If you like the idea of combining Vampires with sex in literature but think Twilight is ass-clown hackery for prudes, then Vampire Nite is where you want to be tonight. And if you don’t, why the fuck not? Vampires are awesome. Sex is awesome. What’s there not to like? Anyway,…
For the last few years, it’s been one of biology’s most perplexing and worrisome questions: What is happening to bee populations? Since 2006, they’ve been declining at rates of up to 50 percent — and more in certain areas — and since we depend on bees to pollinate about a…
Tony Garcia, a guiding light of Denver’s El Centro Su Teatro for more than thirty years, is a little more relaxed these days: The purchase of the Denver Civic Theatre by the long-lived Chicano troupe is a done deal. “The building is ours,” he says, “and we’re not going to…
“The horror… the horror — Brraaappp!” No, it’s not Heart of Darkness or Apocalypse Now, it’s the Bug Theatre’s treatment of George Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead. But that line sums up the campy goodness that director Kristine Hipps and cast bring to their quirky stage adaptation of…
Artist Jerry Vigil makes a compelling point about hosting a Día de los Muertos celebration in a funeral home: “When you think about it, what better venue is there?” And this party is far from a typical funeral home gathering: Following the Mexican tradition, Day of the Dead is not…
While the theme is Hiroshima, the seeds of Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s gripping memoir, Hiroshima in the Morning, were planted while she was researching her first book, a novel called Why She Left Us, which takes place in Colorado at Camp Amache, one of ten locations where the U.S. government forced…
Given that it’s a “rally for people who’ve been too busy to go to rallies,” as Daily Show host and figurehead Jon Stewart put it, it’s understandable that a lot of the target audience would also be too busy to make it out to Washington, D.C., for the real thing…
Kevin Pharris leads Denver History Tours year-round, but the Cathouse Crawl tour — available today only — is a little different. “You’re chasing ghosts and goblins for a cause,” Pharris says. “It’s a tour focusing on the ghosts and the ungentlemanly behavior of the past, so it’s definitely one that…
Last year’s Denver Gorilla Run aped its way into the Guinness Book of World Records with 1,061 costumed runners going bananas through the streets of Denver. And this year, the Wynkoop Brewing Company, where the 5.6K race starts and finishes, will stoke the primal urges of local primates with a…
Artistic diversity will be in full effect when the RedLine resident artists’ exhibition, Cross Ties Across Time, opens tonight with a reception at the gallery and continues through November 22. This year’s group show, curated by RedLiner Terry Campbell, is host to nineteen artists working in various media, five of…
The concept of the second annual Green Spaces Eco-Halloween Bash isn’t really a new one: Since time immemorial, or at least in the last century, people have been picking through rag piles, dumpsters, Goodwill stores and Grandma’s attic for the makings of a really cool Halloween costume. But, says Jennie…
There’s something charming, but a little bit off, about Songs of Meat & Cake, a “theatrical song cycle” that treats its subjects both literally and metaphorically. Sometimes giddy, sometimes serious, the cabaret was concocted by collaborating Boulder ensembles Square Product Theatre and Zen Cabaret. It is about sustenance, both physical…
As PlatteForum’s Judy Anderson discusses the gallery’s upcoming show, she’s surrounded by activity. “We’re transforming the place,” she says. “We’ve got a riot of colors going up on the walls.” Featuring the work of resident artist Theresa Anderson and eight students from Denver’s P.S.1, in between, a combination of installations…
A team of barbarians accompanied by vixens in blueberry-colored babushkas and wrapped in animal skins, riding bicycles across the city in search of lost treasures with just a manifest to guide them: It’s something you’re likely to see at Dethride, a Halloween bicycle scavenger hunt sponsored by MsHurricane and One…
Director Chip Mabry’s documentary portrait of Portland’s Rose City Rollers won best in show at both the Crossroads Film Festival and the Indie Spirit Film Festival this year, and the Brutal Beauty film tour has been selling out in theaters across the country. Despite his film’s success, though, Mabry says…
“I’m something of a cemetery buff,” says Annette Student, author of Riverside Cemetery: Where History Lies and co-host of today’s History Colorado’s Riverside Cemetery Tour. “There are a lot of ghosts out at Riverside, fascinating historic figures who helped make Denver what it is but have mostly been forgotten. You’ll…
The medieval courts of Europe knew a thing or two about partying. After all, they created the masquerade, which is all about mystery, sexual intrigue and the giddy suspense of the unknown. Amnesia Parties, the promoters behind tonight’s Amnesia Sexy Masquerade Party at Five Degrees nightclub in LoDo, know this…
Food drives and country music aren’t among the first things to come to mind on Halloween, but then again, why not? Though organizer Laura “Spunky” McGaughey admits that the way it came together may have been fairly arbitrary, that’s not to say Halloween Honky Tonk doesn’t have a point: “I…
If you’ve ever done the screeching violin sound effects from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho while stabbing toothpicks into an effigy made of doughnuts (does anyone else remember Wayne’s World?), then you’ve sung this soundtrack. Arguably the most iconic film music of all time, Bernard Herrmann’s score was credited by Hitchcock himself…
There’s a little uneasiness before The Container starts: a shuffle for the restrooms, some groping in purses for water bottles. We’ve already signed a release saying we understand the experience will be claustrophobic, and we know we’ll be closed in, seated along the sides of a large shipping container for…
More than anything, Halloween is a time to try on a new identity, to be one thing and become something else. But homo sapiens sapiens is not the only species to engage in a game of dress-up of sorts — animals do it all the time, like cats that look…
Denver-based Omerica Organic is all about the O’s. And at least among the growing circle of body-art inclined folks cultivating stretched holes in their ear lobes, it’s becoming the go-to place online to buy the body jewelry needed to do it. Made from beautiful hand-finished hardwoods that are decorated with…
