A lot can change in 100 years, but the greatest thing about Lakeside Amusement Park is how much everything has stayed the same. You can still take a spin around the lake in “Puffing Billy” and “Whistling Tom,” the park’s original miniature steam engines that were installed for the opening…
Ever wanted to donate to one of those really feel-good causes — but you spent all your money at the bar instead? Is rafting higher on your priorities list than helping starving kids in some Third World country? Today starting at 11 a.m., the Yagatta Regatta is your chance to…
All aboard for the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad, dubbed the “scenic line of the world” in the 1870s, about eighty years before the route took a fifty-year hiatus. But the line has been back on track since 2006 and is introducing some innovations in its third season, which starts today…
“This isn’t your spandex-clad, Ride the Rockies kind of event,” says Jennifer Nordhem of the Cycle Jerks’ Memorial Day Weekend double blowouts, Foreplay and Gang Bang. The Cycle Jerks are a Denver-based Internet television group, but they also happen to throw the baddest bicycle bashes this town has ever seen…
Given the opportunity to see a Broadway musical inspired by ABBA’s hits, you may ask yourself, “Should I Laugh or Should I Cry?” But Denver said, “Gimme, Gimme, Gimme More!,” and now the acclaimed musical comedy MAMMA MIA! is back, for one week only. Watch a single “Mamma Mia” face…
To write Snuff, a book about a porn queen at the center of a record-setting gang bang, novelist Chuck Palahniuk, who’s in town tonight, had to immerse himself in the medium, so to speak — and he found much to admire. “I love the fact that porn always ends the…
Near the beginning of Anita O’Day: The Life of a Music Legend, a 2007 documentary that begins its local run today, then-Today host Bryant Gumbel is heard interviewing the venerable jazz vocalist. “Your personal experiences include rape, abortion, jail, heroin addiction…” he says, only to be interrupted by O’Day responding…
Although singer-songwriter Missy Higgins is a star in her native Australia, she’s little known in these United States. So prior to the U.S. release of On a Clear Night, a CD that’s already successful back home, she relocated to Los Angeles with the goal of increasing her profile — and…
Danny Tenaglia is the ultimate DJ, the Platonic DJ form of which other DJs are but pale shadows. His roots can be traced back all the way to the legendary Paradise Garage in New York, where he witnessed the pioneering work of Larry Levan. Tenaglia’s style is wide open, dictated…
So you’re not running the Bolder Boulder on Monday because it’s too hard, too congested or too, well, all about Boulder? No problem: There’s an attractive alternative right down the street today at the fourth annual Pedal the Platte, a non-competitive urban bike ride that snakes through some of downtown’s…
Remember when the Gories stunned Detroit in the late ’80s? No? Well, you’re not the only one. Worry not, true believers: Striking in a new direction from the Gories’ minimalist rhythm section — which featured no bass and only tom-toms — comes the Dirtbombs, led by guitarist/vocalist Mick Collins, who…
If Happenings bled glitz and brought art to the people, then Street Works rose from the gutters, and the people often had to be lucky enough to find them. Perhaps that’s why the latter isn’t as well remembered in Sixties lore: The conceptual-art performances of a group of poets and…
Order: Metal. Family: Swedish. Genus: Death. Species: Melodic. Just as new-wave keyboards revealed Andrew W.K. to be the complete prat that he is, a similar approach here gives Sonic Syndicate a disturbing edge into creepiness. Syndicate’s technically astute, piston-pumping axes and precision double bass give Dark Tranquility a run for…
Nothing says Colorado history like mining, and no place says it better than Georgetown, which celebrates our storied past every year with the annual Historic Georgetown Railroad & Mining Days event. Today and tomorrow, the picturesque mountain town holds a celebration on Sixth Street, featuring rides on the Georgetown Loop…
Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of unlikely returns, beginning with that of Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, who’s been absent from movie screens (except as an occasional actor) for nearly as long as…
CANNES, France—The competition for the Palme d’Or is ongoing as I write, but the story of the 61st Cannes Film Festival is Steven Soderbergh’s two-part, four-and-a-half-hour Che—an epic non-biopic that might well have been approved by Roberto Rossellini, envied by Francis Coppola, and even appreciated by its subject. (And the…
Once the temperature threatens to reach 80 degrees on a regular basis, I must shop. Sure, there are all those old spring and summer clothes in my closet, but to truly feel like the nice weather is here, I need to buy some new shoes (and skirts and jewelry). First,…
This past April I went to Kim’s house to do my taxes. When the process was complete I shouted, “This is horseshit! How the hell do I owe the government any money?! I’m broke as it is!!! Come to think of it, why do I have to pay taxes, at…
The concept at Positive Strokes, a Greenwood Village shop combining women’s tennis and fitness gear with wellness programs just for the ladies, was different enough to garner a Best of Denver award earlier this year (here’s what we said about it). But here’s another reason to go check it out:…
You all have one lurking in a drawer somewhere, girls: a nasty tangle of broken and knotted gold chains, mateless earrings with twisted posts and, I dunno, something made of shiny metal that might have once come out of a bubblegum machine. And you can part with this stuff, believe…
When the second season of Bravo’s “creative competition” show Shear Genius premieres in June, Denver will be represented by Charlie Price, co-owner of Click Salon, located at 231 Milwaukee Street. The first show airs on June 25, with stylists competing to “cut or get cut” (sounds violent, doesn’t it?). Should…
No adult has ever been able to codify what separates a good movie from a classic. In kid terms, though — those favored by Son of Rambow, a chipper tribute to the cinema as both supplier and repository of dreams — a good movie merely sends you bounding home from…
