According to Bill Emmons’ gaming card, he was exactly the 141st person ever hired to work at a casino in Colorado. That was more than 20 years ago, and he’s been playing poker ever since — but he’s never played poker like he’s playing right now. And before he’s through,…
I hate the Cherry Creek trail. Well, I don’t hate it, I just hate other cyclists that use it. If I could, I wouldn’t ride my simple little bike on the trail at all. I prefer to ride in the street, free from the wrath of jerks on expensive bicycles…
The Denver Zoo kicks off its summer series today, offering up action-filled animal shows, refreshed tropical exhibits and, for the littlest visitors, new things to climb on. Included in the price of admission are such amphitheatre productions as “Animal Stars” and “Africa’s Greatest Predators,” featuring lizard-throwing birds (not to worry…
What do Bob Dylan, Heath Ledger and Elvis have in common? Their fashion sense: They’ve all worn Western shirts from Rockmount Ranch Wear, founded in 1946 by the late Jack A. Weil. Although its claim to fame is being the first company to add snaps to Western shirts, Rockmount is…
Though the calendar year starts in January and ends in December, the art calendar starts in September and ends in August. So before the 2011-2012 season gears up, here are a few last gasps of summer — all worth enjoying before they’re gone. At the intimate Sandra Phillips Gallery on…
The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight Club — defending Women’s Flat Track Roller Derby Association national champions and currently ranked number two in the nation, is busy training for the Bridgetown Brawl West Region Playoffs later this month in Portland, Oregon. But first there’s a more local score to settle:…
Since way back in the days of the Chicano movement on the West Coast in the ’80s, Guillermo Gomez Pena and Richard Montoya have been getting in people’s faces with their individual brands of confrontational performance art. Tonight, the two are coming together, and that doesn’t happen every day. “They…
When ARTCRANK, the bike-poster extravaganza dreamed up by Minnesota promoter and bicycle enthusiast Charles Youel, first rolled into Denver last year, it got a lot of help from local movers Tran and Josh Wills and the path-crossing graphic-art and biker communities running rampant in this town. “When I started ARTCRANK,…
Getting to the Four Corners Biker Rally Hot Rod and Motorcycle Parade in Durango today may be half the fun: After all, is there a more iconic way to celebrate the last holiday weekend of the summer than to blast through the mountains, wind in your hair, riding your Harley?…
A lot of subjects fall under the umbrella of “life and death” — pretty much everything, if you think about it — and the Life and Death Matters Multimedia Festival is definitely broad in scope. “I have a background working in hospice care and working in film,” explains festival co-director…
Denver photographer Terri Bell stuck her toe in the water last spring when she initiated a juried open show of works by women in her Santa Fe Drive studio for the citywide Month of Photography festivities. Wearing the shoes of a gallerist turned out to be a rewarding if energy-draining…
The premise of Terrence McNally’s Love! Valour! Compassion! is pretty simple: A group of eight gay men spend the three major weekends of a summer — Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day — together at a lake house, enduring traumas and creating dramas. But for Chris Silberman,…
Denver’s public parks date back to the 1870s, when city planners and the state legislature had the foresight to pave the way — or, rather, not pave the way — for our current boom in outdoor activities nearly a century and a half later. So today you can run yourself…
What makes the Mountain Man Rendezvous different from your average summer festival? Leather fringe, for starters. Many of the participants dress like Davy Crockett, set up camp in tepees and cook over open fires. And they also compete in a variety of crowd-pleasing activities, including black-powder rifle matches, tomahawk throws…
Goliath turkey legs and fresh corn shedding tears of butter: Those are still the most sought-after gut-busters at the Taste of Colorado, Denver’s Labor Day Weekend tribute to food. “The turkey legs and corn on the cob are festival musts — everyone loves them — but there’s lots of really…
The flames of the Fourmile Canyon fire have long been extinguished, but the scars remain — on the hillsides, and in the bank accounts and psyches of the victims. A Night at the Gold Hill Inn, a fundraiser at the historic Gold Hill Inn from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. tonight,…
The DocuWest Documentary Film Festival, which got its start just three years ago, has already grown — not only in the number of films submitted, but also in its reputation as a go-to documentary festival. “The selection is really important to us,” says festival founder and artistic director Wade Gardner…
Pirate: Contemporary Art is one of the city’s oldest co-ops, so some of the group’s members, like Phil Bender, are established talents. But the group is constantly being infused with new blood, and what’s currently on is the work of two of these emerging talents, Christine Buchsbaum and Jessica Kreutter…
Parskid started creating graffiti in 1999, and over the years, his spray-paint art has made its mark on the fine-art world. A solo show of the Seattle artist’s self-described “illustrative imaginary landscapes” will open tonight at IndyInk; many of the ethereal pieces are nature-themed, featuring ghostly antlered creatures wandering in…
German beer makers like rules. They like them so much that in 1516, the state of Bavaria imposed Reinheitsgebot, the beer-purity law that prohibited using anything but water, barley and hops in brewing the national beverage. Belgians, on the other hand, “are a lot less about following the rules,” Hutchinson,…
Thanks to TLC’s Toddlers & Tiaras, the semi-conscious portion of the population has gotten a glimpse into the totally bizarre world of children’s beauty pageants since 2009. One episode of this program is more than the average person ever needs to witness, but thanks to The Today Show, we were…
It was hardly six hours ago that I bitched about “the tragedy-sploitation vortex of product placement and media pandering” the tenth anniversary of 9/11 will inevitably engender, in my commentary on “Cartoonists Remember September 11,” the joint effort of a group of the Sunday paper’s worst comics to commemorate the…
