Aquatic Animals

Crochet Coral Reef's Denver Satellite Reef will grow at the DAM's Spun -- and you can help

A work constantly in progress, the Crochet Coral Reef is an installation of ten textile pieces at the Denver Art Museum, part of its summer exhibition, Spun: Adventures In Textiles. Through the project's Denver Satellite Reef, museum visitors have a chance to contribute to the installation directly, ... More >>

Ultra 2013: The ten best inflatable animals, blow-up dolls and other party props

Ultra Music Festival is a zoo. From land sharks to killer whales, pink flamingos to African zebras, UMF 2013 is starting to feel a lot like a World Wildlife Foundation fundraiser, complete with endangered species and cuddly critters. Sure, they're inflatable, but just the same. These are some of the ... More >>

Five reasons why Denver's "GoosInator" goose-scaring machines for parks are stupid

So normally when my roomie yells "Check this sh*t out on YouTube!!!" I ignore him, but when he told me Denver had a goose-scaring robot to rid its parks of geese, I had to watch. And I saw the "GoosInator," a highway cone-orange creation that looks like something sewn on to an Ed Hardy shirt, making ... More >>

Documentary filmmaker Pete McBride releases first trailer for The Water Tower

Basalt-based photographer/filmmaker Pete McBride is offering a sneak peek at his new film The Water Tower today, with the unveiling of a teaser trailer for his documentary that follows Golden-based climber Jake Norton's Challenge 21 team to Mt. Kenya and its vanishing glaciers. See also: - Chasing ... More >>

Dinosaur Jr at Bluebird Theater, 10/15/12

DINOSAUR JR @ BLUEBIRD THEATER | 10/15/12 In a an entire show of strong performances, one of the big surprises came when Lou Barlow said that he and J Mascis had been in a band called Deep Wound toward the end of the set. "We played the Ramones at triple speed," Barlow explained. "We didn't take dr ... More >>

Five reasons why the foie gras ban in California is super-stupid

Starting July 1, California will enforce a ban on foie gras -- delicious, delicious, fatty goose/duck liver -- and while PETA is thrilled, chefs are pissed. Why the ban on these tasty liver-lobes? Gavage, or forced tube-feeding off the animals, is seen as cruel and inhumane. But neither side in this ... More >>

DIY feminist science writer Margaret Wertheim discusses the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef

Science writer Margaret Wertheim specializes in weighty topics, but she has a light touch when writing about science and mathematics. The author of several books dealing with theoretical physics within a cultural context as well as articles for numerous publications -- everything from the New York T ... More >>

Videos: John Elway's top ten commercials

Neptune Krill Oil sounds like something you'd find on page 117 of the Kama Sutra. Still, it doesn't actually matter if you're unfamiliar with the dietary supplement -- because John Elway will tell you about it. The Broncos legend turned football operations veep has put his John Elway on a years-long ... More >>

Get your geese at the High Plains Snow Goose Festival in Lamar

The lesser snow goose is an undependable fellow: Cruising the Western Central Flyway during migration, it makes one of its stopovers at John Martin Reservoir near Lamar. But, hey, some days the pickings might look better at Horse Creek Reservoir outside of Las Animas. And sometimes, when the weather ... More >>

Reader: Beware the golden egg of Denver's goose harrassers

Geese seem to have become as common in Denver's winter months as Suburus with ski racks, a situation that Westword's Kelsey Whipple decided to look into. What she found is that there is a population of Canada geese here who have never even been to their namesake country. They don't migrate and are i ... More >>

What's good for the (Canada) goose isn't really good for Denver

An adult goose releases approximately one pound of poop every single day. This fact stays relatively unnoticed until wintertime, when thousands of Canada geese -- seemingly overnight -- come out of the woodwork and waddle onto your property and into your parking spot. Why are there so many? The trut ... More >>

Eric Uffelmann, exec chef of Marlowe's, rips on Denver Restaurant Week and revels in foie gras

Lori Midson​ Eric Uffelmann Marlowe's 501 16th Street 303-595-3700 www.marlowesdenver.com This is part one of my interview with Eric Uffelmann, exec chef of Marlowe's. Check back here tomorrow for part two of our chat and chew. It's just past 4 p.m. on a Monday, and the bar at Marlowe's, t ... More >>

Five top Colorado birding spots from Mark Obmascik, author of The Big Year

​The Big Year, based on a 2004 book by former Denver Post writer Mark Obmascik and starring Steve Martin, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Rashida Jones, Anjelica Huston and Rashida Jones, among others, debuts in theaters nationwide today. But before The Big Year got the big Hollywood treatment, it w ... More >>

Cooking with Pete and Barb Marczyk: Lobster roll

​Pete Marczyk and Barbara Macfarlane do not leave their work behind when they leave Marczyk Fine Foods and head for their great old Denver house with the big, new kitchen. They often bring some of their market's choicest ingredients home with them, and cook up a feast. Ge used to it, says Ba ... More >>

Shark-chicken and the good and bad of alley fence art: Kenny Be's Yard Arteology

Congress Park: Mechanical crow mobile suspended above an ocean mural.​ Privacy fencing provides yard artists a secure area in which to create and display yard art projects that might not otherwise be ready for a full front-yard showing. As the photograph above demonstrates, alley fencing is an ... More >>

Top five shark-related pop-culture references, in honor of Megalodon

​A new exhibit is opening at the Wildlife Experience Museum tomorrow: Megalodon: The Largest Shark That Ever Lived. The exhibit includes a life-sized replica of megalodon (pictured above) and comparisons with other sharks we think of as scary-big, like the Great White, along with explanations ... More >>

Shark Attack

Our Commercial Culture: Outcasts Unite

Guided by ducks​What kind of idiot eats a sandwich while standing over an open casket? A very special kind, and you just gotta love him. This advert for a good cause requires just as much creativity as advertising for a bad cause. Maybe even more. It takes the ability to pull at the heart stri ... More >>

Show Us Your Long Johns!

Absurdist Interview: Artist/Photographer Sara Ford

Photo: Jessica Sain​Colorado native artist and photographer Sara Ford started painting in college because she didn't want to take the color theory class everyone hated. Needless to say, she got really good at it. Through photography, she has worked with clients such as 303 Magazine, Denver Mag ... More >>

Wyland's Ocean Blue celebrates its grand opening

J. WohletzWyland cutting the ribbon​ The grand opening of Wyland's Ocean Blue restaurant/gallery in the Shops at Northfield Stapleton appeared to be a swimming success, with artist Wyland (he doesn't use his first name, Robert) himself in attendance last night, cutting the ribbon, plugging h ... More >>

Denver Zoo mourns Frosty the bear, welcomes sea lion pup

Dave Parsons/Denver ZooNaptime!​ Call it the circle of life. This week, the Denver Zoo mourned the loss of a polar bear named Frosty and celebrated the birth of an effing adorable baby sea lion named... well, nothing yet. The baby is a very talkative girl whose vocalizations, as heard in the ... More >>

Animal Dreams

Ken Salazar still in hot seat -- but with lots of company

"Bring me the head of Tony Heyward." ​Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is still getting roundly pummeled in the press over the Obama administration's response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. But there's increasing evidence that the administration is trying to shift the falte ... More >>

Penguin's revenge: UCD students' animated short drawing studio buzz

The Penguin as seen in "A Complex Villainelle."​Most student film projects never get a screening outside the classroom. But the University of Colorado at Denver's Digital Animation Center takes a different approach. Instead of sending budding Scorseses out to make two dozen individual and utte ... More >>

Common Loon

Wednesday, May 5, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

Ice, Ice, Baby

Cove Story

Can you think of something to call this penguin (aside from dorky)?

Won't somebody flip this bird a name?​Know a kid age twelve and under in need of some holiday cash? Then encourage him or her to come up with a name for this penguin, the mascot of the 35th annual Parade of Lights, scheduled for December 4 and 5. The winner will receive, among other things, a ... More >>

Human/Nature

Poet Anne Waldman pushes at boundaries in Manatee/Humanity.

Inky Giants

Learn all about the giant squid in Parker.

Chill Out

Palace Arms

Nothing succeeds like excess.

Swim With the Fishes

Survival of the Fittest

How the right cuisines could conquer the world.

Life's a Ball

Elegance and class reign at this Mardi Gras fete.

Drunk of the Week

Paramount Cafe

Drink of the Week

Blue Footed Booby

Check, Please!

Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

Check, Please!

Readers give our food critic something to chew on.

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