Summer block parties all require some crucial ingredients: good food, fun games, rockin’ tunes, delicious beverages and, of course, friendly neighbors. But the difference between most block parties and the one taking place in the 1700 block of Vine Street today is that the Vine Street Pub is one of…
The Slave to the Deathmatch isn’t your mama’s neon-spandex-and-aviators kind of smackdown. This time, it’s about blood. Primos Hard-core & Wrestling presents its second annual tournament of brutality and strength tonight, as wrestlers from around the country enter the ring to compete in one of the nation’s only deathmatches. While…
There may not be a sea in Denver — much less seven of them — but Colorado pirates need not worry. BrethrenCon II has all yer bases covered, and then some. Arrrrrrrgh! BrethrenCon II has everything that pirates, or non-pirates, could want for a weekend of land-based fun: pirate panels,…
The 2011 baseball season is almost history, but for some fans, the history of the sport is just as important as what’s going on now. One of the most important chapters from that history involves the Negro Leagues, which consisted of teams made up entirely of black players who weren’t…
Ballet is often called “poetry in motion,” but that turn of phrase becomes literal tonight in Intersection, a poem penned by Lighthouse Writers Workshop executive director Mike Henry and set in motion by Ballet Nouveau Colorado artistic director Garrett Ammon. The BNC has a long history of working with a…
It’s surprising that Boulder, of all places, didn’t have a market specifically devoted to handmade goods — until recently, that is. That situation changed with the arrival of Firefly Handmade Market. “We weren’t really sure why there was nothing like it in Boulder,” says Allison Bozeman, one of Firefly’s organizers…
The Pirate King is a novel that prominently features both Sherlock Holmes and pirates — and while that’s probably about as much selling as author Laurie R. King’s (who’s been known to call herself “Laurie Arrrrgh King”) appearance at the Tattered Cover requires, here’s a bonus: It’s also Talk Like…
We love our neighborhoods and we love to eat: Those are Denver trademarks worth celebrating, and no celebration does it more succinctly than the annual Uptown Sampler, which has been serving up delicious tastes from restaurants all around the Uptown district for nearly 25 years. Along the way, it’s gotten…
“Right now, the window is open, and I can hear the house wren trilling his morning song, which he broadcasts from a circle of trees non-stop,” begins a blog post by Boulder author and professor Priscilla Stuckey. “A spotted towhee has forsaken scratching in the ground to perch on a…
Virginia Maitland is Colorado’s premier color-field painter, and it’s been that way for decades, though she only rarely exhibits her work. That means that the show Virginia Maitland: Conversations in Color, opening tonight at the Sandra Phillips Gallery, is a rare chance to see her work in some depth. Maitland’s…
The intersection of love and technology is a dangerous one, fraught with awkwardness, insecurity, misunderstanding and pain. In short, it’s a recipe for hilarity, and it serves as the focus of Love, Sex & the Second City, a “romantic dot comedy” (whatever that means) from the legendary troupe that shares…
Bruce Norris’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Clybourne Park, the tables-turned story of a neighborhood in flux, could have been written expressly for Denver&’s Curious Theatre Company. At least, that’s what Curious artistic director Chip Walton thought when the chance came to snatch it up for the 2011-2012 season premiere. “He believes this…
When he was growing up back East, Roland Green was a Red Sox fan, but he switched leagues and allegiances to the Rockies when he moved to Denver. Probably a bad decision if Green was interested in rooting for a winner, but throwing out the first pitch in a World…
If you didn’t hear, Missoni went all out for Target yesterday, dropping its well-anticipated line of clothing and housewares in stores and online. But then Missoni fans bum-rushed Targets all over America — subsequently crashing the retailer’s website, too — and the stuff was gone. We wandered down to the…
Gorinto, the weekly food-and-music joint at the Mercury Cafe, is known for bringing together eclectic bands with a $5 vegetarian meal. And tonight, they’re adding film. Local filmmaker Kim Shively is curating a night filled to the brim with short films from local filmmakers, music, and as always, food…
It was another great night for Denver’s Silhouettes on America’s Got Talent, as all three judges seemed to agree that America should vote for our favorite shadow dancers. Beset by technical difficulties, the group was forced to perform last. And we can’t help but agree with judge Piers Morgan, who…
Chevy Ray Johnston’s Flee Buster is one of the most addictive games we’ve ever touched. Which is saying quite a bit considering it was built for Ludom Dare 21, a 48-hour game design contest in which it also took one of the top prizes over nearly 600 other entries. It’s…
New Belgium Brewing, the Fort Collins-based brewery with the iconic cruiser bike logo and best known for its Fat Tire Amber Ale, raised more than $90,000 on September 3 for the Overland Mountain Bike Club, Bike Fort Collins, and Fort Collins Bike Co-op at its Tour de Fat event in…
As you may have noticed from the incessant product placement in ads and media, Star Wars: The Complete Saga hits shelves on Blu-Ray this week. The nine-disc set ($139.99) includes both the awesome, genre-changing original three movies and the putrid, hope-demolishing follow-up prequel trilogy. But it also comes with forty…
Simon Zalkind, director of the Singer Gallery at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center, often looks to major local artists as a source for significant solo shows. Typically, these include work done over a broad sweep of time, which allows viewers to gain insight into the artist’s oeuvre. Examples are…
Angela Larson and Michaele Keyes. The front space at Spark is usually subdivided into two rooms, but for the current pairing, the walls have been pushed back, and the combined area functions as a single gallery. Still, the two shows on display, Angela Larson: Vanishing and Michaele Keyes: Pursuing Motion,…
Cats. There’s not much of a plot to Cats. You meet the Jellicles, with their cheerful faces and bright black eyes, who dance “under the light of the Jellicle moon”; the Ming-vase-smashing cat burglars, Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer; fat, elegant, gentleman’s club-haunting Bustopher Jones; and contrary-minded Rum Tum Tugger. The show’s…
