There’s snow on the ground and you can’t leave the house without being assaulted by Christmas music or getting poked in the eye by a festive fir tree, and that can mean only one thing: You’d better start shopping. As every media outlet is hellbent on reminding us, the only…
A few months ago, I took a friend to Planned Parenthood to get an abortion. I had been to an appointment with her prior to that where she initially learned that she was pregnant. We talked about the options. It didn’t take long for her to make her choice. At…
Bees are such tiny, seemingly inconsequential creatures, yet milligram for milligram, they affect the landscape in profound ways. You could say the same about small, delicate movies like Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher’s 2014 Cannes Grand Prix winner The Wonders, which tells the story of a hippie beekeeper family in the…
Through the ornate fonts, tints, intertitles, scores, acting techniques and camera tricks that have made his “directed by” credit the ultimate redundancy, Guy Maddin demonstrates in The Forbidden Room that he has forgotten more about silent movies and early talkies than almost anyone else will ever know. And it’s the…
This past summer, RedLine founder Laura Merage launched another Denver art venue, Black Cube, which was conceived as a nomadic museum based out of a black metal container in the shape of a cube. The plan is for the box to be moved around and used for pop-up exhibitions or…
Many Denverites got the same chill yesterday watching the official video premiere of Those Who Can’t — the new show on TruTV from the Grawlix, the comedy squad comprising local heroes Ben Roy, Adam Cayton-Holland and Andrew Orvedahl — as they did watching Rateliff and the Night Sweats on Fallon: It’s…
#1: Susan Froyd Now and then throughout this grand 100CC adventure, it’s been suggested that I participate in my own project and answer the questionnaire myself. I haven’t known exactly what to think about that, because I don’t see myself as the maker and doer here. I’m just the ultimate…
December is a traditionally festive month. But between its Judeo-Christian holidays, family gatherings and glittering lights, it can be easy to go the entire month without replenishing your giggle stores. Fortunately, December is also a month of giving, and hoards of presents await under the chuckle tree, ready to reward Denverites…
O, Zeus, hear my lament that I was not present when Spike Lee imagined updating Lysistrata to present-day Chicago. I’ll bet he burst himself cackling. Aristophanes’s 411 B.C. comedy, written during the three-decade Peloponnesian War, concocts a crazy scheme: Women refuse sex until their blue-balled men give in and declare…
In 2007, director Michael Dougherty served up a basketful of cinematic candy when his debut, Trick ‘r Treat — a creepy, scary love letter to the true spirit of Halloween — lit up horror film festivals. Delighted audiences announced that a new master of horror had been born. But the film’s…
A book store should be a required stop on any holiday shopper’s to-do list, but it’s not the only place to find literary content in Denver this week. We’ve got book signings, readings, performances, magazine releases and a hella good night of slam poetry, too. Toni Tipton-Martin, The Jemima Code:…
For many people, Laura DiSilverio’s schedule would be murder. But this bestselling author of fifteen mystery and suspense novels — many set right here in Colorado — knows the secret to publishing books: “Basically, it is hard work and perseverance,” she says. And those two come naturally to DiSilverio, the mother…
There have been many things keeping me from working on the tiny house lately — from typical seasonal sickness to a gigantic commissioned project with an insane deadline that ate up all my time for six weeks, and now with the holidays approaching I despair of getting anything done. But…
It’s here. The winter snow sports season has arrived. Most of the resorts are open — with the rest making plans for this month. But there is already plenty to do out there. You can read about what’s new at each resort in the Edge, our winter sports guide, which…
The frost of winter is upon us all and with it, the need and desire to seek refuge around a warm flame and bide the time until the new year dawns and the seeds of thaw can be planted. While some seek a roaring fire for their heat others seek…
At Friday’s downtown Denver Grand Illumination, thousands of twinkling LED lights were switched on up and down the 16th Street Mall, from Union Station to the City and County Building to the delight of bundled-up friends and families on the stroll. Photographer Ken Hamblin caught the bright lights and swanky…
Holiday shopping began in earnest — in the best possible, all-local, handmade way — at the 2015 Horseshoe Holiday Market, which featured 100 artisan vendors, food and fashion trucks, and photo ops with a selfie Santa or a tintype artist. Catch the buy-local fever with these images from photographer Danielle…
Soon it will be time to hang our stockings with care, but even well before Santa visits, we geeks will be awash in gifts. December is far from the most geek friendly month of the year, but there’s still no shortage of nerdy fun to be had. From Star Wars celebrations…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we’ll be looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. If you’re one of those folks who thinks the color pink is…
Crowds bundled up last Friday to don HoloSpex glasses and wander in wonder through Blossoms of Light at the Denver Botanic Gardens on opening night. The annual holiday lighting display remains open daily, including Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, through January 2, with holiday music performances offered on selected…
This week kicks off the one of the craziest months of the year. So that you can afford all the travel and gift-giving required by the holidays, save some cash and check out the cool free events this week. You can rub elbows with the DJs, learn ski history and…
What’s a little snow and cold when you’re full of turkey and having fun? A pack of brave skaters turned out in the Thanksgiving snow to skate at the Southwest Rink at Skyline Park in downtown Denver, which will be open daily this winter. All photos by Ken Hamblin III…
