SUN, 5/9 The lot at the corner of Tenth Avenue and Osage Street is about to blossom. But it won’t be an array of flowers that sprouts today. Instead, the west-side neighbors who wanted to fill the site with all the color and flavor of an international marketplace will get…
FRI, 4/30 People are always telling country rocker Marshall Chapman: “You talk in song titles.” And she does. The thirty-year Nashville veteran, a tough, six-foot blonde of genteel Southern extraction who’s been a cohort over the years of everyone from Waylon Jennings to Jimmy Buffet, is a walking card catalogue…
WED, 5/5 Suavecito’s owner Craig Peña is a flirt. His wife knows it. Everyone knows it. Not that Peña acts on his overtures; he’s just a romantic at heart. A romantic with a long streak of smartass. So when he met Holly Kylberg, Denver’s reigning society “It” girl (see “The…
FRI, 4/16 Soar past the second star on the right and find yourself joyfully lost in Neverland at the Colorado Ballet’s world-premiere production of Peter Pan. “I’ve been thinking about doing Peter Pan for a long time, but it’s a very hard story to tell because it’s very poignant,” says…
FRI, 4/16 Denver artist Jean Smith always had a knack for giving whimsy a three-dimensional shape, rolling slabs of clay into brightly glazed flowers and sweetly humorous wall plaques. But then her artistic career took an unexpected turn. “It all started when I bought this box full of bowling trophies…
Denver fashionistas no longer have to make a run for the coasts to deck themselves out in red-hot designer duds. Now they can simply strut down to Skye, a newly opened LoDo boutique. “I really think it’s time to put Denver on the fashion map,” says owner Skye Forrest. “The…
Ever wish there was a bit more SoHo in your LoDo? Flow Lounge, in the lobby of the Luna Hotel, at 1612 Wazee Street, is a unique and upscale urban oasis in the midst of lower downtown’s more sports- and college-oriented venues. Illuminated by steady streams of a gradually changing…
THURS, 4/8 According to Boulder dancer Ellie Sciarra, women tap dancers deserve an opportunity to strut their stuff under the bright lights of center stage. “The tap world is very male-dominated,” she says. “While we all know who Gene Kelly and Gregory Hines were, women tap dancers were traditionally just…
TUES, 4/13 While sexual assault is no laughing matter, supporters of Denver’s Rape Assistance and Awareness Program will share a jovial evening while raising money at tonight’s Give A Wit comedy benefit. “Our issue is so heavy — we were looking for a way to lighten things up,” says RAAP…
THURS, 4/1 Expand your boundaries this weekend at the fifth annual Denver International GLBT Film Festival: Seeing Queerly 2004, which begins tonight with an 8 p.m. screening of the transgender film Transfixed. “This is our opportunity to bring cutting-edge queer films to the community at large,” says Greg Lovell, spokesman…
SAT, 4/3 Ever munched on Moby Dick or snacked on Shakespeare? Tonight, art lovers can dine on titles like “S’more and Peace” and “The Book of Apple Pi” during the International Edible Book Festival at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Held every year in cities around the world, the…
South Park Tavern, formerly 60 South, has extinguished its once-bright gay-bar flames and converted to a broader sports-bar appeal. The new owners have hacked out a few walls at 60 South Broadway to reveal the pub’s surprisingly vast square footage and have given the once-claustrophobic entrance a much-needed gulp of…
SAT, 3/27 There’s a dusty crease where the wide-open range of the Western Slope meets urban sprawl, where cow-tipping is almost a spectator sport, where boot-scootin’ cattle ranchers power-lunch with city slickers. The place is Loveland, Colorado. The Sweetheart City is also the home to the state’s only alternative-country-music label,…
In Denver, the term “lounge” is often thrown around like a drunken cheerleader at a CU kegger, and it usually refers to a few uncomfortable stools, a mainstream DJ and a high-dollar door cover. Well, not anymore. Can you keep a secret? At 1403 Larimer Street, underneath an unmarked door,…
WED, 3/24 Tracy Turnblad has big ambition and a bigger bouffant. It’s 1962, and the tubby Turnblad dreams of dancing on TV’s Corny Collins Show, but when she splits hairs with the program’s most popular pre-pubescent starlet, she’s tossed into a teenage tangle that could crush her curls and squash…
Hip-hop clubs get a bad rap: Controversy and police scrutiny seem to cling to them. But Soul has a different destination in mind. Dropping into Sanctuary/Butterfly’s old digs at 2040 Larimer Street, Soul has revamped its belly into two distinctive rooms, with swanky VIP quarters wedged in between. One side…
FRI, 3/12 Thoroughbred Fighting Ferrari may not have won at the races, but the long-shot pony became a hero of the silver screen after galloping through a first-place performance as Seabiscuit in the equine saga of the same name. Ferrari will be just one of the “horseonalities” featured at this…
Whether you’re looking for sparkly shamrock barrettes or bright-green rugby shirts, Irish Times is your one-stop shopping spot this St. Patrick’s Day. “St. Paddy’s Day is completely different from the other 364 days of the year,” says owner Kris Bergquist. “It’s like Christmas.” And while holiday paraphernalia is currently front…
Achieving a truly exquisite aesthetic involves mastering space, shape and lines — and when Lotus UltraNightlife opened its doors at 1701 Wynkoop Street this past weekend, it definitely had the lines. A mack-daddy monstrosity of twisting, wriggling striped shirts and short skirts with two velvet-roped heads, the queue separated the…
Violinist Joshua Bell is hot. The artist’s latest release, Romance of the Violin, a collection of thirteen works that span 400 years, is currently burning up the classical-music charts. “There are so many great melodies out there to choose from,” says Bell, who will warm up the stages of the…
SAT, 2/28 When Louis Armstrong was asked to define jazz, he said, “Man, if you gotta ask, you’ll never know.” Like all good four-letter words, “jazz” rolls fluidly off the tongue with poise, passion and sizzle — and when Les Ballet Jazz de Montréal takes over the University of Denver’s…
When a pitiful little bug-munching creature was found lurking in the deep, dark caves of West Virginia, the townies of nearby Hope Falls had no idea that the creepy half boy/half bat’s tale would become an urban legend. The satirical saga, which was splattered across the front pages of the…
