Being a dad is tough, which is why, in honor of Father’s Day, we’re honoring the dads whose families have literally driven them to the brink of insanity (or further). Relax. It’s only movie dads we’re talking about here — your dad probably won’t go crazy and kill you this…
Ever since a glammed-up JonBenet Ramsey graced the cover of People magazine, there’s been an uncomfortable, voyeuristic fascination with child-beauty pageants and the moms who push their daughters into underage sexualized stardom. We’re also a culture obsessed with weight, particularly with those classified as obese. Social worker and author Karen…
Summer’s a great time to spend quality time with the kiddos. But by the time it officially starts, you’re already tired of the typical hangouts — the Denver Zoo, the Children’s Museum. That’s when it’s time to break out of the ordinary: Here’s are five off-the-beaten-path activities, each particularly well-suited…
When you accidentally sign yourself and your 29-year-old husband up for a YogaDates event for singles in their thirties and forties, you quickly realize it could be bad for the relationship. After our incredible YogaDates sunset yoga hike, I know that if my sweet Ben ever mysteriously “vanishes” (and I’m…
Horse & Cart, a Denver-based theatrical production and publishing venture, is launching its electronic-publishing branch with a reality-style event fit for a king — a King Lear, to be precise. Now through June 30, the company is accepting submissions for the first edition of the PlayOffs, a competition endeavoring to…
Tonight is all about arts and crafts — art projects and craft beers, to be precise. At Hops & Hooks, the first in a series of Colorado Women’s Beer Club events pairing lager and lady-tailored leisure, Bitter o’Clock crafting entrepreneur Kelli Petersen will teach the art of crochet as participating…
Did you hear the one about Colleen, the online-date-a-holic whose most recent courting fiasco involved the Itcher and his unfortunately boisterous “Hey, Match.com lady!” greeting, which instantly turned heads at P.F. Chang’s? These sorts of urban-dating legends — fraught with disaster and innate satire, and too juicy to make up…
Dr. Charles “Baba Chuck” Davis founded DanceAfrica almost four decades ago as a unique celebration of Africa and its diaspora. For the next two weekends, DanceAfrica will partner for the third time with the forty-year-old Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble on DanceAfrica Denver, which will feature not just performances of…
And you thought you had it bad when your mom said, “No cookies until after dinner”…at least your mother didn’t devour her young! According to Brian Aucone, vice president for animal care at the Denver Zoo, a wide variety of animals have been documented killing and occasionally cannibalizing their children…
Namaste Salons is collaborating with Western Resource Advocates to deliver Earth, Wind and Hair, a one-of-a-kind fashion-slash-hair show, benefit and bash tomorrow night that’ll blow you out of your seat with more force than one of those new Bio-Ionic hair dryers. See also: – Photos: Rock & Runway combines sound…
Thirty-three and a third isn’t just the number that School House Rock introduced you to back in fourth grade. And it’s more than the culmination of a film trinity that made an entire jury say, “Hey, wait a minute. Funny OJ from those Naked Gun movies? Let the man walk!”…
Don’t worry, there (probably) won’t be any post-apocalyptic zombies at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema this Sunday. Probably. But when it comes to that day’s ten-hour long marathon of action flicks from director Michael Bay — the appropriately titled “Baymageddon” — there are no guarantees. Continue reading for details on the…
