A lot of leprechauns will be on the loose today for the 23rd annual Runnin’ of the Green 7K: Race director Terry McGrath says he’s expecting as many as 7,000 runners this year, good news for the Volunteers of America Meals On Wheels program the race benefits. “We started it…
The fourth annual Telluride Yoga Festival, which takes place in July, has grown into one the world’s premiere yoga retreats. So this, year, they’ve added a Winter Retreat weekend, running today through Sunday, to help harness all that awesome mountain karma and add some meditation to the madness of Spring…
The beauty of River North’s Wazee Union, 3501 Wazee Street, with its affordable artist studios and spirit of community, has gone forth and multiplied: Wazee’s managers, S. Brian Smith and Neil Adam, will officially christen Walnut Workshop, the project’s sister location across the railroad tracks at 3525 Walnut Street, when…
There’s no doubt that Spalding Gray, the monologue artist who disappeared into the East River in January of 2004, is — and will be for some time — a cult figure of magnitude. His autobiographical storytelling, delivered so nakedly, frankly and without pretension, often from behind a desk, was an…
The Denver Botanic Gardens has increasingly embraced art as part of its mandate, and last month, Story Keeper, dedicated to the work of American Indian artist and University of Colorado art professor Melanie Yazzie, opened in the indoor gallery. “ the perfect fit to kick off the DBG’s American Indian…
Let’s be honest: Going out for beers on St. Patrick’s Day can be a grind. There are the overwhelming crowds, the surly bartenders, the fake Irish spirit. And then there are the amateurs. Yes, the inexperienced drinkers who get so blindly drunk that they puke in your lap, knock over…
Believe it or not, there is more to St. Patrick’s Day than the celebratory imbibing of green alcohol, and Denver actually has its own Irish past worth revisiting. Today, Irish heritage experts Tom “Dr. Colorado” Noel and city auditor Dennis Gallagher will take you on an after-noon tour of historical…
Liz Davis, event coordinator for tonight’s Buccaneer Ball at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, admits the urge to throw a pirate-themed dress-up party was, “kind of irresistible. We were sitting around the table talking about having a pirate exhibit, and probably four of us around the table were…
The largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade west of the Mississippi started 49 years ago in the most unassuming way possible: Three men drinking in a bar decided there should be a parade, so they took to the streets. In the half-century since, Denver’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade has become a…
The idea behind the annual St. Baldrick’s fundraiser –- which got its start over a decade ago in a New York City bar on St. Patrick’s Day –- is simple: Get a bunch of people together for a head-shaving party and collect donations for childhood cancer research. From that modest…
Given their notorious single-mindedness, zombies are not the most likely subject for a fashion show. Zombies don’t care about fashion; they’re just trying to get some delicious brains. But to Summer Jackson, organizer of the third annual March Of The Zombies Fashion Show, that’s the very thing that makes them…
Back in the golden age of HBO as a comedy staple, Colorado’s very own weirdo star-haven was home to the HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival, one of the network’s biggest comedy events of the year. And for the thirteen years leading up to 2007, Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House, 320 East…
It’s been ten years since University of Denver professor Lawrence Golan filed his copyright suit in Colorado District Court, seeking the revocation of copyrights retroactively placed on works previously in the public domain, and now, after a lot of batting around and dual ruling reversals from both the Court of…
Facebook dove into the movie streaming arena with The Dark Knight yesterday and people flipped out: Netflix’s stock, in particular, took a significant dive. But what evidence do we have that this will actually work on a large scale?…
Monday, MSNBC (we know, we might as well be reading Reader’s Digest) ran a piece on sexualized kid’s toys targeting, you guessed it, young girls. It seems that the media outlet missed the Bratz uproar over a half-decade ago, and decided it was time to cause a parental ruckus over…
Probably nowhere in cinema right now is there anyone making films as consistently smart, witty and engaging as those of the Coen Brothers. By the time O Brother, Where Art Thou came out eleven years ago, with instant classics like The Big Lebowski and Fargo already under their belt, the…
From time to time, it happens. You’re walking around, minding your own business, maybe eating an ice cream cone or stopping to pat an adorable child on the head, and then it occurs to you: Shit just got real. So because it usually seems to happen on Wednesdays, and because…
Sometimes all it takes to arouse our frontal lobes is a name that makes us stop and think. That’s certainly the case with The Man with the Invisible Trousers, a title so curious we had to stop in and set up shop. Thankfully, the gameplay matches the title and we…
Charlie Sheen has a lot going on right now; giving interviews to anyone with a camera and microphone, getting fired, battling for custody of his kids, going bat-shit crazy and winning, duh. But he’s not too busy to capitalize on his social media prowess. Sheen recently set the Guinness World…
Denver Post travel editor (and former Westword restaurant critic) Kyle Wagner has one of the best gigs in town: Getting out of town, every chance she gets. Tonight the Carrying On blogger will be holding holding forth at REI’s Denver flagship store, 1416 Platte Street, to share some of her…
#97: Ietef Hotep Vita Words like “organic,” “local” and “sustainable” may be so hot right now in the food world, but for Ietef Hotep Vita, they’re family traditions. The son of noted organic gardener, poet and social justice advocate Ashara Ekundayo, Vita has forged his own path in about a…
Tonight, The Denver Public Library’s Rare and Rarely Seen Hitchcock series comes to a close with a screening of Marnie. One of the director’s final films, the movie deals with a psychologically damaged union between characters played by Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren. Their strange marriage reaches an emotional breaking…
