The idea of teenagers with too much time on their hands is scary enough, but it’s particularly alarming on the Pine Ridge Lakota Reservation of South Dakota, where teen suicide rates are reaching epidemic levels. “Pine Ridge is the poorest community in the U.S.,” notes Walt Pourier, whose thirteen-year-old niece…
Traditional science and science fiction don’t always play well together. More often than not, science-fiction films break the rules of reality in service of the narrative. Regardless, the two are intertwined, and over the next five weeks, the Denver FilmCenter and the Museum of Nature & Science will bring them…
The Elixir is a collaborative effort, a circus-style extravaganza with jugglers, aerialists, burlesque dancers, snake-charmers and more that explores tension, beauty, and the human condition. “The elixir is a substance that all the performers in the show are competing for,” explains director Aaron Beck. “So there’s not really a defined…
The first annual TreadFest Charity Mountain Biking Festival at Winter Park Resort benefits the National Sports Center for the Disabled and the American Red Cross Mile High Chapter, following in the fat-tire tracks of the Fat Tire Classic after that event’s title sponsor called it quits last year at the…
The three-day Colorado Irish Festival begins tonight with live music on three stages and an expo village showcasing all aspects of Irish culture (yes, there will be a pub). Two of the most popular events will take place tomorrow, however: the Western Region U.S. Feis Irish Dance Competition and the…
It takes a lot of flowers to earn the official title of Wildflower Capital of Colorado, but that’s no problem in Crested Butte, where despite the long winter, the lupines are spiking and the paintbrush is coloring the region’s alpine meadows red and gold. They’re peaking just in time for…
It’s hard to think of anything sadder than the Casey Anthony case, the long, sordid saga of a mother who waited for a month of partying and getting tattooed before reporting the disappearance of her 2-year-old daughter, whose decomposing body was found months later. Due to a lack of physical…
This week the world mourns the death of Otto von Habsburg, who championed world unity, opposed the Nazi movement, served as a member of the European Parliament and was the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. You know, back when Austria and Hungary were hyphenated, in 1916. That means von Habsburg…
Besides a certain brand of exceptionally patriotic lager, hipsters mainly love two things: nostalgia for ’80s childhoods and irony. So when the ’80s nostalgia of The Little Mermaid gets appropriated to ironically make fun of hipsters and their love of irony and nostalgia, it’s like the high tide of irony…
We are flashed hundreds of images of celebrities doing regular stuff everyday via tabloids and television — they get caught buying groceries, going to Starbucks and fighting inappropriately with their significant others in public. But who cares if they are “just like us”? They aren’t supposed to be real people…
As Bree Davies observed in her report on SlutWalk Denver over the weekend, more people seemed inclined to throw in their two cents about the event than to actually attend it. Indeed: SlutWalk has come and gone, but in the comment thread on post about that comment war, the controversy…
There are just some topics that the shorties don’t need to have rattling around in their malleable little cranial cavities. Subjects like incarceration, nail fungus, sales tax, methamphetamines, the GOP and proper care of houseplants are ones best reserved for 22-year-old college dropouts — not toddlers. I say let the…
Something about this recent run of three-digit-degrees days and Monday’s closing day at Arapahoe Basin have us looking forward to next ski season already, and it turns out we’re not alone: On Monday director Josh Berman and the Denver-based ski porn specialists at Level 1 Productions released the first trailer…
CU-Denver MBA candidate Andrea Burns first conceived of the idea for LoyalTee — a fledgling business that creates T-shirts celebrating favorite (and sometimes esoteric) local haunts — as a class project. “I was aware of a few different companies that were basically doing the same thing in different parts of…
Sadly, the long weekend is over, the hot dogs grilled, the American-flag T-shirts put away and the illegal fireworks spent — but if there is one bright spot as we trudge back to our various jobs at the universal soul-dissembly factory, it’s that we have our memories. In photo form…
Several hundred people came together on Saturday in Civic Center Park for the Denver edition of SlutWalk, a gathering of women and men seeking to bring attention to victim-blaming and shaming of victims of sexual assault and rape. The movement, which began in Toronto in January in response to a…
It’s not an easy task to self-publish a book; it’s a laborious process that involves a billion details that seem to crop up at the least opportune times, it’s costly, and the reward for all your toil could very well be…pretty much nothing. But that’s exactly what local author Ryan…
Going back to work after a three-day weekend sucks, so take a few minutes to deviate from your expected tasks and plan your evening. Today promises some exciting new releases, which translates to exciting new ways to bond with yourself, whether it be chillaxing in your hammock reading a new…
On Saturday, VegFest 2011 took over the exhibition hall at Jefferson County Fairgrounds; among the lifestyle products available were these chaotic yet controlled abstract paintings by vegan artist Ken Voss. And more — including aromatherapy for dogs and paper products made from elephant dung. Keep reading to see what we…
Yesterday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board approved the addition of ski and snowboard slopestyle events at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. The announcement came yesterday from the 123rd IOC Session in Durban, South Africa, and follows an April announcement that ski halfpipe will also be a…
The Cold War was America’s perfect war. Hear me out on this one: No matter what their purpose, whether just (World War II) or crass (the Vietnam War), wars are ultimately pretty depressing. They involve a lot of dying in horrifying and gruesome ways that leave their participants forever scarred,…
From my point of view, solo shows, and retrospectives in particular, occupy the top place in the hierarchy of art exhibitions. But group shows organized around a theme are a close second, and they are a staple of the summer season. At the moment, there is an astounding array of…
