The Teva Mountain Games celebrate the mountain lifestyle — a lifestyle that involves extreme trails, big parties and high-flying dogs. “The beauty of the Mountain Games is amateurs and professionals competing side by side,” says Shelley Woodworth, marketing director for the non-profit Vail Valley Foundation, which puts on the annual…
In a culture lacking traditional steps toward adulthood, it’s up to each person to define his own coming of age. Of course, some coming-of-age experiences are naturally more interesting than others — and then there’s Chazz Palminteri’s A Bronx Tale, which is off the charts. “It’s the story of a…
Every year, the Sheridan Opera House gives back to the Telluride community through the Wild West Fest, which starts June 8 and runs through June 14. “We work with different Boys & Girls Clubs throughout the United States, and within their own club, they choose the kids who have stood…
High handlebars and a laid-back slouch are de rigueur for the increasingly popular cruiser bike rides around town these days. But you can still pedal hard in Denver. Grab three friends and find out just how fast you can make that cruiser go during today’s 24 Minutes of City Park…
With the restaurant scene in northwest Denver growing faster than the list of Nuggets season-ticket holders, it’s high time the Highland neighborhood had its own farmers’ market again. “The neighborhood association has been talking about a market for over a year now,” says HobNob Events’ Nicole Jarman, who is managing…
Ever since Glendale decided to buff up its image by building the first rugby stadium in the nation, the rough-and-tumble sport has gotten new respect in these parts — so much so that the 2009 Churchill Cup, North America’s premier match-up, will take place here this month, with preliminary matches…
Betsy White and her husband, Bob, are the entrepreneurial brains behind Bad Art for Bad People, a kind of lowbrow road show that chooses to show hipster art in alternative venues. And so far, things have been good for Bad Art. There’s clearly a call for celebrating underground culture in…
The discovery of gold in Colorado inspired the Rush to the Rockies exactly 150 years ago. Although many fortune-hunters who set off on the arduous journey across the plains to Pikes Peak territory never arrived, and still more gave up on ever striking it rich and headed back home, those…
“The cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake,” Alfred Hitchcock once said, and if that’s true — and who are we to dispute the Master? — then summertime is when we gorge (unhealthily, most of the time, on ear-splitting smash-’em-ups and nerd-filled sex comedies). This…
One of the longest running musicals on Broadway, Rent succeeded because it was a true rock opera, based on one of the most beloved classical operas of all time, Puccini’s La Bohème. Fast-forwarded in time to the struggling, AIDS-haunted arts community camped out on New York’s Lower East Side during…
Swallow Hill’s Shady Grove Picnic Series at Four Mile Historic Park is surely one of those hidden gems of summer: It’s laid-back and easy, cheap for families and full of great music and musicians, most of them also hidden gems and many of them locals. The music begins at 6:30…
In the 1960s, the two biggest contemporary art movements, pop art and minimalism, were ideological opposites — well, except in certain works from Andy Warhol’s “Elvis” series. Pop was content-driven, riffing off everyday subject matter, while minimalism was purely about form. So it’s interesting that today’s post-pop and post-minimalism are…
Curiouser. Singer Gallery director Simon Zalkind is one of the top curators in town, and one of the secrets to his success is presenting artists whose efforts are worthwhile but who for some reason rarely exhibit their work. That’s what’s happening now with the unusual show Curiouser: A Dozen Years…
Partway through The Squabble, I did something I’ve never done before in all my years of faithful and happy attendance at Buntport: I glanced at my watch to see how much longer we had to go. Based on Nikolai Gogol’s “The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich,”…
First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout, finds his inner child during a series of magical adventures experienced from the front porch of a dilapidated manse held aloft by hundreds of helium-filled balloons. Such, of…
Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the auteur behind Three Monkeys, didn’t win the best-director bauble at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival for his hyperkinetic visuals and mastery of the smash cut. On his latest, he tends to set his camera in place and allow it to stare pitilessly at his subjects for…
Bus Stop. A snowstorm has closed the road ahead, and a bus is stranded outside a diner, where worldly-wise owner Grace supervises her high-school-aged waitress, Elma. Among those requiring doughnuts and coffee or bacon and eggs are driver Carl, who is Grace’s occasional lover, and disgraced philosophy professor Gerald Lyman…
The name “Kennedy” presents a heavy burden — and a load of possibilities. For decades, various members of the family have maintained an admirable balance between celebrity and relevancy, using that name to propel and promote humanitarian projects. Such is the case with Kerry and Robert Kennedy Jr., two of…
It’s got to be tough being a teen in Nederland. Sure, the quirky little town is a cool place to visit for Frozen Dead Guy Days or the July 4th fireworks display, but what does a fifteen-year-old living there do for fun? Well, thanks to the work of dedicated volunteers,…
If you love classic cars and the culture that surrounds them, it’s time to slick back your pompadour, gas up the dinosaur (leaded gas only, of course) and head out for the tenth annual Cruisin’ the Lanes Night. This is your chance to hang with other lovers of classic cars,…
Touring can take a toll on even the most loyal devotee of the rock-and-roll lifestyle. The endless string of hotel rooms, cramped stages and unappreciative crowds, the excesses of substances and sex — they’re all enough to drive anyone a little bit crazy. That’s the central theme of 200 Motels,…
Bonny Lhotka, Boulder photographer extraordinaire, was an early proponent of having computers help create her art. In 1992, she began using a Macintosh to alter and produce her unusual images, typically based on subjects found in nature. A few years later, along with Dorothy Krause and Karen Schminke, she founded…
