WED, 10/8 Tina Basich, one of the world’s first professional female snowboarders, chronicles her pioneering life in Pretty Good for a Girl: The Autobiography of a Snowboarding Pioneer. Basich, whose unconventional family once lived in a tepee on the front lawn, became a pro boarder at seventeen “because it was…

WED, 10/1 What are all those people doing in that long line snaking out of the Denver Performing Arts Complex? Odds are that they’re waiting for free tickets to tonight’s 6:30 p.m. performance of Almost Heaven: The Songs and Stories of John Denver. The Denver Center Theatre Company will reopen…

THURS, 9/25 Where did the love go for the Rockies? Attendance is down, and there won’t be any red, white and blue bunting adorning 2001 Blake Street this year. That’s no real surprise: Only once in their eleven-year history have the Rox sailed beyond their allotted 162-game regular season (and…

SAT, 9/20 In pagan lore, the autumnal equinox, or Mabon, celebrates the harvest season in what amounts to an early precursor of the American Thanksgiving. In other words, when the shadows grow long and the sun dips low, it’s time to make merry and share abundance with others. Leave it…

SAT, 9/20 They will not go quietly, these little critters. Instead, Boulder’s prairie dogs — creatures with names such as Viktor the Victim and Prairie Home Protection — will hold their polyether-resin heads high at a final celebration tonight at 7 p.m. at the Odd Fellows Hall, 1543 Pearl Street…

SUN, 9/14 Soon You’ll hear a tune That’s gonna lift you out of your seat It could be sweeter But then the meter Was written especially for your feet — Irving Berlin, “Everybody Step” If the term “tea dance” evokes visions of grannies a-go-go shuffling their walkers to elevator music,…

FRI, 9/5 We all encounter borders in our lives — points of friction set off by differences, be they cultural or psychological. But leave it to artists, who straddle such borders all the time, to illuminate them for us visually. While the prevailing metaphor floating throughout Borderlands, a new show…

SAT, 9/6 Ten years after being banned from competing in the city’s public facilities by a skittish city council, the ultimate warriors of the World Cage Fighting Championships return to Denver for a “Global Domination” event that goes to the mat tonight at 7 p.m. at the Pepsi Center. Part…

The musical’s name is a shocker: Urinetown. Mark Hollmann, a New York musician, appreciates that. After all, even Hollmann was a wee-wee bit skeptical when Greg Kotis, an actor he’d worked with previously in an offbeat troupe, approached him with a concept he’d come up with on a European backpacking…

FRI, 8/29 Speed freaks don’t have a very good reputation these days. But the backers and fans of the Centrix Financial Grand Prix of Denver may be exceptions to that rule. After all, Mayor John “Vespa” Hickenlooper has signed on as grand marshal for the second annual spin on 1.65…

In the beginning, there was Spago, and it was good. If you were a 76-pound Hollywood starlet, that is. Or one of those power-lunch types. Or Harvey Weinstein. After Spago came more Spagos, and more Spagos. Then there were cookbooks, the Food Network shows, the lines of frozen foods and…

SAT, 8/23 There are plenty of myths surrounding the Old West. One of them is that, apparently, Kevin Costner lived and died in these parts many times. But one serious omission in the history of the West is the role that African-Americans played in settling it. Promoter Lu Vason was…

SAT, 8/16 In the mini-world of miniature golf, there are courses with windmills, giant gorillas and zigzag downspouts. But none of these have the decorum of a regular golf course. For that, you’d have to visit a place like Go Putt!, at 9741 Park Meadows Drive in Lone Tree. The…

SAT, 8/9 Dust off your spiffy bowling shoes and shine up your glittery bowling ball for the Art Mob Bowling Competition, a fundraiser for the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver. “The arts are bonded together in a lot of ways, but we’re also like mobsters vying for territory — in a…