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…
The Positive Project — tagline: “HIV+ stories for the greater good” — is a Denver-based nonprofit that’s home to the world’s largest collection of videos of people infected with and affected by HIV. Reliant on grants and donations for funding, The Positive Project will host its first-ever Sunshine Tomorrow Cabaret…
Pretty much any way you slice it, “Emily Griffith Technical College” is a more boring name than was the “Opportunity School” that used to be in the title — but the change is bigger than just how it rolls of the tongue. It also represents a slowly dying hope for…
Forrest Yoga creator Ana Forrest tells quite a story. She started practicing yoga as a young teenager, became an instructor and has been involved in the yoga world for almost forty years; today, she’ll sign a book containing her life story and innovative healing techniques, Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to…
Most commercials you’ll be subjected to on any given day will probably bore you, or maybe make you chuckle a smidge. Very few make the effort, or have the ability, to grab you the way this new spot from Audi does. More fine art than advert, this is a commercial…
Calling all office joes and fraternity bros — don’t have time to read Tim Tebow’s new book, Through My Eyes, but still want to live your life as righteously as possible? Do what Tebow does: follow the Mile-High Messiah’s Ten Commandments for Living a Holy Life, as helpfully assembled by…
The winners of the 32nd annual Mountainfilm in Telluride festival were announced on Monday and include eight films in five categories. We’ve got the trailers after the jump, and we’ll shout them out on this blog later in the year if and when any of them will be screening in…
Despite the fact that there is no known shortage of awesome writers, authors and poets in this town, the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs’ One Book, One Denver program has a long history of coming up with arbitrary treacle that has nothing to do with Denver for the three selections…
Moving into the second week of her 100 Days Project, local artist Karen Bozik, whom we first visited with here last Monday, found herself running into mental and academic roadblocks. The aesthetics are there, she acknowledges, but in terms of a complete package, she’s unwilling to speed through the research…
Oh, how the time does fly. Next thing we knew it, Memorial Day was over and it was time to pay rent, and yet again, all our memories of all the fun we had are pretty much completely blotted out by a thick haze of roofies and blow. Luckily, we…
For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. For those…
In the beginning, there was the Ballpark Market, a singular urban flea with a European ambiance. And not long after that, sisters Kim Dahlquist and Stacey Johnson begat A Paris Flea Market in downtown Littleton, bringing a similar concept to the the southwest ‘burbs. And then, and then, and then…
The biggest reason to make it out for Drag Nation last Friday at Tracks wasn’t to see Amanda Lepore perform — it was to see Amanda Lepore in real life. And while the transgender icon and David LaChapelle muse was definitely worth viewing, her sort-of sing-along performance was very much…
Women who work out, your worst fear has been realized and it exists at www.girlsinyogapants.com. Now, instead of just thinking some perv is looking at your butt while you’re trying to get some exercise, you can be safe in the knowledge that he isn’t just looking, he’s taking a picture…
A couple weeks ago, ZetaKaye House released This Ain’t No Cowtown, a compilation of Colorado bands, and this week we’ve got a collection in a similar vein with some of Denver’s best comedians and poets. If you’re the type of person who’s scared to go to comedy shows or poetry…
Be careful what tattoo you get, lest you end up like Bree Davies, who ended up accidentally affiliating herself with a gang when she got the initials R.H. tattooed on her (it stands for “Ratchet Ho”) — meaning you might want to reconsider that flaming skull with the “Bandido 4…
The Girl Bike Love crew has been known to quote Susan B. Anthony — “Let me tell you what I think of bicycling: I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world” — and other feminist icons when talking about its mission to “empower,…
As a general rule, the amount of fun it is to annoy somebody is directly proportionate to how easy it is to annoy that person; thus, there is nobody more fun to bother than the man who can’t take it. In the animal kingdom, that man is cats. A winning…
There are three sharp-looking shows at Spark Gallery (900 Santa Fe Drive, 720-889-2200, www.sparkgallery.com) that feature abstraction, hyper-realism and animation-inspired imagery. Sue Simon: Trajectory is an elegant show in which multi-panel paintings combine linear abstractions with mathematical equations. The point is that everything in the universe is in motion, even…
15 Colorado Artists. The Kirkland Museum is presenting a historical show that tracks the beginnings of post-war modernism in Denver using the artist group 15 Colorado Artists as an index. The story goes that the Denver Artists Guild was hostile to modernism at the time. This led to a split,…
Billy Elliot the Musical.The story of Billy Elliot is deeply appealing: During the 1980s, as Maggie Thatcher wars with the powerful coal-mining union as part of her campaign to destroy British labor, an eleven-year-old miner’s son stumbles into a ballet class and discovers an unlikely love of dance. Naturally, this…
