Lighthouse Writers Workshop, the fourteen-year-old creative writing school that has helped some of Denver’s best authors, is moving and consolidating its classrooms and office space into the historic Milheim House at 1515 Race Street. The house, built in 1893 for John and Mary Milheim, was originally located at 1355 Pennsylvania…
Update, July 3: See photos from SlutWalk Denver Given that its very name is designed to provoke, it’s not all that surprising that SlutWalk would be creating some controversy. Set off by a Toronto police officer who had no idea what he was getting into when he suggested a group…
At my age, it is normal for people I know to be having kids, but while high school was long ago in a time called the ’90s, that’s still where my mind is. When someone tells me they’re pregnant, I might be saying “congrats, girlfriend!” but secretly I’m thinking, “what…
We’ve made no secret about our beef with One Book, One Denver — specifically, that the program doesn’t try very hard to find unknown novels by great authors, or even books by Colorado authors — but so far this year we’ve neglected to put our money where our mouth is…
Like a rubber band stretched to its snapping point (or maybe a glass-top table that spontaneously explodes), Martha Stewart is one of pop cultures most weirdly volatile figures. We broke down five disturbing things about Stewart after another of her products erupted without provocation the other day, and no doubt…
The 31st annual Crested Butte Bike Week gets underway today with Alison Gannett’s Rippin’ Chix Mountain Bike Camps for women ($35 per session; $95 for the singletrack skills workshop) and a 6 p.m. “Night at the Museum” kick-off party at the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, 331 Elk Avenue…
As the world braces for the money-shot of Michael Bay’s third and most massive robo-jaculation since his last entry into the Transformers mega-conglomeration two years ago, it’s increasingly looking like franchise star Shia LaBoeuf might be, uh, pulling out, so to speak. That would be the second serious loss to…
A flaming washing machine rockets through the air and embeds itself in the side of a house. A woman contemplates her own demise while wearing a crotchless body suit. Robert Ripley from Ripley’s Believe It or Not has a massive coronary during a performance of “Taps.” These situations don’t have…
In the early ’90s, Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist first orchestrated the recurring exhibit do it, for which local participants choose a project from a manual of instructions created by a roster of internationally known artists. The local artists then interpret the projects, filtering them through their own sensibilities. Since…
There’s a scene from a performance in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s documentary !Women Art Revolution in which two women, one representing feminist art and the other minimalism, dance in a ring and duke it out, pounding home the inequality inherent in the art world of forty years ago. In a way,…
Steampunk has been carving out its niche a bit more broadly than it used to, and the once unknown subgenre of science fiction has been rising in popularity over the past few years. That’s sure to work to the advantage of the Penny Dread Tales, a new anthology from Runewright…
Today, the Colorado Reptile Humane Society (13941 Elmore Road in Longmont) welcomes all visitors and potential pet owners for The Reptile Experience!, a once-a-year open-house event. The reptile advocacy and placement group, which is run solely by volunteers, works to find good homes for cold-blooded creatures who may have been…
Last year, local bar celebrity Sean Kenyon was hanging at the Buckhorn Exchange with a famous mixologist who asked a seemingly simple question: What, he wondered aloud, is the quintessential Colorado cocktail? Kenyon, who’s rarely at a loss for words, was stumped. “New Orleans has the Sazerac and New York…
One thing we like about Denver: The creative community sticks together. And now we have a free annual event, Project Hello, that embodies the spirit of said camaraderie by gathering local creatives under one roof to network and show off work and products. Celebrating its second year, Project Hello will…
New Belgium Brewing’s Clips of Faith Beer and Film Tour comes to Boulder tonight, featuring dozens of film shorts between ten seconds and ten minutes long. “The whimsical films have a focus on sustainability and/or craft beer, and it’s a nice way of celebrating both creative filmmaking and creative beer-making,”…
The TACtile Textile Arts Center has gone all steampunk this summer, beginning with the opening of the current show, Steampunk: Mechanical Science Meets Victorian Romance, in May. But the voluminous ostrich feather in the exhibition’s Victorian cap is tonight’s Steamed Fashion Show, a juried feast of plumed millinery and mini…
In her long writing career, Lisa See has covered China — and Chinese America — from a number of angles. But whether penning a memoir, a thriller or a historical novel, See comes off as a digger, a woman who spends a lot of time in the stacks and on…
Consider yourself lucky that famed writer and feminist icon Erica Jong is stopping in Denver to read from and sign her new book, Sugar in My Bowl: Real Women Write About Real Sex; she’s on her way up to Aspen to teach in the mountain town’s Summer Words extravaganza, and…
Walk, run or bike to Civic Center Park tonight for an outdoor showing of Field of Dreams, the first of this summer’s free Civic Center Bike-In Movies, a series of four flicks showing for free on an inflatable big screen in the heart of Denver. Movie-goers are welcome to set…
“Visual poetry”: An interesting concept, or two words never meant to be placed together? Decide for yourself at the “Moving Images” Poetry and Film Symposium, hosted by the University of Colorado and Naropa University. Billed as the first of its kind, the event will bring together these two “distant realities”…
Dancing, Swedish folk music, Vikings and traditional Scandinavian cuisine are just a few of the things you’ll find at the Scandinavian Midsummer Festival this weekend in Estes Park. The massive, two-day event is filled with folk activities ranging from the display of Viking tools to dancing around the traditional maypole,…
If you haven’t seen Johnny Depp and Tim Burton’s first film together, get your blanket ready for tonight’s Film on the Rocks screening of Edward Scissorhands, presented on made-for-the-event 35mm film stock. But first, take in the sounds of Denver’s own Ukulele Loki and the Gadabout Orchestra, a band that…
