From Oktoberfest to the Night Market, a Dozen Free Things to Do in Denver This Weekend
As anyone who has ever played Dungeons and Dragons can attest, tabletop role-playing comes with a lot of rules. Getting through an adventure can mean wading through thousands of pages of them — in bestiaries, player handbooks and other hefty tomes. It’s a problem that gamers Chris Matney and Evan…
No matter how big the TV your Xbox is plugged into, it can’t compete with the grandeur of a full-sized movie theater. But from noon to 6 p.m. this Saturday, Denver gamers will have the chance to play their favorite titles on Sie FilmCenter’s larger-than-life screen at the Colorado Video…
Geeks love to toke, too. That was the premise behind Chromic Con, the only-in-Colorado gathering that brought together stoners, fans and geeky guests in Colorado Springs and Denver on November 22 and 23. Billed as the world’s first-ever weed-friendly comic and fantasy convention, the event included a cosplay contest, exhibits…
When the European Space Agency’s Philae lander touched down on Comet 67P on November 12, millions of people were watching. For one day, the washing-machine-sized robot was the world’s biggest celebrity, spawning a Google doodle and making the home page of the New York Times. From his house in Fort…
Curling up in front of a screen on a cold, snowy day is one of winter’s underrated pleasures, and it’s one that wasn’t lost on the crowd at the Denver Indie Games Expo at Clutch Gaming Arena in Arvada on Saturday. Players and creators who had braved the slippery roads…
If you haven’t voted yet, stop reading now and do so: You can drop off your ballot until 7 p.m. tonight, and if you don’t have your ballot, you can go to one of the city’s 25 vote centers and get a replacement. For that matter, under the state’s new…
When William Gibson published his first novel, Neuromancer, thirty years ago, he triggered a seismic shift in the landscape of science fiction. With its vision of a gritty near-future populated by cowboy computer hackers and cybernetically-enhanced mercenaries, the book singlehandedly established cyberpunk as a genre, in the process foreshadowing the…
The mad composer’s voice cuts in over the intercom, taunting us. He’s placed a time bomb somewhere backstage at the performing arts center, and I and two other detectives have just an hour to find and disarm it. A clock in the corner of the room ticks down the time…
Sci-fi author William Gibson has a reputation as a prognosticator of the future. His debut novel Neuromancer portrayed the Internet’s takeover of everyday life a decade and a half before it happened, establishing the gritty cyberpunk genre and influencing creators from Billy Idol to the Wachowskis. When it comes to…
Gone are the days when families would gather around the radio to listen to their favorite serials together. But starting tonight, The Night Dial will bring some of that old-time entertainment back to Denver with a Halloween-themed horror radio play at the Bug Theatre. The Night Dial is the brainchild…
Update: Rocky Mountain National Park may not have been the only site in Colorado tagged by accused vandal Casey Nocket. The National Park Service announced in a memo on October 29 that it was investigating Nocket for allegedly defacing Colorado National Monument, as well as RMNP and seven other national…
Our review of this week’s Dracula Untold doesn’t inspire much hope: “This Dracula Begins-style sword-and-fangs curio plays like someone said, ‘What if we took a vampire flick but did a find-and-replace swapping out all that bare-neck sensuality for some video-game ass-kicking?'” But for every genre-entry failure, there are numerous other…
The road has been rough on Paws. Last week, a thief broke into the Scottish band’s van while they were stopped in Seattle and stole money and equipment, including a laptop and a hard drive containing much of the group’s early recordings and work on planned future projects. At last…
Denver is a great place to be a cosplayer. Nearly a dozen geeky conventions come through the Mile High City every year, from last weekend’s Nan Desu Kan to the brony-themed Running of the Leaves, so fans have plenty of chances to dress up as their favorite characters. Even the…
Sender Films took seven years to make Valley Uprising, its joyful, wistful history of the climbing counterculture of Yosemite. And as filmmaker Peter Mortimer told the audience at the feature’s premiere in Boulder last night, they used every last hour of that time. “[Partner Nick Rosen] and I haven’t seen…
Update: Clockwork Kingdom successfully met its goal with a revamped Kickstarter campaign this week, after failing to raise funding in its original effort. “I can only speculate possibly going back to school, returning from Gencon and all the summer hoopla, that perhaps we were overlooked?” Mr. B founder Sean Brown…
In 2007, Sender Films began shooting interviews with rock climbers for a then-unnamed documentary about Yosemite National Park. At the time, the Boulder-based production house was already well-established as climbing filmmakers go, with four full-length movies and innumerable shorts to its credit. (It’s since added two more features and a…
Most war games begin and end with combat, and in upcoming indie release Fritz, players get to do their fair share. They control the titular German soldier as he charges across the battlefields of World War I and grapples with the French army in the trenches. But it’s in between…
Denver blogs just want some peace and quiet. On our Backbeat blog, Gina Tron looks into how The Chive got permission to host a festival in City Park. The most annoying noise in Boulder County? Skydiving planes, according to Free Range Longmont. South Stands Denver ponders why no one wants…
Denver blogs don’t discriminate. On Westword’s Show and Tell blog, Bree Davies relates her less-than-pleasant experience as a woman at UMS. At the Colorado Independent, Yvette Moreno reflects on the use of force against her son at the Denver city jail. Mile High report collects everything we know about the…
Denver blog posts don’t buy the conspiracy theories. At our Show and tell blog, Caleb Williams shares five little-known facts about DIA’s art. Purple Row bemoans the Rockies’ struggles on the mound. The Colorado Independent’s Mike Littwin sounds off on America’s latest botched execution…
Ophir, the upcoming board game from Denver-based publisher Terra Nova, is a battle of commerce. Players take the roles of merchants in an ancient civilization, amassing trading fortunes by outwitting and outmaneuvering their opponents on the high seas. Thematically, it’s like Monopoly or Steam, but with an interesting twist: Building…
