Reader: Quit horsing around with wild mustangs

The Bureau of Land Management’s attempts to remove thousands of wild horses from public lands has generated outrage across the country, as well as em>Wild Horses & Renegades, a new film by Santa Fe-based filmmaker James Anaquad-Kleinert, which explores the government’s unsuccessful efforts to protect wild horses — and that…

Reader: Colorado’s on a roll with roller derby

The 1st Bank Center played host to twelve of the best roller derby teams from around the country this past weekend. And although our hometown teams did not triumph in the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association Championships, the Denver area definitely came out the winner for having the WFTDA games…

Fashion Forum at Crossroads tonight

Another clothes call! Arts & Venues Denver will host a fashion forum tonight for local fashion/accessory and jewelry designers, which it describes this way: “This is a forum to LISTEN & HEAR from YOU! We want to know from you as designers what will be the best for this creative…

Game time! H&M camper or homeless person?

Sleeping outside in the cold wind is not a common beauty regimen. And so camping out for H&M’s opening yesterday certainly didn’t equal beauty sleep. In fact, with crews starting to set up a runway and booths at midnight, sleep was impossible for many of the campers. In fact, by…

17 hours in 22 degree weather… for a $10 H&M gift certificate?

What would you do for a $10 H&M gift certificate? Would you 127 Hours it? Give away a Klondike bar? Wait in the cold for seventeen hours? With pink eye? By midnight last night, over thirty people were lined up at the Denver Pavilions, waiting for today’s noon opening of…

Reader: Give David Sedaris a hand!

David Sedaris played the Paramount on November 7, and the essayist/commentator was a big hit, discussing everything from the house he wanted to buy in England to where white men shit to, well, shitting in your hand, as Kelsey Whipple noted in her “10 best David Sedaris quotes” post. A…

Roadeo is our browser game of the week

It’s not often we get to talk about multiplayer games in conjunction with browser games, but Roadeo provides an entirely unique and enjoyable experience that requires two players and a lot of willpower. It’s a racing game, but it’s unlike any racing game you’ve likely ever played, as it requires…

It’s Cora Vette’s birthday — and Coco Lectric is the present

How does a burlesque emcee extraordinaire celebrate her birthday? If you’re Cora Vette — aka Reyna Von Vett — then you bring in Coco Lectric, the star of the Texas burlesque scene (and the 2010 Queen of Burlesque), a dusky beauty whose red-feather-boa routine turned the heads of the judges…

Reader: Curt Fentress wasn’t horsing around when he built the big top

Suspicions confirmed! At last night’s town hall meeting on the art program at Denver International Airport, consultants who’d interviewed hundreds of DIA travelers, and studied 1,600 online surveys, revealed that the most loved — and loathed — piece of art at DIA is Luis Jimenez’s “Mustang.” But they also documented…

Aspen’s Winterskol slogan falls flat, contest is resurrected

There’s no business like snow business. Aspen has been celebrating Winterskol, its “toast to winter,” since 1951, as a way to perk up the dull weeks after Christmas. But while the 2012 Winterskol is still months away (it runs from January 12-15), discussion of the upcoming event has been anything…