10 things to do for $10 this weekend, July 20-22, 2012

Too broke to hand over big bucks for a pricey music festival wristband this weekend? Don’t worry. There are plenty of other things on the agenda that won’t cost you more than a Hamilton. And we’ve got them all in one place. From a Cinema Q dance party to a…

Cinemark theater chain releases statement on Aurora shootings

Plano, Texas-based Cinemark Holdings owns the Century 16 Aurora, where the shootings that killed twelve people and injured dozens took place last night. This morning, the company released a statement about the tragedy. “Cinemark is deeply saddened about this tragic incident. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their…

Colorado museum is the best in the West

There are many reasons why we Coloradans love our state. Colorado keeps collecting accolades that prove time and time again why we truly are the best in the West. And here’s the latest: Southern Ute Cultural Center & Museum in Ignacio has been rated the “Top Western Museum” by True…

Metropolis explores the urban side of art at Kanon Collective

Ever since the cavemen used embers to sketch animals on their cave walls, humans have been making art about where and how they live. But the city is a far cry from a prehistoric cave, and portraying the cosmopolitan scene is a lot more complicated for modern-day artists than it…

Reader: You ain’t tough enough to handle real weather

Summer in Denver, and it’s hot, hot, hot. So are the responses to Bree Davies’s “Top five: Stop whining and enjoy the summer already.” And in his comment, Desert Badass added fuel to the ire with this: It’s 116 in Phoenix Arizona so quit your sniveling you Colorado Pussies…

Show and Tell has a new commenting platform

Today Show and Tell (and all the other Westword blogs) rolled out a new user profile platform dubbed My Voice Nation. Your voice and opinion in our comment sections will now be amplified through a fancy new commenting program called Lifefyre (“live fire”). Read all about it below…

Unreasonable Institute presents an Unreasonable Climax in Boulder

The Unreasonable Institute’s culminating event, the Unreasonable Climax, will go down this Friday and Saturday, July 20 and 21, in Boulder. Friday’s “A Day for Play” consists of free workshops, activities and discussions for Climax attendees at venues across downtown Boulder, including Shine, SCRiB and Bitter Bar; from 1 p.m…

Denver Comic Con announces 2013 dates and confirmed guest Stan Lee

This year’s Denver Comic Con was too good to be true: Drawing more than 27,000 comix gawkers to the Colorado Convention Center over three days in June, the inaugural expo exceeded all expectations, proving once again that Denver is one lovably geeky city. We can dress up like Wonder Woman…

Cinema Q kicks off a weekend of queer films tonight at Denver FilmCenter

Now in its fourth year, the Cinema Q Festival at the Denver FilmCenter showcases the many sides of GLBTQ film, with movies that capture everything from social-justice issues to stunningly accurate portrayals of everyday queer life. More than a dozen films, handpicked by programming director Keith Garcia, will be shown…

The winner: Lady Shiva is my favorite Batman villain

Although The Dark Knight Rises will be released officially just after midnight tonight, at Premiere to Remember, people will be able to see the movie four and a half hours earlier — and also party with fellow fans. And in a contest announced earlier this week, we promised to give…

More Geek Than Greek

The 2012 Olympic Games kick off in London next week, but you can participate in games of a different kind today at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. In the Geek Olympics, teams compete in a variety of Olympics-inspired challenges around the museum for the chance to win prizes…

Motor Mentors

While doing road time is par for the course for just about everyone, it seems that women are still on the short end of the stick shift when it comes to knowing what goes on under the hood of a car. But the folks at Denver’s Green Garage see no…

Gotham Giving

Dark Knight Rises is the third film in the gritty reboot of the Batman franchise, which began in 2005, and it could break box-office re-cords for the biggest-grossing opening weekend in movie history. But you can see it a full four and a half hours before almost everyone else at…

Dragged Through the Mud

If you take the idea of mainstream drag, douse it in raw sewage and draw lipstick on its teeth, you’ve got Christeene Vale. Just one of performer Paul Soileau’s many personas, Christeene is a queen on a mission — to sing, dance, spit and make her adoring fans as uncomfortable…

Jack of All Trades

John F. Kennedy remains one of the most heroic figures of the twentieth century: The war hero and iconic president died young and tragically, leaving behind a romantic ghost-image that has expanded exponentially over the past fifty years. You’d almost think his persona was somehow crossed with James Bond’s in…

Round and Round

The humble art of hula-hooping has enjoyed a revival of late, with a new generation discovering the joys of the purposeful swivel. As an exercise, hula-hooping is hard to beat: It combines cardio, strength training and a kind of moving Zen meditation. (Let your mind go and you can circle…