FRI, 5/6 Boulder Arts and Crafts Cooperative exhibit coordinator Ellen Spiller didn’t have a feminine theme in mind when she asked eight Colorado women to take part in the new metalwork show Women of Steel — but that’s what she got. “It turns out that a lot of women are…
May 9 is D-day for me and my dog Madeline, whom I rescued from the streets on New Year’s Day 2004. For the last year, we’ve lived in peace — which means not having to look over our shoulders every time a Denver Animal Control officer drives by. But that…
In my mind’s eye, I am Karsten Heuer. Someone who would walk 2,200 miles along the spine of the Rocky Mountains from Yellowstone to the Yukon. Nothing but me, my dog and my pack. I, too, could fend off bears, shoot glacier-fed rapids, ski next to fresh wolverine tracks and…
SUN, 4/10 Not even the best mix CD can compare with the musical diversity of singer and actress Sheryl Renee. A sample of her repertoire, which covers over 120 artists, will be on display tonight during Sheryl Renee and Her Salute to the Legends. Every Sunday this month, Renee will…
FRI, 4/8 Japanese painter Yumiko Kayukawa has earned a global reputation for fusing balance, harmony and…’ 80s butt rock. Inspired by a deep childhood connection with nature and her passion for bands like Cheap Trick and Motley Crüe, Kayukawa mixes lotus blossoms, kanji (Japanese calligraphy), quirky animals and a post-punk…
SAT, 4/9 What’s worse than a cheap cigar? A cheap dildo. Thankfully, you won’t find any of those at Hysteria, a new “feminist, progressive, sex-positive boutique” that opens at 11 a.m. today at 114 South Broadway. Wife-and-husband team Elizabeth Hauptman and Pete Yribia modeled their shop after the internationally known…
THURS, 3/31 The Yard Dogs Traveling Road Show is rolling back into town, ready to prove that a Yard Dog can, indeed, learn new tricks. “Nail your hat to your head and hide the wine,” says the carny’s barker, Eddy Joe Cotton. “Did I mention the Œdancing girls, dancing girls,…
TUES, 4/5 Ask any kid on the street who Charlie Chaplin was, and you’ll probably get a blank stare or, at the very least, a snicker about that retarded dude with the weird mustache and big feet. It’s just a fact of nature: The little guy on the flickering screen…
FRI, 3/25 You think you really know a place; then you get an aerial view of it, and your understanding increases tenfold. I’ve always considered myself an expert on Denver, but on a recent flight from Denver International Aiport, the plane took off toward the east and then looped back…
FRI, 3/18 Charles Dickens once said that “home is a name, a word,” but for the students at P.S.1, the concept of “home” can also be expressed in images. For the past month, more than a dozen students from the charter school have been working with digital storytellers Daniel Weinshenker,…
Most mothers of small children know the score: They shyly finger the racks at Oilily or April Cornell, purposely ignoring the price tags and, well, dreaming. Because unless they’ve got hundreds of bucks to throw away on a gorgeous ensemble their kid will outgrow next month, they know they’ve got…
THUR, 3/10 New Yorker Chakaia Booker is making tracks across the contemporary art scene. The mixed-media artist conveys her images of struggle by twisting and contorting raw materials like wood, fiber and metal, but her signature works are created through manipulations of used, mangled tires. She weaves the discarded rubber…
SAT, 3/5 Michael Reynolds’s vision of the future is totally wireless: There will be no matrix of pipes or power lines connecting humans and their homes to supply plants and water- treatment facilities. The creator of the Earthship — a self-sustaining, eco-friendly form of architecture made primarily from refuse –…
MON, 3/7 Join the Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails tonight as they host Stand-Up for SafeHouse at the Rattlebrain Theater. The women of Denver’s most fabulous not-so-secret society are joining nationally known comics Teresa Logan, Edith Weiss, David Gray, Stephanie McHugh and Dave Burdick to raise awareness…
THURS, 2/24 Cheech Marin chucks Chong and the bongs tonight for a bit of culture. As the owner of one of the largest collections of Chicano art in the country, Marin is in town to participate in Leaving Aztlán: Rethinking Contemporary Latino and Chicano Art at Metropolitan State College of…
MON, 2/28 Were I to make a film focusing on an item of food, I would tell the tale of a single green pepper. Our story would begin with a crane shot of a slow descent from above a windswept treeline to a northern California field, where hundreds of laborers…
“Here we find this planet a billion miles from the sun that turns out to be the most Earth-like place we’ve ever explored,” says David Grinspoon, principal scientist for the Department of Space Studies in the Boulder-based Southwest Research Institute. “The first impression is that this could be the coastline…
Get ready for some serious barking. The city’s one-year pilot program for off-leash dog parks will end February 28, and neighbors and pet owners are already baring their teeth. There was much ado about everything last year when the Denver Department of Parks and Recreation floated the idea of creating…
5:55 a.m.: 7600 Broadway They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway…but right before dawn, on the hillside where Broadway begins, the only lights are a hint of orange and pink on the horizon to the east, the beacons of a convenience store a few blocks down the two-lane…
FRI, 2/4 When Josh Levy was studying music and art at the California Institute of the Arts and the Art Institute of Chicago, he noticed that his creativity and focus heightened when he worked around other people. Years later, while teaching at a summer arts school for children in New…
In the fall of 1976, Roberta Price found herself facing a truly Western dilemma: be inhospitable to strangers or serve the two cowboys suddenly standing at her door the THC-laced doughnuts cooling on the table. The Manhattan-raised Vassar girl chose wisely: She gave them each a doughnut and sent them…
My pooches are complete slackers. Recently, I discovered that Nina and Maddie are stubbornly failing to live up to their potential. If I were one of those dogs-as- surrogates-for-children women, I’d think I was a terrible parent — that I obviously hadn’t done enough to ensure their future success and…
