It’s an unnerving sign of the times that there are kids suffering from childhood obesity and what Richard Louv calls “nature deficit disorder” here in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. But a new book from Steamboat magazine editor Eugene Buchanan aims to help parents pick up the trail with…
From personal experience as an erstwhile artist, I can tell you that life drawing can be such a pain. For one thing, the professional pool isn’t very deep, and no matter how good the model is, you’ll get tired of her particular variety of au naturel stretch, sprawl or repose…
Summer means it’s time to dust off your mountain bike, roadster or cruiser, and what better way to do that than with the Denver Public Library’s Nuts ‘n Bolts Basic Bike Maintenance Workshop? “It’s things like how to fix a flat tire, tighten brakes, and even how to adjust a…
There’s nothing like the camaraderie of an organized bike ride. No, scratch that. There’s nothing like the camaraderie of a non-competitive, organized bike ride. (“Non-competitive” is just a euphemism for beer, you know.) That’s what takes the Montrose Mission to Ride from merely kick-ass to truly bad-ass status. This marks…
Of all the blessings that so-called reality television has visited upon us, is there any so glorious as RuPaul’s Drag Race? If reality TV is all about high-concept game shows fueled by interpersonal drama, then surely Drag Race is the epitome of the genre. High concept? It’s a show to…
As any fan of local author Mario Acevedo would tell you, character Felix Gomez isn’t your average vampire: He’s also a private eye. And he’s funny. Ver-ry, ver-ry funny. He battles zombies, aliens, werewolves and nymphomaniacs, all while retaining a certain lecherous charm that makes us love him. If that…
The paintings of Colorado Springs artist Margaret Kasahara, the first-generation American daughter of Japanese immigrants, are as neatly arranged as a bento box, often featuring cultural symbols juxtaposed in cleanly delineated, black-outlined partitions. And not unlike the bento, each compartment sports a cross-cultural flavor all its own, creating a metaphor…
Local author Irene Rawlings was driving down the highway in Wyoming one fine day when she spied something out of the ordinary. “It was a caravan of trailers, and they were all beautifully painted with murals, and they had names like ‘Rhinestone Cowgirl’ and ‘Calamity Jane’ written on them,” she…
For every relative youngster and casual fan who only knows Pam Grier from her scene-stealing comeback performance in Quentin Tarantino’s overlooked 1997 masterpiece, Jackie Brown, there are old-timers and film buffs who will always see her as Foxy Brown, the sexy, ass-kicking heroine of the 1974 blaxploitation classic of the…
Lindsey Kuhn is famous in the skate world as the founder of Denver-based Conspiracy Boards. But his vivid, iconic, screen-printed artwork is just as well known, having been a staple of rock-show posters for two decades. It’s a run that recently culminated in an eye-popping, coffee-table book titled Lure of…
The Doors story is well known to rock fans, but it’s never been adequately captured on film until now. In When You’re Strange: A Film About the Doors, director Tom DiCillo has finally created a definitive document of the band, from its early days right up to the end. “He…
The true saga of Lawnchair Larry, aka Lawrence Richard Walters, a Southern California trucker who built himself a flying lawn chair hooked up to a slew of helium-filled weather balloons in 1982 and famously took flight in it, ended sadly, several years later, with a suicide brought on by an…
Foothills Art Center’s latest exhibit, STARK: Life in Black and White, “is basically about what happens when you strip away color and its associations,” says curator Michael Chavez, who selected five artists working in black and white. “And they’re not all photographers, either,” he notes. “There is photography, but there’s…
When Abe Brennan, singer/guitarist for Denver punk band Joy Subtraction, saw the opportunity to play this year’s Tellerpalooza — the annual fundraiser that enlists local music talent to benefit Congress Park’s Teller Elementary School — he jumped at the chance. And he’s not shy about voicing his reasons why. “I…
Though Ira Glass scored an internship with NPR more than thirty years ago without ever having heard an on-air segment, he’s spent the last fifteen as host and producer of This American Life, more or less redefining audio storytelling. “I make a radio show first and foremost to amuse myself,”…
Though he’s best known for a brief stint on MTV’s The Tom Green Show a decade ago, Tom Green got his start in low-budget community television in Canada and has made a nearly seamless transition to Internet web-lebrity: Tom Green’s House Tonight, broadcast online from his living room, has become…
Four Mile Historic Park plays host tonight to Colorado Corks and Cuisine, a spirited food and wine festival that showcases Colorado wineries, breweries, java joints, distilleries, caterers and local artisans hawking their photographs, jewelry and paintings. “As a Colorado landmark and the oldest standing structure in Denver, we like to…
If you dream of a world where food illiteracy is a thing of the past and all kids know the difference between kohlrabi and kale, then tonight’s Grow Local Colorado’s Growing Our Urban AgriCULTURE spring potluck and networking party is for you. Attendees interested in connecting with other urban gardening…
Now based in Boulder, Sierra Designs was on the front end of the ultralight tent category before it had a name. Evolving from classic 1980s models like the Meteor Light, this year’s latest and greatest, weighing in at 3 pounds, 6 ounces, the LT Strike 2 features 29 square feet…
Those of us who love the great outdoors often love it precisely for the reasons other people hate it — namely, it’s not a climate-controlled environment. It’s nature, damn it! But there are others who won’t venture outside their man-made boxes for a breath of fresh air until all the…
While many people put their planks or boards away come April, the core know that you can ski all over Colorado well into summer. Usually, this means hiking, but if you are lazy, and willing to get a big enough group together that two cars makes sense, then skiing Mount…
On Christmas Day, 1945, American serviceman Walter Lutz found himself — as did so many others of his comrades — in Japan. He was stationed there with the United States occupation forces immediately following the end of World War II. But Lutz’s life would take a decisive turn that day,…
