You might think you’ve seen everything that Seed — Fashion Denver’s quarterly showcase of, well, Denver fashion — has to offer. But you’d be dead wrong. For starters, today’s installment takes place at the Oriental Theater, 4335 West 44th Avenue, a virgin venue for Seed. Second, DJs will be supplemented…

“We have over 100 speakers, over 200 events, 50,000 to 60,000 in attendance, and we talk about every subject,” says Ramsay Thurber, spokesman for the University of Colorado at Boulder’s 59th annual Conference on World Affairs, which takes place today through Friday, April 13. “We have our day-to-day lives, and…

Remember when hunting for Easter eggs was fun? That is, until your older brother found all of them, ate the chocolate candy and left the plastic shell on the ground. Then you both got older, became too cool to look for bright colors in the grass and quit believing in…

Barry Ross has been illustrating other people’s experiences for 25 years; a regular column in Flying Magazine, “I Learned About Flying From That,” includes Ross’s pen, ink, watercolor and acrylic art. The stories are sometimes frightening and sometimes comical, but each one contains a lesson learned. Not everyone is familiar…

“Sexual orientation and gender identity are core identity issues,” says Emily Fischer, a social-work intern at the Denver Veterans Affairs hospital. “It doesn’t make sense to get medical and mental-health treatment without talking about the ways sexuality and your sense of your own gender identity impact your life — whether…

Vegas just isn’t the same these days. Take the Stardust Resort & Casino — which opened in 1958, was destroyed in Mars Attacks and had its days of Mafia rule chronicled in the film Casino. That Vegas icon imploded in a barrage of fireworks and ash on March 13, disappearing…

Winter Park wanted to do something a little different during Spring Blast, its annual end-of-the-season farewell to snow, skiers and riders. And the Dummy Downhill Race certainly qualifies as, um, different. Here’s how it works: Twenty teams — with a maximum of four people per team — mount a dummy…

“There are only one or two people in North America who have seen more short films than I have,” says George Eldred, program director of the Aspen Shortsfest. But, he adds, his is a dubious achievement: “Some of those, nobody but the filmmakers and their mothers need to see.” Rest…

Green is the new black. That is to say, concern for environmental causes has become très chic. In acknowledgement of the trend, the newest round of Fresh City Life cultural programming is all about the earth — and that includes the free Enviro Docs series, which opens tonight with Fed…

Staci Davis has a very good reason why she — and the rest of the board of directors of Salsa Central Denver — picked Edie the Salsa Freak to lead a weekend program of Salsa Bootcamps. “She’s the best,” Davis says simply. “She’s the four-time world-champion salsa dancer, and she’s…

Dogs get all the pet props, and cats aren’t far behind. What do they have that the guinea pig doesn’t? That is, besides size and permission to roam the house unconfined. It’s downright unfair! The Dumb Friends League will attempt to even the score at today’s March Mammal Madness, a…