Arts & Culture

Make no mistake: MileHiCon 43 is a literary science-fiction convention. “We do have discussions on media and movies, and on rare occasions we have media guests,” says convention chairwoman Linda Nelson. “But mostly we have authors, and our emphasis is definitely the literature.” On the other hand, it will almost…

Dress up your Dachshund in his finest hot-dog-imitating apparel; it’s time for the twelfth annual Scream Scram race at Wash Park. Okay, so the run isn’t just for masquerading pups: Kids, adults and seniors are also invited to participate in this evening’s 5K run to benefit the Boys & Girls…

Just to be clear, there will be no actual zombies fighting at Fight to Win Productions’ Zombies Cage Fights tonight. Nor will the fighters themselves be dressed as zombies — though, as FTW owner Seth Daniels acknowledges, “that would be awesome.” But there will be zombies, and there will be…

There’s no better event in Colorado to pick up bicycle parts of all shapes and sizes than the annual VeloSwap. The bicycle sale consistently brings in visitors looking for a deal, and with more than forty vendors on hand, it makes finding the best bargains an Indiana Jones-inspired archeological dig…

You’ll recognize it by the fake-blood-covered masses walking down the 16th Street Mall. Last year’s Zombie Crawl in Denver broke the world record for largest zombie-related flash mob, with 7,500 costumed participants. That was soon overtaken by a non-Halloween-related event in Seattle earlier this year, and Zombie Crawl creator Danny…

How do you really get in the mood for a zombie crawl? Today’s big event begins at 2 p.m. (see above), but you can chill — really chill — beforehand at the MacSpa, where they’ll be throwing an Afraid of the Dark Reception for the ongoing October Bogeyman Art Show…

There’s not much that’s Victorian about tonight’s Victorian Fetish Ball. There’s nothing repressed or prudish about the erotic party, and you’re more likely to see bare flesh than you are ankle-length skirts. (If it’s anything like past events, however, you’ll see corsets – lots of ’em.) Now in its twelfth…

While the rest of Denver basked in the summer sunshine, MCA Denver has been shrouded over for the past few months as part of the exhibition Another Victory Over the Sun. But that show is now closed, and the panels and draperies have been pulled off the windows and skylights…

Fashion Denver’s fall fashion show, Revolution, will have some surprises this time around. “There will be over twenty designers, and I would say half of them are brand-new to the fashion-market scene,” says Fashion Denver founder Brandi Shigley. That includes a men’s custom-tailored shirt company, jewelry, clothing and some eclectic…

If you attended the Indie Wearable Craft style mart in April, then you’ll know what to expect for the October incarnation. “The concept of the style mart is that everybody’s merchandise is together, like in a store,” explains organizer Kirsten Coplans (who puts on the event with Jil Cappuccio and…

Ghost stories about the Croke-Patterson Mansion, 420-428 East 11th Avenue, date to the 1890s, when original owner Thomas Croke was too spooked to stay and sold the place to Thomas Patterson, then the owner of the Rocky Mountain News. The mansion is now busy haunting two new books from the…

Denver photographer John Bonath doesn’t just take pictures. Nor is he a photographer necessarily obsessed with process. In addition to being a camera artist, Bonath is part pictorial set designer, part dreamer and part imaginative mind-bender, who spins gold from ordinary and often disparate materials and slaps them on the…

Local artist Xi Zhang ended up here, direct from China, because of an obsession with the Beat poets; the lure of Naropa University and Denver’s Beat history landed him at the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, where he was once a student and is now a teacher. And…

“There are cranes all over this town,” marveled one recent visitor to Denver, who wasn’t talking about birds, but an even rarer sight during the economic doldrums: building cranes. Suddenly, you can spot them all over downtown. With any luck — and a lot of planning — they’re helping to…

In the past few years, the Denver Botanic Gardens has become a place to see major art shows, and this season’s main offering is dedicated to Allan Houser, the late Native American sculptor. In conjunction, DBG exhibition director Lisa Eldred has laid out a schedule that features the work of…

Call it an unlucky guess: In March 1963, the Amazing Criswell, born Jeron Criswell Konig and otherwise known as Jeron Criswell King, predicted that John F. Kennedy would not run for re-election because something would happen to him in November 1963. In the course of a career of wildly inaccurate…