Reel Rock 7 Tour: Hottest ticket in town?

File under you know you’re in Boulder when….Promoters of the Reel Rock Tour announced last night that tickets for the kickoff of their package tour of the year’s best climbing films on Thursday at Chautauqua Auditorium have already sold out, and that there are only about 100 tickets left out…

Alamo Drafthouse partners with International Film Series

George Lucas made Star Wars. Steven Spielberg made E.T. It took both of them working together to make Raiders of the Lost Ark. Expect a similar level of awesome when two great powers in the local film scene — the new-to-Colorado Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (which will open its first Colorado…

Go up on the roof with Makers & Doers at LINC 1045

The Space Creators, the realtor/masterminds behind the RiNo artist enclaves of Wazee Union, Walnut Workshop and Laundry on Lawrence, do one special thing that sets them far apart from the pack in real estate: They are active partners in the communities they build. Not only do they provide legs for…

Trinidad film fest gets down and indie this week

Film festival season in Colorado kicks off every September with the oh-so-glamorous parade of celebs and their pet projects through Telluride, followed by a chain of lesser festivals aspiring to such glory across the state. But if you crave truly independent cinema; if you long for the days when film…

My fake Facebook engagement to a gay guy

Remember Spencer? He was that gorgeous gay man I was going to marry this past May to protest the fact that it’s 2012 and we, as Colorado residents, still can’t legally commit to the loves of our lives through the public and legal acknowledgement of marriage, civil unions or whatever…

GI Joe Fest 2012 canceled!

The vicious international terrorists of COBRA could never stop GI Joe, but he’s finally met his match, at least temporarily. This year’s GI Joe Fest — an annual film festival of stop-motion animation starring everyone’s favorite military action figure — that was scheduled for Saturday, September 22 has been canceled…

Sonya Looney, Cyclepassion calendar celeb, wins Vapor Trail 125 in Salida

If you were ogling those photos of Sonya Looney posing for the 2013 Cyclepassion calendar we posted last week and wondering if she’s the real deal, here’s your confirmation: She was busy training for Saturday’s Vapor Trail 125 High Altitude Ultra-Marathon Mountain Bike Enduro race in Salida when those steamy…

Artists paint the town for the Plein Air Arts Fest

Since mid-August, painters have been gathering at locations all over town and in the Foothills for paint outs planned by the Golden Triangle Museum District as part of the Plein Air Arts Fest. Today’s paint-out on the 16th Street Mall is one of the last in the ten-part series before…

Twenty best scenes from First Friday, 9/7/12

By now, everyone knows the drill: On the first Friday of every month, Denver’s art scene opens up to public exploration — and occasionally, a little public mayhem. Westword photographer Elyse Mitchell caught a bit of both through her lens on September 7. Continue reading for our twenty favorite scenes…

Twenty raddest costumes at the 2012 Tour de Fat

Touted quite correctly as a “cycling circus,” New Belgium Brewing’s annual Tour de Fat is a moving fashion show of bikers who bring their wheels and don costumes to raise money for Bike Denver and the Denver Cruisers. From Book of Mormon enthusiasts to Flintstones fans, this year’s attendees raised…

Fifty Shades of Grey CD? Here are five better tunes for kinky inspiration

Ever since E.L. James’ first rectal-extraction, the book Fifty Shades of Grey, hit the market like a drunken Rip Torn ramming his car into a tractor-trailer, the merchandise spin-off has been explosive — or catastrophic, depending on your point of view. Stockings, garters, underwear, pajamas, robes, kitchen and bath décor:…