With the hurling and Gaelic football seasons approaching, members of the Denver Gaels GAA Club think there’s time for one last bash before the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. And, laddie, it’s going to be a good one. Today, starting at 3:30 p.m., the Gaels invite all comers to join their…

During the last Oscars party I can remember, ten of us crammed together on a questionably stained rug about two feet from an iPod-sized TV screen. We ate stale potato chips. Thankfully, there was lots of Pabst. This year, there’s more to be thankful for than cheap beer (not the…

Ollin is like a Greek myth wrapped in colorful Aztec garb. Packed with omens, an operatic opening, spoken-word poetry, dance and visual art, this interpretive retelling of the conquest of Mexico by Spain is kabuki theater married to the myth of Quetzalcoatl. Physical meets metaphysical as the two cultures famously…

Between Mexico City and Denver’s El Centro Su Teatro, 4725 High Street, a funny thing happened to the dark comedy Las Chicas del 3.5″ Floppies. “I noticed the script was translated by a Brit,” says John Kuebler, media-development associate at El Centro. “The regionalism was most apparent in the translation…

“Colorado has such a rich tradition of strong ceramic artists,” says Michael Chavez, curator of the Foothills Art Center. “The Colorado Clay exhibition is important because it showcases this tradition.” Twelve ceramicists from all over the state were hand-picked to display eight to ten pieces touching on everything from functional…

Along with the number zero, the compass, the kite and the seismograph, China apparently cornered the market on Barnum and Bailey-style acrobatics thousands of years before kids in Idaho ran away to join the circus. Tonight, the Peking Acrobats will perform gravity-defying stunts with roots as far back as the…

From a stomping by the Hells Angels to dodging “bats” on a desert road outside Barstow, California, Hunter S. Thompson is the counterculture icon of American letters. Immortalized as Uncle Duke in the “Doonesbury” comic strip, channeled on the big screen by both Bill Murray and Johnny Depp and author…

Tony Garcia is a Chicano baby boomer wading through middle age, a veteran of the Mexican-American civil rights movement and an aging artist who really hates standing in line. “There’s a whole list of shit that I don’t care about anymore,” says the executive artistic director at El Centro Su…

Big air is big news at this year’s ESPN Winter X Games at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen/Snowmass. With the addition of the skiing/snowboarding big air events, athletes will showcase their vertical skills as they blast off a 65-foot jump in search of gold. Even better, these two events turn interactive:…

It’s crazy: A black man is neck and neck with a woman for the Democratic presidential nomination, while a Mormon is in the mix for the GOP nod. This is such a different America than even a few years ago — has the bigotry passed us by? Are we really…

Phil Bender has raided your grandmother’s attic. Bender’s Last Place exhibit at the Laboratory of Arts and Ideas highlights the barely recyclable stuff of culture, including old potato mashers, nutcrackers, matchbooks, wooden tennis rackets and quilted hot pads. After excavating our cultural flea market, he catalogued these forgotten objects like…

True story: The first two seasons of Sesame Street: Old School were released on DVD with a parental warning. Apparently the Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird’s imaginary friend, Mr. Snuffleupagus, aren’t politically correct enough for today’s children. With the PC police sanitizing entertainment into bland, creepy oblivion,…

When my friends from back east talk about Denver, they come up with some pretty diverse images that often include ski vacations, canceled flights, Red Rocks and microbrews. However, never in anyone’s buck-wildest imagination would they expect to see thirty Longhorn steer driven down fourteen blocks of 17th Street in…

When a midlife crisis includes searching for an antenna-wearing childhood TV icon named Tamara Tomorrow instead of buying hair plugs and a red sports car, you’re either still living in your parents’ basement or you have an interesting sense of humor. In Music From a Sparkling Planet — a coming-of-age-meets-midlife-crisis…

Today’s Heart of the West: New Art/New Thinking symposium at the Denver Art Museum, 100 West 14th Avenue Parkway, is one arm of an overall program dealing with the past, present and future of Western American art. The George Carlson: Heart of the West exhibit and its accompanying publication, New…

“You know Buntport — they’re kind of insane,” says Norma Moore, artistic director for Stories on Stage. Maybe that’s not what attracts you to a night out, but I can’t think of a better reason to head down to Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan Street, tonight at 7 p.m. for the…

“I’m always thinking in shapes and colors,” says ceramicist Judith Cohn. “It’s who I am; it’s how I think.” Cohn’s Dust to Dust exhibit at Spark Gallery, 900 Santa Fe Drive, is a ceramic installation made up of about 300 abstract pieces layered in an archeological dig of a piece…

The Colorado Mammoth — along with the entire National Lacrosse League — was sent to the penalty box on October 16 when the NLL and the players’ association fell short of a new collective-bargaining agreement. For considerably longer than the standard two- or five-minute penalty, the 2008 season seemed body-checked…

If one New Year’s countdown just isn’t enough, or texting far-away friends at midnight never makes it through drunk-dialing airwaves, or you’re just tired of bars that are more crowded than Times Square — try ringing in this New Year the multimedia way. Popping its cork for the first time…

Would you rather share the holiday season with the cinematic likes of Francis Ford Coppola, or your overcritical in-laws? If all you want for Christmas is a sneak peek into the jet-set world of Oscar nomination, then Aspen is the place to be today through January 2, when the Aspen…

“It’s like storytime for grownups,” says Debbie Knapp, a performer for Colorado Homegrown Tales — a dramatic-reading series highlighting stories by local authors. “It’s a nice way to take a break from the holiday mayhem, harking back to the tradition of getting everyone together for the holidays and telling funny…

If you’re anything like me — thousands of miles away from your family, with no money for airfare and a girlfriend who flies home every Christmas — then you’re likely to get a little bitter around the holidays, with only your dog and reruns of A Christmas Story to keep…