Snow’s out for the summer! Today is opening day at the Breckenridge Peak 8 Fun Park, where a $65 all-day pass ($32 for kids) buys unlimited access to the Gold Runner Coaster, SuperSlide, SuperPutt, Mountain Bike Park, Colorado SuperChair, Rockpile Climbing Wall, Mineshaft Maze, SuperBungee Trampoline, Gemstone Panning, and Ripperoo’s…
LucasFilm has had a long and storied past dealing with fans, which is a large chunk of what the film The People vs. George Lucas, which is screening this weekend at Denver FilmCenter, deals with. When fans first started making films inspired by Star Wars, LucasFilm quickly started sending out…
Caution. Objects may appear smaller in rear-view mirror. Anthony Weiner has left the building, resigning after the mounting pressure built up to the point that it exploded out of containment. But that doesn’t mean that American men can’t take away some lessons from this saga of a congressional member…
Ever since MTV announced in February that Beavis and Butt-Head would return to television, we’ve been getting more and more stoked for the comeback of these cherished cartoon cretins. In anticipation of the redo, which is slated for this summer, we take a look at four more ’90s TV shows…
When Amelia Deleon set out to attract new clients to her Stranded Jewelry collection, she went with a hands-on approach. The jewelry maker currently sells her wares at craft and fashion markets around Denver, but predominantly works out of her home. But she also wanted the broader reach offered by…
The spectacle of cats doing tricks is pretty impressive, but the really astounding feat is that anyone could coerce a cat — nature’s most indignant house pet — into doing tricks at all. Nevertheless, that is the trick accomplished by the (we’re assuming) incredibly persistent Samantha Martin, who brings her…
While most of us will be enjoying our Saturday by getting rowdy at the Westword Music Showcase, that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of fun activities to get thrifty with around the rest of the city. Well, provided you’re into things like Pride Fest, Star Wars, yoga, dance parties and…
With the Colorado Rockies mired in a weeks-long slump, there are fewer and fewer reasons to go the ballpark in the heat of the summer. But just because the product on the field is suffering doesn’t mean the product at the gates is doing the same. We’re talking about promos…
What do Walt Whitman and Broadway theater have in common? Both contain multitudes. Bad jokes aside, Denver Center Attractions’ 2012 lineup is filled with contrariety. It kicks off this January with a production of Bring It On: The Musical, a high-octane comedy about cheerleading, and ends in October with the…
Once upon a time in 2005, I unknowingly enrolled myself in the “Fag Hag Placement Program” at the local mall. Yes, when I applied for a job with a certain retailer, I was unaware that I was also going to be fitted with the right gay for me, a lifelong…
BurlyCute’s Cora Vette has heard a lot of misconceptions about burlesque. While some think of it simply as “that stripping stuff,” others are totally clueless to the fact that it involves nudity, expecting the tame pop star antics of Christina Aguilera and Cher in the misleadingly titled film Burlesque. In…
The Mystery Skateboards Color Theory Summer Tour comes to town tonight with a 6 p.m. autograph session at 303 Boards (1338 East Colfax Avenue), followed by a full team demo at 8 p.m. at the Denver Skatepark (2205 19th Street). The Mystery team features Denver’s own local skate hero David…
Homing pigeons are amazing birds. From a young age, they have the ability to find their way home to where they were raised from hundreds of miles away. This ability — which has yet to be fully understood – made them perfect for delivering messages in ancient Egypt, where people…
Marc Maron’s comedy style is honest, often unforgiving and occasionally enlightening. He might be best known by many for his podcast, “WTF With Marc Maron,” but first and foremost he’s a standup comedian. Marc Maron will appearing at Comedy Works Downtown starting tonight and running through Sunday for seven different…
If you’re not basking in the glory of the Miami Heat’s loss in the NBA Finals, I don’t know what to tell you. The superstar-laden Heat, who last summer were essentially handed the championship when LeBron James and Chris Bosh joined Dwayne Wade in Miami in an overly dramatic half-hour…
There are some movies you’ll watch on TV no matter how many times you’ve seen them before. Yesterday, I called these “catnip movies” and unloaded my list of flicks that grab my attention and keep it, commercials and all. Among the movies on my list were Westerns with Clint Eastwood,…
There’s nothing like found footage to showcase a wide cross-section of humanity’s most maladapted, inept and bizarre, and as far as that goes, nothing beats the original. Since 1991, Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett have been collecting old VHS tapes, and in 2004, they started editing down the weirdest and…
When artist Frank Warren handed out 3,000 postcards to strangers in 2004, inviting them to write down their secrets and mail them back, he probably didn’t anticipate that the PostSecret project would grow into what it is today: an ongoing blog, several books and a traveling exhibition — the latter…
The new Allan Houser blockbuster at the Denver Botanic Gardens is the show that’s getting everyone’s attention this season, but Between the Real and the Imagined, the contemporary installation by artist, curator, scholar and Ho-Chunk Indian Truman Lowe that’s tucked into the nooks and crannies of the Boettcher Memorial Center,…
While slowly recovering from back surgery, Jimmy Sellars created a series of digital sketches on an iPad that he describes as “humans either turned into rabbits, for no apparent reason, or wearing prosthetics to turn them into a rabbit.” The darkly whimsical personification refers to Rabbit’s iconic connection to the…
Hair-metal homage/Broadway smash Rock of Ages opens at the Buell Theatre tonight, bringing the era of hairspray and Hollywood dreams to life with the music of Styx, White Snake, Bon Jovi and more. As the aptly named Drew Bowie, former American Idol contender Constantine Maroulis plays a Sunset Strip bar…
For the second time, MCA Denver director Adam Lerner has decided to devote the entire museum to a single exhibit — in this case, Another Victory Over the Sun, a show about darkness and light. “We have great local and international artists,” says Lerner, “but the most dramatic experience for…
