100 Colorado Creatives: Dave Ortolano of the Boulder Fringe Festival

#46: Dave Ortolano Dave Ortolano is both a theater Renaissance man and a friend of theater. Naropa-trained and a collaborating member of Boulder’s Band of Toughs company, his first love and major creative focus is his role as executive director of the Boulder International Fringe Festival, which kicks off another…

Photos: Snowboard on the Block gets Colorado ready for the season

It’s not powder season quite yet, but on Saturday, a pack of pro snowboarders made the streets of Denver their own personal terrain park at Snowboard on the Block. The board-centric event featured a rail jam with riders including Scotty Vine and Tim Humphreys, as well as music and snowboard…

Photos: MegaFauna will move to a bigger and better space in RiNo

MegaFauna, the award-winning boutique/gallery/coffeeshop, is moving to a new home later this month. It’s not going far — from 2701 Larimer Street to 3102 Blake Street — but it’s upgrading quite a bit. “With the lease coming up, we had an opportunity. Do we expand? Do we consolidate? What happens?”…

Bedloo lets the world tell you what to wear

Decisions, decisions. All day long, we struggle to make decisions: what to wear, what to eat, what to watch. We used to have to make these decisions on our own — until we realized the power of social media. Now, thanks to the new app Bedloo, we never need to…

3 things to do for free in Denver this week, September 16-19

Whether you want to travel to the early-1930s glamour of Josef von Sternberg’s Blonde Venus, celebrate the music of Amy Winehouse, or enter into an artistic exploration of an empty room, there are plenty of ways to escape the reality of dreary Denver this week. And these three are completely…

Nan Desu Kan 2013: Twenty unforgettable cosplay costumes

For a newbie, the myriad characters portrayed by cosplayers at the anime convention Nan Desu Kan are far more esoteric than those you’ll see at a regular comic convention: Anime and manga — Japanese cartoons and serial comics — form a subset all their own, and their fans seem just…

Dave Chappelle’s Oddball Comedy Festival postponed due to weather

No, Dave Chappelle did not get sick of his “Rick James, bitch!”-shouting fans and disappear into Morocco. The Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival, scheduled for tonight at Fiddler’s Green, has been postponed due to the massive flooding and rainfall that Denver and other cities have endured over the last few…

Celebrate culture with these Mexican Independence Day events

Mexican Independence Day might take a lower profile than Cinco de Mayo here in Denver, but that doesn’t mean our Latino community — and the rest of the town — doesn’t kick up its heels for El Grito de la Independencia: Mexico’s real independence day (as opposed to Cinco), which…

10 things to do and see at this weekend’s Nan Desu Kan anime convention

Celebrating seventeen years as Colorado’s premiere anime convention, Nan Desu Kan opens its doors today, taking over the Marriott DTC for a cosplay-packed weekend of fun. With voice-actor guest speakers, educational panels on the industry, cosplay contests and late-night dance parties, NDK has packed Friday, Saturday and Sunday with cool…

Sweetgrass Productions premieres Valhalla tonight in Denver

Boulder-based filmmaker Nick Waggoner premieres Valhalla tonight in Denver at the Paramount Theatre as the local ski porn season kicks into full swing. The follow-up to Solitude, Waggoner’s grim, gritty, and award-winning meditation on death and skiing in South America, is the opposite of all of that. See also: Sniagrab…

Second Saturday: A bright spot of art when you least expect it

Denver has a Second Saturday, and though it often seems to take a back seat to First Friday, the alternative art-night has its advantages. You won’t have to elbow your way through crowds of sidewalk revelers, hawkers and buskers to get to the art, and you’ve also had a day’s…

Updated: Friday the 13th screening moves indoors

This just in: Due to the unpredictable forecast we are cancelling the ‘outdoor’ portion of the FRIDAY THE 13TH event, here’s what we’re doing so you can still watch this chiller classic on the day it was intended to be seen: >Alamo Drafthouse Littleton will be screening FRIDAY THE 13TH…

What are Denver’s top six shopping destinations?

Visit Denver’s Denver.org website has inspired several recent posts saluting the city, including lists of best free attractions and tours, the top eleven hidden tourism gems, the thirteen best free day trips from Denver and the perfect gay-friendly weekend. Today, you can visit Visit Denver’s six top “Shop ‘Til You…