Uganda

Boulder non-profit is changing the lives of Ugandan women one bead at a time

"I was so excited! I just got out of Spanish class and ran down the hallway to meet her. It's like meeting a rock star," says Stella Brown, an eighth-grader at Boulder's Horizon's K-8 School. Brown was racing down the hall to meet Teddy Namuyiga -- not Taylor Swift. Namuyiga is one of two Ugandan ... More >>

Meet the 2013 MasterMinds: DJ Cavem

Self-proclaimed "farmer/midwife/DJ/producer/emcee/touring musician" Ietef Vita was born Michael Walker in Five Points in 1986, part of a family of artists and activists with "a lot of people in my village," he explains, including Brother Jeff and the late storyteller Opalanga Pugh. But that wasn't e ... More >>

The Presser Foot hosts Sew Day for African Girls benefit Saturday

This Saturday, February 16, The Presser Foot, a sewing and quilting store in Longmont, will host a Sew Day for African Girls. Working with the nonprofit Empower Women In Africa, the store will provide all the materials and inspiration to create cloth menstrual pads -- and in the process help women i ... More >>

Resolutions for 2013: I promise to stop being a dick and shut up about Belle & Sebastian

New Year's resolutions are typically useless; they're often way too ambitious and usually forgotten by February. But there's value in the ritual of taking stock of the past year and making goals for the year to come. When I was asked about my resolutions, I said couldn't think of a thing I'd like ... More >>

The ten best concerts this weekend: Sept. 28-30

Hell yeah! It's finally Friday! Welcome to the weekend! Feel like tossing back a few cold ones and seeing some live music? You've come to the right place. There's an overwhelming number of outstanding shows for you to check out this weekend. We've got all of them listed in our concert calendar if yo ... More >>

Would you pay $12.99 a pint for ice cream?

Thirteen bucks is more than twice the amount you'd pay for a pint of Ben & Jerry's or Häagen-Dazs at the grocery store, so how good would ice cream have to be to convince your average foodie to spoon over that kind of cash? The answer? As good as Jeni's Splendid ice Cream, now in the freezer secti ... More >>

Speaking Out

The Book of Mormon really is that good

Review photos: The Book of Mormon is a godsend!

The Book of Mormon finally arrived in Denver, freighted with a massive weight of hype, slick marketing, praise and excitement for this musical created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, both Colorado natives. The show had sold out within hours last January, with friends posting photographs of themselves ... More >>

Michael Kiwanuka

Tuesday, August 7, Bluebird Theater, 888-929-7849.

Unreasonable Institute climaxes with venture pitches from 22 entrepreneurs

After six weeks of living under the same roof, 22 promising entrepreneurs from 16 different countries and every walk of life pitched their ventures to hundreds of potential funders, partners and local supporters gathered in Macky Auditorium on the University of Colorado Boulder campus on a scorching ... More >>

Reader: Try constructive criticism for a change

Putting Down Roots

Kony 2012 will Paint Denver Red today

For some, it was a depressing example of how debased humanitarian causes had become in the age of social media; for others, it was a sincere call to arms against a foreign tyrant. Either way, the Kony 2012 movement will be remembered as the most successful online campaign in the history of the Inter ... More >>

Videos: Make Kony Famous group, fans want Tim Tebow to denounce Joseph Kony

Right now, Tim Tebow is watching the Denver Broncos' attempt to sign Peyton Manning -- a deal that would supplant him as the team's starting quarterback. But many YouTube watchers want him to watch something else -- videos exhorting him to help make murderous Ugandan strongman Joseph Kony famous. An ... More >>

Five better ways to help Uganda than watching the Kony 2012 viral video

By now your Facebook page has probably exploded with friends' posts of the viral video Kony2012. If you're one of the few who hasn't yet seen the video or read the hash tag on Twitter, Joseph Kony is the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) of Uganda. He's been terrorizing Uganda and Southern ... More >>

Recycled Runway fashion show mixes sustainability with Project Runway

The ecologically minded SustainAbility hosted Recycled Runway, a fashion show Friday night at the Sherman Events Center that attracted an unpretentious collection of hippies, fashionistas, press, parents and those who aren't a typical presence in the fashion world, creating an "awesome mix" of peopl ... More >>

DJ Cavem is spreading the love -- and the word on food justice -- in Uganda

Ietef Cavem Vita, aka DJ Cavem Moetivation, worked the crowd at Artopia, he says, for at least the last four years. But he won't be there tomorrow because he has more important work to do: Today he flies out of Denver on a trip that will eventually land him in Uganda, where he's traveling as a Bold ... More >>

Seth Olsen, ex-Bronco and current Colt, on clean water mission to Uganda

Tim Tebow isn't the only current NFL player to travel overseas on goodwill missions. Seth Olsen, a former Denver Bronco guard now playing for the Indianapolis Colts (although he calls Denver home), recently returned from a ten-day trip to Uganda as part of a team completing a clean-water project. S ... More >>

Starz Denver Film Fest attendance, revenue up, Starz FilmCenter replacement search goes on

Tom Botelho.​Denver Film Society executive director Tom Botelho is still recovering from the just-concluded Starz Denver Film Festival; he's got a severe cold. But the word of mouth about the fest makes him feel better, and so do attendance and revenue figures, both of which appear to be up ov ... More >>

Meet Michael Kiwanuka: "Tell Me a Tale," your soundtrack to fall has officially arrived

Michael Kiwanuka: A star is born.​"Folks, a star is born." So wrote AEG impresario Don Strasburg this morning on Facebook in reference to Michael Kiwanuka. And, man, I'm here to tell you: There's clearly a reason that Strasburg does what he does for a living. Dude can spot talent from a mile a ... More >>

Challenge21 climber Jake Norton sets out for three tallest peaks on each continent

Jake Norton, from Golden, CO, is attempting to climb the Triple Seven Summits -- the three highest peaks on each continent -- to raise money to support the Denver-based non-profit Water for People​Jake Norton, a mountain climber from Golden, CO, is in Uganda this week to climb Mount Stanley's ... More >>

Abstinence-only funding was refused, but that didn't stop a state school-board member

What's in a name? Otto von Habsburg's real name and other ridiculously crazy monikers

You can call me Franz.​This week the world mourns the death of Otto von Habsburg, who championed world unity, opposed the Nazi movement, served as a member of the European Parliament and was the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. You know, back when Austria and Hungary were hyphenated, in 1 ... More >>

Sneak Peek: Mountainfilm in Telluride 2011

​This week, Mountainfilm in Telluride promoters released the full program for the 32nd annual festival (May 25-30). Since there are more than 70 films on the schedule, we caught up with Mountainfilm's program director Emily Long to bring you a sneak peek at some of this year's most hotly antic ... More >>

Hometown pride: The Book of Mormon will open its tour in Denver

​By every conceivable definition, Trey Parker and Matt Stone's The Book of Mormon has been am unqualified success; in fact, considering the sold-out houses, the glowing reviews and the preposterous amount of Tony Award nominations the musical has garnered, it might even be the most successful ... More >>

Comment of the day: "Why pay to drink from the gutter?"

​Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the longtime brains behind South Park, Colorado's most famous semi-fictional mountain town, took it all the way to Broadway on Tuesday when The Book of Mormon opened to glowing reviews. The musical, a sendup of Mormon culture starring two "elders" on a mission trip ... More >>

The Book of Mormon opens on Broadway to glowing reviews. Here's a look back.

Bring it back home!​Type "The Book of Mormon" into Google right now, and the first thing to come is the eponymous play by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, two Colorado boys who went on to become, we think it's fair to say at this point, the greatest satirists of a generation. From South Park to Tea ... More >>

Through Death, Life

Your Lucky Deals, new deal-of-the-day website launched in Denver, is cheap and charitable

​ Your Lucky Deals, a deal-of-the-day website that donates 10 percent of every purchase to local charities, launched today in Denver. Started by a brother and sister who grew up in Parker, Your Lucky Deals stands out from other Groupon-esque websites because of its charitable component, says c ... More >>

Andrea Moore hopes to use PlatteForum residency for grief, but not in a sad way

Oh, camera, you make me LOL.​For a project that centers around grief, it's coincidentally a fitting time of year for Andrea Moore to begin her work in PlatteForum's artist residency. An artistic jack-of-all-trades, the writer, photographer and performer moved into PlatteForum yesterday to begi ... More >>

Women + Film = Change

Pale Ale of the Apes

John Hickenlooper proves truth is stranger than fiction at Colorado Book Awards

​Truth is definitely stranger than fiction, with the 19th Annual Colorado Book Awards announcement in Aspen last Friday just offering more proof. For starters, the main speaker was John Hickenlooper, the former geologist turned brewpub-owner turned Denver mayor who's now running for governor. ... More >>

Stitch by Stitch

Helping Handcrafts

The global village sets up shop at the TACtile Textile Arts Center.

Africa dances tonight at the Colfax Event Center

An arm of Urban Skye, a local collective seeking to help "revitalize the urban soul" by hosting cultural and spiritual salons and forums and fostering service projects, the Worldview Film Series meets on the last Thursday of every month with the goal of opening eyes to global issues through film scr ... More >>

Feds refuse to give up their quest to send Ugandan refugee home

America's promise to protect asylum-seekers gets lost in the paperwork

Winding Down

Dancing in the Dark

War/Dance examines the best and worst of human nature.

What Garry Didn't Know

Bike Power

By the Book

A new project could revolutionize the way students learn.

The Message

Hard Corps

Gorilla, Run

Ape garb is great for great apes

The Rhythm of Andalusia

Multimedia flamenco show captures gitano spirit

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Backwash

Three local indies demonstrate that not all record companies are created evil.