Mayan Calendar

PeaceJam founders headed to the United Nations for global call to action

When we last caught up with Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff, the founders of the homegrown PeaceJam, they were on their way to Guatamela, to spend December 21, 2012 -- that important date on the Mayan calendar -- with Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Mayan elders and hundreds of indigen ... More >>

The six best metal shows in Denver this month

So you like your music hard and heavy, do ya? Good news: You're in for some serious brutality this month. There's a ton of shows happening in February, all of which are listed in our concert calendar, but here, we've singled out the six best metal shows in Denver (well, and one in Colorado Springs). ... More >>

The five best shows in Denver this week

Welcome back to the work week. How was the weekend? A bunch of great shows, eh? Icelantic's Winter on the Rocks with Macklemore, Eli Goulding at the Ogden Theatre, Brother Ali and Danny Brown at Cervantes' and Hot Water Music at Summit Music Hall. What did you catch? Bunch more shows this week, incl ... More >>

After five years, it might be time for "Mustang" to mosey on

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Su Teatro's XicanIndie Thursday examines three views of the local storytelling culture

Even if the year the world was supposed to end is barely out of sight, people still don't know much about Mesoamerican mythology and the workings of the Mayan calendar, or what that heritage means to us in modern times. But Westsider Tony Shearer did. The late activist, poet and storyteller espous ... More >>

Mayan myths: PeaceJam on the ten worst doomsday predictions , and one surprise

No one could have predicted that all the wacky doomsday predictions tied to the Mayan calendar and December 21, 2012 would mark a new beginning for PeaceJam, the homegrown effort that links Nobel Peace Prize winners with kids, teaching them how to make a difference in the world. But assuming the wor ... More >>

PeaceJam's founders hope to dispel myths about the Mayans

See also: PeaceJam leaders are predicting a busy 2013

PeaceJam leaders are predicting a busy 2013

See also: PeaceJam's founders hope to dispel myths about the Mayans

Marty Folb of MartyParty talks about providing the soundtrack for the end of the world

Marty Folb has been a touring musician for nearly six years now, and in those years has developed a style all his own. Constantly evolving as a DJ, Folb returns to Denver with a seemingly endless catalog of unreleased PantyRaid and MartyParty tracks to soundtrack the end of the world. Whether or not ... More >>

Culinary Calendar: The end of the world, cheese tastings and more

The Mayan calendar ends this Friday, December 21, which some people believes predicts the end of the world. As a precaution, the Curtis Hotel, 1405 Curtis Street, is offering would-be refugees a Party Like There's No To-Maya package this Friday. The deal includes rental of the entire fifteenth floor ... More >>

Man Mantis on how his mom helped him craft his first mask and how he connected with Sole

Although he left Denver as a mere mortal eight years ago, Mitch Pond has returned as Man Mantis, a human-insect-hybrid alter ego that produces glitchy, futuristic, hip-hop-centric beats. If the end of the Mayan calendar does in fact bring about the end of the world, it will be a bummer because 2012 ... More >>

The ten best concerts this weekend: 11/30-12/2

Ah, yes, welcome to the weekend! Long week, everybody, or is it just us? Well the good news is that we made it to end of another. The even better news is that there's no snow in the forcast, and there's another batch of good shows worth checking out. While there fair number of enticing acts coming t ... More >>

Shadows Fall

Friday, November 30, Fox Theatre, Boulder, 303-443-3399.

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, September 28-30, 2012

There are so many fun things to spend money on in the fall, like sweaters and butternut squash soup and fancy lattes. So why spend money on entertaining fun? Fortunately, you won't have to this weekend, since there are many worthwhile events that cost under $10 -- many of them free! From a drag fun ... More >>

The Knew on how playing what you want and taking the "less-thinking road" is always the best

See also: - Profile: The Knew never really set out to find success - The Knew (CD release) at the Lion's Lair, 8/24-8/25 - The Knew at Wax Trax with the Outfit, 8/24 The Knew has been kicking around Denver for roughly eight years, having played its first show on New Talent Night at Herman's Hideaw ... More >>

The weekend's best live music: Ghostland Observatory, STS9, Warped Tour and more

Welcome to the weekend! Another diverse lineup of musical goodness awaits you. Tonight at Red Rocks, Ghostland Observatory and MiM0SA kick off two nights of electronic goodness that will culminate with a show featuring STS9 tomorrow night. And there's a full slate of rock on tap as well, including M ... More >>

Beginning of the End

Mayan elder Miguel Chiquin will change the way you think about the 2012 prophecy

Sure, we all have our ideas about the so-called Mayan prophecy predicting the end of the world this December, and the ongoing debate has inspired everything from satirical to scientific discussions. This week Mayan elder Miguel Chiquin and Genaro Jucinto-Calel of the Mayan Nation of Guatemala are ... More >>

Ten things to do for $10 this weekend, February 17-19, 2012

It's almost time for that holiday you've been waiting for all year -- President's Day! Well, maybe not. But at least it might get you out of work for a day, which means you can go out every day this weekend and still have Monday to recover. We've got it all for less than $10, with everything from a ... More >>

The 2012 Mayan prophecy according to Ed Barnhart, director of the Maya Exploration Center

Wonder what's going to happen on December 21? Ed Barnhart, director of the esteemed Maya Exploration Center, has been studying the Mayans since long before 2012 conspiracy theorists dreamed up this whole end-of-the-world thing, and he'll be lecturing on "Misunderstanding the Maya: 2012 and Why You S ... More >>

Calendar Tales

Apocalypse? How!, opening tomorrow night, embraces the inevitable end

Just like the mass panic that's sure to ensue when the end of the world comes this December, Plus Gallery's new show "Apocalypse? How!" has a lot going on. To start, the show features four different artists, symbolic of the four horsemen of the apocalypse: Donald Fodness, Larry Bob Phillips, Drew En ... More >>

Weekend's best live bets: Fitz & the Tantrums, Machine Head and more

For whatever reason, you'll notice that this Saturday night, aside from the second night of STS9's two-night stand at the Fillmore, there aren't too many must-see shows. This is mere speculation on our part, but we're guessing that might have something to do with a certain sporting event taking plac ... More >>

STS9

Friday, January 13 and Saturday, January 14, Fillmore Auditorium, 303-830-8497.

John Hickenlooper's bucket list for experiencing Colorado in 2012

​In recent decades, this state has been the focus of numerous doomsday predictions that Colorado -- if not the world itself -- was in imminent danger of disappearing. The most recent furor involves the Mayan calendar's prediction that the world will end on December 21, 2012 -- a prediction deb ... More >>

Mayor Michael Hancock's Denver bucket list for 2012

​Denver has been threatened with doom many times -- when the transcontinental railroad threatened to skip the infant city, when numerous booms went bust, when the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons plant caught fire. Although the homegrown PeaceJam has debunked the latest doomsday scenario -- that th ... More >>

Are you ready for 2012? Watch The True Mayan Prophecy tonight

​Good news! The world is not going to end next December 21, no matter what people insist the Mayan calendar predicts. Dawn Engle and Ivan Suvanjieff, the founders of PeaceJam, exploded that myth in 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy, the award-winning film they released last year that will air toni ... More >>

What's on your bucket list, before it's too late?

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STS9 brings its Great Cycle Spectacle to the Fillmore on January 13-14. Tickets on sale 11/12

​After finishing this year out in its hometown of Atlanta with five shows at the Tabernacle, STS9 will be returning to Colorado (the act's home away from home), for a pair of shows at the Fillmore Auditorium on Friday, January 13 and Saturday, January 14. The Denver dates, which go on sale thi ... More >>

The Qwest sign: Denver has plenty of homegrown options that could replace it

The apocalypse will kick off in Boulder, and here's why

Flick Pick: 2012: The True Mayan Prophecy shows March 3

5th Sun rises on Speer Boulevard

Laura Shunk​Trudy Gonzales had never owned a restaurant before she opened 5th Sun Cafe & Lounge at 3024 Speer Boulevard. "People love my food, and they bugged me and bugged me to open a restaurant, so I finally decided to just do it," she says. The name, she explains, is translated from the ... More >>

Will the world end in 2011? Well, it hasn't yet

When Christ returns, he will bring the fucking lasers.​There's been a lot of John Cusak-related hubbub about the end of the Mayan calendar meaning the end of the world, but Harold Camping isn't buying that crap. "It's like a fairy tale," he chuckles. Because by the time 2012 comes around, ac ... More >>

The 2012 apocalypse scenario is all wrong, say filmmakers

Enslaving hooks: Latino music group 20:12 releases new mixtape

DIA Conspiracies Take Off

Conspiracy theorists think something's fishy at Denver International Airport.