If winter clothing and technical mountaineering gear don’t exactly scream “sexy” to you, let the hard-bodied models–male and female–in Neptune Mountaineering’s first-ever winter fashion show, Neptune’s Paradox: What’s Hot for the Cold, tempt you into the backcountry to see what you’ve been missing. “We have nineteen models each doing two…
Max Mackissock has emerged as one of the Mile High City’s most formidable culinary wizards, but when the Squeaky Bean, the irreverent Highland restaurant whose diminutive kitchen he trailblazed, closed several months ago, the chef left the line–which isn’t to say he’s been twiddling his toes. Not only has he…
When Collapse opens tonight at Curious Theatre, it will actually be the second premiere of the new play by continuing Curious collaborator Allison Moore — evidence of the troupe’s ongoing commitment to producing fresh material as part of the National New Play Network’s rolling world-premiere program. The first premiere of…
Hammond’s Candies, makers of unusually large candy canes, is upping the ante on the usual factory tours again this year with its eleventh annual Hammond’s Candy Cane Festival, where the public will be treated to trolley rides, holiday arts and crafts, face-painting, caroling, cookie decorating and face time with Santa…
So-Gnar’s Mighty Midwest Snowboard Camp Tour and Shred Circuit terrain-park competition kicks off this weekend at Echo Mountain with an amateur contest on Saturday at 9 a.m. ($20) and a two-day camp on Saturday and Sunday for snowboarders looking to improve their freestyle skills ($179 includes lift tickets, instruction, and…
There’s no need to look outside the state for one-of-a-kind wearable gifts this winter. Fashion Denver’s holiday market, Tinsel, will shine today, featuring twenty local designers peddling everything from clothing to jewelry to handbags. Set in the historic Grant-Humphreys mansion, the event will present three fashion shows throughout the day,…
Leave it to burlesque madame extraordinaire and bad-ass emcee Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett) to step outside her sparkle-vinyl box for a new show. “I felt like there’s so much burlesque happening in Denver, and so many different groups, that it was time to do something different,” she says…
Writer and storyteller Charly “The City Mouse” Fasano is no stranger to mingling with musicians. The spoken-word artist has shared the stage with the likes of Lucero and Drag the River, has released collaborative work with bands through his own label, Fast Geek Press, and regularly performs live with instrumental…
Christine Lavin, a born storyteller and good ol’ gal, is all about the people she entertains. “I get people together, shake things up and leave town,” she said in a 2004 Westword interview, and that’s sure to happen again when she stops over tonight at the Oriental Theater with her…
If you’re one of those bleeding-heart liberal types who thinks no human on the planet needs to own a gun, Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World is probably not the place for you. I ventured into this dead-animal party in search of Santa for the first installment of this year’s Santa…
Do you know why Hello Kitty has no mouth? Because she speaks from the heart… She also has a hypnotic, straight-up obsessive effect on American consumers that hasn’t seemed to flag since her debut in the States in 1976. This ubiquitous, mouthless Sanrio-creation has become a veritable fetish for women,…
The word “disabled” continues to shed meaning this week as many of the biggest names in adaptive sports are in Breckenridge for the Disabled Sports USA Hartford Ski Spectacular, an annual winter sports festival that brings hundreds of athletes and aspiring athletes to Colorado for adaptive ski and snowboard lessons,…
It hit home for members of the theater community Sunday, when they opened the Denver Post and found a gaping void in the arts pages: There was no column by longtime critic and commentator John Moore. No review. Everyone had known John was taking the Post’s buyout. His Facebook fans…
Open Space made a few headlines this week as a physical store in downtown Boulder that sells nothing. Instead, the 300-square-foot room has a few phone-and-tablet experts who promise to guide customers to apps they can use — but didn’t know existed. That’s the model behind the business launched by…
Usually it’s a literary hodgepodge of writings about the West read by Colorado celebrities — not the glitzy ones, but a round-robin of teachers, historians and politicians. but tonight’s Words to Stir the Soul, an annual tradition curated by the University of Colorado’s Center for the American West, will focus…
Bree Davies loves her job at the Shirt Folding Store, where she’s worked off and on since 2006. But she does not love asshole customers who treat her like she’s an idiot. And in this post, she highlighted other misconceptions about retail employees…
The opening of the Clyfford Still Museum last month has prompted a resurgence of interest in early abstraction in Colorado, from the 1940s to the 1970s. In the beginning, Still was way ahead of even the most advanced artists here — as well as those in New York. Some Colorado…
Birger Sandzén. Though Birger Sandzén was born in Sweden, studied painting there and in Paris and later made his permanent home in Kansas, we in Colorado can claim him as one of our own. Sandzén found his muse here — in our stunning scenery — and after his first extended…
That this film was originally titled Goethe! should give you a sense of how much silly sturm und drang boosterism awaits. A biopic more fiction than fact, Young Goethe in Love opens in 1772, when the 23-year-old aspiring poet and playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Alexander Fehling) flunks his bar…
John le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the 1974 spy novel generally regarded as the writer’s finest, is predicated on a pair of enigmatic personalities: the colorless bureaucratic master-spook George Smiley and the double agent the Soviets have planted near the top of British intelligence whom Smiley must unmask. Although…
Flea almost cries. Twice. There’s your four-word summation of The Other F Word, a half-poignant, half-absurd documentary on punk-rocker dads, self-described as “a coming-of-middle-age story” that thrills to the sight of, say, Rancid’s Lars Frederiksen, who looks as though a tattoo parlor and a Claire’s fell on him simultaneously, sauntering…
The setting for The 1940’s Radio Hour is the Algonquin Room at the Hotel Astor in New York, where WOV radio (the V stands for Victory) is about to go on the air. In these days before social media and effortless continual connection, the excitement of radio is intense. WOV…
