Maybe, like a lot of people these days, you’ve picked up a needle and thread to sew or repurpose your own clothes, beguiled by the whole DIY craft movement. And maybe, like a lot of those like-minded folks, you’ve hit a wall. The Art Salon’s in-house professional seamstress/designer, April Hoy,…
It came from Crested Butte, and it was absolutely awful. No, it wasn’t Heidi Montag; it was Snowbeast, a 1977 abomination that is a classic in no sense of that word, not even in a so-bad-it’s-good way. “There is absolutely zero, nothing to love in this movie,” says Matt Vogl…
According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2011 is the year of the rabbit, but tonight it’s all about saving the giant panda. Pandas International ― a local nonprofit that focuses on the preservation of the endangered giant panda and provides medical and veterinary supplies to the staffs of several captive giant…
John Rodwan’s Fighters & Writers explores the relationship between the two in a somewhat unusual way ― by combining personal essays with literary analysis. “Some see boxing as free of artifice; others see it as full of it,” says Rodwan, who will read from his book and sign copies tonight…
As a narrator, Bruno isn’t that unusual. He’s precocious, self-conscious, slightly unreliable and gets into a bit of trouble over the course of his story. The thing is, Bruno is also a chimpanzee. That’s the watered-down premise of Benjamin Hale’s debut novel, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore, which he’ll read…
Seattle-based composer Matt Jorgensen has a special connection to Denver, even if he’s never lived here. You see, Jorgensen is the son-in-law of the late Dale Chisman, one of the city’s greatest contemporary painters. Jorgensen’s memories of Chisman — in particular, the high standard the painter set for other artists…
The Pokémon franchise has been taking time away from children’s homework for the past thirteen years, and today, fans will have an opportunity to check out the new games in the series, meet the new Pokémon and have a chance to do some real life Pokéhunting in celebration of the…
Right now, at this very moment, local gastronauts are plotting how to snag rezzies at one of the 295 food temples across the metro area taking part in Denver Restaurant Week — a two-week nosh-a-thon, spearheaded by Visit Denver and trumpeting multi-course dinners (some of which even pimp wine, beer…
The Beerdrinker of the Year contest will crown its fifteenth champion today at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, which accepts applications from around the country to determine who will be the best ambassador for craft beer. Three finalists have been chosen — from Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia, respectively. Today they’ll…
Minor celebrities are often doomed to live out their careers remembered primarily for that one thing they did that was really famous. For comedian David Alan Grier, that’s probably Antoine Merriweather, his flamboyant pop-culture commentator from the early 1990s show In Living Color. But say what you will about the…
Take a deep breath — and be thankful for that breath this morning before racing up 56 floors in the stairwell of Republic Plaza, the tallest building in Denver. “The Anthem Fight for Air Climb is one of our most popular special events each year,” says Liz Toohey, event coordinator…
Bart Simpson was arbitrarily declared 32 years old today by Twitter trends, a designation that had something to do with the release of the first episode of The Simpsons in 1989 plus Bart’s age, which has always been ten years old. Except the show debuted on December 17, 1989 as…
This weekend, the best and worst of 2010 in film will be categorically determined (right…) by the Academy and Golden Raspberry Awards, respectively. And while statues are nice, everyone knows that money guides filmmaking to a much greater degree than accolades. So we were wondering — does the movie-going public…
When you consider the elaborate costume, the mystical powers and the “popemobile,” it’s pretty clear that the pope is a superhero. Or possibly a supervillain. Whatever the case, like a superhero/villain, the pope also has a rich inner life that gets lost in the glitz and glam of his popular…
Elephant Quest comes to us from John Cooney, who made a name for himself with the self-referential meta game, Achievement Unlocked, a parody of the curious nature of achievements and trophies in game. Elephant Quest takes takes the same elephant from that and plops him into an exploration-shooter-RPG that initially…
Erik Weihenmayer has climbed the Seven Summits, including Mt. Everest, and his resume of adventurous accomplishments also includes such feats as finishing the Leadville 100 on a tandem bike. Oh, and also: He’s blind. Tonight at 6 p.m., the author of Touch the Top of the World and The Adversity…
Thankfully, foolishness is a worldwide phenomenon. Otherwise when we would see another culture’s advertising on the internetz we might feel all dumb by comparison and end up sending them angry emoticons in their comment boxes — because we all know Emoticon is the universal language. But since people are crazy…
The Dude abides. By definition, in fact: perhaps more than any other film in recent history, the Coen Brothers’ magnum opus The Big Lebowski has proven its longevity — if the number of academic papers written about it can be seen as a barometer of its importance, then The Dude…
There are endless affinities that connect gardening to ceramics, the most obvious of which is that both start with digging in the ground. The creation of vessels from clay and the cultivation of plants each came very early in the development of civilization, and both were necessary pre-conditions for it…
Andy Libertone and Rob Watt. On the west side of Spark, Andy Libertone: Old Walls, New Floors includes the artist’s bas-reliefs from the ’70s and his recent freestanding sculptures — hence the old walls and new floors of the title. Though Libertone’s been around for decades, most of these early…
It seems like a pretty steep price to pay for a website with terrible search engine recognition (it doesn’t even come up in the first page of results) and no current discernible purpose (it’s basically just a bunch of links right now), but the domain name sex.com sold at auction…
Denver the Last Dinosaur went through a two-season run back in the late ’80s. The show centered on a studiously diverse group of kids in L.A. who hatch a giant dino egg by crashing a BMX bike into it. They name their new pal Denver, and learning opportunities ensue. It’s…
