As someone who doesn’t eat any meat, I should know more than I do about cooking vegetables. I can make a salad, and I know how to saute, but I’ve never done much with grilling or roasting — and while I’d heard the term “blanch,” I wasn’t entirely sure how…
Investigative sustainability journalist and solar-power-using goatherder Doug Fine says that the hardest part about researching and discussing his new book, Hemp Bound: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution, is “trying not to sound like your college roommate with the lava lamp.” Because those wavy-gravy types had…
The setting for the newest offering from Wonderbound is something that artistic director Garrett Ammon probably never thought he’d see on a stage full of dancers. He and Lighthouse Writers Workshop executive director Michael J. Henry were sitting down with musician Ian Cooke to brainstorm the new production, Gone West,…
FRI | RYAN CROSSON at NORAD | 3/28/14 Ryan Crosson exemplifies techno at its finest, whether your measuring stick is based on the heyday of Detroit techno or on the sub-genre’s modern-day residency in Berlin. Crosson made a name for himself in both cities; after sharpening his needles alongside artists…
“When most people think of balloon art, they think of a bouquet of balloons or a simple balloon dog,” says Amanda Dolechek, spokeswoman for the Festival of Balloons. “We want to show them that balloons can really be a form of art; they’re a medium like anything else.” The festival…
Every year after the Vegan Prom has ended, attendees ask organizer Joshua LaBure about the next year’s event. “We’ve had numerous people say it’s their favorite night of the year,” LaBure says. And even though this particular fancy-dress dance party has the word “vegan” in the name, LaBure assures potential…
Ryan Crosson exemplifies techno at its finest, whether your measuring stick is based on the heyday of Detroit techno or on the genre’s modern-day residency in Berlin. Crosson made a name for himself in both cities; after sharpening his needles alongside artists like Richie Hawtin and Kevin Saunderson, he helped…
Giving birth to a child is arguably the most intensely painful experience a human being can have. After nine months of more-or-less blissful pregnancy, childbirth is the dark side of reproduction — and it’s understandable that many women prefer to bypass the full experience through drugs or surgery, given the…
The balloon art that you’ll see at the Festival of Balloons — a celebration of balloon sculpture that runs from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Downtown Denver Hotel this coming Sunday, March 30 — will make the typical balloon dog or balloon bouquet look like a child’s…
FRI | MARK FARINA at BAR STANDARD | 3/21/14 Mark Farina plays mushroom jazz, and that’s just the way it is. Seamlessly fusing funk, soul, jazz, and hip-hop into a fluid soundtrack, Farina has grown into a household name at Bar Standard where he regularly plays sets in what could…
Wes Anderson is arguably the most popular “underground” filmmaker of our time; although his films are widely distributed and avidly watched by his fans, he still maintains an indie sensibility through his whimsical settings and plots. “He definitely has a style,” notes Keith Garcia, creative manager for the Alamo Drafthouse…
To help celebrate Colorado Craft Beer Week, the Colorado Brewers Guild wanted to put on a truly special event. And that’s how the inaugural Collaboration Fest was conceived — because what better way to promote craft beer than through one-of-a-kind brews created by multiple breweries? “Breweries literally work together every…
FRI | DOCTOR P at BETA | 3/14/14 My dubstep has a first name, and it’s D-O-C-T-O-R-P. Having established himself as one of the originators in bringing dubstep to the masses, Doctor P’s early hits still get regular play in the biggest sets. To boot, his Circus Records imprint is…
Warm Cookies of the Revolution is a place to eat warm cookies and discuss important topics with strangers — but organizer Evan Weissman also describes the event as a “civic health club.” “That term is pretty foreign to most people,” he acknowledges. “We merge civic issues with fun programming. We…
FRI | ADAM BEYER at NORAD | 3/8/14 It’s entirely appropriate that Adam Beyer’s techno label bears the handle Drumcode, considering that the techno enthusiast was a drummer in his teenage years before turning to electronic music in 1990, when he purchased his first set of turntables. Although the Swedish…
According to scholar Harold Bloom, William Shakespeare is ultimately responsible for the characterization of the modern human. “His concept is that the change in European culture was created by Shakespeare. He wrote characters that had more depth and ambition and who changed throughout the course of a play,” explains John…
One of the main purposes of Cochon 555 is to introduce the general dining public to heritage-breed pigs, which Cochon 555 founder Brady Lowe compares to heirloom tomatoes. “The main component of the event is the flavor profile of these animals,” he explains. “The difference between the standard pork we’re…
Even a person who works in a contemporary-art museum — someone like Sarah Kate Baie, director of programming at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver — needs help interpreting art sometimes. “I spend every day around this stuff,” says Baie, “and sometimes I walk into a new museum to see…
Denver’s vegetarian food scene is getting stronger all the time. All but the most vehemently meat-centric establishments in town have something besides salad to offer veggie-lovers, and ambitious, exclusively vegetarian eateries are opening all the time — including Lotus Vegetarian Restaurant, which we review this week. When you want to…
Whether or not you attended prom in high school, “it is sort of a pinnacle event,” notes Michelle Baldwin (aka Vivienne VaVoom), spokeswoman for the Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails (LUPEC). “And if you truly want to go to prom, it’s rather sad if the only reason…
FRI | WINTER WARMER FESTIVAL at FILLMORE | 2/14/14 Since dropping his debut solo album Dreaming of a Bigger Life, Michal Menert has been steadily touring the country building a grassroots following in the same way Derek Vincent Smith of Pretty Lights did when he first hit the scene. Menert…
Amelia Pedlow’s father has been teaching high-school English for decades — which means he’s been teaching Hamlet for quite some time now. “He would drag me to every production of Hamlet that would happen anywhere, anytime, to see if it would be worth it to take his class,” she laughs…
