Ten lucky finds at the summer Horseshoe Market: A preview

We unequivocally love the Berkeley district’s Horseshoe Market for a myriad of reasons, but mostly it’s a matter of the spirit of the thing, which is old and modern all at the same time: Its mix of vintage wares, unique handmades and trendy food and drink on wheels fits the…

Inside Denver Urban Gardens: How you can get involved

Denver Urban Gardens has over 100 gardens in and around Denver, so chances are, if you’ve live anywhere near or in Denver, you’ve seen one. Urban gardening provides community residents the oppurtunity to grow their own food, participate in urban renewal and to help local nonprofits out with home-grown produce…

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, August 5-7, 2011

It’s the beginning of August, which also means it’s the start of the end of summer. In just a few short months we’ll all be hunkering inside complaining about how cold it is, completely forgetting that just a few months prior we were doing the same thing, complaining about how…

Geeky pick-up lines to help you out at Single Bytes

Geeks, as we all know from Anthony Michael Hall’s romance outcome in The Breakfast Club, have a hard time getting the girl. Nevertheless, they’ll get some help tonight at Single Bytes, a dinner and singles night designed by chronic personals section editor Audrey Klammer to bring geeks together and let…

Sports journalism: in the gutter and loving it

Even a reporter for a high school paper will tell you, it’s kind of a basic rule of journalism: Get more than one source and don’t just print anonymous rumors. It’s what separates a news source from your gossipy aunt. But for some reason, sports journalism is more than happy…

Why are movies so damn boring?

I have the attention span of a four-year-old. I can’t sit still for very long and I don’t like to watch things –particularly television shows and movies — without having something else going on at the same time. (Like a massive laundry folding undertaking or an organization project involving the…

Are you an executive by day and a wild man by night?

Attention ladies: Are you looking for a man who’s not afraid to get a little sand on his tuxedo? How about a gentleman who considers himself a “refined valley dude”? Well, Video Mate has the man for you. Or had the man for you, rather, back in the day when…

Scottie Ewing on Finca Bellavista: “Right On”

There’s no denying that what Crested Butte couple Erica and Mateo Hogan is doing in Costa Rica is pretty cool: Spurred by their love of the rain forest, they bought up some 300 acres of it and created a fully sustainable Swiss Family Robinson-style tree-house community complete with zip-lines and…

Mucho Mojo: The spicy passages

We all know enough to expect the standard-issue turgid pectoral muscles and flowing locks from romance novels — but what if the romance also involves vampires, war and action of the not-necessarily-hot-and-sweaty variety? It will tomorrow at Fresh City Life’s Mucho Mojo, where urban fantasy writers Nicole D. Peeler, Kimberly…

Bond, James Bond

The world is safe, everyone: 007 is back. Beginning tonight with Dr. No (1962) and continuing on each Tuesday this month, the Mayan Theatre will present a vintage Sean Connery-as-Bond picture as part of its James Bond Film Series. And as a bonus, Landmark Theatres has commissioned local musical acts…

Inside Out

Painter Andy Berg, a resident artist at Ironton Studios, is presenting his latest creations in an exhibit there titled Rebirth of the Deity. Berg believes that his paintings originate in the deep recesses of his mind and that his actual brushstrokes are guided by forces unknown to him. This approach,…

Denver’s 10 coolest neon signs

When you’re walking around feeling down and out/pondering the mystery of a dame with a chip on her shoulder and a case that just might not be what it seems, there’s nothing like a backdrop of neon signs to get you in the right mood. And since we do that…

Bring Attack the Block to Denver or we’ll never forgive you

Attack the Block — the Joe Cornish flick bought to you by Edgar Wright, geek god director of Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World — is an absurdly great movie. It’s the kind of work that inspires kids to become filmmakers, because it’s so…

How The Inner Room, filmed entirely in Colorado, was made

Fairplay, Colorado, is a tiny mountain town with about one street, situated some 40 miles south of Frisco between the San Isabel and Pike national forests. In other words, it’s in the middle of nowhere. In other other words, it’s a really difficult place to shoot a feature film. “Yeah,…

Street Fashion: Jonathan Gearhard on the 16th Street Mall

People often make the mistake of taking their professional fashion a little too seriously. Work is work, which means personal style is out of the question, and business attire is just another button-up with a tie. But when modern trends and professional appearance collide, people like Jonathan Gearhard can turn…

Soul Tax is our browser game of the week

It’s no secret the majority of games are about killing things. Soul Tax, a game created by Jarod Long, Lauren Careccia, Devin Presbury and Brad Snyder for the Something Awful Game Dev VI competition is no different, but instead of tasking you with grabbing a gun and unloading into an…