Tonight’s Open House Celebration — organized to honor the Brown Palace Hotel & Spa’s 115th birthday — is invitation-only. Those who weren’t lucky enough to make the guest list will miss out on a cook-off between chefs from the hotel’s Palace Arms and Ellyngton restaurants, 115 tiered cakes, wine tasting,…
The historic shopping districts sprinkled throughout this city are precious hubs where arts, gastronomy and community can come together on an intimate scale. They are the gems of Denver, so Old South Pearl Street is aptly named. Today, Swallow Hill Music Association joins forces with the Old South Pearl Street…
MINI Coopers pack a big punch — they’ve been named both rally racing championships and European Car of the Century — and they contain ten million possibilities for “Ultimate Youification,” which probably explains some of the fascination with these bulldog-looking cars. Whether you already own one or you’re just a…
Mercury Cafe owner Marilyn Megenity keeps a diary to track Colorado’s produce, year in and year out. According to her estimation, the peaches in her backyard should be ripe just in time for the Organic, Local Food and Wine Pairing she’s hosting tonight. “This is the time when Colorado’s produce…
Grab your phasers, glue on those pointy ears and practice, practice, practice that new Klingon phrase, because Trek 5280: Starfleet International Conference is beaming down to the Adam’s Mark Hotel, 1550 Court Place, tonight at 7 p.m. The four-day event includes four “Away Missions” to Coors Field for the Cubs/Rockies…
I always love catching the Perseid Meteor Shower, a rain of “shooting stars” visible in early August every year. Of course, normally I’m catching the shower by accident when leaving whatever bar or club I’m frequenting. City light pollution dims the effect, though, and who’s going to find a nice,…
Colorado now has 63 wineries. Yes, 63! That number alone was reason enough for the Front Range Winery Association to band together for a tasting. Throw in some food and live music and you’ve got yourself the first-ever Boulder Food and Wine Festival. Today from noon to 5 p.m., $40…
Every year, Harrison Memorial Animal Hospital’s birthday celebration gets a little bit bigger and a little bit better. “Last year was the first time we moved the event outside, brought in a band and had an agility course,” remembers Harrison’s Melannie Frantz. This year’s Harrison Memorial’s 17th Birthday Bark-B-Que features…
Post 9/11, the future for William Gibson is now. Since his 1984 novel Neuromancer, Gibson has propelled cyberpunk as a science-fiction genre with postmodern thrillers that examine the impact of technology on politics and the human psyche. In 2003, he shifted from the dystopia of the near future to the…
The first time I saw an Eames lounge chair in person, I sort of lost my breath. It was the first time I ever really felt speechless. I had seen so many of the iconic molded-plywood-and-leather lounge chairs in design and architecture magazines, but to come into physical contact with…
Laccaria and boletes and telephora, oh my! They’re not plants, they’re not animals, they’re delicious and deadly poisonous and even psychedelic. Experience the wonderful world of mushrooms at the thirtieth annual Mushroom Fair of the Colorado Mycological Society today at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1005 York Street. Have experts, including…
Littleton Western Welcome Week actually takes place over eleven days, so you’ve got plenty of time to partake in the festivities. But today is so jam-packed with fun, it would be a travesty to miss it — after all, between the family pancake breakfast, kids’ games of old, a concert…
Producers Gary Schnell and Alex Ryer are uniquely qualified to stage The Great American Trailer Park Musical, which enjoys its Denver premiere tonight. The couple have a flair for music-oriented theater pieces, having earned plaudits for Pure Piaf, a one-woman show about French songbird Edith Piaf that starred Ryer. Moreover,…
Bubba Ho-tep Limited Edition (MGM) Intentional camp is difficult to do well. It’s a contradiction that usually comes off cutesy and forced. The old Batman series pulled it off, and it’s been B-movie god Bruce Campbell’s livelihood. But in a long career of overacting and mugging, Campbell’s peak may be…
Stupid video-game logic, rule no. 154: When thousands of fugly, bloodthirsty aliens take over a spaceship, it’s best to send in a lone woman with a flamethrower. That’s the entire plot of Alien Syndrome, a pseudo sequel to Sega’s 1987 “run ‘n’ gun” arcade game of the same name. And…
Beneath (Paramount) Brigitte Bardot 5-Film Collection (Lionsgate) Luis Bunuel: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition (Lionsgate) Disturbia (DreamWorks) The Dog Problem (THINKfilm) The Dresden Files: The Complete First Season (Lionsgate) 8 Simple Rules: The Complete First Season (Buena Vista) The Fly: Collector Set (Fox) Full House: The Complete Seventh Season (Warner Bros.) The…
I can’t be bothered to run. I feel embarrassed while I increase my pace; it brings back traumatic memories of high school gym class. So when I see people who do run, and do it gracefully, I look up to these people. And when people run for a cause, there…
The premise of today’s Artabout Englewood is simple: “What we’re trying to do is bring awareness to all the artists and the art that we have located in Englewood,” explains Nancy Fenton, Englewood’s executive assistant of community development. “It’s a whole day of art within Englewood.” That day starts at…
Rebecca Rosen claims that she was a lost soul, fighting a losing battle against depression until her grandma Babe — who had been dead for ten years — came to her. Grandma Babe, who had also struggled with depression and taken her own life, would take over the pen when…
Harry and the Potters are touring the U.S. all summer, bringing their wizard rock to audiences that, in most cases, have never seen a live band. “We were just kind of impressed by the fact these books had inspired so many kids to get into reading, not just the Harry…
There comes a time in maybe everybody’s life when they idolize the Woodstock generation. All of us, at one point or another, yearn to have been there for the protest marches, for the drug culture or for the fashion. But most of all, people want the music. Everyone wishes they…
Poor Scooter Brightman. As host of Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret’s Celebrity Spelling Bee and Quiz Show, the extravagant Irishman (the alter ego of Jefferson Arca, Lannie’s general manager) has to hold his own among local celebrities, burlesque girls and audience members. They’re all matching wits starting at 7 p.m., hoping to…
