Ietef Vita always has a lot on his plate, and most of it involves his biggest interests: hip-hop, organic gardening and education. In fact, Vita’s alter-ego, DJ Cavem, is nationally regarded, and his day job is as an educator for Blue and Yellow Logic, an organization that brings together organic…
Jon Lew found out about the earthquake in Japan from Twitter. The artist and owner of Fortune Cookie Tattoo has visited the country a few times and always felt what he describes as a “spiritual connection” to it. So when he saw his friend in Japan, tattoo artist Hori Benny,…
Denver designers Jil Cappuccio and Kirsten Coplans have already proven themselves as an apt merchandising duo over the past few years. But after a period of brainstorming, they’re shooting for something a little different — and on a slightly grander scale — by hosting the first Indie Wearable Craft Urban…
When the curtain goes up tonight on Patrick Mueller and Control Group Productions, a dance company in flux, at BINDERY | space, it will be a poignant moment for a number of reasons: because Control Group, still in the search-and-negotiate stage of finding a new home and performance space, found…
When James Brown sang “It’s a man’s world,” he might as well have been talking about the world of music, where women are about as plentiful as a knife when you’ve got 10,000 forks — or whatever that Alanis Morissette lyric was. But as the Godfather of Soul also said,…
The circa ’60s black-and-white photos from Afghanistan show women without a headscarf, in pencil skirts and bare legs. “It’s straight out of the ’60s here in the Midwest,” explains Shannon Galpin, founder of Mountain2Mountain. “This was the course they were on until forty years of war ravaged the country, and…
Kumail Nanjiani might not be a name you immediately recognize, but chances are you’ll recognize his face. The comedian has appeared on a number of shows, from Saturday Night Live to Late Show With David Letterman, with acting stints on Portlandia, Michael and Michael Have Issues and The Colbert Report…
Professional cooking has always been a male-dominated pursuit, but each year, more and more females are strutting their culinary moxie, and tonight, a cartel of Denver chefs — all ladies — are cooking up a storm to benefit Work Options for Women, a local nonprofit that helps underserved and impoverished…
When the computer mouse in its modern form was introduced to the general exactly thirty years ago as part of the Xerox Star workstation, nobody could have predicted the extent to which it would revolutionize our existence, ushering us one step further away from the esoteric world of DOS systems…
These aren’t your normal healthy snacks from the countryside that make you feel loved and appreciated just by eating ’em. No, these NYC snacks don’t fuck around, so don’t give ’em any trouble, you hear? Unless you want to end up like Mr. Hotdog, floating in the Hudson, half-eaten by…
UpBot Goes Up is a grid-based puzzle game from Dom Camus, Craig Forrester and Luke Davies that will make you feel brilliant one second and like an idiot the next. Technically, that’s the definition of a good puzzle game, and UpBot Goes Up delivers it in spades, including plenty of…
Hipsters love IKEA. Actually, a lot of people that aren’t hipsters love IKEA, too, such as suburban moms and young professionals, but IKEA has a special place in the heart of every hipster girl with a Volvo station wagon to buzz out to the burbs in and pack with ergonomic…
Arapahoe Basin is not only still open (one of just two Colorado ski areas still going strong), it’s 100 percent open and yesterday reported a 100″ base, its deepest base since 2003, according to spokeswoman Leigh Hierholzer, who says she and her colleagues decided to take the opportunity to celebrate…
For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. Earth Day…
Less is more, observed Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the architect widely regarded as the father of the modern steel-and-glass skyscraper, and it’s likely Frank Chimero agrees; working with simple shapes and a pristine minimalist aesthetic, the illustrator and graphic designer creates compelling visuals that are easy to immediately interpret…
When the Colorado Ballet left me a care package yesterday inviting me to a press conference announcing its 2011-2012 season, along with a very pretty box containing one milk-chocolate swan and one white-chocolate swan, it didn’t exactly leave a whole lot of intrigue as to what would be on the…
Ben Affleck has acted in some truly horrible movies. After citing the Oscar he won with his best friend, Affleck’s resume reads like a list of the worst movies from the late ’90s that we all thought were sorta okay at the time (just like Sugar Ray). In 2003, he…
For an intolerably long time, there has been a gaping void in the soul of Denver, and that void is the shape of a giant blue box somewhere in the suburbs where price-tag-conscious hipsters can get their simultaneous fix of trendy, affordable, ready-to-assemble furniture and Swedish culinary delights at the…
This week we’ve got a pretty random collection of choice crap to purchase to make your life less of a waste. We know how it goes: You’re bored, and the only way to fill the the void in your heart is to purchase as much media as you possibly can…
In the stressful urban commuting environment, bicyclists and drivers are often a lot like the Sharks and the Jets: They just do not get along. Bicycle Colorado is one of the many fine organizations working to change that, educating cyclists and drivers alike on how to share the road in…
The Twitter format seems like it was made for comedians: By limiting a user’s output to 140-character spurts of information, jokes can be crafted and tested instantly. Sandra Bernhard is one of the comics who get this, but as a seasoned professional, her tweets are even better than jokes: She…
Boulder-based adventurer Andrew Skurka estimates he’s hiked/skied/trekked at least 25,000 miles in the last decade, including a 4,700-mile Alaska-Yukon Expedition in 2010 that was featured last month in National Geographic, so listen up tonight when he tells you how to pack light for your next adventure. Skurka’s the featured guest…
