“Growing up in Aurora, people used to always say I lived in BFE,” recalls Dave Shirley. That’s “Bum Fuck, Egypt,” for those of you who didn’t grow up in the ‘burbs. Instead of being offended, however, Shirley — of locally based Rattlebrain Entertainment — took the idea and ran with…
Every night in Colorado, more than 9,000 people — including whole families, women and children — are out on the street. Laura Brayman worries about them all. As the executive director of HomeAid Colorado, the charitable arm of the Colorado Association of Homebuilders, Brayman has helped build seventeen homes and…
Stephen Tebo’s garage is a veritable cornucopia of collector automobiles. More than 300 of them sit inside, gleaming with the sheen of pride that only a true car lover can apply. A triple coat of wax doesn’t hurt, either. Get a close look at the goods under Tebo’s hoods today…
In 1990, Gregory Hines sat with Sammy Davis Jr. as Davis lay on his deathbed. Unable to speak, Davis tossed an imaginary ball at Hines, bequeathing the title of most-beloved American tap dancer. When Hines died in 2003, all eyes turned to Savion Glover, Hines’s former pupil and co-star in…
The Greatest Show on Earth withstood the Great Depression; it persevered through two turns of the centuries; it even gave harried moms something to yell at their children: “I am not running a three-ring circus here!” But can it survive modern audiences who crave the high-tech appeal of Cirque du…
Put glass in between you and an object, and you’ve created a separation much thicker than a see-through pane. Historical museums, in that sense, often fail to forge a connection between the past and the present, because there’s little vitality in an empty pair of shoes or a dingy corset…
Federal Boulevard stretches almost thirty miles down the spine of the metro area, from Bowles Boulevard in Littleton, where the Southglenn Luncheon Optimist Club keeps the last mile litter-free, to north of 120th in Westminster, where the Belger family handles clean-up duties as the road loses its U.S. Highway 287…
It’s no coincidence that one of the only words you can form from the letters in booze is zoo. No, really, it’s totally deliberate; people love to get liquored up around caged animals. And the Denver Zoo, 2300 Steele Street, is only too happy to provide them the opportunity. That…
Fort Collins is not exactly a fashion hub. No offense to the northerly nabe, but hand-knit socks paired with Tevas and, say, a sweat-stained New Belgium cap leaves something to be desired. Practical, yes. Chic? Not on your life. It comes as a surprise, then, that artist Trudie Roberts swears…
Some people just aren’t okay with the word “ass.” Last year, the captain of a team competing in the Wild West Relay: Get Your Ass Over the Pass asked coordinator Paul Vanderheiden if he would change it to “mass.” Whatever getting your “mass” over the pass may entail, Vanderheiden says…
Generations of gene-swapping has rendered most of us ethnic mutts. Still, we all saw how those “Everyone Loves an Irish Girl” shirts at Urban Outfitters sold like last month’s Maxim, so we know you proud Gaelic lassies exist. Grab that special laddie and embrace your ancestry at the twelfth annual…
Bicycling is freakin’ cool. It is. Rollerblading never even neared cycling’s mastery of coolness. Actually, there’s nothing that can contend with biking, and apparently, more than 18,000 people in metro Denver agree: That’s how many participated in last year’s Bike to Work Day. “This year, we expect around 20,000 people,”…
Way back in 1984, local critics endowed Denver theaters with the Drama Critics Circle Awards. “It was always such a wonderful way for the theater community to get together and celebrate itself,” muses Gloria Shanstrom, general manager of the Colorado Theatre Guild. But in 2001, the curtain closed on the…
Spaghetti might be bad date food: It’s sloppy, with a propensity for staining. But at the Father’s Day Spaghetti Dinner at the Denver Firefighters Museum, 1326 Tremont Place, spaghetti will be the main course. Sunday pasta dinners are a long-running tradition, dating back to the inception of firehouses — which…
Ah, Vail. What did that chip-toothed pundit Lloyd Christmas say about the mountain town? “A place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano.” Oh, wait, that was Aspen. But ever since the Vail Film Festival began in 2004, Christmas’s description has…
Nancy Norton has been out of the local stand-up circle for about two years. Once a regular act at Comedy Works and a national touring comedian, the Boulder-based riot-raiser left the scene to focus on adopting a boy from Nepal. She returns to the stage tonight at the Oriental Theater,…
I’m dressed more discreetly than usual this evening. Instead of a Flying Dog tank or a Jameson baby-doll tee — clothes that make me a human billboard for whatever product I’m pushing — I am decked in head-to-toe black: black knee-length skirt, black hose, black heels and a black backless…
When Jen Korte took a required choir course for her theater degree, she was put with ten other tone-deaf pariahs in remedial choir, where she spent a semester learning quarter notes, half notes and scales. And when it came time to audition again, she still didn’t make it into the…
“My candies won’t make you fatter, only sweeter,” reads a sign tucked into the corner of American Country Candies’ one-room factory in Fort Collins. Lie. It’s against the fundamental makeup of candy — the candy’s essence, even — to not be fatty. But Andrea Kennedy looks like she hasn’t indulged…
FRI, 11/18 Get ready as the Cycle World International Motorcycle Shows lay rubber at the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th Street. Today through Sunday, size up tricked-out choppers as well as custom and vintage bikes you won’t see anywhere else. When the polished chrome and roaring toys aren’t making you…
SUN, 11/13 When a team’s motto is “The hit’s not real unless it bends steel,” you might assume that its members engage in a sport that involves full body armor. Considering the fervor of Denver’s Harlequin Wheelchair Rugby players, maybe their endeavor should involve such protection. The team’s passion is…
SAT, 11/5 Every so often, on cloudless nights that follow slow traffic days, smog makes a deal with the atmosphere and agrees to cut out early so Denverites can see those white, twinkling things Midwesterners and mountain purists call “stars.” Skepticism is understandable, of course, considering that the closest thing…
