The Cheap Christmas Crapfare at the Museum of Contemporary Art was a festival of joyful hipsters, free eggnog — and the finest paper plate wreaths in the city. Part of MCA Denver’s “Black Sheep Fridays,” Friday evening’s crappy craft-making party was lively, and there was plenty of crap to keep…
The spirit of gift-giving seems to have gotten seriously lost, what with people getting seasoned with pepper-spray and countless hordes of poor suckers using their credit cards like drunken whores. So why not say “Fuck Mastercard!” and give some affordable presents that everyone on your list will appreciate — and…
It’s that time again — time for the last-minute panic as you plan a celebratory sideboard of snacks worthy of this most festive holiday. After our Dollar Tree Thanksgiving’s proper sit-down meal, we decided to create a buffet-style Christmas smorgasbord of the finest treats the DT has to offer –…
If you need gifts for your friends and relatives and you’ve got no Cheddar to spare, then the Cheap Christmas Crapfare at the Museum of Contemporary Art is the place for you tonight. At the Crapfare, which is part of MCA Denver’s “Black Sheep Fridays,” you’ll learn how to make…
What makes a better Christmas movie: a sorority girl stabbed to death with a holiday ornament, or Santa kidnapped and sent to Mars? Thanks to those crazy cats at the Esquire Theater, you don’t have to choose. The theater’s Midnight Madness this weekend includes screenings of Black Christmas (the original…
If you’ve ever wanted to take a retro trip back to childhood when Christmas was all about construction paper, safety scissors and glitter, or if you’re just no-joke broke but industrious, then the Cheap Christmas Crapfare is where you need to be to make gifts for your friends, relatives or…
Temple Micah’s fourth annual Top Latke Cook-off Friday night featured budding young chefs serving up some seriously creative takes on potato pancakes. There were otherwise traditional latkes smothered in peanut butter and jelly; sweet potato latkes with marshmallow topping; Asian-spiced cakes topped with ginger; round latkes stuffed with cheese and…
The Denver Boys of Leather showed its softer side Friday night at the Build-a-Bear store in the Cherry Creek Shopping Center for their fifth annual holiday fundraiser. DBL members came to stuff, dress and accessorize puppies and bears to donate to a local child advocacy organization, and they looked good…
The Huffington Post has succumbed to the temptation of food trends lists. While the Huff-P does politics like everybody’s business, why are they now trying to convince the dining public that they’re eating more bugs, that pimento cheese is suddenly cool and that macarons are falling from the heavens? Maybe,…
There’s nothing that screams “happy holidays” like leather boys making teddy bears for kids, and the Denver Boys of Leather are holding their 5th annual Build-a-Bear charity event at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, December 9. “It’s a bunch of kinky people coming…
Surfing through Craigslist ads is always a fun time, and answering them can be pretty entertaining as well. It’s neat — and telling — to respond to an ad for a used convection oven and get a middle-aged married man looking for sex, respond to an ad for a part-time…
Hammond’s Candies, makers of unusually large candy canes, is upping the ante on the usual factory tours again this year with its eleventh annual Hammond’s Candy Cane Festival, where the public will be treated to trolley rides, holiday arts and crafts, face-painting, caroling, cookie decorating and face time with Santa…
The word “latke” comes from the Hebrew levav, meaning “heart” and those luscious little potato pancakes are traditional Hanukkah fare, but Temple Micah’s congregation is once again lighting a fire under convention and holding its annual cook-off to reward the best and most innovative recipes. Some past winners of the…
Do you know why Hello Kitty has no mouth? Because she speaks from the heart… She also has a hypnotic, straight-up obsessive effect on American consumers that hasn’t seemed to flag since her debut in the States in 1976. This ubiquitous, mouthless Sanrio-creation has become a veritable fetish for women,…
It’s the season of shopping, and the jing-a-ling of purses and wallets can be heard all over the 16th Street Mall — all the way into the Denver Pavilions, our convenient downtown mid-priced clothing mecca. And just in time for the 2011 holiday shopping season, the newly opened H&M store…
Those clever Swedes just keep finding ways to get people in their store, and reasonably-priced, all-you-can-eat buffets of dishes dusted with dill and sweet marzipan cakes will have eager Denverites over a herring barrel, stuffed to the gills. IKEA Centennial is holding a holiday smorgasbord or “julbord” party at 5…
This year’s holiday play at Denver’s Dangerous Theatre has everything you could ever want to see: rednecks, guns, cussing, sex, violence, intrigue — and an angel in his underwear. Kentucky Claus & the Rebel Elves, which opens tonight, is an hour and 45 minutes of backwoods insanity, starting with six…
We all do these things. Maybe not everything on the list every time, but what’s the use of having relatives that we visit if we can’t rifle through their crap, steal their personal hygiene items and exploit their imperfections to feel better about ourselves? Making them embarrassed and miserable by…
Andrew Starr is a choc-tease. He and his chocolatier partner, Jennifer Spielman, own Black Star Chocolates, and they create exciting, luscious and downright sensual confections. Since their chocolate creations are handmade, small-batch and filled with fresh, seasonal herbs and flowers, thought, they are available in limited quantities — at limited…
There are plenty of places to get your holiday trimmings, but the Whole Foods stores smooth over their Whole Paycheck nickname by serving above-average complimentary samples of holiday fare before they empty our wallets. The Capitol Hill store is doing free samples every Wednesday from 5 to 7 p.m., and…
Last night’s “All Glory to the Hypnoquiz: an all-Futurama Event ” at Rackhouse Pub, sponsored by Geeks Who Drink, was a pretty raucous time, and I definitely debunked the myths that geeks can’t drink, party, be hot or win things. The evening didn’t turn out exactly how I wanted –…
Good news, everyone! If you love Futurama and beer, then you should check out “All Glory to the Hypnoquiz: an all-Futurama Event” at Rackhouse Pub tonight at 8 p.m. Sponsored by Geeks Who Drink, this pub quiz will involve teams competing (showing off) with each other to answer trivia questions…
