The Red Bull Rampage is underway today in Virgin, Utah, featuring 25 of the craziest dudes on mountain bikes competing on a course that drops 1,500 vertical feet and features a 63-foot canyon jump. The Rampage is the final stop on the Freeride Mountain Bike FMB World Tour …
Project Runway contestant Mondo Guerra — read our feature story on Mondo — hosted a silent auction for the Colorado AIDS Project and Rainbow Alley at Beauty Bar last night, September 30, in conjunction with the weekly Project Runway viewing party. View these photos by Kate Levy: Project Runway at…
It doesn’t get much more intense than it got this week on Project Runway for Mondo Guerra. He won the competition two weeks ago, he won again last week and this week, he pulled out a hat trick with yet another win — with six designers left in the running…
The Working With Artists program in Belmar offers a full range of photography classes including workshops in portraiture, still life, environmental abstract, urban abstract and travel photography, but this weekend’s workshop is the one you’ve probably been waiting for: For $395, you’ll spend the weekend with artists Owen O’Meara and…
Talk about a coup! Somehow, we landed an exclusive video clip of the National Geographic pirates exhibit hitting the Denver Museum of Nature & Science next March. From the looks of it, the show’s going to be all sorts of awesome, with special effects that will make Avatar look like…
Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. As usual, we’re rounding up your options for the weekend to come and the following week, and…
When we go to see horror films, we already know basically what’s going to happen: There will be teenagers feeling each other up, those teenagers will die because of their immorality, then the black guy will die because the black guy always dies, then there will be some gore, then…
Some people will try and tell you that $10 won’t get you much these days. To those people, we say “you’re wrong, sir,” because every weekend in Denver’s there is more than enough to do for 10 bucks and less. This weekend there are arts shows, cult-films and not one,…
When you’re local weirdo who’s spent the last decade running around in Times Square in your underpants and a cowboy hat, it’s probably hard to know where to go with your next career move. Waiting tables? Too servile. Middle management? Too bourgeois. Really, the most logical option is probably to…
If you’ve been dodging Denver construction zones, battling Humvee drivers on cell phones or fixing for a showdown with the local fixies — or if you merely prefer your martinis shaken, not stirred — then here’s the bike for you: The B.O.N.D. Bike (Built of Notorious Deterrents) looks like something…
You love cocktails. You love Wes Anderson. Methinks that could lead one to a dangerous crossroads. But that is the delicious dilemma of Bitter Bar mixologist Mark Stoddard, who tonight will host a Wes Anderson Cocktail Social, featuring mixed drinks inspired by four quirky Wes Anderson flicks: Bottle Rocket (a…
MaryJanice Davidson turned the chick-lit world upside-down in 2004 with the release of Undead and Unwed, which follows the story of a fashionista-secretary-turned-queen-of-the-vampires; since then, she’s been exploring the boundaries of paranormal literature combined with the world of shoes, shopping and romance. Her latest offering is Me, Myself and Why?,…
Nothing says Colorado better than an artful skateboard deck: The perfect union of our predilections for outdoor sport and DIY thinking speaks visual volumes about living on the edge, being casually modern and bursting with pride for the state’s magnificent climate. The folks at the Colorado branch of the American…
“The horror… the horror — Brraaappp!” No, it’s not Heart of Darkness or Apocalypse Now, it’s the Bug Theatre’s treatment of George Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead. The line sums up the campy goodness that Director Kristine Hipps and cast bring to their quirky stage adaptation of the…
Greg Giraldo was rushed to a hospital on September 25th after failing to appear for a scheduled gig. He passed yesterday and will be sorely missed by comedy fans the world over. Sadly, it seems all the best comedians find their way out via drug overdose. To celebrate Greg Giraldo’s…
Just the other day, when a friend of mine and I were arguing about Virginia Woolf, I told her that, however good it may be, you just can’t write with that kind of acrobatic Victorian ornament anymore. “You’d sound like a dingleberry,” I remarked. She disagreed — and if Stephanie…
There are many jobs in this world. Some are so bizarre, you probably don’t know they exist; others seem so great, you can’t believe people get paid to do them. To highlight some of these jobs, we’ve started a new series about people actually working in the field. This week,…
The necessity of government secrets versus the public’s right to know: It’s a perpetual American debate that perhaps never had a more succinct case study than the story of Daniel Ellsberg, who took off with a sheaf of top-secret “Pentagon Papers” during the Vietnam War and passed them off the…
It almost seems like a no-brainer: Take the avant Cirque du Soleil fancy circus shtick and plant it on the back of a magnificent Arabian steed. Or two, or three, or fifty. Cavalia: A Magical Encounter Between Horse and Man, the invention of Cirque founder Normand Latourelle, is what might…
A little more than twenty years ago, Fred Dekker’s Monster Squad — a cult classic about a group of kids who are called upon to use their love of monster movies to fight real monsters — charmed a generation of tweens, spawning a cult that’s still going strong today. Those…
For her latest book, Ape House, author Sara Gruen spent a lot of time hanging out with the bonobos at the Great Ape Trust, an Iowa research facility devoted to understanding the past and future of culture, language and intelligence by studying apes. The six bonobos there communicate with humans,…
Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless is one of the most celebrated and notorious films in cinematic history. Violent, stylish and edgy, it set the stage for countless films to come, alarming critics and energizing audiences along the way with its blend of technical innovation and a timeless story about a gun, a…
