“The BolderBoulder has become a big Memorial Day tradition for a lot of people, and race morning is always very energetic around here,” says BolderBoulder spokesman Matt Jenkins. “I was pretty young when the first race came through town, and I watched my dad run it, so it’s been pretty…
“Denver has this explosive cycling scene, and it seems like everyone around here has a good bike story,” says Andrew Orvedahl, the local comedian behind The Narrators, a storytelling event held at 8 p.m. the first Wednesday of every month at Paris Wine Bar, 1553 Platte Street. “If anybody has…
Composer David Wohl first came across Margaree King Mitchell’s Uncle Jed’s Barbershop in a museum in Baltimore, and immediately recognized that the award-winning children’s book had the potential to become a musical. Years later, it has: Wohl, along with playwright Ken Grimes and director Susan Einhorn, fleshed out the saga…
“Winter just ended yesterday, pretty much,” says Keystone spokesman Ryan Whaley. The resort had so much snow this year that it even had to push the opening of its golf course back a week. The weather’s been so wacky that Whaley’s just decided to run with it. “Our Summer Remix…
Flea markets and farmers’ markets and craft sales have merged and morphed into outdoor markets where you can buy beautiful handmade treasures, clothing, antiques, jewelry and food ― and they’re all the rage in Denver these days. Although it’s rare to find this sort of mash-up market downtown, that dearth…
When Harry Shearer heard President Barack Obama refer to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina as a “natural disaster,” he decided to take action. The actor and writer, best known for his roles in The Simpsons and This Is Spinal Tap, had been following the investigations into the government’s handling of…
Bangsnap Records will join in tonight’s Gorinto, a weekly avant-garde music and food throwdown at the Mercury Cafe, to raise money for Mission Supports, a nonprofit that Arnie Swenson founded in February to help adults with developmental and cognitive disabilities who are currently on the waitlist for the Medicaid waiver…
Most people know John Sayles as the filmmaker and screenwriter behind such crazy-genre cult classics as Brother from Another Planet, The Howling and Piranha, but he’s also the author of several award-winning books. Sayles’s most recent novel, A Moment in the Sun, is a 968-page toe-crusher of a tome that…
Back in 2009, comedian and actor Paul F. Tompkins was having trouble filling a venue in Atlanta, so he used his Twitter account to rally support. The ploy worked, and somewhere in the middle of it all, a fan made another request: “Why don’t you come to Toronto?” Tompkins replied,…
Here’s how the screenwriters of the upcoming Hollywood adaptation of Candyland — the candy-themed board game for children who do not know how to read — describe it: “We envision it as Lord of the Rings, but set in a world of candy.” That is an actual quote. It seems…
While Harry Shearer is most popular as the bassist from This is Spinal Tap and nearly half of the voices of on The Simpsons, he’s also been extremely prolific in other areas during his half-a-century in showbiz. In advance of the screening of his documentary The Big Uneasy Thursday night…
Word has just come down that Emily Griffith Opportunity School has undergone a name change. The century-old institution, created by educator Emily Griffith to offer quality (and, at the time, free) vocational instruction to Denver’s huddled masses, will heretofore be known as Emily Griffith Technical College, a dumbed-down nomenclature that…
It is true. Thanks to Lauren Conrad’s tweet about her new fave dessert recipe “Blueberry Boy Bait,” we were intrigued enough to take a jaunt over to Laurenconrad.com, where we discovered that she’s starting a book club. And what’s even better about this whole books n’ LC thing? She’s taking…
Change, some guy once said, is the only constant. It’s only natural that we should reform our opinions on things periodically, that we should reassess and reevaluate how we react — sometimes, at first you’re like one way, but then you’re all a different way, and pretty frequently, you just…
Like all of us, Skype began as a mere twinkle in the eye of its creators. In less than ten years, it had matured into a beautiful adult. Skype has made its Swedish, Danish and Estonian parents proud, with its latest life accomplishment — you guessed it — being sold…
Can your five-year-old make a kick-ass game? You know, write the story, create the assets, record the voice-over and record some of the music? We didn’t think so, but Ryan Creighton’s daughter Cassie can, and it’s called Sissy’s Magic Ponycorn Adventure. It’s a magical adventure about a ponycorn (they’re the…
What to do as snowboard season finally starts winding down? Today’s time-wasting video clips come courtesy of Boulder’s Meta Skateboards shop, Denver’s Never Summer Skateboards and Broomfield’s Crisis Skateboards shop. Enjoy:…
Given that the only sports more American than baseball are truck-pulls and war, come spring, it’s once again time to turn our attention to that most grueling contest of standing around with occasional bursts of activity. These days, actually, there are a lot of sports more in-line with the American…
When people think of Colorado Springs these days, right-wing Christian fundamentalist politics come to mind more than art does. But for much of the twentieth century, the city at the base of Pikes Peak was the unrivaled center of the state’s art world. The best evidence of this is the…
15 Colorado Artists. The Kirkland Museum is presenting a historical show that tracks the beginnings of post-war modernism in Denver using the artist group 15 Colorado Artists as an index. The story goes that the Denver Artists Guild was hostile to modernism at the time. This led to a split,…
Billy Elliot the Musical. The story of Billy Elliot is deeply appealing: During the 1980s, as Maggie Thatcher wars with the powerful coal-mining union as part of her campaign to destroy British labor, an eleven-year-old miner’s son stumbles into a ballet class and discovers an unlikely love of dance. Naturally,…
After chambermaid Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire) glimpses an American couple (Jennifer Beals and Dominic Gould) playing chess in the upscale Corsican resort where she works, she becomes obsessed with the game and what it represents to her. The couple’s casually sexy interplay and wealth are in stark contrast to the hand-to-mouth…
