As a small child whipping my crayons around the perfect spiral assistance of the Spirograph, I never never anticipated that I could maximize that activity by adding the sweet elixir of booze, or that I’d be doing both with the aid of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science –…
It’s been over a decade since the Columbine High School shootings, but the wounds are still pretty raw for a lot of folks out there; certainly they are for the people of 13 Families, a documentary that looks at the coping process of the families who lost kids to the…
It’s a pretty sad statement about race in America that every black man in Hollywood except Will Smith and Chris Rock is still somehow required to have a fat, sassy, female alter-ego to periodically provide the machine with a few cheap yuks about — looka here, kids! — how black…
Thank you, Easter bunny! Copper Mountain’s Spring Sunsation festival and 2010/2011 ski season winds up this weekend with a world record attempt on Saturday at 10 a.m. “Time to break out those swimsuits and sunglasses, because we’re going to be trying to break the world record for most people to…
We’ve finally started getting some of those April showers the old tales speak of, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be venturing out in to the great big world this weekend. While the ground might be a little damp, you’ll still have plenty of indoor and outdoor activities to choose…
It takes some wading through sludge of child pornography, gore, rampant racism and herp-a-derp-check-out-my-dubs threads, but the best thing (and possibly the only truly good thing) about /b/ has always been the memes, little image-based internet in-jokes that people revise and riff on in endless variations to often hilarious results…
In advance of the Arvada Center’s production of The Lady With All the Answers, which starts its previews tomorrow night, we started researching the woman the play was based on: Eppie Lederer. Known to the public for 47 years as advice columnist Ann Landers, Lederer was a fascinating lady. And…
Colorado’s got its green on good, and the success of Denver B-cycle offers major proof that metro area pedal-pushers welcome the opportunity to get out of their cars and onto the city streets. The city’s member-supported bike sharing program, now in its second year, will appropriately celebrate a solid year…
It’s long been our position that the Evil Blue Horse that guards DIA is pretty much the baddest-ass public art maybe anywhere in the world — what other city would put something that fucking METAL right outside its airport? — and so when we put together a list of best…
While we’re pretty much terrified of shrubbery now after Thorin Klosowski’s earlier post on murderous fictional plants, it’s important to remember that even if in movies plants bring certain death, in the real world, they bring life. And tonight on Rocky Mountain PBS, the locally produced documentary Green Up Colorado…
Tonight at the Denver Botanical Gardens, writer Amy Stewart will be presenting a history of killer plants of the very real variety. While that’s all well and good, we prefer to keep our deadly botanical assassins in the realm of the fiction so we can still sleep through the night…
Tonight’s after-hours Science Lounge at the Museum of Nature And Science invites Dr. Bridget Coughlin, museum curator of Human Health, to speak on tattoos and the biology behind the marriage of ink and skin (and all its squirmy, bacteria-laden possibilities.) But the topic of art will go beyond permanent body…
It’s Always Sunny In Colorado, filmmaker Bucky O’Connell’s long-awaited ode to the local skateboarding scene, premiers next Thursday at the Bluebird Theater with 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. screenings for $8. The video, presented by 303 Boards and Toebock Media Group, features Derek Milton, Matt Kehoe, Shad Spencer and at…
There’s nothing funny about household pets perishing from smoke inhalation, but a cat in an oxygen mask, apparently, is hilarious — even the cops in the background think it’s funny, and cops never think anything is funny. The cat, however, is not amused…
Artist Shelley Irish-Smith spent a year creating Chakra Rainbow, a self-portrait project detailing the imbalance and subsequent healing of her body’s energy systems. Through fifteen oil paintings, Irish-Smith explores various stages of the seven chakras. “I used these paintings to speak to my own archetypes,” explains the certified Reiki master…
The main spaces at Ice Cube Gallery are so large that two full-scale single-artist shows can be presented side by side. The current offerings are Ray Tomasso: Transitions, featuring cast-paper paintings made with strips of old blue jeans rendered into pulp, and Brian Cavanaugh: Migratory: Transplant, which examines the artist’s…
T.S. Eliot once famously wrote that “April is the cruelest month,” but if that old ragged set of claws scuttling across the floor of silent seas were alive today, he might not be so damn depressing about it. These days, besides mixing memory and desire, April is also National Poetry…
When Lalo Delgado immigrated to America with his parents at the age of twelve, he spoke no English and couldn’t read or write. It was a pretty hardscrabble beginning for a boy who went on to become a poet, a professor and a towering figure in the Chicano community. During…
“To me, the World Pond Skimming Championships represent diving into a new season and going out with a splash to celebrate the spectacular snow year we’ve just had,” says event spokeswoman Kelly Patton. Still, you won’t catch her getting her feet wet when the competition kicks off in Vail. “Oh,…
Aspen’s resorts have been pushing big-air progression in skiing and snowboarding this year like never before, and not just at the Winter X Games, where Torstein Horgmo’s triple back flip at Buttermilk in January raised the bar and won the gold. “We’ve been working with the core magazines and top…
Today, a handful of luthiers — those who build and repair string instruments — will converge on South Broadway’s Acoustic Music Revival for the Colorado Custom Guitar Showcase, an all-day display of their finest instruments. For guitar buffs, this mini-convention is a free, one-of-a-kind ax heaven, as luthiers from around…
Julie Ekstrom, founder and owner of Golden-based cloth-diaper company Kanga Care, knows that cloth diapers will probably never beat disposables when it comes to market share. “But more people need to know they’re not your traditional pins and pre-folds and plastic pants,” she says. “This isn’t just a backwoods choice…
