WED, 7/14 More often than not, we Americans get our news in increasingly attention-deficit- disorder-friendly ways. Sound bites, Internet-server headlines and bits of information flashed across the bottom of television screens are the means by which most of us learn what is going on in the world today. A Cliff’s…

FRI, 7/2 I’ve gleefully lit my share of fuses on bottle rockets, cones, pinwheels and other sulfur-spewing devices in honor of July 4th. More than my share, actually, since my cousin — the future plastic surgeon — was forbidden by his folks to handle the explosives. Still, there’s a lingering…

SAT, 7/3 When Roy Delgado took up the sport of boxing two and a half years ago, it seemed only natural that his father, Henry Delgado, would manage his career. However, it didn’t take long for the former amateur boxer and martial arts fighter to recognize inadequacies in the Denver…

THURS, 7/1 Some things were made to complement each other: peanut butter and jelly, Hope and Bo on Days of Our Lives, St. Augustine and the Marx Brothers. “But what does St. Augustine have in common with the Marx Brothers?” That is exactly the kind of question that Adam Lerner,…

TUES, 6/29 For better or worse, nineteenth-century composer Richard Wagner regarded himself as the most German of men. Classified as an anarchist, socialist, proto-fascist, nationalist, vegetarian and anti-Semite, among other things, Wagner was a stern man whose name has appeared in connection with almost every major trend in German history…

SAT, 6/26 Think you’ve got what it takes to be Colorado’s greatest all-around competitor? Then sign up for this weekend’s first-ever GAAC (Greatest All-Around Competition), an amateur sporting contest featuring seven different events. “We are searching for the greatest competitor in Colorado, and the funny thing is, the first words…

FRI, 6/18 At the beginning of Say Goodnight Gracie, comedian George Burns is in limbo. Caught between this world and the next, Burns is unable to reunite with his partner in love and work, Gracie Allen, until he gives the performance of his lifetime to none other than God. The…

FRI, 6/18 Last New Year’s Day, while the rest of us were watching Bowl games or trying to figure out where, exactly, we lost that tooth the night before, Emily Blong and Natalie Taylor were frolicking together on a dump truck in north Denver. Summoned to the strange locale by…

THURS, 6/10 These days, you’re as likely to come across George Lopez on ABC as you are on HBO or Univision. His smiling face is everywhere: on stages across the country, on his hit weekly sitcom George Lopez, in films, on late-night talk shows, even on Inside the NFL. The…

SAT, 6/5 Three years ago, a group of teens approached Douglas County Libraries community-relations specialist Aspen Butterfield with an interesting proposal. “They saw that the library had children’s performers coming through, and they wanted to know if they could play music there, too,” Butterfield explains. But before flocks of nebbish…

THURS, 6/3 Beginning today, weekend warriors can jump on the adventure-race bandwagon at the Teva Mountain Games in Vail, the largest extreme-sports festival in the country. “This is the crown jewel of the outdoor industry,” says Joel Heath, president of Untraditional Marketing, organizers of the event. “There is just so…

THURS, 5/13 Prepare to be uplifted both spiritually and mentally at this weekend’s encore performance of Mary Lou’s Mass by Cleo Parker Robinson Dance. The historical piece is based on Music for Peace, which was composed by African-American jazz artist Mary Lou Williams for Pope Paul VII in 1969. The…

SAT, 5/1 Lola/Sings saetas/The little bullfighters/Circle around her/And the little barber/From his doorway/Follows the rhythms/With his head. These words from famed Andalusian poet Federico García Lorca will echo during The Spanish Muse, a two-day celebration of Spanish poetry, music, art and dance. Flamenco group Ojaleo will provide the msica, along…

MON, 4/12 Siona Benjamin’s background is beyond exotic, a story no journalist could resist repeating. A Sephardic Jew who grew up in the Bollywood district of Bombay, India, she hails from a milieu that has been defined by a swirl of multiculturalism, including Western and Eastern philosophies and Jewish, Catholic,…

WED, 3/24 Get down and dirty this afternoon at a lecture and chisme with Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, author of The Dirty Girls Social Club. “I’m going to talk about the dangers of stereotyping, because I think everyone is stereotyped,” says Valdes-Rodriguez, a former reporter for both the Los Angeles Times and…

THURS, 3/11 The average person has probably never heard of the seven women artists featured in a pair of exhibits opening today at the Metro State Center for the Visual Arts. The shows highlight the women’s works from the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. “That’s what’s wrong with this world,” grumbles…

FRI, 3/12 “We love Denver,” say the producers of Rattlebrain Theater Company, as if to cover their tracks. “And you always hurt the one you love.” The improvisational troupe will explore its abusive relationship with the city in its fifth original comedic production, It’s Hickenlooper’s World — We Just Live…

TUES, 3/9 Slurp some slippery suckers during tonight’s sixth annual Oyster Eating Competition at the Boulder Jax Fish House, where competitors with stomachs of steel will down as many raw oysters on the half shell as possible in ninety seconds. “We’ve seen people pack oysters into a pint glass and…

SAT, 2/7 Will the speaker yield to a two-part question? Is it true that if a black hole’s mass is more than a billion times that of the sun, the tidal gravitational forces are weak enough that a star could pass across the Event Horizon without shredding? And, if so,…

SUN, 2/1 Joe receives a ticket to the Super Bowl, but when he arrives at the stadium, he discovers he’s in the last row. Then he spies an empty fifty-yard-line seat. After getting past security, he sits down in the choice spot and asks the gentleman next to him if…

TUES, 1/27 How hard is it to turn a huge pile of snow into two camels lounging under a canopy of palm trees? Find out this week at Breckenridge’s Budweiser International Snow Sculpture Championships, when five American teams of sculptors — along with fourteen teams from as far away as…