To the stroller-pushing mommies and patio-side drinkers who lined West 32nd Avenue on Sunday afternoon, it probably looked like just another Cruiser ride, as thirty folks on bikes trekked up the Highland hills in Sunday’s 100-degree heat. Yet this sweaty mass, organized by the Denver New Rail~Volutionaries, was on a…
Tourists who hit downtown yesterday will leave the Mile High City with a slightly exaggerated impression of the role music plays in the workaday lives of Denverites. During the first-ever Make Music Denver — an all-day, outdoor showcase of local music that builds on a global movement to celebrate music…
Once a vibrant commercial district, Denver’s Jefferson Park floundered in the age of the automobile. Today, Better Block Denver transforms one stretch of the neighborhood into a dynamic, pedestrian-friendly ecosystem, with pop-up shops and restaurants, art, landscaping and other features that encourage interaction, community and purposeful strolling. Building on a…
The entire world should have a spring in its step today as more than 500 cities across the globe celebrate the healing, community-building, vibration-raising power of music. In Denver, Make Music Day builds on France’s Fête de la Musique, which has inspired happy imitators since it became a national holiday…
Street painting began in the palazzos of Renaissance-era Italy, when artists adorned the avenues with images of saints as the public looked on. Now in its tenth year, Denver’s Chalk Art Festival builds on this legacy by adding a colorful splash of beauty to Larimer Street. From dreamy pastel landscapes…
Aaron Angello is co-curator of “e-Poetry: The Past, Present and Future of Electronic Poetry,” both a showcase and laboratory for engaging works of digital literature, which comes to Counterpath Gallery + Performance Space at 7 p.m. tomorrow, on Saturday, May 26. “e-Poetry” will include multimedia installations and live readings from…
Even in fitness-fanatical Denver, running thirteen sweaty miles through the center of town can be an off-putting notion. Fortunately, the organizers of this year’s Kaiser Permanente Colfax Half Marathon have found a way for the race-impaired to cruise the urban romp in style. The first annual Denver Art Scooter Parade…
The humble ukulele has come a long way since the days of Tiny Tim. A folk instrument for the people, it’s recently turned up in high-profile recordings by such mainstream artists as Jack Johnson, Eddie Vedder and Denver’s own Danielle Ate the Sandwich, who has elevated the simple art of…
Hailing from the same tough country that birthed the Stooges and the MC5, Michigan’s Nervous But Excited specializes in hard-edged folk music that carries melody, harmony and a social consciousness. But Nervous bandmates Kate Peterson and Sarah Cleaver never take themselves too seriously, even when their live show gets intense…
When Ietef Vita, aka DJ Cavem Moetavation, recently turned up on Ugandan national television, he introduced the African nation to Denver’s most dedicated “OG” — an organic gardener — on a mission to green the block. Visiting as a Bold Food fellow, the northeast-Denver-reared hip-hop artist spoke about the issues…
There will be no red carpets at the XicanIndie Filmfest XIV, but there will be a lot of films that slipped quietly under the radar of mainstream cinema, representing a range of insights into contemporary Latino life. “The festival continues to provide a perspective that you will not find anywhere,”…
It’s easy to poke fun at the differences between Denver and Boulder, but for many people living with disabilities, the distance between the Capitol and the Flatirons — and the hassle of traveling between the two towns — is no joke. Tonight, PHAMALY takes the laughs on the road with…
Now in its 64th year, the Conference on World Affairs is a five-day mental fest that fires up at the University of Colorado Boulder campus today. Since the first CWA in 1948, thinkers from the forefront and fringes of science, politics, spirituality, medicine, academia and the arts have convened every…
If you want to speak at the Conference on World Affairs, which takes place on the CU Boulder campus today through Friday, it’s a good idea to write a well-regarded book, or to report on a controversial war, or to have a brilliant idea that influences popular culture, business, technology…
If deconstructing invisible dominant power structures is your idea of a good time, you’re not alone in Denver, where a well-knit network of activists brings creative flair to community organizing. Today, the best minds in local muck-racking launch the Art of Social Justice Conference, three days of information, liberation and…
Gabriel Garcia Marquez didn’t create the character of Florencia Grimaldi, but he did open the door to the world of magical realism through which she emerged, as the heroine of Daniel Catan’s Florencia en al Amazonas. Inspired by Marquez’s work, the opera unfolds during a riverboat journey through the verdant,…
The grow-local movement is about more than good taste. Food justice is an issue that’s taking root in Colorado, where a range of citizen-led initiatives strive to stimulate the local economy while providing healthy food to people in low-income neighborhoods. Today, locavore foodies and activists alike will find something to…
Many Doomsday theorists have circled December 21, 2012, on their calendars with a red pen, marking the date when humanity comes to a violent end. Yet indigenous people around the world see 2012 as an era of transformation and heightened awareness. A change is gonna come, they say, but the…
Before he was known as one of Colorado’s most promising fiction writers, Articles of War author Nick Arvin worked as a forensic engineer, analyzing data from automobile accidents to figure out what went wrong. The job required precision, imagination and an inherent understanding of plot, and it foreshadowed Arvin’s current…
As winter holds on, spring gardening feels a season away. But those who grow plants from seed can get their hands dirty while it’s still cold outside. Growing food from seed is cheaper, greener and more fun than simply sticking sprouted plants into the ground. It’s also more challenging, as…
Miss Julie, playwright August Strindberg’s spare, sexy classic, was written in 1888, but its themes of class and control resonate loudly in the Occupy era. Set in the kitchen of an aristocratic estate, the play — and the ensuing tension — unfolds over one afternoon, as an unstable heiress trades…
Colfax & 15th, an independent film set and produced in Denver, provides a glimpse into a world that many of us simply drive by on our way in and out of downtown: the concentration of businesses that provide high-interest, high-stakes loans to bounce people out of jail. In their fictional…
