FRI, 3/11 This year, the coffin-carrying competition at Nederland’s Frozen Dead Guy Days gets seriously stiff. The annual festival, which begins today, celebrates Bredo “Grandpa” Morstoel, the cryogenically frozen Norwegian who occupies a Tuff Shed behind the home of his dearly deported grandson. The festivities include the Cryogenic Parade, tours…
FRI, 2/18 Snips and snails and puppy-dog tails. That’s what little boys are made of, right? Find out at Will Boys Be Boys?, a mixed-media show at the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver that probes the arena of modern boyology. The national touring exhibition, which was curated by the Whitney Museum…
FRI, 2/18 Before Denver fell for the Nuggets — the original Nuggets of 1939, that is — fans loved the Pigs. The nickname was short for the Piggly Wigglys, one of the powerful, corporately sponsored teams that played in the prime of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU). For a few…
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, 1/21 Has Russian nesting doll fever swept Denver, thanks to the Nuggets? Da! I was among those scurrying to the Pepsi Center the night after Christmas, ostensibly to watch the NBA home team blow a game against the Dallas Mavericks. But the real reason for the breathless arrival? Simple:…
FRI, 1/21 Colorado aesthetes, mark your PDAs: Here comes another extracurricular activity for the creative class. Tonight, the Colorado Theatre Guild introduces Theatre Night Out, a nomadic tour of area venues and productions held on the third Friday of every month. Taking a cue from the wildly successful First Friday…
Tony Garcia is acutely aware of the irony that his play about Denver’s Mexican experience is being performed at Auraria’s stellar auditorium. After all, the campus was built on what had been the heart of the Mexican-American community, which was forced to disperse in the ’60s. The history of that…
SAT, 12/11 John B. Weller’s love affair began on an innocent date. Four years ago, the Boulder resident returned to the Great Sand Dunes National Park for the first time in years — and was overwhelmed by the natural beauty that surrounded him. “We camped out. It was ice-cold, five…
SAT, 12/11 Next to Santa’s workshop, could any place on earth be more magical to a kid at Christmas time than the Hammond’s Candies factory? Located right here in Denver since Carl T. Hammond Sr. set up shop in 1920, Hammond’s is especially known (and nationally, at that) for its…
THURS, 11/18 Things have been pretty tough for Melo. Depression. Inability to breathe. Anger. And that all came before anything that’s happened to him in the past few months. Yes, the Nuggets’ barely twenty-year-old sophomore star has endured plenty of hardships, which he recounts with writer Greg Brown in Carmelo…
The gift-giving season draws nigh, so sound the battle cry and dig in: Shop early and shop often! After all, frenzy can be fun, especially when you know where to shop. And this is one hot weekend to do it. For starters, the seventh annual Gifts for Yule, an eclectic…
SAT, 11/6 When the Denver School of the Arts opened its new facility in 2003, administrators decided that what they had was too impressive to keep to themselves. They also recognized that the state-of-the-art campus offered a unique opportunity to connect with the community. “We realized that the DSA could…
A surprising number of viewers have witnessed Michael Moore’s jowly pokes at the Bush administration in Fahrenheit 9/11. While the anti-Dubya flick’s more than $100 million gross isn’t awe-inspiring when compared to the box-office tallies of Hollywood blockbusters, it is cinematic shock and awe for a political documentary. But Moore’s…
SAT, 10/23 In 1987, only 248 mountain gorillas remained in the wild, in Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Subject to decades of civil war in the regions they inhabited, as well as the spread of dangerous diseases, poaching and the devastating consequences of increased habitat loss, the…
SAT, 10/9 Anyone itching to launch a pumpkin 4,000 feet might still qualify for the Punkin Chunkin world championship in Delaware next month. But locally, the entry deadline for today’s sixth annual Jack-O-Launch in Aurora has passed, so most fans of pumpkin-projecting must merely watch. Still, the sight of pounds…
FRI, 10/1 Dogs are only as good as their trainers. That’s why the Association of Pet Dog Trainers is unleashing its Rally Obedience Trial today at 2 p.m. in tandem with Educanines, a local canine trainer. Organizers have set up a course that teaches classic obedience skills and lets pet…
FRI, 9/17 Strolling the Pearl Street Mall in the early 1980s, it wasn’t uncommon to come across groups of jugglers performing mind-boggling feats. Those were the golden years of busking, before outside influences intruded, when it was juggling for juggling’s sake, pure and true. But diamonds in the rough can…
FRI, 9/10 Kids love to journey back to that colorful age when mummies, animal gods and pyramids were part of a kingdom along the Nile — and for many, the appeal of those ancient times doesn’t fade away with adulthood. With today’s arrival of The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of…
FRI, 9/3 Irish expatriates must yearn for many features of their homeland: the fierce winds and breathtaking beauty of the Cliffs of Moher; the eloquent storytelling of their countrymen; the sweeping fields of endless green; that midget who danced for Guinness at the pub. But a group of Irish nationals…
SUN, 8/15 It’s a left! And a right! And a left! And a . . . Does it seem like the body politic is reeling under the assault of the current presidential election? Or does it appear as if some folks are ducking their responsibility to make a choice in…
Silvana Vukadin-Hoitt is a woman of the world. The German-born Bosnian speaks four languages and has been there, done that, and still hasn’t grown tired of it all. For Vukadin-Hoitt, every day, even the quiet ones spent overseeing her neighborhood boutique, Silvana L’Amour, promises adventure of some sort. Her enthusiasm…
The desire to just get wet can be overwhelming in this usually arid state. Yet not everyone wants to swallow a mouthful of chlorine — or worse — at the local pool. And relatively few Coloradans have the chance to grab big water on such world-class rides as the Arkansas…
