Move Your Bass
For me, fishing is all about luck. I have no idea which lure catches which fish, and one time I thought I had the big one on my line — but the hook was just stuck on the lake’s floor. For me, fishing is a lot like surfing: Even if…
Arts & Culture
Showing 28711 - 28732 of 38220Bluegrass Bells
Longtime Colorado entertainer Timothy P. Irvin is a talented musician and, as one of this region’s early importers of the Appalachian string music known as bluegrass, is considered a Rockygrass pioneer. But what really sets the man apart is the fact that he can play a mean nose trumpet. If…
Bells on Parade
I know there are people who would vehemently disagree, but I think dogs in costumes are pretty darn cute. I’m not talking about winter jackets or an everyday wardrobe; that’s disturbing. But when the occasion calls for costumes, why not? The Jingle Bell Run for Arthritis calls for costumes of…
On a Mission
This time of year, I have two goals: finding unique holiday gifts for my family and friends, and sampling all of the comfort foods of the season. Luckily for me, today’s Mission Wear Christmas Bazaar provides ample opportunity for both — plus, I’ll get to feel a little altruistic about…
Shock Therapy
Most economics students know the late Milton Friedman as an energetic booster of the free-market system. But to Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, who appears tonight and tomorrow to benefit KGNU radio, he was a considerably more sinister figure — a theorist whose…
Frock City
Lately, television programming seems to be in a rut: Every other show features the race to be America’s Next Top Stylist/Chef/Designer/Model, and it all seems so scripted. Yawn. Tonight, get out of the rut and off the couch for an up-close and personal — not to mention live — experience…
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Last of the Art-O-Marts
It’s a sad day for local art aficionados and savvy shoppers alike. Local art maestra Lauri Lynnxe Murphy will be closing her gallery, Capsule Art and Event Center, at the end of the year because the building’s owner is tearing down the structure to make way for a parking lot…
Bright Lights, Big City
It was March, and it was ten in the morning, back in the day, children, when the Ogden Theatre was still a wonderful film revival house. (I ought to know: I used to work there and still have the emotional Rocky Horror scars to prove it.) That’s when I first…
Open Doors
Denver Open Media, the non-profit organization that allows anyone to produce his own TV show and air it on public access, is celebrating its one-year anniversary — and you’re invited. It all starts with a telethon on Channel 57 from 2 to 6 p.m. Afterward, head to the studios, at…
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Pearl of the Winter
Anyone who dreads the mall and suffers panic attacks over hard-to-shop-for friends and relatives could benefit from a stroll down Old South Pearl Street this time of year. The strip may be best known for its restaurants, but it’s also a 100-year-old shopping district lined with unique gift finds: clothes,…
Project Runway Menswear Challenge
Last Wednesday’s episode of Project Runway forced the designers to take on what might be the biggest single challenge on the show to date — menswear. When the 13 remaining designers had to swap their lithe, pretty female models who are always ready to wear every flowing, gauzy gown and…
Warmth Isn’t Just for the Slopes
We all have our ski and snowboarding, puffy, heavy, non-figure flattering coats. How to be a sexy, warm snow bunny is not my area of expertise. I hang out in the resort bars and get cocked, so I couldn’t care less about warmth. I am not an expert in the…
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Support Fresh City Friends
If you’ve ever wanted to learn to knit, make pop-up cards or brew the perfect cup of tea but were short on dough, you might have discovered that the Denver Public Library offers all these things and more for free as part of their Fresh City Life programming. Initially intended…
The Nerd-Rush of Aught-Seven
Mark your Pocket PC calendars; Fall of 2007 was when television discovered the power of the Geek. Oh, sure, they’d dabbled in nerddom here and there, mainly in the second-banana roles that sitcoms are so rife with (Urkel, Screech, Potsie, etc.), or on reality shows, some of them blatantly using…
Charles Phoenix Retro Slide Show Tonight
L.A.-based pop culturalist will present his kitsch-filled holiday slide show tonight from 7 – 9 p.m. at Steele Elementary School, 370 South Marion Pkwy., Denver. Check out this slide show preview sample of what you’re likely to see…
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Camobooty — For Manly Hunters Who Want Boobs on their Chest
A modest television commercial proposal for Camobooty, the Denver-based fashion craze that’s currently sweeping the nation: FADE IN: Two burly hunters, STEW and LEW, are lying on the forest floor, their rifles at the ready. LEW: Darn it, Stew, there’s somethin’ different ’bout you today. Like you got yourself a…
Redacted
Acid flashback or déjà vu? Who, having lived through the late ’60s, would have anticipated re-experiencing the spectacle of an arrogantly mendacious U.S. administration bogged down in an ill-conceived, undeclared, bungled, costly and apparently endless counterinsurgency? (Although who familiar with American history could doubt its recurrence?) Iraq isn’t Vietnam. Yet,…
PlumbTuckered Out?
There’s no surer sign that a franchise is in trouble than when it blasts into outer space. So you were right to be nervous when Nintendo announced its plans to follow up the subpar game Super Mario Sunshine with something called Super Mario Galaxy, which promised to launch the mustached…
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Touch of Evel
Hot Rod(Paramount)Andy Samberg, best known for stuffing his dick in a box on Saturday Night Live, is Rod Kimble, a wannabe stuntman with very little “man” in him. He lives with his mom (Sissy Spacek, not kidding) and a stepdad (Ian McShane), who needs a new heart at a “conveniently…
Up and Coming
Bratz (Lionsgate) Drunken Angel: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) Elvis: Blue Suede Collection (Warner Bros.) ESPNU Honor Roll: The Best of College Football Vol. 3 (ESPN) Happy Days: The Third Season (Paramount) Hot Fuzz: 3-Disc Collector’s Edition (Universal) The Land Before Time: The Wisdom of Friends (Universal) Laverne & Shirley: The…
Like a Complete Unknown
I’m Not There is the movie of the year — but to whom does Todd Haynes’s Bob Dylan biopic actually belong, and when was it really made? The great attention-grabber of last month’s New York Film Festival, I’m Not There is as notable for its stunt casting as its elusive…
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La Cage Aux Folles
La Cage Aux Folles is a big, splashy musical with lots of big, splashy numbers. But unlike most such musicals, it’s also got heart, humor and a good story to tell. Beyond all that, in a time of intense mean-spiritedness and prejudice in the political arena, this show carries a…