Geeks love to toke, too. That was the premise behind Chromic Con, the only-in-Colorado gathering that brought together stoners, fans and geeky guests in Colorado Springs and Denver on November 22 and 23. Billed as the world’s first-ever weed-friendly comic and fantasy convention, the event included a cosplay contest, exhibits…
Christmas will be here very soon. In between shopping for everyone on your list, don’t forget to treat yourself with these affordable events around town. Whether you like getting a buzz from beer or high on sugar we’ve got you covered with brewery birthday parties and candy cane tours. We’re…
Fans of Japanese animation had their hearts broken last February when director Hayao Miyazaki announced that his film The Wind Rises would be his last and that Studio Ghibli, the animation house that has yet to produce a film that didn’t resonate with or steal the hearts of millions of…
Blurred Lines Sandra Phillips Gallery 420 West 12th Avenue Blurred Lines. The Sandra Phillips Gallery is a cozy space, making it a challenge to put on a group show, especially one made up of artists who work in large formats. But that’s exactly what’s on tap there now with Blurred…
With a grant from the city of Denver, Birdseed Collective is beautifying RTD bus benches in its own Globeville/Elyria/Swansea neighborhood. With two benches already finished and four more on the way, the art and community service collective is working with LiveWell Colorado on the P.S. You Are Here Grant to…
It’s never too late to find everything from local fashion to goat-cheese pastries, so don’t lose hope if you haven’t finished your shopping. Read on for a list of the best places to do it in style. See also: Photos: Old World Treasures and Warm Treats at the Christkindl Market…
Like it or not, Christmas is creeping up, and in the consumer paradise we call the USA, that means you better be buying stuff for the people you love if you want them to keep loving you back. Toys for the little ones are the easy part of it –…
Director Travis La and the crew behind the latest 303 Boards skateboard team video, Landrace, liked the sound of 12/13/14 for a premiere date. While we’re counting, this marks the thirteenth team video from the little Colfax shop that could (tagline: “Holding down the Colorado skate scene since 1997”) and…
Anything Goes. Anything Goes premiered in 1934, after a hasty rewrite: The original plot concerned a shipwreck, and shortly before the scheduled opening night, a fire broke out on a cruise liner and 137 passengers were killed. By then the writing team, which included P. G. Wodehouse, had moved on,…
Ann Hamilton and Jae Ko et al. For Ann Hamilton: Selected Works, the initial enfilade of spaces at Robischon Gallery is taken over by works on paper by this noted conceptualist. The first group is from her “visite” series, the name of which is taken from the term “carte de…
The heavens dance. From the bottom of the world, where your eyes might freeze in your face, we see stars pulse against seams of luminous dust, all in slow and dizzying rotation. Then come the lights: Ribbons of green unspool and shimmer and whip across the sky, suggesting angels and…
For reasons that are perhaps understandable, stories about women finding themselves — or their voices, or their inner courage, or any number of things that are apparently very easy to mislay — are big business. But even if Cheryl Strayed’s hugely successful 2012 memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on…
Flip open your Bibles to Numbers 12:3 to find the first inaccuracy in Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings. “Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth,” sayeth the Good Book of our hero, played by Christian Bale, an…
Despite its sumptuous displays of feudal opulence — cavalries, silk gowns, all the naked female extras money can buy — Netflix’s Marco Polo feels distinctly like scraps. Turgid, fatuous, and humorless, the streaming site’s newest series is a grave miscalculation of what has made Game of Thrones, its obvious model,…
The biggest laugh I heard from the audience at my screening of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies came from seven words in the end credits: “Based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien.” Just picture that tweedy Oxford philologist nodding in pleased approval at this adaptation of his…
Whatever it is that Americans want out of life — and it’s not even something we can precisely define ourselves — it was nowhere in evidence on December 3, when a grand jury failed to indict the police officer whose chokehold killed Eric Garner in July. We all know we…
Chilling tales will be read under Christmas lights tonight at the Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America’s first annual Mystery and Mistletoe holiday showcase, featuring eighteen local mystery writers — including such longtime RMMWA veterans as Christine Goff — reading selections from their latest works. “This will be a great…
No matter the time or place, even in deep space or the far future, war is hell, and the little guy always gets the worst of it. But when that little guy is the hero of director Alex Cox’s adaptation of Harry Harrison’s Bill, the Galactic Hero, at least you…
One of the La Alma/Lincoln Park neighborhood’s most beloved holiday traditions, Luminarias de Santa Fe Drive, brightened up the now-chic stretch of Santa Fe between 5th and 12th avenues for more than seventeen years, beginning well before the street became the Art District on Santa Fe — a First Friday…
Attention, sugar hounds and holiday revelers: The annual Hammond’s Candy Cane Festival begins today. Hosted by the local confectioner, the fest features train rides and bounce castles, a cappella carolers and horse-drawn carriages, cookie decorating, games, crafts, even free photo opportunities with Santa and Mrs. Claus. Plus, first-time Hammond’s visitors…
Lori Muha started impersonating Elvis when she was just five years old. As she got older, she created the Shelvis persona and started entering contests — filled predominantly with men — and winning. Tonight, Shelvis will swivel her hips with her band the Roustabouts, bringing her special brand of Elvis…
A few years ago, the LIDA Project proved that an issue-based series of connected performances in peoples’ living rooms could attract a healthy audience; the six-part Now I Lay Me Dawn to Sleep, which focused on health care, was a roaring success. Now, with the help of six seasoned directors…
