Arts & Culture

Voice actors, cosplay junkies and Dance Dance Revolution superstars will converge on the Marriott DTC this weekend for the fifteenth annual Nan Desu Kan, Colorado’s premier anime convention. The three-day event, expected to draw more than 20,000 people, is devoted to the art and actors — whose English voices color…

The Elevations Credit Union Buffalo Bicycle Classic in Boulder isn’t a race, but it does have a lot of winners: The ride is the single largest source of scholarships for the University of Colorado at Boulder’s College of Arts & Sciences, raising nearly $1.5 million since 2003, its organizers say…

On this day in 2001, thousands of Americans lost their lives in the most deadly terrorist attack ever to hit U.S. soil. Ten years later, there’s only one way to commemorate that tragic day: Let freedom ring. And there’s no better place to do that than at the 9/11 Freedom…

Five friends — Becky Hensley, Spencer Keralis, Kristin Dell’Orso, LeVar Battle and Amber Powell — put their heads together to create Craftin’ Carnival, a title with a double meaning. On the one hand, it’s an umbrella, a community of crafters and artisans, and on the other, it’s a physical craft…

Vinyl junkies, rejoice! The Denver Record Collectors Fall Expo — the Rocky Mountain region’s largest music collectors’ show — is back for a nineteenth year. Featuring the wares of over forty dealers and nearly 100 display tables, the expo is the perfect place to find rare LPs, 45s, CDs, music…

In Benjamin Runkle’s new book, Wanted Dead or Alive: Manhunts From Geronimo to Bin Laden, he tries to bring to light not just the most wanted men in U.S. history, but also the soldiers who hunted them down. While much of this history has been covered, Runkle’s spin adds a…

Under the highly questionable leadership of former head coach Josh McDaniels, the Denver Broncos had a disastrous 2010 season, finishing 4-12 — a franchise record for the most losses in a single year — and going 0-2 against their much-hated division rivals, the Oakland Raiders. But McDaniels was fired, and…

Reefer Madness, the smash musical inspired by the original 1938 propaganda-turned-exploitation film, is back for a second run at the Bug Theatre. “We were so honored last year by the response to the show,” says Deb Flomberg of Equinox Theatre Company. “Not only did we sell out every show, but…

Quick! Name a female director in Hollywood. Yes, there are a handful of very good ones, and their ranks are finally growing, but to think that ’40s bombshell Ida Lupino took her first turn behind the cameras in 1949 is a revelation in mid-century feminism that gives new meaning to…

Aurora’s Red Delicious Press, a fine-print atelier housed in a gorgeous old Usonian-style library designed by Victor Hornbein, is presenting Impact: A Tribute to E. C. Cunningham. A nationally known printmaking authority and author, Cunningham died last year; he had taught printmaking for nearly three decades at Metropolitan State College…

Shopping malls. They certainly don’t make them like they used to. In Colorado, the old-fashioned mall is all but extinct, replaced by outdoor shopping “experiences” — or if it is a single, enclosed structure, it’s built to look like a gargantuan ski lodge (see Park Meadows) or a fancy, two-story…

If religion is the opiate of the masses, as Karl Marx once observed, then sports are, like, the meth of the masses… or something. Whatever. The point is that mainstream sports — or “borts,” as we like to call them (“boring” + “sports”) — like football and baseball are for…

Calling all photo students! Village Voice Media (Westword’s parent company) is recruiting undergraduate photography students for its Fall 2011 Photo Intern Program. By “student,” we do not mean ” student of life.” There’s no cash offered with this gig, only credits. Don’t bother applying if this doesn’t apply to you…

For most men, the depressing realization that they are no longer cool comes somewhere around the late ’30s — and while many just give up, there must always be those few brave men of oblivious overconfidence who ignore that fact, who stare boldly into the face of cruel father time…