FRI 5/2 Junk, beautiful junk: For some creative types, junk is the very stuff of creation. There’s no end to the wonderful contraptions you can assemble from someone else’s cast-off junk — you can sculpt it, build with it, sew it together or grind it into pulp and make paper…
Brody is a total monster. When we brought him home just over a year ago, he was an adorable, cuddly, thirty-pound ball of furry love. Now he’s a hulking, 125-pound yellow Lab who firmly believes that he is king of the world. Shoes, underwear and furniture are his three favorite…
As friends and family can attest, I have many quirky habits, such as only eating candy that is yellow or red. (Forget green M&Ms and blue Skittles — bring on the Hot Tamales and lemon drops!) So naturally, when it comes to alcohol, my new favorite libation is the Strawberry…
FRI 4/25 These days, billboards, magazines and even local newspapers are filled with pictures of curvy models in push-up bras and tiny panties, but a hundred years ago, “undies” were “unmentionables.” One Denver man is taking us back to our underwear roots (though not as far back as the loincloth,…
TUES 4/29 Savion Glover, move on over: You can’t be a phenom forever. It’s time to make way for the stars of Tap Kids, a touring show featuring a unique national cast of nine remarkable kids between the ages of ten and nineteen who earned their spots by dancing circles…
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…
As tulips pop up and ski resorts shut down, patio season hits Denver with almost as much force as last month’s Blizzard of 2003. With the sky staying light later, this is the perfect time of year to linger on the patio of the Park Tavern & Restaurant with 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…
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…
When the weekend rolls around, some people — we won’t call them boring, but they’re not exactly exciting — enjoy quietly reading the Sunday paper over a cup of steaming coffee. But real drinkers understand the pleasure that a brunch cocktail can bring, and there’s no better place to enjoy…
To market, to market, to buy a fat pig…but who really needs large, smelly livestock living in Denver? What we all do need — or maybe just love to buy — is more kitschy knickknacks, and this Saturday’s downtown Ballpark Market is bound to have loads of them. Kicking off…
While soldiers, journalists and citizens across the Middle East keep their gas masks close at hand for fear of chemical warfare, a two-part symposium held this week, Copenhagen: History, Science and the Arts — Making Connections, will focus on the multitude of dilemmas surrounding the creation of different deadly weapon:…
For most twentysomethings, the name Adam Sandler calls to mind the hilariously bad mullets of the Wedding Singer or the classic hockey-golfing of Happy Gilmore. So for a Gen-X member, it’s hard to write an item about a certain cocktail without including a line from Sandler’s “Hanukkah Song”: So drink…
In the spirit of Saturday Night Live’s muscle-bound Hans and Franz, this weekend’s Northern Colorado Bodybuilding, Fitness and Figure Championships are here to pump you up.This rippling, oiled, tiny-swimsuited event is sure to be bulging with action on Saturday, April 5, at the Boulder Theater, 2032 14th Street in Boulder…
What some call the “People’s Republic of Boulder” has long been a hotbed of serious political discussion. So when many of the best and brightest minds from around the globe gather there this week for the 55th Annual Conference on World Affairs, ideological debates are sure to reach fever pitch…
Musicians have often spoken out against war. Sometimes they’ve done it profoundly, as Bob Dylan did with his anthem “The Times They Are A-Changin'”; sometimes it’s been more subtle, such as when Sheryl Crow performed on TV in a T-shirt emblazoned with “War Is Not the Answer.” This Saturday’s Rappers…
Venice oozes romance, with its picturesque canals, meandering gondola rides and the chiming bells of St. Mark’s Square. But it’s also a very long, expensive transatlantic trip away. So instead of making the voyage, try sweeping your lover off his or her feet with the Peach Bellini at Maggiano’s Little…
Against a backdrop of conflict, Denver will once again honor a man of peace during the second annual Cesar Chavez Celebration. Famous for his role in establishing the United Farm Workers union, Chavez will be commemorated Monday, March 31, on what would have been his 76th birthday. The 4 p.m…
If you think barreling down a steep mountain trail with your extremities exposed and only a helmet protecting your noggin is a rush, this Saturday’s Velo Expo is the perfect place to get psyched about the upcoming mountain-biking season. The Expo, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the National…
Back in 1908, Henry Ford profoundly altered American society by making his Model T car affordable to the masses by selling them for only $950. While that doesn’t buy much these days, life without automobiles is hard to imagine. To celebrate the one-hundredth anniversary of the Ford Motor Company, the…
When composer Johann Sebastian Bach was penning his Concerto in D Major for the violin in 1719, he probably didn’t expect high-flying musicians to leap, spin and do back flips as they played the masterwork. But when it comes to the violin extravaganza known as Barrage, standing still isn’t an…
