THURS, 10/28 So it’s a Thursday night, and you’ve got some extra green burning a hole in your pocket. What is there to do? Well, if you’re in a culinary frame of mind, you can drop that dough at the Too Many Chefs in the Kitchen dinner and fundraiser for…
I have never donated my bra to anything. Not even to the Village Idiot, my friends’ New York honky-tonk with a time-honored tradition of demanding bras in exchange for the honor of dancing on the bar. And I danced on that bar a lot. I saw no reason to part…
TUES, 10/19 Lollapalooza died a quick and quiet death this summer, a victim of sluggish ticket sales and growing apathy toward the whole idea of large-scale rockfests. But ironically, there’s still a thriving market for weird Lollapalooza mutations, like Pepsi-palooza and Hallelujah-palooza, not to mention a personal favorite, Pancake-palooza. Well,…
FRI, 10/8 I remember spending glorious afternoons at my grandmother’s house as a child, thumbing through yellowing issues of LIFE magazine. The stunning photographs spoke to me, took me to places that a poor, small-town girl could only dream about. LIFE was truly a window on the world. In 2002,…
Al Gore may have fathered it and Google may be its master, but Drew Massey hopes to be the Internet’s newest pop-culture icon, thanks to his online television station, ManiaTV! “Smash your TV,” the 34-year-old says. “This is a new generation. TV is dead.” Instead, he wants everyone watching Maniatv.com,…
THURS, 9/30 Q: What’s the connection between English artist Ralph Steadman and a microbrew called Broken Keg Ice Bock? A: Both will be appearing somewhere between the long rows of kegs at the 2004 Great American Beer Festival at the Colorado Convention Center from Thursday, September 30, to Saturday, October…
FRI, 10/1 As a kid, I hated, hated Lakeside Amusement Park. It probably had something to do with the early trauma of riding that godforsaken roller coaster known as the Chipmunk. And even though my grandfather took me on the Cyclone every year on Samsonite Day — promising me that…
WED, 9/29 Rebels Remembered, a compelling chronicle of the civil-rights movement in Denver, overflows with heroes and heartbreak. The third installment, Our Neighborhood Schools, screens today at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library. In a telling bit of footage from the latest chapter, Wilfred Keyes, an African-American chiropractor who was…
SAT, 9/25 One of the big-city touches that Denver has always had down cold is the tradition of the downtown street fair. If nothing else, we know how to throw a party. And now we can add the Festival Italiano to all of the old faves. Things begin tonight, sort…
MON, 9/20 “Whether it’s good or bad, it’s always entertaining,” notes Lion’s Lair bartender Dermot Carroll about the bar’s Monday open-mike comedy nights. Dermot has been serving drinks at the Lair, at 2022 East Colfax Avenue, since the first open-mike event, and he’ll serve them again tonight for the Lion’s…
FRI, 9/10 Denver artist Tracy Weil is a fun-loving guy, and his River North neighborhood gallery/studio/house, weilworks, is just the place to have fun. “It’s my Barbie Dream House,” Weil says without irony. Sure — if Barbie’s house was a quirky, neo-modern space with an exhibition tower and a see-through…
FRI, 9/3 Eddie Brill has one of the most coveted jobs in the comedy world; yet it’s also one of the hardest. Brill is not only is the talent coordinator for comics appearing on the Late Show With David Letterman — a job that requires enormous dedication to stand-up –…
FRI, 9/3 If the title New World My Eye sounds a tad polemical, don’t be daunted: The group exhibit debuting today at the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council may cast a critical Chicano eye on the dominant American culture, but it’s intended to educate rather than to incite conflict. With…
“Park Hill Loves Spinelli’s Market. Thank you Jerry and Mary Ellen…from your customers, neighbors and friends,” reads a sign on the wall near the front of Spinelli’s Market, 4621 East 23rd Avenue. Dozens of hand-written notes adorn the poster — messy scribbles thanking the Spinellis for their invaluable community grocery…
THURS, 8/26 It was August 26, 1964, general-admission tickets were $6.60 apiece, and parents feared the worst. They were utterly certain that when the Beatles took the stage at Red Rocks forty years ago today, the crowd, high on that mysterious evil force called rock and roll, would surely riot,…
TUES, 8/31 Americans are so darned smug. They think they own the world. But set foot into the University of Denver’s globally conscious language program, and you’ll begin to see a different picture, reflective of DU’s cosmopolitan student body and business-minded international bent. The school gladly shares its strengths in…
SAT, 8/14 Chas Gale took one long, sensuous step into the world of Argentine tango in 1997 and never looked back. “People always say they didn’t find the tango, the tango found them,” Gale says, and he was no different. “I tried swing dancing and dabbled in salsa, and then…
SAT, 7/31 “Last year, even Mayor Hickenlooper hung out at the Bluebird. He showed up with his scooter, flip-flops and even a Hawaiian shirt,” says Phil Lombardo. Unfortunately, Hizzoner is on vacation and won’t be back for this year’s Mile High Mayhem, but the rest of the city will rev…
Writer Joseph Campbell spent his life examining the archetype of the “hero,” and his concept of the hero’s journey in mythology is indelibly etched into our culture through vehicles such as Star Wars. The gang at Arts Street’s Comedy Theatre used the idea as the basis for (in)EXPLICIT: Parental Advisory,…
Mayor John Hickenlooper will really speak up for the arts on Thursday, July 22, when he narrates Peter and the Wolf. The presentation kicks off the fifteenth season of Theater in the Park. The series of free outdoor performances will be staged this summer at the newly remodeled Greek amphitheater…
FRI, 7/16 “I became an architect because my girlfriend told me she wouldn’t marry a forest ranger,” recalls University of Denver architect emeritus Cab Childress. So he gave up scouting in the woods of Florida in favor of the drawing board and slide rule that his mother had given him…
SAT, 7/17 Dodgeball, a “sport” that school boards have been trying to remove from the curriculum for years because it’s allegedly demeaning, is hot these days. From Ben Stiller’s Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story to the Game Show Network’s Extreme Dodgeball, the game’s a hit — although not among teens…
