Skip the holiday shopping headache and head for the hills instead: The ninth annual Leftover Yam Jam, in the Eagle Jib Park at Copper Mountain, is the perfect place to burn some post-feast calories and come down from your tryptophan trip. “It’s a super-fun vibe up here for this contest…
Perhaps more than any other genre of American music, zydeco brings to mind some distinctly down-home associations; the Cajun blend of country, Creole and blues is steeped in family traditions. And when it comes to family traditions, those ties don’t run much deeper than they do in Leroy Thomas. Son…
Musician and social activist Michael Franti has been practicing what he preaches for decades, and even as the burgeoning popularity of such songs as “Hey World” and “Sound of the Sunshine” have thrust him into the spotlight — he opened for John Mayer on Mayer’s spring tour this year —…
Robot Unicorn Attack was a great game, but the Erasure soundtrack and generally puffy visuals might have turned off people who have been looking for something more, ahem, metal. That’s really the only reason to release the heavy metal edition, but it’s reason enough for us…
Colorado native artist and photographer Sara Ford started painting in college because she didn’t want to take the color theory class everyone hated. Needless to say, she got really good at it. Through photography, she has worked with clients such as 303 Magazine, Denver Magazine and DVLP clothing, among others,…
The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is among the more baffling holiday traditions out there. Maybe it makes sense if you’re in New York, but millions of people elsewhere sit down to watch a parade on TV. Parades are boring in real life! And this isn’t just any parade. This is,…
Update, 1 p.m.: We picked a winner! Congratulations to Tara Hallam, whose entry was the least kiss-ass of any we received. If I could be Foursquare mayor of any place in Denver, I’d be mayor of Casa Bonita because a place that has all you can eat sopapillas, cliff divers…
It’s been a long, ongoing, dirty process of restoring the First Avenue Hotel at 101 Broadway — for the last year and a half or so, owner Jesse Morreale (of Rockbar, La Rumba and Mezcal, among others) has been slowly but surely pecking away at restoring the long-vacant landmark, restoring…
It’s been a couple years now since Boulder-based Null Skateboards dropped its last full team video, Null & Void, but this Nullvember promo proves they’ve been keeping busy in the meantime:…
The internetz are all about the law of unintended consequences: Once you put it out there, there’s no telling where it’ll go or in what form it will return. Of course, there were no internetz back in the day of Joseph Decreux, but it’s perhaps reasonable to speculate that the…
It’s a four-day weekend, and that means we get to kick off 10 for $10 early this week, with tons of awesome bonus stuff for you to do when you’re not stuck in a turkey coma listening to your aunt ramble on about her new kitten. We’ve got plenty of…
Might as well go ahead and make it a 5-day weekend: Beaver Creek is opening today with at least 426 acres of terrain and 11 lifts, not to mention the annual Beaver Creek Cookie Competition — 2 p.m. near the ice rink in the Beaver Creek Village — which will…
If you use Wikipedia on any kind of regular basis, you’ve seen the banner: “A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales,” accompanied by the ponderous mug of Wales himself, staring contemplatively off into the far distance, getting ready to ask you for money so he can keep that site…
Stupidity abounds in our daily lives, and the internetz have only exacerbated its abundance. Commercials hold a rather large market share of the overall world stupidity index, and since beer commercials own a significant amount of broadband real estate, by extension they also are responsible for much of the stupidity…
Diminutive and soft-spoken, with black owl-eye glasses and long, wavy dark hair, Viviane Le Courtois is one of those “still waters run deep” types, whose mind, you just know, is working overtime, all the time. Viviane is a thinker and an observer: There’s a bit of a scientist in this…
With all the rhetoric surrounding the danger of fatness in America, it’s surprising to find that, according to a recent GlobalPost article, the USA isn’t the fattest country in the world. In fact, based on body-mass index (BMI) ratings by a World Health Organization study, only 79 percent of Americans…
The game of football has a long, storied tradition of homoerotica: the spandex pants, the frequent bending over, the sweaty, man-on-man grappling — it’s a classic case of Sparta syndrome: athletic, highly ritualized body-worship. And though uncomfortable fruit-salad shots and gratuitous ass-slapping are by no means unusual in a televised…
There are many things that are hilarious about cats, but probably chief among them is the juxtaposition between their cuteness and their evilness. Because they are evil. They might appear to like you — sometimes — and they might be nice to you — once in a while — but…
It seems like each holiday season is accented by a new, heavily researched American history novel. We’d venture a guess that it’s because they sell well as Christmas presents, usually given to the mom or dad that simply “likes history.” What else are you going to buy these folks, a…
Everyone knows turkey sucks. It’s dry, it’s boring and the only reason people eat it is because it conveniently feeds a lot of people at the same time. That is a stupid reason to eat anything. And it’s especially stupid on a holiday whose entire purpose is to eat as…
The Handsome Little Devils’ efforts to bring old-fashioned Vaudevillian melodrama to theatergoers in New York City has caught the attention of town’s snootiest critics. Earlier this year, the local troupe took their “Squirm Burpee Circus” act out east after securing a spot at the New Victory Theater off-Broadway, and the…
The Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Arts (1311 Pearl Street, 303-832-8576, www.kirklandmuseum.org) is a collecting institution with three areas of focus: the work of Colorado’s premier modernist, Vance Kirkland, the work of other Colorado artists, and international design. It’s this third category that’s on view now in The Furniture…
