“LUPEC just adores the hi-dive,” enthuses GerRee Anderson, public-relations representative for the Ladies United for the Preservation of Endangered Cocktails. “And the hi-dive feels the same about this party.” In fact, once a year, there are more than enough warm fuzzies to go around: It’s LUPEC’s Crush Party, and tonight’s…
Excluding any kind of vampire-sex fantasy, Denver’s only attempt at coffin fun takes place today as Six Flags Elitch Gardens, 2000 Elitch Circle, unearths Fright Fest with its first-ever Casket Race. A hearse parade opens the festivities at 1 p.m., and then casket-racing teams of two — one pushing, one…
Each year at harvest time, John and Birdie Balistreri and their daughter, Julie, throw a huge party at their Denver vineyard to release their new wines. Party-goers can taste more than twenty new wine releases, feast on hors d’oeuvre, wood-fired pizza, roast pig and desserts, plus enjoy live music and…
Louder Than Words Dancetheatre just doesn’t do things in the usual way — and its latest production, Nocturnography…of Waking and Dreaming, should be no exception. “We don’t do the typical dance piece, and then the lights come up and then there’s another dance,” notes company production manager Whit Ryan. “It’s…
As a kid, I swore I would never be one of those adults who keeps the house freezing and makes everyone put on another layer. Really, there are only so many sweaters you can bundle up in before you’re mummified on the couch. But with Xcel getting a rate hike…
There are a lot of ways you can donate money to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, but none of them are as much fun as A Catch for a Cause, which gives you the opportunity to bid on a fabulous date — and know your escort cash will be used…
If you can conquer a fourteener, why not a seat on the local school board — or in Congress? Since 1998, the Women’s Wilderness Institute has focused its activities for girls and women on the great outdoors, but those activities lead to changes indoors, too. “It’s been proven that the…
“We’re running the whole gamut with our workshops,” says Luann Pesonen, special-events manager for National Jewish Medical and Research Center. “A number of our speakers are dealing with beauty from the inside out, beauty and health, and there are just so many wonderful things to learn. How to eat intuitively…
Denver poet laureate Chris Ransick doesn’t believe in being all high and mighty about his position in life. Instead, his message is more evangelical: He just wants to spread the word about poetry. Trust him, it’s a cool thing. So when Ransick took part in the recent marathon recording session…
Everyone responds to war differently. Some show support by plastering ribbon magnets on their SUVs or publicly praying around flagpoles. Others protest with picket signs and pamphlets or by composing scathing diatribes on their blogs. But with All That I Have Lost: War in Poetry, Prose and Theatre, Colorado Shakespeare…
No studio director was a greater hero to the Hong Kong new wave than Martin Scorsese. John Woo dedicated The Killer to him; Wong Kar-wai modeled his first feature, As Tears Go By, after Mean Streets; and Taxi Driver’s rain-slicked slo-mo urban stylistics worked their way into countless lesser HK…
Among documentary muckrakers, Kirby Dick may not be as righteously indignant as Michael Moore or as brilliantly droll as Nick Broomfield, but say this for the maker and star of This Film Is Not Yet Rated: He’s not afraid to soil his hands to get the story. Rummaging through the…
Moving and ambitious in scale like nothing else in cinema, Michael Apted’s Up films began in 1964 as a BBC news program exploring an old Jesuit maxim: “Give me the child until he is seven, and I will show you the man.” Using interviews of fourteen randomly selected schoolchildren, Seven…
The animated feature has become the most tiresome dish available in the googolplex buffet line — more so than even the mopey art-house offering in which bad things happen to good people while string sections and Elliott Smith sound-alikes douse the soundtrack with dollops of calamity and sorrow. You can’t…
God is in the details no matter what you believe, but Jesus Camp is content to introduce its exposé of Christian youth indoctrination with shots of a fast-food- and flag-lined highway and the words “Missouri, USA.” Welcome to hell, kids. Missouri — yikes! — is among the holy lands of…
If Shocking Beyond Belief! Films’ latest flick, Here Come the Brides, is a reflection of society, you certainly don’t want to be straight. The couple portrayed is overbearing, pathetic andboring. The gays, however, get better food, better clothes, better parties. Plus, they get to corrupt the innocent straight boy in…
It’s been more than seven years in the making, and for the last three, it’s been slowly rising on a site just south of the intersection of West 13th Avenue and Acoma Plaza. You’d have to have been living under a rock — or way out in the suburbs –…
Almost seven years ago, the Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver opened in a two-level space in the former Granada Fish Market at 19th and Lawrence streets. Since its inception in 1996, the MCA (then known as MoCA/D) had been ensconced on the mezzanine of 1999 Broadway. The MCA originally intended to…
The Dresser. The year is 1942, and England is at war. A revered but aging actor, identified only as Sir, is traveling the country, bringing Shakespeare to the provinces. To complicate things further, the actor is moving swiftly into dementia. The action begins an hour or two before the curtain…
An animated cartoon by German humorist Walter Moers that’s causing a fair amount of international controversy shows Hitler sitting on the toilet in his bunker as the Allies move in, grumbling that the war isn’t fun anymore, no one’s listening to him, and it’s all Churchill’s fault. Later, wherever he…
Everything that playwright Lisa Loomer says in Living Out about the blindness of the middle class — even the kindest and most liberal-minded among them — to the problems of the people who work for them is true, and desperately needs saying. This is a cruel culture for poor people…
Emilio Lobato and Martha Daniels. The solos that open the season at William Havu Gallery combine the disparate work of two of the area’s best-known and well-regarded artists. On the walls is Emilio Lobato: Desde Siempre (Since Forever), which comprises the artist’s signature abstractions. The title refers to Lobato’s self-exploration…
