Versus Verses

In the age of Kindle, where is poetry? That’s one of many questions posed by e-Poetry: The Past, Present and Future of Electronic Poetry, a showcase and a laboratory for engaging works of digital literature. The exhibition includes multimedia installations and live readings from area poets, including e-Poetry co-curators Aaron…

Hail to the Chiefs

Instead of choosing between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney this November, there’s another candidate you might want to consider: the Kinsey Sicks. The “dragapella beautyshop quartet” is running a fictional campaign on the Republican ticket and will be in Denver this weekend with a new show and album, Electile Dysfunction:…

Prepping for the Playa

This weekend’s Playa Bazaar-B-Q is a shopping extravaganza unlike similar events held at the Fusion Factory: It features vendors bringing “whatever they make,” says Meghan Woodhouse. “So we’ve got costumes, we’ve got artists bringing art, people doing jewelry, cupcakes, zombie dolls, fur costumes, hoops and fire toys and that kind…

Start Your Engines

The Street Rodders for Life car show began five years ago as a way for a few dozen gearheads to talk shop and show off their rides. It has since grown into a full-on contest celebrating a classic American pastime. Today, more than 400 cars, trucks and motorcycles, dating from…

Dancing in the Streets

There’s something different about the little neighborhood street festivals of summer: A communal block-party feel that connects people without overwhelming them. The Old South Gaylord Memorial Day Weekend Festival, going strong now for more than thirty years, represents all that and more, though what makes it work is really no…

Tell It From the Mountain

Mountainfilm in Telluride enters its 34th year with the Moving Mountains Symposium on population growth, which will feature panels of scientists, filmmakers and experts who have experienced its effects firsthand. “There’s more programming than ever, spread across half a dozen venues,” says Mountainfilm executive director Peter Kenworthy, adding that the…

Music in the Darkness

The opera Brundibar has a terrible yet inspirational past: Written in 1938 by Jewish composer Hans Krasa and librettist Adolf Hoffmeister, it was famously performed by children in the Theresienstadt concentration camp with a limited orchestra in 1943. On the surface a fairy tale about a brother and sister who…

Primal Time

Penelope Houston first made waves in the late ’70s as the frontwoman of the San Francisco punk band the Avengers (which reached its apex opening for the Sex Pistols at Winterland, at what was to be the seminal English punk band’s last gig), but after that two-year experiment, she spent…

Celebrate with Sarah and Julie Slater at Gorinto tonight

Sarah Slater, founder of the Titwrench music festival, is a 2011 MasterMind award winner — and it looks like smarts run in the family. Because tonight, Sarah and her sister, Julie Slater, will host a special edition of Gorinto to celebrate Julie’s acceptance to college in Berlin, where she plans…

Body sugaring for summer — I got the full Brazilian!

It’s almost swimsuit season, and I was sporting a rocking case of “winter bush.” Ladies, we all know what that is: You wear jeans and heinie-hiding girl-brief panties all winter long, into early spring, and when you finally snap and look down at your privies in the shower, it looks…

Reader: Colfax Marathon runner depends on the kindness of strangers

The Colfax Marathon always includes plenty of entertainment: end-or-race parties, streetside viewing at the Irish Snug, and this year a scooter parade. But when you’re on the run, it’s the very little things that count, as Rebecca Aronauer points out in her “Colfax Marathon Dispatch,” with the top ten things…