Remember when you could watch free plays in Civic Center Park during the summer? That was awesome. All you needed for a great night out was a blanket, a cooler full of snacks and drinks and a few friends. In my opinion, nothing beats free outdoor theater. Which is why…
We received a pajamas letter response in the mail! No, it didn’t come from our original pajamas lover. This one came from one of you, dear readers, someone who was obviously so inspired by our pajamas drawings that she just had to send us a depiction of her jammies. And…
To pleat or not to pleat: that is the question. Our uber-hot marketing guru, Megan, (her Look of the Day will be coming soon, boys. And she is well worth the wait. I promise.), has this to say on the subject: “Flat front. Always. Pleats remind me of my dad.”…
“I’m a hair dresser and a real estate agent by trade,” reveals Denver Fur Drive organizer Joyce McKenzie, “but I have a passion.” That passion has driven her to help stop the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals every year for the sake of fashion. McKenzie hopes to raise…
You’d be surprised by how much you can learn about life from pushing a bunch of yarn around with two sticks. When I first started knitting, the biggest lesson was that patience is a virtue, and while I’d never been a patient person, I found that I did have it…
In the 21st century, real fashionistas recycle. In other words, when you’re tearing apart your closet this weekend, casting off last year’s beautiful spring rags to make room for the new ones, be sure and put your best hand-me-downs aside and head on over to this Sunday’s Free Boutique Spring…
While we wait with baited breath for the mysterious pajamas lover we accidentally discovered to respond to our creative renderings of our pajamas, we’ve been wondering: What’s up with pajamas? Why would someone be so obsessed with PJs they’d seek out random drawings of strangers’ nocturnal garments? Why not request…
For Kingdom of Magic’s debut, Luke Fairchild and his White Dynamite cohort, Joe Ramirez, team up with drummer Devon Rogers for a relentlessly heavy bong-burner. Unlike their cannabis-cracked stoner-rock cronies, however, the trio keeps the riff tonnage at maximum and drops it hard. There are only two tracks, but they…
Gregory Alan Isakov isn’t a big talker. Live, he rolls through his sets with graceful efficiency and a minimum of banter. When he does speak, it’s at such low levels that you’re forced to lean in close to catch the gist of what he’s saying. As soft-spoken as Isakov is,…
Developers seem to believe that their first-person games are required to include online modes. Blame it on the few narrow-minded gamers (and critics) who constantly hammer away with that boneheaded message. At best, it’s a strange logic of inheritance: Since the earliest first-person shooters were playable online, every first-person game…
Kevin Larson has something very different planned for his upcoming bash, Theatre Du Vaudeville. “It’s a kick-off party for his new non-profit company,” notes Jodi Johnson of Kevin Larson Presents. “The National Performers Alliance is a group where people can come together and book different kinds of talent that don’t…
There’s so much doom and gloom inherent in global warming. That’s why the second annual Global Warming Expo at the Boulder Theater is such a refreshing change of pace. “We’re bringing it all together,” says event coordinator Penny Berman. “We’ve got science and business, politics and music, dance and art…
If you were stranded in the wilderness with only the clothes on your back, a harmonica and a Leatherman multi-tool, could you survive? Les Stroud could. The star of Survivorman does just that on a regular basis for the television show. And if you’ve never gotten a chance to see…
Ars Nova Singers artistic director Tom Morgan calls tonight’s innerVoice: Chant event “a concert that’s fairly eclectic in terms of music from around the world.” Talk about an understatement. According to Morgan, the first half of the show focuses on chants that spring from the familiar Gregorian tradition. But he…
Denver’s poet laureate, Chris Ransick, intends to live up to his title. Under Ransick’s reign, National Poetry Month will no longer lie limply on the local plane; instead, he’s shooting to see a different poetry event scheduled in the area for every day in April — and if he hasn’t…
The fashion at tonight’s Aveda Institute Denver hair and makeup show, “Shampoo, Rinse, Recycle,” is going to be as green as it gets. “Our green team is a group of students and staff in charge of making sure that the Institute is as environmentally conscious as possible,” explains Aveda’s Alicia…
So you think you can dance…or maybe you just wish you could. Either way, Monsters of HipHop is here to help. The organization brings top choreographers who have worked with some of the world’s top talent — including Justin Timberlake, Missy Elliott and Usher — together with aspiring dancers to…
Kickball may have an ironic hipster sheen in today’s adult leagues, but at heart it’s still the schoolyard game we all remember — even if the traditional after-game juice boxes have been replaced by cold beers. Tonight at 7 p.m. at the hi-dive, 7 South Broadway, you can experience another…
Dale Katechis, founder of Oskar Blues Cajun Grill and Brewery in Lyons, is a big fan of Merle Haggard. A couple of years ago, he asked beerman Marty Jones how much it might cost to get the country-music legend to play at the brewpub, or at least record a song…
Why create a “boatercross” that sends kayakers barreling down a snow-covered mountain course with banked corners, berms, rollers and jumps? Why not? In its third year at Monarch Mountain, Kayaks on Snow is the kind of event that just organically came to be. “Our home town, Salida, down the road,…
That Denver’s Chicano Humanities and Arts Council is celebrating thirty years on the local arts scene is no surprise. Few grassroots non-profit arts organizations have as much wherewithal when it comes to sticking to the plan. Now as entrenched as an ancient tire rut burned into a road paved with…
“China was awarded the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympics — with the condition that it improve its human-rights record ahead of the Games,” says Susan Prager, outreach director of the Human Rights Torch Relay USA. “Instead, China escalated its human-rights abuses, which include rampant political incarcerations of so-called…
