“If you’re from Denver (or you’ve lived here for more than eight consecutive months) you know how small it can feel,” says Bree Davies. “It’s like three degrees of separation between you, your favorite barista at Pablo’s and your best friend from eighth-grade summer camp. Because that favorite barista is…
We released our 2012 Summer Guide in June, including hundreds of events and opportunities to escape both in the city and in the great outdoors. Each Thursday, we’ll roll out the best things to do this week, making it easier for you to plan your summer. Among this week’s listings…
The theater gods tend to smile on resourcefulness — and with the level of adaptability that Wit Theatre Company has had to exhibit so far, it should be no exception. To mount their first show, the people behind Wit have had to bring together warm bodies from the remnants of…
Every year the “people’s tree” takes center stage at the various Christmas festivities in Washington, D.C., and this year that tree will be a Colorado native from the White River National Forest. Colorado was selected out of 155 national forests. A celebration starts tonight in Lakewood, with help from Rolling…
Christopher Titus cut his teeth in comedy clubs in the ’80s after having an epiphany as a teenager when he fell into a bonfire. But it wasn’t until the late ’90s when Titus — whose comedy focuses on his upbringing in a highly dysfunctional family — that Titus began to…
The International Association of Skateboarding Companies declared June 21 as “the official holiday of skateboarding” back in 2003, and there are hundreds of killer concrete skate parks across Colorado to help you celebrate Go Skateboarding Day today. Here’s a quick roundup of events and places where you can show your…
The Museo de las Americas will be full of fresh faces tonight at its twentieth-anniversary celebration and mask exhibit, Cara a Cara. Before you go to the show, check out this preview of some of the colorful masks from the collection All photos courtesy of the Museo de las Americas,…
All the mall’s a stage for today’s Make Music Denver Denver loves its music, whether sounding off in outdoor amphitheatres, concert halls clubs…or the streets. That’s where it will be today, when the Downtown Denver Partnership brings Make Music Denver, our own little slice of today’s global celebration of World…
Hot enough for you? Bree Davies’s “top five reasons to stop whining and enjoy the summer already” has plenty of people hot under the collar…
The entire world should have a spring in its step today as more than 500 cities across the globe celebrate the healing, community-building, vibration-raising power of music. In Denver, Make Music Day builds on France’s Fête de la Musique, which has inspired happy imitators since it became a national holiday…
Once a vibrant commercial district, Denver’s Jefferson Park floundered in the age of the automobile. Today, Better Block Denver transforms one stretch of the neighborhood into a dynamic, pedestrian-friendly ecosystem, with pop-up shops and restaurants, art, landscaping and other features that encourage interaction, community and purposeful strolling. Building on a…
“Designers are geeks for type,” admits Elysia Syriac of AIGA Colorado, the local chapter of the national graphic-design organization. And that’s really the only explanation she can give for how a group of the professional compatriots came up with the idea of an urban-adventure scavenger hunt in search of, well,…
Su Teatro’s Chicanos Sing the Blues was born on a ride up the highway from Pueblo and fueled by the beautiful crossover mess of Los Super Seven’s Tex-Mex mutt music, says company director Anthony Garcia, who wrote the musical with his driving mate, Daniel Valdez. The result, a revue that’s…
Horseshoe Market kahuna Amy Yetman didn’t quite know what to make of it when the folks at History Colorado contacted her about joining forces for a series of mini-flea markets at historical sites around the state. But it also sounded like a fun way to expand while offering her vendors…
Combining the best in action sports and live music, the Journeys Backyard BBQ Tour 2012 throws internationally renowned athletes and bands together for an all-ages, activity-packed festival. Beginning at noon today on the south side of the Colorado Mills mall, BMXers and skateboarders cross dangerous paths, wakeboarders hit the water…
At tonight’s Blessing of the Bicycles, cycling enthusiasts of all gear speeds and denominations are invited to the House for All Sinners and Saints at St. Thomas Episcopal Church for a celebratory anointing of human-powered transport. Ordained Lutheran minister and House for All founder Nadia Bolz-Weber will be swinging her…
Twenty years ago, Salida was a sleepy mountain town on the Arkansas river with a few galleries. River rafters knew it; so did artists looking for a scenic but quiet spot to live and work, and it was (and is) a nice riverside stopover while driving through the Rockies. It…
Sometimes races aren’t hard enough on their own; you have to add obstacles like tunnels, mud pits, water crossings, sand-bag carries or a slippery mountain to really get your heart rate’s worth. If you’re the part of the population that actually agrees with that, then the Merrell Down & Dirty…
From the way he’s loading our plates with stuff this spring, it seems Adam Lerner must have had one of those good Jewish mothers: Three shows — Bruce Conner and the Primal Scene of Punk Rock, Richard Peterson: Artists and Rockers and Guarded, an installation piece by the artist collective…
Following up on the overwhelming success of 2009’s Precious (the Hollywood adaptation of the dark novel Push), author Sapphire continued the story in the 21st century with The Kid, this time following the dramatic and disturbing life of the son of Push protagonist Precious. “The Kid presents even more of…
After three successful years of celebrating life on two wheels, Cactus brings its annual Bike From Work Bash to the intersection of Little Raven and 15th streets, where the agency’s office is located. In light of the pedal party’s exponential growth since its 2008 inception, Cactus has plans for the…
This year’s Beaver Creek Documentary Film Series features five films with Colorado roots, including the opening act, the Academy Award-winning Saving Face, from Denver director Daniel Junge and Pakistani filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. “The idea for doing a Colorado-based film series came out of a conversation I had with a woman…
