With the people’s boring choice of The Help for this year’s One Book, One Denver program selected, the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, which runs the program, is moving ahead today with the promotional push — but notably not with The Tattered Cover, certainly Denver’s flagship bookstore and arguably one…
Erik Vienneau of Yoga Rocks the Park! describes the weekly gathering in City Park as “the antithesis” of studio yoga. “All of the studios have their own vibe. Every studio has its independent kind of crowd. And this is the one event that happens every week where everyone comes together,”…
Denver actor/comedian/poet Matt Zambrano is the free spirit behind 10 x 10: Deviations on a Theme, a new variation on the open-mike concept at the BINDERY | space, 770 22nd Street, home of the Lida Project and other left-of-kilter visiting performance groups. But in the hope of setting it apart…
The opening of the American West in the first half of the nineteenth century led to a major development in this country’s art history. Though the United States was an aesthetic backwater at the time, painters (and, later, sculptors and photographers) recording the exotic sights and people of the region…
Abstracts. Summer is typically the time for group shows, and this year the William Havu Gallery presented two of them. First was Landscapes, a survey of the many artists in Havu’s stable who do representational work. Up now is Abstracts. Gallery director Bill Havu has some of the state’s top…
Garage Sale Loud: This Is It. Almost every summer, the folks at Heritage Square stage what is essentially a musical review with a thin sustaining plot line and the word “loud” in the title. The conceit is that T.J. Mullin and Annie Dwyer are siblings, and they’re reliving their youth…
Amir Bar-Lev’s assiduous, furious documentary on the Army’s craven coverup of the death by friendly fire of former NFLer Pat Tillman in Afghanistan in 2004 — and the exploitation of his corpse for recruitment purposes — is a withering assessment of U.S. military culture. Unlike recent Afghan war doc Restrepo,…
Lebanon, written and directed by Samuel Maoz, is not just the year’s most impressive first feature, but also the strongest new movie of any kind I’ve seen in 2010. Actually, Lebanon hardly seems like a debut, perhaps because it’s based on a scenario Maoz had been replaying in his head…
The two-part tale of French gangster-showman Jacques Mesrine is as densely packed and serially rambling as a well-trafficked Wikipedia entry. Director Jean-François Richet, who whipped up not-bad mayhem in his Assault on Precinct 13 remake, devotes so much time to tallying his subject’s career milestones and highlights — all of…
“My biggest frustration is reading stories in the media about these really dramatic life-or-death scenarios people get themselves into, and knowing that most of those survival situations are entirely preventable,” says Ford Church, founder and executive director of the Cottonwood Institute. “With just the tiniest bit of know-how and some…
When Alex Wrekk discovered zines as a teenager, a whole new world opened up to her. “I thought they were so neat, because they were these little slices of life of people I hadn’t met, but it felt like they were friends,” says Wrekk, a zine creator herself and organizer…
From his vantage point in the Denver poetry scene as a co-founder of the Mercury Cafe’s poetry slam team, Ian Dougherty saw that a lot of young poets out there want help with improving their work. But, especially in the slam-poetry arena, there’s not a whole lot of instruction going…
For many people, the idea of Field Day brings back memories of three-legged sprints, wheelbarrow races, big blue ribbons and cheering friends. And that’s the spirit that Women’s Adventure event director Joanne Laubscher is going for with “The Playground,” the center point of her second annual Women’s Adventure Field Day…
According to the second of the ten commandments of the Tour de Fat — honor all other bikes — the eleventh annual cross-country party isn’t just a fun-lovin’ festival featuring beer, bands and costumed bicycle aficionados; it’s “the one bike festival that cherishes bicycle diversity on our Cruise-ade through town,”…
A year ago, former bike messenger Jen Nordhem put on the first Femalley Cat, a bike race ridden in conjunction with the Bicycle Film Festival, as a competitive outlet for women bicyclists, who don’t have as many opportunities to be badass on the road. The guys, who know all about…
Jeff Deck wanted to change the world. “I thought, ‘What am I good at?’” he says. “And I’m good at editing — I can spot a typo at 100 yards — so I decided to make a national campaign out of it.” With his partner, Benjamin Herson, in tow, Deck…
Are you intrigued by anime (Japanese animation) but don’t know where to start? Or maybe you’ve got the taste for it from something like Hayao Miyazaki’s excellent work (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) and you’re wondering where to go from there? Look no further than Nan Desu Kan, the region’s biggest,…
Expect an abbondanza of vino, food, culture and entertainment this weekend at Festival Italiano, a street fair and marketplace at Belmar. The two-day event, touting more than 25 Italian food, snack and dessert vendors, includes food and wine pairings from Frank Bonanno (Bones, Luca D’Italia, Mizuna and Osteria Marco) and…
Mountain Bike Capital USA (the new alter ego of the Winter Park-Fraser Valley Chamber of Commerce) will present a kickoff party for the tenth annual Bicycle Film Festival tonight at 7 p.m. at the Shag Lounge, 830 15th Street. Tomorrow, the BFF screenings get started at 7 p.m. at Starz…
When Denver-based Suburban Home Records celebrates its fifteenth birthday this weekend, a spate of live music and general partying will roll through the house at 3 Kings Tavern. But down under the dance floor, in the subterranean Phoenix Gallery, there will be a different kind of celebration going on: Creative…
The Great American Beer Festival sloshes into town in just a few days, and the Wynkoop Brewing Company is celebrating by sending a group of local beer makers off to the competition in style, with a pep rally and beer tasting. The Great COntenders will feature 57 beers, many of…
Local, sustainable, organic, field-to-fork, garden-to-table, harvest-to-plate. These are all food-centric buzz words that encourage us to think about the bumper crop of agriculture that grows outside our front doors. And now you can learn a whole lot more about foraging for food on a local level at the Local Foods…
