“We like to call it ‘not your mama’s annual fundraiser,’” says Jami Duffy, executive director of Flobots.org, the charitable arm of local band Flobots. And Bowling Ball 3 is certainly different. The event pits local celebrities — including members of DeVotchKa, OneRepublic, Bop Skizzum, the Colorado Rapids, the Rocky Mountain…
Completing a 5K run is hard enough for a lot of people, but if that’s not enough of a challenge for you, consider the Devil Dash, which mixes a 5K with fourteen man-made and natural obstacles and carries the seven deadly sins as a theme. “We think it’ll be a…
Since the invention of the cell phone, horror films have struggled with plausibility, but you need look no further than the independent circuit to find innovation in the genre. With last year’s inaugural Mile High Horror Film Festival, executive director Timothy Schultz was hoping to start something big in town…
Imagine a line of chairs, 1,000 of them, lined up one after the other along the main drag in Manitou Springs, glinting in the early morning sun. Colorado Springs sculptor Sean O’Meallie did, and with help from the Business of Art Center in Manitou, he’ll be making The Manitou Chair…
As the Denver Handmade Alliance grows, so does the local crafting collective’s impact: Conceived of two years ago as a launching pad for independent local crafters and creatives, the organization just received status as a nonprofit, with a goal of doing exactly what it’s been doing all along — providing…
“Who wouldn’t want to be entertained and encouraged and distracted while running 13.1 or 26.2 miles?” asks Ron Bostwick, entertainment director for the Sports Authority Rock ’n’ Roll Denver Marathon and Half Marathon. “We’ve got 26 local bands along the 26.2-mile course, and we highly encourage residents in all the…
Columbus Day will always spark debate. But the controversy over the holiday has overshadowed some of the contributions — like film — that Italians have made to our culture, says Metropolitan State College of Denver film studies professor Vincent Piturro. “I saw a need to change the dialogue around Columbus…
You might ask yourself why Chris Loffelmacher, the fount of creativity who runs the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life program, called tonight’s FCL panel discussion on art in the community “eatART.” Well, he’s happy to oblige with an answer: The moniker, it turns out, rose from a longtime fantasy…
The monthly burlesque nights that Burlycute was throwing at Bender’s Tavern over the past year or so have been a success — so much so that now Burlycute is moving from Bender’s to Bar Standard for (what else would you call it?) Humpday Burlesque. “I just feel like people are…
Few plays rocked the boat on Broadway more than Hair when the seminal rock musical left Joe Papp’s Public Theater in new York in 1968 — retooled and tightened up to showcase the music — for the Great White Way. Now it’s not so daring, even if it does espouse…
Take a colossal body of work, condense it into ninety minutes or so, drop it in the hands of the funniest cast you can find, and you’ll understand in a minute the sheer brilliance of those crazies from the Reduced Shakespeare Company, who first revolutionized the campy world of stage…
What’s the scariest thing about Colorado? The haunted mountain resorts? The cemeteries-turned-city parks? The escort-loving, meth-using pastors? All of those may soon be trumped by the second annual Mile High Horror Film Festival, which takes over the Tivoli Starz Film Center October 7 through October 9. With this year’s edition…
Denver comic extraordinaire and former Westword writer Adam Cayton-Holland is scheduled to make his TV debut tonight on the ABC sitcom “Happy Endings.” “I ably played the role of ‘Customer’ and it was my duty in the scene to order a sandwich. And I ordered the shit out of that…
Update! Worst postponement EVER! Tonight’s Denver premiere of The Worst Movie EVER! was supposed to be the first event hosted by the Oriental Theater after a chunk of its ceiling fell onto the stage last week. This morning, unfortunately, the city inspector gave it a no-go, meaning that, for the…
What’s worse than being a second-string quarterback? Being a second-string quarterback who’s overshadowed by the third-string quarterback…
Flylow, a Denver-based gear company specializing in skiing outerwear and accessories, won the first-annual Something Independent Snowsport Entrepreneur Award last night, presented at the Sypder Showroom at Battery 621. The $1,500 award comes with a marketing package to help take the winning entrepreneur to the next level, and was established…
Back in the ’80s and ’90s, you could almost always snag a value pack of games for cheap. But they usually didn’t work well and always included only the worst games you could possibly imagine. Nitrome’s Mega Mash takes that idea and runs with it…
After we announced the Fast Forward Press one-sentence-story contest, we received a number of interesting submissions. And now, the editors at Fast Forward have chosen the winners. First prize will be published in the Press’s next flash-fiction anthology, and second will win a copy of The Incredible Shrinking Story. Are…
The Denver Symphony Orchestra, the professional orchestra that called Boettcher Concert Hall home, went kaput in 1989. Twenty-two years later, it’s looking like the Colorado Symphony might face the same fate. Barry Fey, the legendary rock promoter who stepped in to save the symphony two decades ago, recognizes the signs…
For this second photo in my Colorado Mills “Week of a Woman” contest entry, I chose to highlight one of my greatest obsessions as a woman: working out. We spend millions of dollars on gyms, clothes to wear at gyms, and bags to carry our clothes that we wear at…
Last year, Denver artepreneur Eric Matelski put together a themed Halloween gallery show riffing off Ouija boards. This year, his ode to the witching hour mines a global collection of bogeyman stories, including a few new ones that sprouted from the twisted imaginations of an artist or two. The Bogeyman…
We don’t know if Bree Davis was finally able to finish that Tom Robbins book after she told television that it was over, that they’d broken up, and she gave her TV to her mother. But we do know that Lara doesn’t think Robbins is a fitting substitute: I only…
