Monday night, the eight Republican Presidential candidates threw down on the CNN-hosted Tea Party Express debate, and one thing was clear: The country is poor, the current approach to healthcare isn’t working and Rick Perry is disliked. By everyone else in his party. But we weren’t sure what was more…
You’d think this city would be calming down after the post-holiday street-party season, but it that’s certainly not the case. This weekend is looking especially awesome. Not only do we have a cat-related cupcake benefit, but also robotic dinosaurs, a pancake breakfast, a flash fiction reading and plenty more, and…
Sure, the Museum of Contemporary Art maintains an appropriately bizarre group of events on a regular basis. There is, after all, nothing quite like a good homing pigeon rental to go with your yarn sculpture. But MCA’s Black Sheep Fridays, in its second season this fall, make the rest of…
Fast Forward Press’ release party for its new flash fiction anthology is coming up tonight at the Mercury Cafe, and you could be featured in the next book. To the reader who writes the best one sentence story in the comments section below, Fast Forward Press will offer publication in…
The first thing you’re going to want to do when you walk into the T. Rex Encounter exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which opens today, is run up to the gigantic, robotic Tyrannosaurus rex. The problem is, the second you do that, the T. rex will…
Mmm… totally! “We are looking forward to 10,000 snowboarders getting together to celebrate the sport and the start of the new season,” says Waide Hoyt, production manager for Standard Films. The company is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Totally Board series tonight with the world premiere of TB:20 at…
If most of the artists in Denver could make a living off their artwork, the staff of Denver’s restaurants and bars would be getting a big makeover. But sustaining the homeless through art is the idea behind RedLine’s Reach Studio. Tonight, pieces from the project will be on display at…
Director Nick Waggoner and his Boulder-based Sweetgrass Productions crew spent two years filming in the backcountry in Argentina, Peru, and Chilean Patagonia to make Solitaire, a film unlike any of the other ski and snowboard porn premiering this month. We caught up with Waggoner and producer Zac Ramras in advance…
We told you about the yarn bombs across Boulder B-Cycle stations. Now, R-U-Engaged, who was planning on turning the large-scale yarn art into blankets for charity, can’t find the brightly colored cozies. It is like they just disappeared into the night. “Having stuff disappear is the nature of yarn-bombing so…
I’m throwing my television away. Actually, I’m giving it to my mother as a consolation prize/parting gift when I move out of her home in a few days. Her own monstrous TV — which wore a DVD/VCR combo for a crown — finally crapped out after burning through thousands of…
T. Rex Encounter is opening at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science tomorrow, the new exhibit, which features robotic, interactive dinosaurs has got us rather excited. You can expect a full preview tomorrow morning, but while we’re sitting on our hands in anticipation, we’ve been thinking a lot about…
The gig is up! Last night saw Denver dance troupe Silhouettes take second place after Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Tensions were high as both dance troupe Team iLuminate and teen band POPLYFE were initially given the boot. It came down to the final two and…
He mostly gave up art eight years ago to take over the family business, the Zephyr Lounge in Aurora, so the decision to feature Myron Melnick’s work at the Singer Gallery was an interesting choice, writes Westword art critic Michael Paglia in this week’s review…
Life really is sweet at the Sweet Life Fashion Show, the annual benefit for Volunteers of America that features fall catwalk collections from an array of designers, along with appetizers, desserts and a party gift (and that’s just general admission). The bash is back again — bigger and better than…
“What the fuck am I doing here?” asks mountain climber Cory Richards, in the opening seconds of Cold, one of six climbing films featured in the 2011 Reel Rock Film Tour that kicks off tonight at 6 p.m. at the Boulder Theater. It’s a poignant question: Richards is at 21,959’…
If you’ve been to the Electric Daisy Carnival here in Denver — which is a relatively small kid brother to the massives that take place annually in Las Vegas or Los Angeles — then you probably kind of know what to expect from The Electric Daisy Carnival Experience. Director Kevin…
The debate never stops rolling when it comes to two-wheelers in the Mile High City, whether its bikes verses cars, bikes verses bikes, or bikes verses, well, pigeons. Which is why we suppose that Denver’s latest installation of the incredibly popular and costume-positive Tour de Fat, which took place September…
Since the time of the Anasazi, Colorado has sported a ceramics scene, one that was picked up by settlers in the nineteenth century and continues to this day. With all that clay everywhere, it seems absolutely right for the Denver Art Museum to host an over-the-top ceramics blockbuster. Marvelous Mud…
If you’ve been to any kind of rave, then you’ll have a small idea of what goes on in a much bigger form at Electric Daisy Carnival, an extravaganza that includes multiple stages of top-name DJs banging out tunes for the masses alongside carnival rides and art installations; while Southern…
Austin sociologist and author Julie Ardery thinks the timeless and symbiotic rapport between humans and flowers is something that’s worth thinking about, and, as her Human Flower Project online newsgroup proves, that deserves our ongoing attention and discussion. That’s the gist of her lecture titled “White Roses for the Bride,…
What do you get when you combine cats and cupcakes? A fundraiser that promises to be the purr-fect start to some Saturday fun in downtown Denver. The Cupcakes 4 Cats cupcake sale, hosted by the Cat Care Society, boasts delicious cupcakes from local vendors, including Maggie and Mollie’s Bakery, Cake…
“I’ve been to a lot of readings where you can’t wait for someone to stop reading,” recalls Fast Forward Press co-founder Leah Rogin-Roper. “Our readings aren’t like that.” The Denver-based press specializes in flash fiction, which Rogin-Roper defines as a “short short story.” With the word count capped at 1,000,…
