For ten years, Gary Culig starred in The Santaland Diaries — a one-man, one-act play based on an essay by David Sedaris — at the Bug Theatre, but last December he delivered his final performance here and toddled back to New York. Now the Boulder Ensemble has taken up the…
Sometimes at Christmas, it’s the little things we appreciate most. And Jill Warner of Mod Livin’ knows that better than most folks: She says it’s the little things, most of them priced under $100, that fly out of the mid-century modern emporium each holiday season. Here are a few of…
Take two superstar jurists, throw in everyone else, shake it all up with a year’s worth of fantastic art seen at galleries on Santa Fe Drive, and you’ve got Art District Best of 2009, a confetti-ready celebration of one of Denver’s most popular artwalk destinations and all the fine artists…
Getting my husband to go to holiday light displays after dark in December is like pulling a whole mouthful of wisdom teeth simultaneously: If it’s one degree below 45, the kid and I can just as well forget about it. Excuses, excuses. However, in the interest of more satisfying holiday…
Good movies move people. Granted, the emotional effect sometimes lasts no longer than the film itself — that is, unless you’re Denver Film Society program manager Keith Garcia and the film in question is Word Is Out, the 1977 documentary Garcia selected as this week’s installment of DFS’s monthly Cinema…
It’s the season for giving, but also for receiving. That’s why the Printed Page Bookshop’s Food for Thought drive for the East Denver FISH food bank is perfect: You give food and receive great new reading material in exchange. Everything from cookbooks to bestsellers are included, and you can bring…
If you’ve ever slung latkes — from the grated potatoes and onions to the hot oil — you know how labor-intensive it would be to cook 150 of them. But if you’ve ever eaten a plate full of these mouth-watering potato pancakes, you also know how quickly they disappear. A…
Bar crawls are tough to plan. Some people do it by selecting all the spots in advance, contacting the bars to arrange drink specials and then inviting all of their friends. Some don’t. But these crawls are notoriously unsuccessful because the route sucks, the drink specials don’t materialize, friends bail…
The ridiculousness of Christmas has been fodder for comedians since, oh, the genesis of the holiday in the Middle Ages. But the past few decades have brought an abundant new source of yuletide yucks: popular culture. From cinema to commercials, the birth of Christ has been hijacked by the pious…
It’s that time of year again. No, not the holiday season: It’s time for you to get your ass in gear and watch all of the Oscar-nominated films so you can appear to be the educated one at your annual Academy Awards viewing party. “But how will I ever find…
The best way to kick the Grinch out of your holiday-frazzled personality? A bit of the hair o’ the dog should do the trick: Bundle up the kids and everyone else you’ve been screaming at this week, and take them to see Broomfield-based Danse Etoile’s alternative take on holiday ballet,…
Most people think of Christmas as the central holiday of the season — but before there was Christmas, there were solstice celebrations to mark the longest night of the year and the gradual return of daylight to the northern hemisphere; these festivities were linked to a mythos involving the rebirth…
One cool thing about our homegrown Flobots: The indie phenoms may tour the nation now, but they still stay true to their schools. To that end, they’ll host a progressive Flobots.org Holiday Hootenanny that begins tonight at 6 p.m. with a laid-back reception at the Flobots.org Community Center before moving…
Karen Bozik, who decorated the Governor’s Mansion this year for the holiday season, notes that the free Holiday Tours of the residence are “wildly popular. Last year was the busiest year they’ve ever had.” The tour’s run has been extended by a couple of days this year, which should give…
Rabbi Jamie Korngold, best known on the Front Range as the Adventure Rabbi, mixes religion with the great outdoors all year long. But when asked about the annual Adventure Rabbi Chanukah Party, which takes place under a roof, she has this story to tell: “In eight years, the only event…
For the past six weeks, painter Michael Gadlin has been working with a group of six- to fourteen-year-old budding artists to put together a show, Essence & Elements, for PlatteForum. He’s the latest in a long string of artists who have participated in the organization’s goal of introducing low-income youngsters…
Everyone’s got a back-story, and that includes former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, though in her case you’d think the main story – the one about being the first woman in history to hold that post – would be enough. Think again. Albright’s unique new pictorial memoir, Read My…
Cross-country skiing gets the short end of the ski pole in these parts, and that’s probably because it’s a much more subtle rush than downhill — not to mention maybe more work. But as Holly Johnson of the Colorado Cross Country Ski Association notes, it’s great exercise and brings with…
NBC Sports and the Dew Tour have been trying since 2005 to give action sports a season-long arc that fans of more traditional sports can follow: Rather than a one-off annual competition like the X Games, Dew tour athletes accumulate points over a series of events, collecting statistics that mainstream…
The mysteries of space have always held the power to inspire art. With that in mind, NASA created an art program in 1962, calling upon the talents of everyone from Norman Rockwell to Andy Warhol to explore and illustrate the beauty, majesty and wonder of exploring the last, greatest frontier…
Here’s an Olympic event you’re not going to want to miss. No, it’s not biathlon. (It’s hard not to appreciate the combination of skiing and shooting a gun, though, isn’t it?). Check out Snowboardcross at this year’s Vancouver Olympics. This relatively new Olympic event puts four snowboarders on a course…
Who says sledding’s for kids? The Zipfy Mini Luge weighs just three and a half pounds, but a 250-pounder can theoretically ride it 80 miles an hour down the mountain. Inspired by the luge and shovel sledding, riders sit on this tiny chunk of plastic and zoom feet first down…
