The Colorado Cocktail Project, with its mission to create the official Colorado Cocktail, will celebrate this state’s most liquid assets at the Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany Street. on Sunday and Monday, June 26-27. Dozens of bartenders submitted entries in the Colorado Cocktail Contest; the ten finalists will pour…
Since Fear of Flying was released in 1973, Erica Jong has been a force to be reckoned with in both the literary and feminist worlds; she’s published twenty books, including eight novels, six volumes of poetry, six non-fiction works, plus articles in an array of prestigious publications. In her latest…
Push On! In the seven months since Clayton Brown opened his Pusher BMX shop at 5777 East Evans Avenue, “Colorado’s Only BMX Rider-Owned and Operated BMX Shop” has been getting props from the likes of TransWorld Business and ESPN, doing double the business Brown projected for himself and attracting pro…
When a movie rakes in enough green, green, filthy money to necessitate a sequel, there’s a pretty standard set of solutions studios employ to resolve the cognitive dissonance of basically repackaging the same movie — the villain returns from hell, for example, or there’s another mystery to solve — but…
We’ve passed the Summer Solstice already, which means the season is in full swing with the blazing hot sun, outdoor parties and a nice, easily maneuverable city to cruise around in. That’s a good thing for this weekend, because there is a ton of stuff going down in a variety…
“Mom, look it’s a belly flop contest!” The boy’s mom looks down at him, then at the competitors. She utters only one word: “Ouch.” And ouch is right. At the 15th Annual Belly Flop Splashdown, which took place this morning at Water World, college students from across Colorado (and even…
In an effort to ward off the persistent tagging of its building, The Matchbox on Larimer Street hired a group of some of Denver’s biggest-name artists — with funding from Pabst Blue Ribbon — to cover its walls with odes to that storied hipster beer. Last night, those artists –…
There’s no LeBron in the group, or Kobe, or Dwight Howard, or even a Kevin Durant. In the upcoming NBA draft, Ian Thomsen writes on SI.com, there’s no standout star, and there’s very little certainty about who will be chosen when. To clear up all the confusion, I’d like to…
Lighthouse Writers Workshop, the fourteen-year-old creative writing school that has helped some of Denver’s best authors, is moving and consolidating its classrooms and office space into the historic Milheim House at 1515 Race Street. The house, built in 1893 for John and Mary Milheim, was originally located at 1355 Pennsylvania…
Update, July 3: See photos from SlutWalk Denver Given that its very name is designed to provoke, it’s not all that surprising that SlutWalk would be creating some controversy. Set off by a Toronto police officer who had no idea what he was getting into when he suggested a group…
At my age, it is normal for people I know to be having kids, but while high school was long ago in a time called the ’90s, that’s still where my mind is. When someone tells me they’re pregnant, I might be saying “congrats, girlfriend!” but secretly I’m thinking, “what…
We’ve made no secret about our beef with One Book, One Denver — specifically, that the program doesn’t try very hard to find unknown novels by great authors, or even books by Colorado authors — but so far this year we’ve neglected to put our money where our mouth is…
Like a rubber band stretched to its snapping point (or maybe a glass-top table that spontaneously explodes), Martha Stewart is one of pop cultures most weirdly volatile figures. We broke down five disturbing things about Stewart after another of her products erupted without provocation the other day, and no doubt…
The 31st annual Crested Butte Bike Week gets underway today with Alison Gannett’s Rippin’ Chix Mountain Bike Camps for women ($35 per session; $95 for the singletrack skills workshop) and a 6 p.m. “Night at the Museum” kick-off party at the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, 331 Elk Avenue…
As the world braces for the money-shot of Michael Bay’s third and most massive robo-jaculation since his last entry into the Transformers mega-conglomeration two years ago, it’s increasingly looking like franchise star Shia LaBoeuf might be, uh, pulling out, so to speak. That would be the second serious loss to…
A flaming washing machine rockets through the air and embeds itself in the side of a house. A woman contemplates her own demise while wearing a crotchless body suit. Robert Ripley from Ripley’s Believe It or Not has a massive coronary during a performance of “Taps.” These situations don’t have…
In the early ’90s, Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist first orchestrated the recurring exhibit do it, for which local participants choose a project from a manual of instructions created by a roster of internationally known artists. The local artists then interpret the projects, filtering them through their own sensibilities. Since…
There’s a scene from a performance in Lynn Hershman Leeson’s documentary !Women Art Revolution in which two women, one representing feminist art and the other minimalism, dance in a ring and duke it out, pounding home the inequality inherent in the art world of forty years ago. In a way,…
Steampunk has been carving out its niche a bit more broadly than it used to, and the once unknown subgenre of science fiction has been rising in popularity over the past few years. That’s sure to work to the advantage of the Penny Dread Tales, a new anthology from Runewright…
Today, the Colorado Reptile Humane Society (13941 Elmore Road in Longmont) welcomes all visitors and potential pet owners for The Reptile Experience!, a once-a-year open-house event. The reptile advocacy and placement group, which is run solely by volunteers, works to find good homes for cold-blooded creatures who may have been…
Last year, local bar celebrity Sean Kenyon was hanging at the Buckhorn Exchange with a famous mixologist who asked a seemingly simple question: What, he wondered aloud, is the quintessential Colorado cocktail? Kenyon, who’s rarely at a loss for words, was stumped. “New Orleans has the Sazerac and New York…
One thing we like about Denver: The creative community sticks together. And now we have a free annual event, Project Hello, that embodies the spirit of said camaraderie by gathering local creatives under one roof to network and show off work and products. Celebrating its second year, Project Hello will…
