I can’t imagine why anyone would choose to sit around thinking about all the avian-flu-type things waiting to kill us. What a bummer it would be worrying about pandemics and blizzards and extended power outages all the time. And does anyone even listen? Yeah, we know: bottled water, batteries, canned…
Longtime local runners Alan Lind and Maureen Roben, who already provide the brains and the brawn behind the Platte River Trail Half Marathon in April, fantasized about organizing a run that took side trips through the neighborhoods of Denver, but they learned that it could be a costly endeavor to…
Having fun and feeling good about yourself has never been easier than it will be tonight at the Colorado National Speedway, 4281 Weld County Road 10 in Erie, when the Shining Stars Celebrity Challenge revs up starting at 4 p.m. Benefiting the Shining Stars Foundation — which provides fun programs…
If there’s one thing Denver is lacking, it’s pools. Unless you live in a trendy apartment complex or splurge on a plastic pool for the back yard, you probably don’t spend much of your summers here dangling your toes in the water with an umbrella drink in hand. Picking up…
Princess Cheri Bottoms, aka Jason Nichols, co-founded and headlined last year’s Absolute! Fabulous! Gorgeous! show in support of the Boulder County AIDS Project because the spread of HIV/ AIDS is an issue that hits close to home: The Princess lost a long-term partner to the disease. This year’s showstopping headliner,…
Colorado lacrosse is down one living legend. Two weeks ago, Colorado Mammoth coach Gary Gait announced he was leaving to pursue other interests. Gait was more than just the coach who led the Mammoth to a 2006 National Lacrosse League championship in his first year at the helm; he was…
On the last Friday of each month, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art has been throwing open its doors for NightLite, a bash featuring art in just about every manifestation possible. “We offer different live performance art, music, entertainment, libations, food from local restaurants,” explains Keleigh Asbury, director of special…
Erik Klanderud watches the MotherLode Volleyball Classic every year, and every year he’s amazed by the level of play. The Classic’s producer, Leon Fell, was his volleyball coach at Aspen High School back in the ’80s, but Klanderud — who now works for the Aspen Chamber Resort Association — says…
This year’s Creede Salsa Fiesta isn’t just about five different categories of dip — red, green, freestyle, hot tamale and fruit. And although — as at Fiestas past — attendees will be able to purchase a ticket from the Creede and Mineral County Chamber of Commerce Office, 1207 North Main…
What’s up with this? Can it be that Scotch-sipper, actor and satirical humorist Joel McHale, host of the E! network’s The Soup and star of screens large and small, is the opening act at one of Colorado’s biggest and most complete organized motorcycle rallies? That’s the plan: McHale kicks off…
As the seventeenth of eighteen children from a Honduran-based Mexican mama and German papa, it’s no wonder that Carlos Mencia has race on his mind — and that he knows how to get attention. The first time I watched Mind of Mencia, hearing so many taboos in a row made…
Spending a Thursday night in the corner office might not sound like a fabulous time — unless, of course, we’re talking about the Corner Office Restaurant and Martini Bar at 1401 Curtis Street and it’s the monthly Hip Chicks Out night, when Denver’s loveliest ladies gather to socialize, mingle and…
Mothers and mothers-to-be, now is the time to be BOLD, at Birth on Labor Day, which aims to improve the quality of maternity care. The day starts with the women-only Red Tent Event at 1 p.m. to get together and share birth experiences, create “birth art,” be hennaed and join…
Since 1993, the Dalhart Imperials have played both kinds of music — country and Western — better than just about any of their peers. Tonight, however, they’re playing their final show, and longtime frontman Les Cooper resists romanticizing the reasons behind the breakup. “I just decided to quit,” he says…
In the independent nation of Boulder, the foodies take all things raw, slow, organic, free-range and homegrown just a little too seriously. But if you brush away all the posturing about where your salad came from and what the cow ate before it became a steak, there is some sense…
Back before I wrote anything except awkward poetry or read anything except Beat writers or kissed a girl who wasn’t my mother or really knew why I hated the suburbs (except that I really hated them); back when I stole beer from people’s open garages in the summertime and dreamed…
What dedicated ski bum would even think of starting another season of sliding without prepping for it at Warren Miller’s annual screen paean to the sport? That’s right. None, and zero. The Hollywood-born Miller’s been slapping out his high-energy ski-adventure flicks like hockey pucks for nearly sixty years, and the…
Shortly after graduating from film school, I took a part-time job as the assistant to a successful movie and television director who told me I’d be handling a mix of personal and professional responsibilities. Not long after, I was put to work maintaining the good humor of the tenants at…
Masterfully edited and cumulatively walloping, Charles Ferguson’s No End in Sight turns the well-known details of our monstrously bungled Iraq War into an enraging, apocalyptic litany of fuckups. You may have already heard some or all of the absurd, shameful, appalling details that Ferguson collects and still be driven to…
It seems fitting that a movie about debate competition should produce ambivalent feelings. As a master debater says early on in Jeffrey Blitz’s Rocket Science, a strong opinion is a luxury the great ones don’t allow themselves; it only gets in the way. What matters is being able to argue…
Back in 1995, Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise gave flesh to a Yank’s fantasy of worldly European womanhood: Julie Delpy’s Celine, a sprite who materialized on a passenger train for one sweet Viennese night of courtship and flirtation, as if willed from the fevered dreams above a thousand hostel beds. As…
Eight years ago, the philosophy professor-turned-cineast Bruno Dumont debuted his sophomore feature at the Cannes Film Festival. Set in a banal French village on the northeastern coast, the plot involved an investigation by police superintendent Pharaon, a repressed, mouth-breathing mama’s boy, into the rape and murder of an eleven-year-old girl…
