Though Dia de los Muertos is officially November 2, this Saturday’s Day of the Dead Artist Trading Card Workshop should provide some good preparation. From 12:30 to 4 p.m., galleries in the Navajo Street Art District are inviting artists of all kinds to create miniature pieces of work in the…
At 11 a.m. today, a small group of dignitaries led by Mayor Michael Hancock will gather at the McNichols Building at the edge of Denver’s Civic Center (just named a national landmark) to cut the ribbon on the classical structure’s new lease on life. Built in 1910 as a Carnegie…
The seventh annual Denver Zombie Crawl this past Saturday was the biggest yet — but it got an unexpected assist from the third annual March for a World Without Police. The confluence of the two events downtown turned into a giant game of cops and grave robbers. Some zombies were…
Is there life after death? After eighteen years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit, most of them spent in the debilitating confines of death row, Damien Echols plans to find out. In 1993 Echols, then eighteen, and two other Arkansas teenagers were arrested and charged with the murders…
Today’s release date for Forza Horizon for Xbox, which takes place entirely in Colorado, got us thinking: In over forty years of video-game history, there had to have been a few other games set in the Centennial State. Little did we know, a veritable mountain of electronic entertainment has depicted…
Since becoming an adult (er, since I started having thoughts about things in a way that seemed adult-like), I’ve wanted to like haunted houses. I’ve wanted to like them so bad. It sounds dumb — desiring to enjoy something as inanely holiday commerce-driven as a haunted house. But I’m fascinated…
Davy Rothbart is famous for his love of detritus. Ten years ago, he launched FOUND Magazine, an exuberant, low-fi celebration of things left behind: love letters, Post-It notes, journal entries, birthday cards, shopping lists and other strangely revealing minutiae of human existence. FOUND’s pages are hilarious and heartbreaking; often, they’re…
Forza Horizon, the eagerly awaited new open-world racing game for the Xbox 360, takes place in Colorado, against the backdrop of the raucous Horizon music festival. Developed by UK-based Playground Games and published by Microsoft and Turn 10 Studios, Forza Horizon is the first game in the gearhead-thrilling Forza series…
Denver’s regular adult skate night, Down & Derby, is known for its costumes, but attendees went all out on Saturday in honor of Halloween. Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Thing 1, Thing 2 and the walking dead joined a surprising group of peers at the Exdo Event Center over the weekend…
Anyone who didn’t already know about Denver’s ghoulish annual tradition might have been tempted to run for their lives on Saturday. During Denver Zombie Crawl 2012, thousands of people dressed up as the walking dead and converged on the 16th Street Mall for what might be the creepiest crawl in…
Colorado’s longest-running science fiction and fantasy convention hit the Hyatt Regency in the Denver Tech Center over the weekend. The convention featured more than eighty speakers and events across three days, and it attracted hundreds of costumed attendees dressed as their favorite characters. Continue reading for our twenty favorite looks…
Loveland lost the annual race to open first this season to the neighbors at Arapahoe Basin, but first chair tomorrow at 9 a.m. will still be a hot ticket when the ski area marks the start of its 75th anniversary season with a top-to-bottom run on the Catwalk, Mambo, and…
Ask local filmmaker Paul Berry what BARK, showing at the Mercury Cafe this Wednesday, is “about,” and you end up with a shake-and-bake collection of themes and pop-culture references that include George Lucas, the Baghavad Gita, political satire, George W. Bush, buffalo on the moon and an implied post-modern anti-war…
El Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, is a holiday that honors the dead through altars, offerings, sculptures and dances. For the Aztec, who had been celebrating this tradition for more than 3,000 years before encountering travelers from Spain, death was not the end but the continuation…
All zombie-d out from the weekend? Don’t worry: There are no undead events on this list, just dead-free ones. From a bring-your-own records party to a RMCAD faculty art show to a live podcast taping and bash, you have many great ways to spend time this week — without spending…
Denver has a reputation as an entrepreneurial town, which means there are a lot of brains to pick here. And whether you’re already among the ranks of local creatives and small-business owners or thinking about joining them, you’re sure to find something interesting going on during Denver Startup Week, an…
The ancient Romans were remarkably accomplished people, as evidenced by A Day in Pompeii, a special exhibit now on display at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. But not only were they responsible for many inventions, they also knew how to party, as Cory Casciato reports. See also: -…
The zombie craze shows no signs of dying out; you can’t take part in any pop-cultural obsession these days without someone trying to add brains to it. But last night at Bar Standard, the show revolved around what was being removed, not added. Burlesque maven Cora Vette and crew added…
A very special wedding took place at Skyventure Colorado last week between two daredevil lovers. Instead of opting for a church, the romantic adventurers held their ceremony inside the facility’s vertical wind tunnel, where family and friends gathered for love and moral support. Once the “I do’s” were said and…
You can bank on Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? being different from other movies about the recent economic bust. The 75-minute film traces the crash of 2008 as far back as the ’70s. “A lot of times you see documentaries and they’re like, ‘Here’s this big problem, here’s who’s…
We love our cons in Colorado, and there’s no con more splendid than MileHiCon, which unfolds this weekend at the Hyatt Regency Tech Center — for its 44th year. By tradition, MileHiCon is about books, but it’s also about the many worlds of genre fiction, from tried-and-true science fiction to…
If you’re looking for things to do this weekend, you’re in the right place. Whether you want to build Day of the Dead altars, see zombie burlesque, dance at an ’80s party, or chill out with a speed Reiki session, we’ve got it all here — and more. And here’s…
