There were to have been three exhibits this month celebrating Dale Chisman, the Colorado artist who died in 2008, but with Metro’s Center for Visual Art moving from LoDo to a new building on Santa Fe Drive, its retrospective was postponed, and the solo show slated for the Robischon Gallery…
I like the way Denver’s galleries always bounce back after the New Year, with a plethora of fresh exhibitions making tracks through the snow and cold of January. The best New Year offering, metaphorically speaking, could be The Icebreaker Show, opening tonight at Ice Cube Gallery, one of the district’s…
At this weekend’s Festivus Film Festival, you can enjoy the full film-fest experience even if your budget is better suited to PBR than Dom Perignon. With a full-festival pass ($40), you can attend screenings, drink (for free!) with the filmmakers in a private lounge, and hit all the after-parties —…
If you love Harry Potter but think Dracula could beat him in a standoff, don’t miss tonight’s Great Debate at Buntport Theater, where experts will argue for and against vampires and wizards before deciding which, in fact, is the most badass. The experts? Comedians Andrew Orvedahl and Chuck Roy, Fashion…
Why have an ice festival in Old Colorado City? “Because it’s cold in January,” says Charlie Irwin, who heads the quaint shopping district’s merchants’ association. “It seemed like something that would work well with the weather — although last year, it was 60 degrees all weekend.” But even under those…
Roller disco and the Tower of Babel. John Hinckley and Jodie Foster. Ronald Reagan as the antichrist. Choreographed song and dance. Are you getting all this down? LIDA Project artistic director Brian Freeland doesn’t think small, and he’s putting his big ideas on wheels and taking them for a whirl…
The erhu, or Chinese violin, is a strange and ancient-looking instrument, with two strings along a long, narrow neck attached to a sextagonal sound box covered in snakeskin. It’s played with a horsehair bow that slides between the strings, and, like the Western violin, is a squeaky-squawky mess in the…
Nathaniel Adams Coles, better known as Nat “King” Cole, was born in Alabama, the son of a Baptist minister. He learned to play the organ from his mother, who accompanied his father in church. Originally a keyboard phenom, he later studied classical piano, but it was jazz — and the…
The annual Cowboy Poetry Gathering is finally legal this year, having reached the ripe old age of 21. Liz Masterson has been involved since the beginning — and even if you didn’t get tickets to tonight’s sold-out Baxter Black performance, she says there’s still plenty to be excited about. “We…
A quartet of businesses along Curtice Street in Historic Downtown Littleton decided to beat the post-holiday doldrums by hosting tonight’s Progressive Dinner and Haiku Celebration, an event that serves up not just food and wine, but a little literary entertainment, as well. “This is a time of year when there’s…
Best excuse for morphing your bar into a cocktail classroom? Females, according to James Lee, the beverage director of Big Red F Restaurant Group and the mixologist/owner of the Bitter Bar in Boulder. “Over the past few months, I’ve had an overwhelming number of females calling me with questions about…
In 2008, two of the country’s most beloved comedians — not to mention the most beloved stoners of all time — got back together after decades apart for the Light Up America tour. The reunion with Richard “Cheech” Marin was “incredible,” Tommy Chong reveals. “When I’m out there by myself,…
The toughest band to ever take its name from a Counting Crows lyric, Between the Buried and Me snuck into the nascent metalcore scene at the beginning of the ’00s with its raw, self-titled debut from 2002. From that modest beginning, the group has gone everywhere but down — but…
Before he took over as director of the Denver Art Museum, Christoph Heinrich was the curator of modern and contemporary art. In that capacity, he organized Embrace! a blockbuster exhibit that features the work of international art stars along with a handful of Denver’s best, including painter Rick Dula. Dula’s…
There is no good excuse for hanging in the lowlands. We want more snow, and we need to get Norse snow god Ullr’s attention if we want more snow, and there is no better place to get his attention than Breckenridge right now. And that’s because Ullr Fest is underway…
I’ve tried my hand at ice climbing a few times before (on East Vail’s frozen waterfalls and Rainier’s Emmons Glacier, most notably), and On The Edge’s Candace Horgan practically has ice tools for hands. That said, Will Gadd has us way beat: Tired of “regular” ice climbs, the Crazy Canuck…
In the U.S., there is a rich tradition of “hoboing.” Famed folk singer Utah Phillips wrote many a song about his years hopping trains. In the 1970s, ski bumming became a way of life for many avid skiers who wanted nothing more out of life than the next powder day…
A-Basin plans to replace its base-to-mid-mountain lift with a detachable quad this summer after the mountain’s projected June 6 closing. The idea to replace the Exhibition fixed grip triple chair has been five years in the making, and one of the last things left to do is give it a…
[scattered flurries] from felt soul media on Vimeo.The Beating is an annual amateur ski and snowboard film festival held annually in Silverton. The 2010 edition came and went on the second day of the year, with Telluride’s Ben Knight emerging victorious with Scattered Flurries, embedded above. In just under four…
Today’s Time-Wasting Video, courtesy of the intrepid reporters at The Onion News Network: “Are young people ignoring the dangers of being stoked?”…
Most people don’t need any more encouragement to play hooky and go skiing. But if you do, this Thursday, January 14, Loveland ski area and 95.7 radio have teamed up to promote “Ski Hooky” day…
The Season Trailer from Fitz Cahall on Vimeo.The creators of The Dirtbag Diaries — a podcast about outdoor adventures — recently debuted a new 22-episode Web TV series called The Season that looks like it’s worth checking out. The show follows five Pacific Northwest athletes through one season of their…
