The first ever Spring Weekend Meltdown in Snowmass is a chance to ease the transition from snowboards to pools and flip-flops. The three-day event combines the Snowmass Chili and Brew Fest with acrobats, DJs, dancers, models and an end-of-the-weekend Recovery Pool Party. “The Chili and Brew Fest has been going…
The sixteenth annual Boulder Jewish Festival is more than a great excuse to eat authentic, delicious corned beef sandwiches. In a larger sense, it’s an opportunity to reconnect with the community. “A lot of the Boulder Jewish community isn’t actively involved,” says spokeswoman Cheryl Fellows. “It becomes the day that…
The 2,711-mile Tour Divide mountain-bike race from Banff, Canada, to the Mexican border is a feat that fewer than forty cyclists have ever completed. Without the support systems, teams and sponsors that make its French-speaking cousin even marginally realistic, the Tour Divide is (by most people’s estimations) simply insane. And…
Summer means it’s time to dust off your mountain bike, roadster or cruiser, and what better way to do that than with the Denver Public Library’s Nuts ‘n Bolts Basic Bike Maintenance Workshop? “It’s things like how to fix a flat tire, tighten brakes, and even how to adjust a…
It’s reassuring to starving artists/waiters everywhere that the multiple Tony Award-winning creator of Rent, the late Jonathan Larson, was a decade-long waiter who seriously entertained the idea of giving up his art for a more conventional path. Larson’s pre-Rent doubts are showcased in the posthumously produced rock musical, Tick, Tick…BOOM!,…
The inaugural Boulder Brew and Music Festival is actually three different events packaged together. “It grew from just a brew festival to a family event and music festival,” explains spokesman Jay Kriner. Starting today at noon, 13th Street on the Hill will be closed for an afternoon of free family…
Musical prodigy and civil rights activist Nina Simone was a fiercely independent, vocal woman. Shadow Theatre’s musical Simply Simone touches on all aspects of her life, from her long musical career — she started playing the piano at age three and continued recording until her death, in 1993 — to…
Lonie Paxton’s Active Force Foundation, founded by the Denver Broncos long snapper, is an example of how a bad turn can inspire positive change. “Lonie had a good friend who broke his back but wanted to participate in outdoor activities,” says foundation spokeswoman Judianne Atencio. “So they built this four-wheel…
The Fibonacci sequence is a mathematical series visible in the pattern of an uncurling fern and the arrangement of a pine cone. Using this as a starting point, MOS Architects partners Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample developed the plans for Element House-architecture for a new ecology. The high points of…
The Conference on World Affairs is a longstanding Boulder tradition that has attracted participants as far-reaching as Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur Miller, Henry Kissinger, Roger Ebert and Patch Adams. Focusing on a different theme every year, the CWA brings together experts in fields as varied as music and the environment, visual…
From a disagreement over who’s cooking dinner to a war over oil or land or religion, conflict is as universal as death. The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center’s expansive Conflict|Resolution project examines the subject from a multitude of disciplines. “The goal is to build a program around a theme that…
Set in a Boulder apartment in 1986, Home by Dark is the story of a state trooper who drives from Pueblo to Boulder one snowy morning to confront his son about being gay – and to reveal a secret of his own. “The time and place is very important because…
A history professor by day, Kevin Rucker moonlights as a LoDo buff and guide, offering a changing slate of LoDo Walking Tours throughout the year. “He’s a wealth of information,” explains LoDo District spokeswoman Jeannie Wert. “We just had a window design contest for the holidays. He sets up his…
Tonight’s Silver Screen Ball at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art will give revelers a chance to experience the swanky, smoky bygone days of Hollywood cinema with video presentations projected on the walls of the museum’s new multimedia room. The video installations, which remix old movie footage, were created by…
Tonight’s FORK Anniversary Show will serve up the result of four amazing years of travel, workshops and over 500 productions across the country. “This is just a huge culmination of everything we’ve been doing,” says FORK player Jon Jon Lannen. “It’s just a huge party to celebrate what a good…
The Improv Cavalcade at the Avenue Theatre is a parade not just of the city’s best improvisational performers, but some of our quickest-witted ex-pat talent. “We have a number of improvisers that used to perform here in Denver and either moved to Chicago or L.A. to continue on,” says the…
Over the last few years, Vail Snow Daze has evolved into one hell of a party. “The big difference from other years is that this is the first year all the music is free,” says Natalie Fandrey, public-relations manager for Highline Sports and Entertainment. “One reason we’re doing this is…
Tired of those overhyped “family” Christmas shows? The Avenue Theater’s Santa’s Big Red Sack is an opportunity for you to enjoy some adult holiday fun, and for Santa to stop taking himself so seriously. “We like to call it the ‘Holiday Show You Shouldn’t Take Your Kids To,’” says theater…
World AIDS Day is a somber event, but you can still mark it in fabulous style at the Red Ball: A Night of Frost and Fire. Although raising funds for the Colorado AIDS Project is at the heart of the event, the soul is all about enjoying hot local fashions…
In Jonathan Swift’s classic “A Modest Proposal” (circa 1729), the narrator suggests that the Irish sell their poor children as food for the rich. “A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food,” Swift writes. It was an absurd solution to…
The other night at a wedding reception, this guy asks me if I have a reservation. I’m with the wedding party, I say. “So you have no reservations,” he says. I look confused. “No reservations,” he repeats. Huh? “You look like a young Anthony Bourdain,” he says. When I tell…
“The idea for the show was really founded out of anger,” says Todd Barnes, aka Tina LeGrand. “I had some issues with men not wanting to date me because I’m a female impersonator. I was going to make a point that no matter if I did drag or not, I…
