Why stick to the straight and narrow? CORE New Art Space is starting the year off with a certifiably offbeat duo: iconoclastic quilter/artist J.B. Wilcox, who prefers to call himself a fiber artist (although, as he puts it, he’s “technically an art quilter who’s sick of the ‘Q’ word”), and…
Dying to get down to the latest Gnarls Barkley, but too busy changing diapers and cleaning flung Gerber off the ceiling? The only solution is to navigate your jogging stroller to the D Note, 7519 Grandview Avenue in Arvada, today and most Sunday afternoons at 3 p.m. for Baby Boogie,…
Ullr, the mythological Nordic god of winter, has already bestowed his blessing upon us. Twenty-odd inches of it, actually. In an effort to pay him back, the kindly folks of Breckenridge will do what they’ve been doing since 1963 in the name of the Ullr: drink. Beginning today, Ullr Fest-goers…
As a Denver native, I take comfort in the unchanging landmarks and traditions that were part of the city back in my grandparents’ and great-grandparents’ day — like the National Western Stock Show, opening this morning at 9 a.m. at the National Western Complex, 4655 Humboldt Street. In the ’50s…
The thing that surprises me most about Denver is how there’s a rodeo for every occasion. Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t it seem like cowboys are doing their respective bucking and jiving every Secretary’s Day, full moon and third Thursday of the month? It’s crazy! Are these hoedowns…
“I would call it serendipity,” says Colorado Chamber Players artistic director and violist Barbara Hamilton, explaining how this month’s program came about. “About a year ago, I met Dean Sobel at the Clyfford Still Museum, and we realized we could have a great collaboration.” Around the same time, she heard…
Aspen is not all skiing and shopping and partying and beautiful people. Thanks to the Aspen Writers’ Foundation, the brain gets some exercise, too, with Winter Words — a series of talks billed as “Après Ski for the Mind.” When the AWF started the program ten years ago, it already…
California-based political satirist Will Durst calls himself an equal-opportunity offender and a bi-partisan smartass; he once quipped that Democrats have less traction than a roller-skating giraffe on ice, and dissed the president by saying that a puppy-eating cobra could keep higher ratings in the polls. It’s no wonder, then, that…
Actors and athletes typically decide that a music career is a good idea because they’re a) wildly popular/filthy rich and looking to capitalize on the branding of their own persona, or b) dangerously close to moving into the Surreal Life house and desperately trying to keep their careers afloat. For…
Look at any amateur photographer shooting a close-up of wet pebbles and you’ll notice that his instincts are — consciously or unconsciously — aimed at re-thinking the dimensions of everyday space and reality. Now add color enhancement, visual sculpture and any form of photographic construction, and you have more opportunities…
We Jews are known for moving. Throughout history, we’ve always been on pilgrimages or in states of exile; we travel to escape persecution and journey to promised lands. Intrinsic to our culture, the act and consequence of our movement provided the no-brainer theme for a brainy film series hosted by…
Three cheers for the efficiency of the Traffic Division of Denver County Court! This horror story started when my mom called me at the office the day before Thanksgiving. She was firmly bivouacked in her seasonal holiday trench of hysteria, overwhelmed by all there was to get ready, and she…
“Our data indicates that the rate of methamphetamine use has doubled in the last five years,” Colorado Attorney General John Suthers said at the release of the first Methamphetamine Task Force Report yesterday. And for the gay community, that estimate could be low. While meth use is soaring everywhere, it’s…
It’s a cold, cold world out there for people on foot. While Mayor Hick had his scraping fleets quadruple-plowing the main drags during and after the second blast of holiday snow, as if to prove a point (I imagine him riding atop the biggest plow in town, waving his biggest…
There’s no business like shoe business for the 400. When the designer sneaker store opened at 1010 Bannock Street in September 2005, it was the first of its kind in the state, and some wondered whether there were enough mile-high sneakerheads to foot the bills. But since then, several similar…
“I write my life as it progresses, as it gets worse, whatever,” says Aaron Yates, also known as Tech N9ne, who headlines at the Fillmore Auditorium on Saturday, January 6. “I’m like a fan inside this cat called Tech N9ne, who writes this crazy stuff. I’m just waiting to see…
For the past decade-plus, I’ve used vacation time during the Christmas season, and prior to 2006, I’ve missed precious few significant news developements. The reason is simple. Newsmakers (and plenty of those covering them) tend to lay low during the last half of December and the first few days of…
December turned Denver into a giant snow globe, sealed off and insulated from the rest of the world — but with a whole lotta shaking going on. Especially at the corner of 11th and Speer Boulevard, where Bronco Darrent Williams was shot dead early New Year’s Day. He was in…
There are some restaurants where the world does not intrude — rooms where time does not pass, weather does not change, current events go unnoted. Often inadvertently, these restaurants have successfully stopped time — a trick that mad scientists and evil super-geniuses have been attempting since forever with dark matter…
There are some restaurants where the world does not intrude — rooms where time does not pass, weather does not change, current events go unnoted. Often inadvertently, these restaurants have successfully stopped time — a trick that mad scientists and evil super-geniuses have been attempting since forever with dark matter…
