At its best, April means perfect bike-riding weather: neither too hot nor too cold, with budding trees, singing birds and sprouting bulbs all around. The bikeways green up, and everyone’s wearing a smile under their helmets. This month’s Second Saturday Block Party on the 3100 block of East Colfax will…
Everything is going to the dogs these days, but in some cases, that’s not a bad thing, especially when those dogs are suffering, whether they be homeless, mistreated or stricken with cancer. The Bow Wow Buddies Foundation, a non-profit arm of the Camp Bow Wow doggie daycare chain, is dedicated…
Quick: “Pretty Flamingo.” Manfred Mann. “Over, Under, Sideways, Down?” Yardbirds, dude. “Cucumber Castle.” The Bee Gees, before they were, you know, the Bee Gees. “As Tears Go By.” Marianne Faithfull, before she became strung out and bitter. And, yes, the Stones, who wrote it, did it, too. Which one did…
You don’t get to be the physicist-in-residence at the Science Channel by being merely smart; like theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, you also have to be an expansive thinker. And the thing is, you don’t always have to make sense, at least not the mundane kind, because you’re constantly reinventing the…
Next time you slink up to your favorite sushi bar, you might want to consider something more than just munching maguro or inhaling iwashi — at least according to Casson Trenor, the author of Sustainable Sushi. “The contemporary sushi industry has an immense negative affect on the oceans,” says Trenor,…
Seventeen workplace sexual-harassment videos edited down to three “greatest hits” minutes, a public-access clip of a crazy old man explaining his odd method of saving the world, and a montage of training videos from Wendy’s, Chick-fil-A and a Chicago grocery store. That’s just a taste of what you’ll find at…
Even the finest documentarians need great material — and filmmaker Kevin Rafferty’s got plenty of it in Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, which begins a week-long run on Friday, April 10, at Starz. Both teams were unbeaten going into this 1968 game, which took place against the backdrop of campus unrest…
It ain’t easy being a poet, no matter where you live — a fact of life that L.A. poet Sarah Suzor and her creative cohorts, Lizzy Epstein and Polly Geller, had to find out the hard way once the protective arms of college life gave way to the real world…
The last time the Bronx played at the Larimer Lounge, singer Matt Caughthran rode up to the stage on a motorcycle, nearly running over the capacity crowd. Although the same can’t be promised for this return trip, the band’s high-energy, cutthroat punk should make the show dangerous nonetheless. The Bronx…
This year marks drummer Bill Goodwin’s fiftieth as a professional musician. During the past 35 years, he’s performed with, recorded with and produced albums for legendary alto saxophonist Phil Woods in addition to working with Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Gary Burton and Keith Jarrett. Goodwin also played on Tom Waits’s…
We’re all in the same boat here, ladies: The Spa Week website is off the hook! Hotter than Kilauea when it blows its top! Just be prepared to stand by for information, because the glorious week in spring when spas across the nation, including several here in Denver, offer introductory…
Every ski area bids the season adieu with a big, sloppy snowball of slushy hoopla, but Vail can confidently declare its ginormous Spring Back to Vail one of the biggest spring bashes in Colorado’s high country, not to mention the entire nation – it’s so chock-full of stuff to do…
Since he became mayor, John Hickenlooper has followed an ambitious program aimed at changing — literally, at times — the cultural underpinnings of the city. The latest idea is the Denver Biennial of the Americas, slated for the summer of 2010. And while the staff at the Denver Office of…
Emilio Lobato, David Mazza and Dale Chisman. The main attraction at Havu is Emilio Lobato: De Veras, featuring an eye-dazzling display of paintings that rely on the horizontal line for their visual interest. Lobato’s distinguished career dates back several decades; some of the amazing attributes associated with him are his…
Eurydice. Playwright Sarah Ruhl has created her own magical, eccentric, gutsy and entirely original interpretation of the Orpheus-Eurydice myth, one in which the Lord of the Underworld is a comic-fearful shape-changer, ruling over a place populated by people of stone; Eurydice’s father, already dead, longs for her from the Underworld…
Skills Like This, which makes its Boulder debut on Wednesday, April 8, prior to a run at Starz FilmCenter that begins April 17, is a funky, if minor, valentine to the Mile High City. The story, about a talent-free playwright turned one-man crime spree (Spencer Berger, who also wrote the…
Set a mere two decades ago, Greg Mottola’s Adventureland seems as if it could be taking place on a distant planet, less for its leg warmers and knee socks than for the legions of pre-Internet Luddites who gather to participate in those analog rituals known as Skee-Ball and Whac-A-Mole. Drawn…
Radio Golf is the last of August Wilson’s ten plays about the black experience in the twentieth century, most of them seen through the prism of Pittsburgh’s Hill District; he died the year he completed it. With this production, the Denver Center Theatre Company will have done the entire series,…
Skills Like This, which makes its Boulder debut on Wednesday, April 8, prior to a run at Starz FilmCenter that begins April 17, is a funky, if minor, valentine to the Mile High City. The story, about a talent-free playwright turned one-man crime spree (Spencer Berger, who also wrote the…
Founded in 1948 by Howard Higman at the University of Colorado, the Conference on World Affairs is an opportunity for professionals working in the arts, media, technology, environment, politics, spirituality, human rights and countless other fields to get together and discuss just about anything under the sun. Over the past…
Bookworms, unite! Literature lovers devour words on the printed page like the paper-loving insects they’re named for, but rarely do they have an opportunity to actually eat books. If you think cake tomes created from gelatin-based edible paper sound just as delicious as curling up with your favorite novel and…
The goal of Vox Feminista is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable, to provoke thought in audience members, educating and inspiring the community to act for global justice. To do so, these womyn create multimedia performances that tackle a range of issues surrounding one overarching theme – and…
