For the past three years, Georgina Kolber has curated an outdoor Israeli film festival on the lawn of the Mizel Museum, with mostly older films. But this year, Kolber wanted the series to be a little more significant and reach a wider audience. So the Mizel partnered with the Denver…
While the titular cheesecake of Masque the Musical: A Cheesecake Love Story never gets made love to in a literal sense (in fact, it’s not even a central concern), it does represent, in a way, the musical’s spirit: It’s a small moment in which main characters Brent and Alicia bond…
When the Arvada Center’s new production of Hairspray opened on June 21, everyone, but everyone, was checking out the costumes. That’s because Denver hero Mondo Guerra designed them, putting his way with fresh and professional looks to the test. And besides, if Mondo wasn’t meant to design costumes for this…
In the likely case that you’re having a tough time coming up with the skrill for a trip to the famed Running of the Bulls in Pamplona — which takes place today — consider the next-best local alternative: getting pummeled by Rocky Mountain Rollergirls with Wiffle ball bats. The Highland…
There are wife swaps, country manor and city house swaps, swap meets, and now food swaps, courtesy of the Mile High Swappers, a whole enchilada of like-minded foodniks, beer brewers and grape gurus who convene monthly to trade homemade, homegrown or home-brewed treats and libations. “It’s really fun, incredibly easy,…
In the 21st century, we’ve seen it all. We’ve peered into the lives of Hulk Hogan and Ozzy Osbourne, the over-fertile Gosselins and the Octomom, the Kardashians and Snoop Dogg. But back in 1973, when reality television was still called cinéma vérité, the PBS documentary An American Family — a…
Boulder poet and Naropa faculty member Anne Waldman has completed an epic project 25 years in the making. Its title, The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment, signifies many things, but Iovis in particular was taken from a line in Virgil’s epic poem, “The Aeneid.” “That was part…
The Girls Riders Organization makes a stop at the Denver Skatepark today as part of the nonprofit’s nationwide action sports tour. The day full of grinds, kickflips and Ollies will focus on getting girls active in skateboarding, roller derby and BMX riding. GRO will provide coaching and lessons in basic…
Kelly Shortandqueer, co-founder of the Denver Zine Library, says that people often come into the library and ask how to make a zine. The Community Zine Workshop Series aims to answer that question in five Sunday sessions from July through September, after which aspiring zinesters will emerge with their own…
“Burlesque isn’t just about stripping; it’s about the art of it, the tease, the glitter and glamour of getting your clothes off with style,” says Lola Spitfire, one of the producers of the second annual Colorado Burlesque Festival, which starts shaking its naughty bits tonight at 8 p.m. with a…
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…
