This is fall break for college kids — and everyone who still wishes they were college. Thursday is reserved for relatives, but the rest of the week is a weeklong party. Everything from goth dancing to psych rock concerts and sexual karaoke are all free, so you can save your…
Two local authors will be celebrating their just-published novels at the LoDo Tattered Cover tonight — one in the flesh, one in spirit. And since the authors have an intertwined history and the novels involve the latest exploits of series characters, it’s important to keep things straight. Former Denver Post…
Colorado’s two glitziest, most well-known ski resorts open for the season this weekend, along with a locals’ favorite, joining a few others that have so far. Vail goes first, giving customers access out of both Vail Village and Lionshead at 9 a.m., as well as return routes to both base…
When the European Space Agency’s Philae lander touched down on Comet 67P on November 12, millions of people were watching. For one day, the washing-machine-sized robot was the world’s biggest celebrity, spawning a Google doodle and making the home page of the New York Times. From his house in Fort…
There’s no shortage of fun for comics lovers in Denver, but local creators can get lost in the shuffle at some of the bigger cons. Not so at the Cowtown Comics Fest, hosted annually by Kilgore Books and happening Sunday, November 23 at Morey Middle School. Aside from John Porcellino,…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights selections for November 21 (Watchers of the Sky), November…
Thinking of all the aches and pains of winter ahead, a group of holistic healers have banded together to give the public a chance to sample their offerings — everything from massage and herbs to acupuncture and psychotherapy — at the Holistic Health Care Fair. See also: Denver’s Zen Magnets…
This is the last weekend before Thanksgiving. Before you know it, every weekend will be filled with holiday shopping, and catching up with family and friends. So take this time to save some dough and partake in everything from practicing your downward dog, meeting a hero of the comic book…
Can The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 keep up with the first two films? Why was the final book split into two movies? Does Katniss even want to be part of this revolution? On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, we discuss all things Hunger Games before moving onto a…
Urban Grotesque Point Gallery 765 Santa Fe Drive The current solo at Point Gallery features work by David Menard done over the past few years. Though Menard uses photography — both his own and appropriated photos — he was trained in drawing and works digitally, having never used a darkroom…
Some local stages stick with the classics for the holidays, such as the Denver Center Theatre Company’s A Christmas Carol and the Colorado Ballet’s The Nutcracker. But if you like things light and perhaps a little bit wacked, there are a few ways to buck tradition and deck the halls…
Earlier this week, for the first time in more than a decade, something novel happened in the world of Denver film: No films were programmed by Keith Garcia. The name may mean nothing to you, or you may not have much idea what it means to be a film programmer,…
Again this year, Starz Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights Silenced. See also: The Ten Best Movie Events in…
L.L Bean will open its 22nd American retail store outside of Maine at Park Meadows Shopping Center (in the former home of Grand Lux Cafe) on Friday, November 21. The company was founded by avid outdoorsman Leon Leonwood (“L.L.”), who in 1912 returned home from a hunting trip with cold,…
Over the first two Hunger Games films, we’ve watched coal miner’s daughter Katniss Everdeen become the pawn, then the pest, of the Capitol, whose President Snow (Donald Sutherland) has enslaved the adults of the twelve poorer Districts and annually commanded that they together sacrifice 24 of their children to probable…
Writer/director John Herzfeld (15 Minutes, Two of a Kind) earnestly tries but spectacularly fails to dilute the acrid pretentiousness of Reach Me, an everything-is-connected melodrama, by cutting his characters’ pseudo-enlightened philosophizing with goony broad humor. Herzfeld wants ideal viewers to identify with Roger (Kevin Connolly), an online yellow journalist who…
Chihuly. For the past several years, the Denver Botanic Gardens has used its 24 acres of landscaped grounds as a setting for outdoor art exhibits. All have been popular, but none more so than Chihuly, which has attracted well over a million visitors to date. Artist Dale Chihuly, who emerged…
Garfield creator Jim Davis is well aware of the Internet’s cat obsession. In fact, he’s got an upcoming strip about it. “But if I told you the joke, I’d have to kill you,” he deadpans, before cracking his paternal composure with a chuckle. (He did tell me, and I’ve chosen…
Once a year, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science takes its popular Science Lounge series, which offers adults the chance to enjoy science, food and libations in a fun atmosphere, to an off-site location. Tonight’s Science Lounge: Experiencing the Speakeasy will take place at the Savoy at Curtis Park,…
Wrestlers and metal make for a mean combo — one that will totally rock the National Western Complex today during Rock ’N’ Rumble, a pairing of thirteen mixed-martial-arts cage fights and a concert by Christian nu-metal band P.O.D, “Chris Camozzi versus Jeremy Kimball is a huge fight for us and…
Susan Lyles of And Toto Too theater company, an ensemble dedicated to presenting work by women playwrights, was looking for something different to fill the final slot of the season. “I got to thinking about what might happen if I got a group of playwrights together and had them all…
Boulder-based Warren Miller Entertainment, the granddaddy of all ski-film production companies, is celebrating 65 years in the business this week with its latest film, No Turning Back. Think about that for a minute: Warren Miller began making ski films in 1949. And while Miller himself is no longer directly involved…
