Leave it to laid-back Boulderites to approach Arts Awareness Month with as little hoopla as possible. Instead of a grand effort on the scale of Denver’s recent Arts Week, the Boulder County Arts Alliance board decided to highlight the ordinary: “We thought, why not get people to do what they’re…
If you had the misfortune to be trapped in a tragic Greek myth, one of the worst positions you could possibly find yourself in is that of Medusa. Once a beautiful nymph with many suitors, Medusa caught the attention of Poseidon, the Lord of the Sea. When Poseidon raped Medusa…
Nothing shows a genuine love and devotion for collecting toys like going face-down in a metal tub full of water in the “Bobbing for Action Figures” activity at the Collectors Supershow and MajestiCon Comics Con, taking place today from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ramada Plaza Convention Center…
Forever gone are the days of balancing the glockenspiel and Sousaphone on the same dive-bar stage. DeVotchKa has come home with the accolades of a Grammy nomination for the Little Miss Sunshine soundtrack firmly notched into their cummerbunds. Tonight’s Day of the Dead Masquerade Gala marks the first time the…
When was the last time you got to wear your pirate costume, get drunk and laugh out loud at someone? Don’t miss your chance to dress up, drink up and laugh it up, tonight at 8 p.m. at the inaugural Ha Ha Halloween Party at the Comedy Works. Kevin Fitzgerald…
Sometimes late at night, when wind is the only sound in Capitol Hill, if you listen closely, you can hear running footsteps — even though there’s no one around. A dog is howling, even though that dog has been dead for many years. Damn right there are ghosts in Cap…
Voix de la ville means “voice of the city” in French, and promoters Pamela Dore Alford and Jenifer Kuntz took that voice very seriously when they created tonight’s Voix de la Ville: An Evening of Subculture Bliss extravaganza. “It was kind of a collaborative effort,” explains Kuntz. “We called on…
If you love the macabre but crave a more sophisticated scare, then Capitol Hill Horror Stories at the Grant-Humphreys Mansion, 777 Pennsylvania Street, is just the trick for you. Historian Tom Noel, also known as Dr. Colorado, and a cast of famous and infamous characters from Denver’s past — including…
Even if you don’t care for the acrobatics and artsy-fartsy interpretive dance that goes into something like Cirque du Soleil, you may be inexplicably drawn to Theatre of the Vampires, showing tonight and tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in Macky Auditorium at the University of Colorado at Boulder. For starters,…
Whether they’re arguing over the greatest teams, defending their favorite players or inventing imaginary scenarios, sports pundits love a good debate. Sal Paolantonio’s new book, The Paolantonio Report: The Most Overrated & Underrated Players, Teams, Coaches, & Moments in NFL History, is less a tome than an instrument for controversy,…
Chess is a serious game — but Colorado closed-chess champion Brian Wall knows it can be fun, too. That’s why he and co-author Anthea Carson wrote How to Play Chess Like an Animal, which they’ll introduce this afternoon. The book teaches kids and other novices strategy using examples literally drawn…
From the psychedelic installation art, unusual costumes and hippie-dippy trade-and-barter mentality to the lunar-like panorama and oddly named camps and villages — not to mention the forty-foot pyrotechnic dude who inspired it all — everyone seems to know something about Burning Man. But how much do you really know about…
It’s Halloween, and there was a time when hanging out in the same space as Allen Iverson would have given you the evening’s requisite fright. But these days, Iverson is as likable as ever. He has embraced this city: His kids call it home, he has plans to move the…
There are a lot of misconceptions floating around out there about dogs. We’re looking at you, self-proclaimed Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan. And Colorado has its own answer to Millan: Jake Page, author of Dogs: A Natural History. “I don’t want my dogs rolling over on their backs and peeing on…
Looking for something to do this weekend that doesn’t involve ghosts, ghouls or goblins? Then steer toward Barr Lake State Park, 13401 Picadilly Road in Brighton, for tonight’s Full Moon Hike: Tales of Migration and Folklore. During a short hike, park naturalists will explain how Barr Lake’s animals adapt and…
Victorians were obsessed with sex. Let’s review the evidence: clothing styles that covered women from chin to wrist to ankle, lest a glimpse of skin send a male onlooker into a frenzy; the invention of bland foods such as graham crackers to help smother the sex drive; the proliferation of…
There will be no World Series game tonight, but that doesn’t mean you have to forgo an evening of fierce, hard-hitting competition. Lace up your skates and sharpen your elbows, because the Denver Roller Dolls’ all-star team, the Mile High Club, hosts the Cincinnati Rollergirls All-Stars in Denver’s first Women’s…
The Disney Channel has perfected a four-part approach to tween marketing. Step A: Find a telegenic youth. Step B: Build her into a suburban superstar. Step C: Milk her until her udders are dry. Step D: Begin promoting her to a slightly older audience while introducing a similarly telegenic youth…
“Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid,” Raymond Chandler wrote in 1950’s “The Simple Art of Murder,” smacking the ascot off the drawing-room mystery and all its crime-solving dilettante dandies. “He must be…a man of honor, by instinct,…
Late in Rendition, in case you’ve been blind and deaf enough not to have cottoned to the drift, a tense Washington exchange on the legitimacy of bundling dark-skinned Americans off to secret prisons abroad takes place. On one side is a driven young senatorial aide (Peter Sarsgaard), on the other…
“Beautiful” and “cruel” — that’s how director Ang Lee describes Eileen Chang’s 1979 short story about obsessive love and effortless betrayal in Japanese-occupied Shanghai, a tale upon which Lee has based his epic-length Lust, Caution. Writing in the afterword to a recently republished version of the 54-page story, which took…
Love him or despise him, head Jackass Johnny Knoxville has made millions from getting kicked in the yambag. Had YouTube arrived before Jackass, Knoxville, Steve-O, and the show’s other gutterpunk masochists might still be slinging French fries, getting burned by hot grease in a strictly nonrecreational way. But with a…
