A while ago, I wrote about rescues and who should save you in the mountains. The story arose from an incident on Mt. Hood. One of the overreactions to the deaths of the three climbers has been the idea of mandating that climbers carry personal locator beacons (PLBs) with them…
Allen True’s West. Allen Tupper True was Denver’s premier muralist during the first third of the twentieth century. Sadly, many of his commissions have been painted over or were lost when the buildings they were in were demolished. In an act of cooperation, the three big cultural institutions on the…
Hoping to entice Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 children’s movie Surf’s Up, the filmmakers sent the actor a video of an animated penguin declaiming a few of his lines from The Big Lebowski. They probably didn’t need to work that hard: An avid surfer,…
Girls Only. The trouble with Girls Only, a two-woman evening of conversation, skits, singing, improvisation and audience participation, is that it’s so relentlessly nice. Creator-performers Barbara Gehring and Linda Klein have worked together for many years; at some point, they read their early diaries to each other and were transfixed…
If your New Year’s resolution involves eating better or saving money, then learning how to cook would be a good start, because it can help you accomplish both of those goals. Find out how at the Cook Street School of Fine Cooking’s Kitchen Basics class, where “you’ll learn simple, multi-course…
It’s hard to imagine a film less likely to develop a cult following than Spice World. The 1997 film seems, on the surface, to be little more than a ninety-minute music video for a shallow pop group long since consigned to the dustbin of history and musty reunion tours. Indeed,…
Local documentarian and former gallerist Joshua Hassel goes back a long way with artist Rex Ray, whose beautiful works have most recently been seen at MCA Denver and T Gallery. Ray, who grew up in Colorado Springs before moving on to San Francisco, used to show work at Hassel’s now-defunct…
By now, most of us are more than ready to say “Bah, humbug!” to the plethora of light displays and other festivities that have dominated the past month or more. But if you’re not quite ready to hang up that Santa hat, two of Denver’s best light displays are still…
When Brooke Kline and Melissa Strasser of the White Owl decided to throw a New Year’s Eve bash with a 1920s/’30s theme, they called on Jessie de la Cruz of Betty Bluebird event planners. “The decade theme was pretty much the only framework they gave us, so we just ran…
Like so many people who helped remake the American landscape and identity in the 1800s, Augustus Saint-Gaudens wasn’t born in the United States. But the Irish immigrant was raised in New York, and his work — stately, noble sculpture that adorns everything from monuments to U.S. coins — crystallized a…
Fulfill the promise to reclaim your waistline while leaving 2009 in the dust at the Resolution 5K Run and Walk; now in its 25th year, it’s the oldest New Year’s Eve gallop in Denver. The race begins at the southeast end of Washington Park (Franklin Street and Mississippi Avenue) at…
Tonight’s Silver Screen Ball at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art will give revelers a chance to experience the swanky, smoky bygone days of Hollywood cinema with video presentations projected on the walls of the museum’s new multimedia room. The video installations, which remix old movie footage, were created by…
The annual Polar Bear Plunge at Boulder Reservoir has attracted New Year’s Day nutters since at least 1983, and as a tradition, its appeal is elemental. Freezing temperatures shock the body into a state of fever that is briefly invigorating. If it’s cold enough, your heart rate and blood pressure…
The Merc, 2199 California Street, is a reincarnation of an original hipster hangout, harking back to the era of Kerouac and Beat poetry. And because the venue is authentic, you know the entertainment will be, too. Marilyn Megenity’s kitchen will serve dinner from 5:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m., accompanied by…
Leave it to Steuben’s to come up with a New Year’s special to end all New Year’s specials: Steuben’s Pork & Eggs. Last year, the restaurant was open for 24 hours to celebrate the start of 2009; this time, not only is Steuben’s staying open and serving its full menu,…
Steampunk — think steam as in steamship and punk as in cyberpunk — is an aesthetic defined by extrapolating the technology of the past, particularly the Victorian era, into retro science fantasy, like clockwork robots and steam-powered airships. It’s been explored in books like The Difference Engine and movies like…
In 2008, Burma suffered the worst cyclone in the country’s history: 85,000 people died, and 54,000 people are still missing. Tonight, Edge Gallery, 3658 Navajo Street, is hosting a benefit for the Burmese orphans of Cyclone Nargis from 7 to 10 p.m. in conjunction with its new Children of the…
While many moms and dads like the idea of bringing in the New Year alongside their children, keeping the youngest of them conscious into the wee hours can make the march to midnight seem endless. Denver Zoo reps have come up with a simple solution: At Zoo Year’s Eve, the…
Not only will this New Year’s Eve be a full moon, but it will also be a blue moon. (When a single month contains two full moons — which happens once every thirty months or so — that second full moon is the blue one.) The Crested Butte Nordic Center’s…
Most people are waiting until tomorrow to kick off their resolutions for the New Year, but you can get a jump start tonight — and sweat off some of those holiday calories — at the Frozen Buns 5K Resolution Run in Crested Butte. Starting at 5 p.m. at the Crested…
If you’re anything like me, then you learned a long time ago not to trust the men in your life when it comes to improving your sports skills. Fortunately, Eldora Mountain Resort, 2775 Canyon Boulevard in Boulder, and Outdoor Divas are on my wavelength: They offer Women’s Days: Testosterone-Free Skiing…
The superheroes at Buntport Theater have been fighting crime in their home town of Dendiggityopolis for four and a half seasons now as part of an unusual theatrical series called tRUNks: A Live Comic Book. New episodes show every other Saturday with ideas based on suggestions from the previous episode’s…
