If suds slingers at Great Divide Brewing could figure out a way to get beer flowing from Denver’s fire hydrants, they’d do it. Since that would just fuel the flames of beery bacchanalia, however, they’ve decided instead to simply close down the street in front of the brewery for a…
When the first kayakers put in today at 4 p.m. for the Pro Freestyle prelims at the Lyons Outdoor Games, they’ll be paddling like crazy. “This year we had the biggest snowpack we’ve seen in as long as I can remember, well over 200 percent of average, and it’s just…
Matt Richtel’s newest book, The Devil’s Plaything, isn’t easy to pinpoint by genre alone; it’s as much a thriller as it is science fiction, and while those categories aren’t mutually exclusive, rarely is the third ingredient, deep human drama, mixed in with the two. “I’m close to my grandparents, and…
Pretty much every kind of car that was ever worth looking at will be on display at the Wild West Auto Roundup in Golden this afternoon, from a 1913 Stutz Bearcat to some recently modded-out VWs. But even if the gleaming highlights of automotive ingenuity aren’t your thing, chances are…
As the Internet has changed, it has become more personalized and more directed toward individualized content. While this is an excel-lent way to spread like-minded opinions, that’s exactly what author and MoveOn.org board president Eli Pariser finds so dangerous — an opinion he outlines in The Filter Bubble: What The…
The seemingly nonsensical phrase “Oozle Pool” signifies many things. First and foremost, it’s the title of a new hour-long, locally made film premiering tonight, which is a postmodern reimagining of the story of Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby. The main character in Oozle Pool, Bugs, becomes the Tar Baby,”…
Ah, summertime, when al fresco food and wine shindigs, coupled with the shimmer of the sun, remind of us of why we eat till we sink and drink pinks like geeks. And there’s ample encouragement to do both at the three-day Colorado Winefest, which benefits the Governor’s Residence Preservation Fund…
At one point in the 1975 documentary Grey Gardens, Little Edie Bouvier Beale turns to the camera and offers a bit of fashion advice: Wear pants or stockings under a skirt so that “you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape.” It’s this kind of…
The idea of turning the RiNo Art District’s semiannual studio tour into a “safari” has been kicking around for a while, says district co-founder Tracy Weil, but it’s finally seeing the light of day; today’s RiNo Art Safari, he notes, promises to be an adventure for all, with more than…
The hardest part of going out to dinner is settling on just one entree — and since a steady diet of sampler platters can get expensive, there’s Feast on the FAX, an evening of dining out that offers a collection of some of the most disparate fare you’re likely to…
After a brief high-country dalliance last year with the Leadville 100, the Rocky Mountain Bicycle Festival returns to Denver this weekend in time to catch a draft with the Denver Century Ride. Ride options range from 5 to 22 miles for the Community Fun Ride on Saturday at 10 a.m…
These days, it’s a dog-eat-dog world for flea and craft markets; you have to set yourself apart in some way, and in the case of the fledgling Lucky Pearl Bazaar, that’s all taken care of. Imagined by organizer Mandy Yocom as a complement to South Pearl Street’s Sunday farmers’ market,…
For the past 36 years, the Denver Public Library has been holding its Annual Used Book Sale, and with each passing year, the event has become bigger and more diversified. While many might assume it’s just a means for the library to unload old and dusty books, that’s not the…
Given that it sounds like something out of a nightmarish fever-hallucination (in the best possible sense), Delirium: A Circus of the Senses has a pretty apt name: “It’s pretty much a four-hour non-stop thrill ride,” says organizer Jimmy Stewart (yes, that’s his real name). “Everywhere you look, there will be…
If you’ve ever watched a Looney Tunes cartoon, you’ve heard the music of Raymond Scott, though it’s not what he intended: Famous for its over-the-top, trippy, screw-loose vibe, the composer’s repertoire was never actually written with cartoons in mind. We can thank Warner Bros. music director Carl Stalling for making…
Nothing gets people tapping their feet and letting loose to the beat like good old-fashioned bluegrass. Mix in some fine local microbrews and enough food to fuel a hoedown, and you’ve got yourself the Old South Pearl Street BrewGrass Festival. “This festival is a real hit,” says organizer Nicole Jarman,…
Update: Progress is being made at the GrowHaus, as evidenced by this time-lapse of renovations in the facility’s HydroFarm. But in the urban greenhouse’s race to win a $50,000 grant, the road’s been a bit bumpier: After rising to third place and even grazing second, GrowHaus has dropped to sixth…
Our nostalgia for the Internet of old continues this week, as we have recently discovered the Geocities-izer, a way to make any website look and feel just like it used to. Simply put your URL of choice into the this world wide web throwback processor thingy and voilà — Facebook…
For the past two years, the History Colorado Center has been going up at 12th Avenue and Broadway, but the public hasn’t been allowed to see inside the state’s new history museum — until now. Tomorrow from 2 to 6:30 pm, the Urban Land Institute Colorado, a land-use research and…
In 2008 Lee Saville rode his bike 700 miles from Portland to San Francisco. Now, he’s about to embark on a much more ambitious ride: 17,000 miles. Saville, along with his friend Ian Lacey, will fly from Denver to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, this July and begin their biking trip from…
Today Denver-based snowboard company Never Summer Industries released the first trailer for Shred ‘Em All, the second feature-length film showcasing its team riders. The world premiere will be in Denver in the Fall, but we figured the trailer was news hook enough to catch up with director Micah Cook for…
Life is a crazy thing. One day everything’s fine, everything’s great,; the next day you may wake up and find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile with a beautiful wife and a career as a time-traveling super-sleuth with a late mortgage payment and no other skill sets. You…
