At some point in our lives, we’ve had a job that requires sitting through a barrage of awful, corporate-mandated training videos. Things like walking to your car with a co-worker at night, making sure not to put bleach in the sanitzer bucket and always wearing closed-toe shoes on the sales…
More than 14,000 snowboarding fans turned out for the LG FIS Snowboard World Cup Big Air competition on the Denver Big Air ramp in Civic Center Park, according to the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association’s estimate, about 4,000 more than for the previous night’s ski competition. Take that, skiing! Alas,…
Once upon a time, cartoons were silly. Consider the original Batman series of the 1960s, a show so jokey it had villains named both The Laugher and The Giggler and starred a not-exactly-ripped-but-still-wearing-spandex Adam West playing the world’s most block-headed straight man — even Tim Burton’s late-’80s reboot of the…
You’ve seen them bounding up walls and hurtling across rooftops in the latest action film, maybe even streaking across town. The ordinary rules of physics don’t seem to apply to them, as if their hands have suction cups and their feet are shod in Go-Go Gadget sneakers — but, in…
Most people will pass by a dead tree or plant without so much as a glance, but S.D. Prochyra’s art finds its roots in these overlooked and intricate systems. It’s this pedigree of death and beauty that’s on display tonight in Requiem, a solo exhibition of his work. The art…
Paul Sills, improvisational theater pioneer and the founder director of Chicago’s famous Second City, was once quoted as saying, “Theater is dead. You guys just don’t know it yet.” Whether or not the Evergreen Players know it yet is up for debate, but they’re taking Sills’s experimental techniques to heart…
If you’re looking for a window into another culture, a good place to start is with its folk tales and children’s stories — after all, the yarns that we weave for our children carry the essential cultural data that we want to pass on. To that end, it’s hard to…
When it comes to the silver screen, it seems there’s little opportunity to see much of anything that doesn’t involve gratuitous explosions or testicle injury. And of the many theater-shunned forms, the most neglected could be the short: Unless you’re at a film festival, you’re just not going to find…
Tokyo street fashion comes to Colfax tonight, when Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast celebrates the end of its two-month residency upstairs at Mod Livin’, 5327 East Colfax Avenue, by throwing a Tokyo Extreme Fashion Show dedicated to the frilly-dress-wearing, fake-tan-and-eyelash-donning living dolls of Denver. Participants in the show will include members…
The Snowsports Industries America (SIA) Snow Show that starts today at the Colorado Convention Center is mostly about business and mostly closed to the public. So if you want a piece of the action, get a job. Seriously: One of the primary parts open to the public is the SchmoozaPalooza…
As if to welcome the new year with some fresh business, the Denver Art Museum is bringing back its monthly, expect-anything event for adults, Untitled. And fully in the spirit of perfect timing, this initial session, Untitled #33 (Pledge), is all about kicking aside the already-broken resolutions and making some…
The 5th Annual Meanest Green Chili Cook-off & Sizzlin’ Jazz Benefit Concert is an attempt to prove that you can fight fire with fire. The beneficiaries of this year’s event — sponsored by the Hatch Foundation in conjunction with Services for Artists — will be victims of the Four Mile…
Do you have holey sweaters? Or a favorite woolen scarf worn by time and use? Fingerless mittens that aren’t supposed to be that way? Now you can fix ’em: Jaime Kopke, who once inspired Denverites with her interactive pop-up Denver Community Museum, is joining forces with coffee fanatic Megan Quicke…
During the time Erin Bakersmith has been running the Yoga Mat studio, she’s noticed some parallels between two popular physical activities, yoga and snowboarding. There’s the body-awareness aspect, as well as yoga’s calm, meditative feeling that some skiers and snowboarders also experience on the slopes, but the commonalities go beyond…
Curious Theatre Company’s current production, Circle Mirror Transformation, may not have much to do with homosexuality, per se, but as Sarah Benvenuti, Curious’s managing director, delicately points out, “I think the arts and the LGBT community have gone hand in hand for a long time.” Yep, the arts are kind…
You’ve probably seen Hal Sparks: He hosted Talk Soup a little over ten years ago, starred in Queer As Folk for five seasons and is a regular commentator on VH1’s I Love the 70s, 80s and 90s. But he got his start in standup, and comedy continues to be central…
Pub quizzes have been popular since the first day a cold draft beer trickled down the beard of a knowledgeable geek, though it wasn’t until recently that the quizzes became a national affair. But tonight, instead of the bulging biceps of most Bowl-related events, you’ll find a large collection of…
The Mile High City is already home to the Great American Beer Festival, but while that brew blowout attracts hundreds of brewers and tens of thousands of fans from here, there and everywhere, the Winter Brew Fest, which comes to a head tonight at 7 p.m. at Mile High Station,…
This weekend’s Winter X Games 15 marks the tenth year in a row that Aspen has hosted the X Games at Buttermilk. Getting a room won’t be easy and definitely won’t be cheap — but as always, the Games themselves are free for spectators. “We love having the crowds up…
Comedian Hal Sparks will perform the first of five Denver shows tomorrow at Comedy Works South. Sparks, who has hosted Talk Soup and starred in Queer As Folk, has been focusing more lately on his stand-up career. His comedy special is available now through Showtime, he has a CD coming…
Today is the birthday of Newman’s Own best selling product, the late Paul Newman, everyone’s favorite cool-eyed and irreverent actor/philanthropist. He can’t so much celebrate his birthday, being deceased, but everyone else can — and surely they will, running some retrospective of the man and his work. We, too, feel…
Lord knows how many times I’ve walked past this garage (attached to a semi-dilapidated abandoned house near the Westword office) and not given it a second glance, but for whatever reason, it happened to catch my eye the other day — probably because I happened to be carrying a camera;…
