The Colorado Mountain Club, which was founded in 1912, is heading into its centennial year with a major push to recruit new members. “We’re the club to be a part of for anyone in Colorado who wants to experience new adventures, meet new people and learn some new skills,” says…
“The world’s only Rocky Mountain Jewgrass band” will take over Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret, 1601 Arapahoe Street, at 7 p.m. tonight for The Purim Show, an evening of singing, dancing, drinking and the celebratory consumption of hamentaschen. In fact, we’d like to point out that the three-pointed pastries will not only…
When Heather Frost first saw the script for Bingo: The Winning Musical, she remembers thinking, “Wow, this is a great opportunity. It’s never been done in Colorado, and it’s got that fun, sort of silly entertainment value while still having a wonderful message of friendship running through the whole thing.”…
If you don’t want to waste away St. Patrick’s Day just drinking, consider attending All That Glitters Is Green, the latest installment of the Science Lounge at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Yes, you’ll still be able to drink – but you can also soak up some knowledge…
It might not be traditional to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with half-naked women, but the time could be right to embrace a new tradition, particularly since this one involves the lovely women of Burlycute and the always-bawdy Cora Vette, aka Reyna Von Vett. “We have Vivienne VaVoom’s Guinness act, where…
“BJ’s has been established for 37 years,” notes Jimmy Stewart, one of the organizers behind La Carouse Rouge, “so we’ve had shows running there every week for three decades now, almost four, and this one is definitely something new and different that hasn’t been seen at BJ’s before.” Even the…
The Catch-22 of UFO naysaying is that UFOs are the products of highly sophisticated races, built expressly so that bumbling simpletons like you and I see a commercial airline or a speck of dust on a camera. Fortunately, YouTube user magnetflipper isn’t fooled. He or she has been filming aliens…
Tight jeans and awesome hair have replaced the cargo shorts (and jorts) of Austin’s 6th Street by now, as SXSW Interactive 2011 is in the books and SXSW Music gets rolling. The SXSW Trade Show — which didn’t open its doors until Monday, the last day of Interactive — attracted…
Besides that you should maybe think twice about asking your dad to take you to Disneyland, Vengeance Dad taught us a very important lesson about making memes: small full body shot + larger superimposed face at right + disturbing caption = hilarity. To demonstrate the results of this very important…
Jet-packs! Giant evil heads! Lasers! All this and more in Omega Box, an avoidance game that tasks you to, er, avoid evil things shooting at you for as long as possible. It might seem simple on the surface, but it’s surprisingly addictive and oddly enjoyable once you settle into it…
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. So this…
Well, if cartoonist Noah Van Sciver’s report from last week on what Australian’s think of Denver wasn’t proof enough that this fair city will ever be associated foremost with a mediocre light rocker who got high on the Rockies, then reader Angela Roberts is here to reinforce that. Commenting on…
Gear geeks, this one’s for you: The Women’s Wilderness Institute hosts its 9th annual Gear & Cheer fundraiser event tonight at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder, 2590 Walnut Street, benefiting its Girls’ Wilderness Program. $35 gets you in the door, where sponsors like Left Hand Brewing Company,…
For much of his career, David Sirota has been a hard-hitting leftist political operative, running campaigns with what former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta once called his “instinct for the jugular” and later moving into the world of Journalism and commentary; these days, he’s a Denver-based syndicated…
Memory deceives. The written word tries to encapsulate memory, but it, too, deceives — and sometimes it deceives deliberately. And so does playwright Steven Dietz. His plotting for Fiction is cunning, and the layers of complexity he builds around the basic concepts of truth and fiction are even more so…
Formed as a way to promote the work of local musicians and artists of all medias, the small but mighty Birdseed Collective is looking for you — and your artwork. The group is putting out a call to any artists are interested in submitting to it’s 100 on 100, a…
In recent history, perhaps no phenomenon has been so conducive to spectacular failure than Parkour — also known as “freestyle walking” — a sport that causes people to attempt flips and other assorted gymnastics off all manner of objects toward the end of either injuring themselves hilariously or succeeding unremarkably…
According to Kent Welborn, the mind behind the samurai host of the new “Laughing Dragon Cake Samurai Fun Show” at the Bovine Metropolis Theater tonight, the intention is not to make fun of Japanese culture. “We’re trying to celebrate it,” he amends, “and we’re trying to get laughs by making…
It wasn’t First Friday or even Second Saturday, for that matter, but last Friday night was still art-heavy with receptions as the Month of Photography progresses. A lot of people, I found out, were over at Belmar, ringing in Feminine Influence, a woman-centric show curated by Katie Taft at Flash…
We’ve got a pretty stellar selection of new releases this week that cover a wide array of different interests. While one film nerd might not think Sharktopus worth watching, they’ll probably find solace in The Fighter. On the same tone, a gamer who enjoys shooting people in the face will…
Mildly dumb controversy continues to rage over Bree Davies’ comparison of the (relatively) new MTV series Skins to the U.K. version of the show. Even though the critique tackled only the first episode and was posted nearly two months ago now, it seems to have inspired a flame of passion…
Denver B-Cycle opened yesterday for its second season. This year, the bike sharing program has made some significant improvements, most notably to the kiosk technology. Full-color screens and on-board computers (last year everything was done over a network) will make things faster and more intuitive. Yesterday, we took a pair…
