Colorado Creatives #95: Dr. David Grinspoon Science? Art? Bona fide space-nerd superstar Dr. David Grinspoon likes it both ways. By day an author and the mild-mannered curator of astrobiology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Grinspoon is also a musician and confirmed Dead Head, travels the country lecturing…
We’ve peed our pants many a time, but by far our fondest memory of it was when we peed our pants during John Carpenter’s Halloween (other memories: not so fond). JK, we’ve never peed our pants in our entire lives, but seriously, John Carpenter is one of the best horror…
Far across the sea in Pamplona, Spain, over the weekend, thousands of people gathered for some reason to run along narrow streets toward the sole ambition of not getting gored by a pissed-off bull. In Denver, the stakes were lower and the injuries far less grievous, but the good times…
On Sunday afternoon, we randomly wandered over to the 7-11 on Broadway and 3rd Avenue to find a parking lot overtaken by sweet cars. In the second annual “Bringing You Back To Broadway” car show, local promotor and DJ “Cruisin'” Dave Bos and his wife Sandi put together a day…
Last week we reported on the International Olympic Committee’s announcement that ski and snowboard slopestyle events have officially been added as medal sports for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games and on the local ramifications of that decision. And wait, there’s more: Other big news with a solid local angle coming…
It’s one of life’s most bitter ironies that, as a general rule, the people most likely to be nudists are the people you least want to see nude — and so it was with a collective sigh of relief from the pants-wearing world that Nude Recreation Week wrapped up yesterday…
After a sexy photo shoot with her accordion, Renee de la Prade got the idea of starting a calendar filled with photos of gals and their accordions. Now in its third year, the Accordion Babes pin-up calendar features a dozen sultry women and their squeezeboxes as well as an accompanying…
This Wednesday, Denver Film Society and Denver Museum of Nature and Science are kicking off an amazing five-week film series for all the sci-fi buffs out there by matching superior film-making with scientific discussions. Which got us thinking: The greatest sci-fi films ever are great and all, but what about…
Ever since he started his career as a fat loser UPS driver in King of Queens, Kevin James has had a knack for fictionally scoring some unbelievably hot babes — remember his wife in that show? She was smoking. Since then, in his various leading-man roles in film, James has…
In a nutshell, a completely sustainable nutshell, the idea behind Design for the Other 90%, a traveling exhibition from the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, has to do with the impact of good design on developing populations who must usually make do with no help from the design community at…
In the over half a decade LoDo’s Rockmount Ranch Wear has been in business, the company has had the time to brush elbows with quite a few celebrities. Stars like Elvis, Bob Dylan, and David Bowie have all been seen sporting Rockmount’s unique brand of western wear, which will be…
In case you haven’t heard, Facebook got two very cool upgrades recently, with the introduction of group chat and video chat — thanks, in large part, to a partnership with Skype. Props to Mark Zuckerberg though — being able to video chat with friends who are “online” on Facebook is…
Sometimes, we take for granted the fact that Casa Bonita exists in our town. Once upon a time there was a second location in Oklahoma, but as it now stands, only Denver is lucky enough to have a miniature Mexican village in a strip mall that smells like a swimming…
Millions of people will head out to theaters next Friday to take in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the final installment of the decade-long empire. And while the teeming masses will come, among them will be a select few (you’ll be able to tell them by their…
Hot enough for you? This weekend the temperature is expected to get back into the nineties, meaning that not only are wallets tight but comfort is a high priority when deciding what to do. Luckily there are plenty of things to do this weekend for ten dollars or less –…
Gimme a Breck! The Babes in the Backcountry babes are leading by-women/for-women mountain bike skills clinics today at 10 a.m. as part of the Breck Bike Week festivities (meet at the Expo village at Blue River Plaza, $35 suggested donation). Afterwards, the International Mountain Bicycling Association will be hosting a…
There’s nothing like a sweet pair of sunglasses on a sunny summer day. Whether we wear sunglasses for style, protection, expression or color, its evident they are both an accessory and a necessity for looking hot in the heat — so if you think sunglasses are, well, just sunglasses, think…
In these postmodern times, people need something more than elephants standing on barrels and shit to make a circus entertaining; along with the aerialists, snake-charmers and burlesque dancers, we’re going to need something, like, deep. Alright, then: “There’s nothing more beautiful than that human experience,” says Salt Fire Circus director…
Update, Monday, 8:45 a.m.: We’ve picked our winners! Thanks for playing everyone! Check your email to see if you’re a winner. In the free stuff file of Show and Tell today, we have a quick contest for fans of horror movies. We have five movie posters for The Ward, directed…
It was former President George W. Bush who enacted the end of NASA’s space shuttle program, set for this year, but he did so in order to make way for a new program, which he promised would usher in new technology, bring humans to Mars and give new breath to…
David Grinspoon is a local treasure, and we’re lucky to have him: The astrobiology curator at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, he’s not at all what you expect a scientist to be like. Instead, Grinspoon, who is also a musician and a funny guy, channels the downright psychedelic…
Looks like the lockout’s here. Not the NFL lockout, which is entering its fourth month and, despite a few positive signs, drags on and on. There’s a new lockout in town — NBA owners have locked out players in that league, too. The little brother lockout isn’t getting as much…
