In the modern age of the iPod, any shoe store, cowboy bar, hair salon or (in this particular case) pho restaurant can do business to any soundtrack it chooses. When I worked at KB Toys in the 90s, we were sent a monthly cassette to play in the store –…
Yesterday, we brought you the news that Devo is set to headline the Denver County Fair — good news for anyone inclined shape it up/get it straight/move forward/move ahead. But there will also be about one million other things to do at the Fair, plus other fairs to go to,…
Regardless of the fact Bill Hicks is often cited by current comics as one of their biggest inspirations, he was relatively unknown when he was alive, and even after dying in 1994 at the young age of 32, he remained overlooked by the public at large. To shed a bit…
The Women’s Flat Track Derby Association announced yesterday that it has accepted eight new roller derby leagues from its apprentice league program, including Colorado’s Castle Rock ‘n’ Rollers (catch them in action on June 11 at the Douglas County Fairgrounds, skating against Greeley’s Slaughterhouse Derby Girls). For those of you…
Clay is arguably the first medium ever invented by humans — one of the oldest prehistoric artifacts ever found was a drinking vessel made of sun-dried clay — and it’ll soon be the star of the largest single-subject exhibition the Denver Art Museum has ever mounted: Marvelous Mud, scheduled to…
Richard Louv first coined the term Nature Deficit Disorder — “an atrophied awareness, a diminished ability to find meaning in the life that surrounds us” — in his 2005 book Last Child In the Woods, diagnosing a root cause of the degeneration of our bodies and brains (and our planet)…
It’s not official, solstice-wise, but this might as well be the first First Friday of summer, which means — Mother Nature willing — warm breezes and a slow, lazy sunset will reign gently over all the art districts in town this June evening. What better invitation do you need to…
Vail’s annual Memorial Day whitewater festival has exploded into one of North America’s premier outdoor sports events and turned a sleepy week between spring and summer into one of the Vail Valley’s biggest boom times. This year’s tenth annual Teva Mountain Games features kayaking, stand-up paddleboarding, rock climbing, mountain biking,…
To celebrate its thirtieth year of helping cats in Colorado, the Cat Care Society is searching for homes for a different kind of feline: painted, fiberglass ones. The nonprofit will auction off decorative kitties designed by local artists at its Tails of the Painted Cats gala tonight; examples include a…
Photographer Chris Burkard won this year’s Red Bull Illume international action-sports photography competition with an epic shot of Peter Mendia surfing in Buchupureo, Chile. See the winning image — along with all fifty finalists, including shots of skateboarders, skiers, divers, mountain bikers, motocross racers, parkour free-runners and more — in…
Bill Hicks is often called the greatest comic of his generation, and seventeen years after his death from pancreatic cancer, his impact on comedy is still being felt. But Hicks’s goal wasn’t just to make people laugh; it was to make people think. American: The Bill Hicks Story is a…
Anthology Fine Art’s Pullin’ for ABC party tonight has a lot going on — screen printing, cheap drinks and music from DJ Squirl, for example — but at its core, it’s about one young generation of artists helping an even younger generation of artists. “My brother Jacob teaches printmaking at…
In the spiritual self-help realm, Deepak Chopra is well-known. Interestingly, his son Gotham Chopra garners recognition for a completely different kind of career: Gotham is a co-founder of Liquid Comics, which works in various digital platforms, including comics and graphic novels, animation and live-action films, some of them developed with…
In celebration of National Trails Day, there are plenty of outdoor activities and especially trail-building service projects going on today around the state. But on the Front Range, the annual Arvada Trails Day event is certainly one of the least back-breaking and most family-friendly, which is perfect for outdoorsy folks…
The City of Lakewood rolls out the red carpet today for its second annual Rockin’ Block Party celebration, which includes balloon tosses, hula-hoop contests and more prize-yielding games for participants of all ages, along with tours of the Lakewood Heritage Center Museum — a landmark site that includes a 1920s…
Keith Hancock, event coordinator for this weekend’s second annual Heart Beat Drum and Dance Festival, believes drumming is “kind of life-changing, to be quite honest. “I didn’t quite believe that until I went through it myself. You start drumming and you start seeing, ‘This part of my life is working,…
The Chuck Roy Show’s live podcast on indie303.com is never live. “Yeah, no, not at all,” admits Roy, the show’s host. “The whole joke is that we are never live and we’re never where we say we’re going to be. But if you know the secret, you can still listen…
Here in the States, we tend to think of trailer parks as a distinctly American commodity, but it’s possible that the country the rest of the world most closely associates with the trailer is Canada — and if that’s true, we have the Trailer Park Boys to thank. A massively…
Last summer’s hit parade of gourmet street-food vendors is back for another full-throttled feeding frenzy at Civic Center Park, home turf to Civic Center EATS, one of the city’s hottest lunchtime meal tickets. And this season, promises Lindy Eichenbaum Lent, executive director of the Civic Center Conservancy, Denver’s summer power…
They missed Mardi Gras by a few months, but the folks at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art are still going to party Carnaval-style at tonight’s Festival Brazil. “It’s for our two spring exhibitions,” explains museum spokeswoman Jordan Robbins. “One artist, Henrique Oliveira, created a site-specific sculpture and seven paintings…
Summer doesn’t become official until the solstice later this month, but that shit is for hippies: it’s June and after Memorial Day, and for all intents and purposes that means it’s summer. And while summer is a time for lazy rivers and wasting away in gin-and-tonicville or whatever, it’s also…
Adventure games have had a bit of resurgence lately — still not breaking into the mainstream, but certainly garnering enough popularity to allow for people to come in and create new games that have an audience. Case in point, 1899 Steam & Spirit, an old-school adventure game that takes place…
