1. Despite all those scary headlines, it now appears this may not be a big miller moth season. Why? A Colorado State University entomologist summed it up with this: A. “Pesticides, pesticides and more pesticides.” B. “A major attack squadron of red-wing blackbirds took them out.” C. “There weren’t as…
FRI, 5/23 Partnership, the life and core of the Argentine tango, is a means of exploration for the artists of TangoMujer, an all-female dance ensemble performing in Denver as part of the 3rd Annual Memorial Day Tango Fest. “The girls alternate between leading and following,” says Scarlet Antonia, manager of…
MON, 5/26 For many Coloradans, Memorial Day means three things: honoring those who died for our freedom, starting up barbecue season, and renewing the right to wear white pants without scorn. But for a large number of fitness-oriented residents, today marks an opportunity to run the Bolder Boulder. This ten-kilometer…
1. No memorial for him: About-to-be-sacked Crush coach Bob Beers said this as he walked off the field following his 2-14 team’s final loss: A. “A few bounces here and there, and we’d have been 3-13.” B. “Sometimes you eat the bear; sometimes the bear eats you.” C. “I think…
SUN, 5/18 Among the 1.4 million individuals who regard him as an essential part of their weekend, This American Life host Ira Glass is officially famous: Since graduating from the tape-cutting room at an NPR station in Washington, D.C., where he began as a bumbling intern at age nineteen, Glass…
SAT 5/17 They were different times, to be sure. During the psychedelic heyday of the hippie movement — when denizens of San Francisco’s Fillmore Auditorium and Avalon Ballroom (and Denver’s Family Dog) were rocking, not to mention floating sky-high on just about every drug in the universe, and scruffy kids…
1. As Racines prepares to leave its home of nineteen years at 850 Bannock Street next month, the Quizmeister is rummaging through the Tupperware of memories — as are the restaurant’s fixtures. Co-owners David Racine and Lee Goodfriend, for example, met while: A. Debating food quality (and lack thereof) on…
THURS, 5/8 Move over, P.T. Barnum: There’s a new show in town. And instead of giant elephants and bearded ladies, tonight’s unique Sensory Circus features live music, poetry readings, performance art and more.”Your senses will be blown away,” promises Alicia Greenberg, co-founder of the Circus. A graphic designer by trade,…
A rite of passage for just about every Denver student during the last year of elementary school was the year-end trip to the old Elitch Gardens or Lakeside amusement park. You’d be sitting around with your friends, signing yearbooks, and the following conversation between boys courageously boasting (though quivering inside)…
THURS, 5/8 With Colorado’s frigid snowmelt rushing through mountain streams — and making things icy and dicey — why not give kayaking a try under more serene conditions at today’s Paddling Expo at the Boulder Reservoir?At the event, sponsored by Wildwasser Sports and the Boulder Outdoor Center, water rats can…
1. Maybe-mayor John Hickenlooper revealed that his name is Dutch for: A. Able to leap medium-sized buildings in a single bound. B. Grinder of grains, soaker of hops. C. Hedge hopper. D. Man of many pants. 2. Don Mares’s last name appears in the Spanish phrase “Estaba sudando a mares”…
SUN 5/4 Give peace a chance. With the conflict in Iraq almost over, The Nightingale & The Rose Performing Arts Company wants to promote peace. They’ll do it artistically, too, with Middle Eastern Cultural Awareness Week, which starts today at the Dairy Center for the Arts in Boulder.”With everything going…
1. When Denver City Councilman Charlie Brown criticized colleague Kathleen MacKenzie for missing the April 21 council vote supporting U.S. troops in Iraq, he said all but one of the following: A. “Maybe doesn’t support our troops.” B. “War is not junior high.” C. “Chatting and eating cookies is fine…
SAT 4/26 Punching, kicking, knockouts and more! Today, top karate practitioners from near and far will gather in Denver for the annual Sabaki Challenge 2003: Extreme Knockdown Karate. “The action is going to be really intense,” says Ed Voranski, the event’s promoter. “There is a lot of technique and strategy…
SAT 4/26 Lest you forget that outgoing Mayor Wellington Webb and his wife, Wilma, are prime movers behind the new Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, take a look at the mural inside the arched, interior lobby.When the three-story brick library at 2401 Welton Street celebrates its grand opening at ten…
1. What first name placed first in the most mayoral elections in Denver? A. John. B. Charles. C. William. D. Quigg. 2. From the time Denver was incorporated until 1904, mayors served: A. Until they were driven from office by hooting, drunken crowds of miners. B. Two years. C. A…
SAT 4/19 Naropa University graduate and poet Mary Kite says she doesn’t like things to be too easy, and that credo is made even clearer by the projects she willingly takes on: In addition to helping compile Naropa’s massive Audio Archive Project of recorded poetry performances, Kite is also at…
WED 4/23 Jennifer Hendricks, a 25-year-old Denver woman who lost her battle with anorexia in 1998, weighed only 45 pounds when she died. Slim to None: A Journey Through the Wasteland of Anorexia Treatment, is the story of her tragic suffering.”It took three weeks for my body to shut down,”…
Ladies, if your significant other has been pestering you to do a sexy little foreplay number for him, forget the stripper pole and tassels and try Belly Dancing With Dahlia instead. Contrary to popular belief, hip shaking is not a lost art.”You’ll just fall in love with the dance,” promises…
FRI 4/18 Harry Potter, meet Frodo Baggins. And while you two are getting chummy, make room for R2D2 and a Renaissance juggler. Oh, and did you remember to bring your swords, wands and battle-axes? Because at the first-ever Opus: A Fantasy Arts Festival, anything fantastic goes. “It’s an escape,” says…
1. Denver once manufactured its own weapons of mass destruction: plutonium triggers made at Rocky Flats. How long does it take for plutonium to lose just half of its radioactivity? A. A while. B. 24,000 years. C. 500 years, give or take. D. 100,000 years. 2. Speaking of toxic, the…
1. Conifer native Trey Parker met future South Park partner Matt Stone: A. Attending Evergreen High’s homecoming dance. Both were wearing green dresses. B. Working as a roadie for Big Head Todd and the Monsters. C. Avoiding assignments at the University of Colorado at Boulder. D. During a stint as…
