
If building a custom bike frame is on your DIY to-do list, you’ll be able to cross it off next month. The Bamboo Bike Studio, with locations in Brooklyn and San Francisco, is taking its popular bike-building workshops on the road for the Celebrate American Bike Making Tour, with stops…
MileHiCon 43 went down over the weekend at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center, and photographer Stephen Cummings was there to capture what SciFi fans do in their down time. Among his pics was this gem. Feel free to write your own caption for it in the comments section below. The…
The Grawlix comedy show has been selling out the Avenue Theater since it launched (it runs the last Friday of every month), so we figured it was time to catch up with one of the founding members, Andrew Orvedahl to talk about the history the show and its future, including…
James Lorca Garcia Velazquez doesn’t think the Denver art market is interested in his work. In fact, as he said in an interview with Tiffany Fitzgerald, he doesn’t think Denver is interested in art at all. And so he’s moving to New York. And not a moment too soon, according…
Denver’s Food Day activities are rooted at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1007 York Street, which has partnered with several community groups for an eleven-hour extravaganza that’s part of a nationwide campaign to promote affordable food in a sustainable way. The activities, which will run from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m…
In the cavernous central hall of the Aurora Municipal Center are portraits of the 85 men and women from Colorado who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the corner of each of their service portraits is a photo that their family submitted to the project called Remembering Our Fallen,…
What’s a dance club without booze? Some might say “intolerable,” but Darina Miteva — perhaps better known as DJ Darina, Bulgaria’s #1 female DJ — would beg to differ. “Everything is full of drunk people,” Miteva says. “People at home don’t like the environment in the nightclub.” Miteva, who doesn’t…
At tomorrow’s pre-Zombie Crawl Afraid of the Dark reception for the Bogeyman Art Show at MacSpa, you can commission comic artist Stan Yan to create an on-the-spot zombie makeover for you on paper, which you can then hang on your wall and remember that important day forever, dead or undead…
Come out of the closet, gapers! Hot pink and electric blue ski and snowboard gear from the 1980s lives forever thanks to events like tonight’s 8th annual 80s Ski Party at Mile High Station, 2027 West Lower Colfax Avenue, where they won’t even let you through the door unless the…
If there’s any lesson we can take from our look back this week at a number of apocalyptic prophesies (apophesies, as I like to call them) in advance of what Harold Camping is predicting to be the end of the world today, it’s that they all have one key component…
James Lorca Garcia Velazquez makes his own brushes, varnishes and pigments. He cuts all the glass for his pieces and hand-cuts the wood for his frames — frames he makes himself using a technique from the 18th century. Because he spends so much time on his process, and invests so…
The groundbreaking sci-fi series The Twilight Zone is still socially relevant, and it’s also inspired much social satire since it first appeared on television sets in 1959. The homage and spoofs range from many Simpsons episodes to a Melvins song to the Theater Company of Lafayette’s Return to the Twilight…
This weekend is all about spooky running and walking, apparently — with both Scream Scram and the Zombie Crawl lighting up the 16th Street Mall with masked, athletic nuts. If that’s not really your thing, don’t worry, because we’ve also got some good old fashioned comedy, shopping, art shows and…
This is it. Today is the end of the world, according to Harold Camping, the biblical prognosticator who was born in Boulder more than ninety years ago. But with age does not necessarily come wisdom: He did miss with his prediction of the Rapture — which he’d said would hit…
Over half a century after Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone first aired, people are still captivated by the sci-fi show. So in advance of the Theater Company of Lafayette’s production of Return to the Twilight Zone (Volume 8), A Parody, which opens tomorrow night at the Mary Miller Theater ,…
The story behind the group show Carnivalesque, on view at the Niza Knoll Gallery since September, isn’t always bright and happy, as organizer and participant Penney Bidwell knows all too well. She comes from a family of carnies that goes back three generations on her father’s side, and as the…
Every sensible person knows that when Earth is eventually destroyed, it will be by a huge asteroid like the one that killed all the dinosaurs. We learned this mostly from Jerry Bruckheimer, but Jerry Bruckheimer probably learned it from the 1979 classic Meteor, the first movie ever about humans saving…
So, if Facebook is the future of social discourse, it should be no surprise that it’s been a forum for Occupy Wall Street discussions and visual arguments. Pictures, cartoons, graphics — anti-Occupy Facebookers have taken to the virtual streets of Zuckerberg’s city to fight Occupy Wall Street supporters. Some of…
It takes a certain type of person to step into an alligator pen or to play with a giant snake, but Jay Young of Colorado Gators Reptile Park in Mosca does just that, every single day. We caught up with him to see if our fantasies of living in reptile…
There are two distinct periods in the average American’s life: high school and not-high school. For me, the farther I get from those formative ninth-through-twelfth-grade years — 1994 to 1998 — the cooler they seem to have been. Today, when I look back at say, 1995, my eyes glaze over…
