HGTV’s All American Handyman competition tests the skills of handymen and women throughout the country, and the winner gets a development deal with the network to star in a show. This time, three of the ten contestants were from Colorado — and Aurora resident Sonne Shields, 32, was ultimately pronounced…
Oktoberfest might just be everyone’s favorite holiday. Not that anyone needs an excuse to pound beers and eat sausage all weekend. But if everyone’s doing it, no one can judge you, right? In the middle of your lager and bratwurst haze, though, you might wonder this: “Why are we celebrating…
When Andrew Linares moved to Denver six years ago, he didn’t tell anyone about his passion for music and art. Which is why he was so nervous about baring his soul at his first-ever art exhibition. Anima Instincts, a display of Linares’s photography under the pseudonym A.S. Leena Res, is…
Ben Witte and Nate Emsick, of Sound Like Fire Media & Production, focus on local filmmakers at Open Screen Night, scheduled for the last Tuesday of every month at the Oriental Theater. The series is designed to give filmmakers a chance to show their work and fans a chance to…
The 35mm films are in place, and the University of Colorado Denver music students have their instruments ready. The Denver Silent Film Festival runs tomorrow through Sunday at the King Center on the Auraria campus, with screenings of silent-era classics and some lesser-known gems. We asked artistic director Howie Movshovitz…
In the 1970s, the once-wealthy Uptown area was a graveyard of abandoned mansions and sketchy streets. But Uptown on the Hill, a registered neighborhood organization, or RNO, saw the potential to turn its main drag into “their vision of a safe, tree-lined avenue where people could work, live, eat and…
Today, movies are often about overwhelming the senses with color and sound. But recent films like The Artist and Hugo have reminded audiences that the medium began with silent films, and in the beginning, the lack of sound wasn’t seen as an impediment. On the contrary, filmmakers like Charlie Chaplin…
The Vargas family is officially opening their second Zocalo Restaurant and Bar today — three miles south of the original Zocalo . Although this new location is currently semi-blocked by the South Broadway construction project, that’s scheduled for completion at the end of October — and in the meantime, the…
There are a few things Denver residents love: craft beer, the outdoors, bikes… and coupons? According to a recent study conducted by ShopAtHome.com, we also love a good deal. Denver ranked second on the coupon website’s list of most frugal cities, after Salt Lake City. See also: – Boulder is…
“Organic” and “sustainable” are words that get thrown a lot these days. But being truly organic requires more than just buying the lettuce branded as such. And so the Grower’s Organic Awards were created to give recognition to Denver restaurants, growers and grocers that are truly making an effort to…
In the 1980s, the Rotary Club of Denver held massive Artists of America auctions, which raised more than $2 million for charitable projects around the world. Those annual events stopped in 2000, but the concept has now been reborn as Artists of the World, an online auction that will raise…
It took a cartoonist to re-energize interest in eccentric scientist Nikola Tesla. Matthew Inman recently posted a piece on The Oatmeal, his comic website, explaining “Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived,” and it’s inspired more than a million dollars in donations to turn one of his…
People from Boulder can be interesting for all kinds of reasons, and the Boulder History Museum will honor that by hosting the fifth season of its Conversations With Extraordinary People series at Chautauqua. The series features individuals whose work has contributed to the city’s living history. “We present the innovative…
If you’re used to grabbing a quick lunch on the go, today is the day for a change. Denver’s first Pop Up Picnic — sponsored by Grow Local Colorado, Slow Food Denver and Healthy Realities – is inviting everyone to have a picnic anywhere in town between 11:30 a.m. and…
About 50 percent of Colorado’s residents choose to have their bodies cremated without giving their survivors a clue about what to do with the final remains. Now, a new local company, Aerial Tribute, has an out-of-this-world idea for where they can go next: Straight up to the heavens (if not…
Since mid-August, painters have been gathering at locations all over town and in the Foothills for paint outs planned by the Golden Triangle Museum District as part of the Plein Air Arts Fest. Today’s paint-out on the 16th Street Mall is one of the last in the ten-part series before…
More than 25 years ago, the Pasquini family opened their first restaurant, Pasquini’s Pizzeria, on South Broadway. Today that location is in the hands of Melinda Pasquini, and she’s in the process of changing the look of the restaurant, changing the logo and remodeling the exterior to look like a…
Paint the town! Local artists registered in the Denver Plein Air Arts Fest have been taking their talents to the streets — and the foothills — painting locations around town.The artists “set up an easel and then they have to paint what they see and they have to finish the…
Ian Robert McKown got kind of tired of the 24×30-inch canvases that are often used for artwork, so he invited his friends — and anyone else who wanted to participate — to think inside a 3×3-inch box. “The idea is that, ‘you may be a fine artist, you may be…
Zocalo has been serving up Mexican food and happy-hour margaritas for two years right off Broadway on Eleventh Avenue, and doing well enough that the owners are now adding a second location three miles further south on Broadway. “Thanks to all the support with the customers and everything, the business…
Art can be rad in all kinds of media, in all sorts of sizes. But Minikin Madness — Rad Art on Small Surfaces will showcase only the tiniest of artworks, all done on 3×3” surfaces. “The idea is that you may be a fine artist, you may be a great…
Northwest Denver is changing quickly, so quickly that Linger, which we voted Best Restaurant Patio With a View less than five months ago, has already lost some of that view. The new residential/retail complex going up…and up…on Boulder Street has not only obscured the view of downtown that Lola enjoyed…
