What started as a pile of wooden pallets is now in the process of becoming Colorado’s first major upcycling festival, set for October in Denver. With founder Kenny Fischer leading the way, Upcycle Events is currently raising funds for PalletFest, a festival showcasing the versatility of materials usually considered waste…
Does God exist and, if so, has he provided humanity with a perfect design for family structure? James Mhoon thinks so. As vice president of Content Development and Integration for the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family, he leads the organization’s charge to spread the word about the importance of…
I thought I was done with Star Wars. I really did. While I can’t deny that Star Wars was my first geek love, as it was for nearly every kid of my generation, our relationship has been rocky for almost fifteen years now, since the release of The Phantom Menace…
Forty-years-ago, six Chicano activists died in explosions in Boulder. Francisco Martinez claims the police were responsible for their deaths. Among the victims was his brother: 25-year-old Reyes Martinez, a lawyer who had devoted himself to fighting for Francisco’s freedom after the police had charged him with seditious conspiracy and were…
Since 2002, the year Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man hit theaters, the other Spider-Man, the hero of the actual comic books, has joined the Avengers, revealed his secret identity to the world, and become a highly paid inventor who has engineered, among other marvels, a limitless energy source that science has dubbed…
The vampires that walk among us — and they do — are not the Twilight kind, or the True Blood kind, or even the Buffy kind. In the world of Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, the director’s most emotionally direct film since Dead Man, and maybe his finest, period,…
Everything in the opening scenes of Jeremy Saulnier’s nerve-racking revenge drama Blue Ruin is the color of a bruise, from the ocean to the bullet-hole-pocked Pontiac Bonneville that homeless near-mute Dwight (Macon Blair) calls home. Dwight has never overcome the pain of his parents’ murder when he was a boy…
The idea of geriatric sex is one of those things that makes people — especially young people — squirm. Old people who are lucky enough to have active sex lives know enough to keep it to themselves. So Jane Juska’s memoir, A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late Life Adventures in Sex…
Back in the 1980s, Philadelphia artist and collector Linda Lee Alter realized that the collection she had assembled was dominated by the works of men. So she decided to sell them off and begin building a collection exclusively dedicated to women. From the start, Alter intended that the collection would…
1959. Dean Sobel, director of the Clyfford Still Museum, is the host curator for Modern Masters at the Denver Art Museum, and he’s done a companion exhibit at his own stamping grounds called 1959: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Exhibition Recreated. (Special tickets allow visitors to see both.) The backstory for…
Animal Crackers. Animal Crackers is a romp, a trifle — full of puns, malapropisms and visual jokes, and utterly, unabashedly silly. The plot is just an excuse for the crazy brothers, nominally playing actual characters, to visit a Long Island mansion and pull off a series of stunts. There are…
Comedian and actor Kevin McDonald is best known for co-founding and performing with the Kids in the Hall sketch-comedy troupe. Through their gleefully absurd premises, non-sequitur endings and wild-eyed commitment to characters, KITH revived sketch comedy in the 1990s and kicked off a new golden age of sketch shows like…
Over the past year, Andrew Elijah Edwards wandered Denver with his smartphone, snapping images of what he describes as “natural spaces void of humans…the nooks and crannies where the rawness of nature and reality is still living.” These photographs became the ingredients for Edwards’s new video installation, The Deep Novelty…
For its fourth year, carver and show organizer Rob Yancey decided to move the annual Muertos in May art exhibit to the heart of his Westwood/Morrison Road neighborhood to raise awareness of positive changes, from new murals to new development, taking place in the depressed area. “It’s the most overlooked…
Celebrate the geeky side of life all weekend at the third annual May the Fourth Be With You. As in past years, organizer Dan Landes and his partners have lined up a slate of geek-friendly fun that’s a little different than the typical con experience, but just as accessible to…
Technology has already drastically changed the way we get things done, and on its tail comes a pioneering wave of DIY entrepreneurship. We call people who’ve found a way to fuse the two “makers,” and if you count yourself among that group, the inaugural Denver Mini Maker Faire, set for…
When it comes time to plan a new production of Stories on Stage, creative director Anthony Powell is sometimes lucky enough to have his audience do the work for him. “For How Does Your Garden Grow?, one of our subscribers just said, ‘You should do a garden show — and…
“There’s a certain kind of person who is into both cameras and bicycles,” says Mike Kone of Boulder Bicycle, who helped organize today’s Rocky Mountain Regional Camera & Collectibles Show and Colorado Custom & Vintage Bicycle Expo, a collaborative showcase and market for people who love vintage cameras or old-school…
For the first time ever, May the Fourth — aka Star Wars Day — falls on the same weekend as the annual StarFest convention, which is pulling out all the stops this year. “As far as I know, StarFest is the biggest Star Wars Day celebration between the two coasts,”…
Ceramics artist Jean Smith chose the enigmatic title Teased, Torn, Coddled & Pampered for her annual showcase at Zip 37 Gallery, but her explanation makes sense: “It’s how I work with the clay,” she says. “Sometimes I kinda tease it, and then you have to coddle and pamper it as…
Food can change lives, and so can cooking. That will be the message at tonight’s WomenCook!, the tenth annual fundraiser for Work Options for Women, a Denver nonprofit. “One thing that we’re doing special this year is having ten of our graduates as presenters of the program,” says Work Options…
Dixie Longate is best known for her show Dixie’s Tupperware Party, which recently closed a long run. But she’s not stopping there. In her new show, Never Wear a Tube Top While Riding a Mechanical Bull (and 16 Other Things I Learned While I Was Drinking Last Thursday), a world…
