Lookout, mom! The Pagan Downhill crew (“sickest longboarding events in the world”) is dropping bombs on Lookout Mountain this weekend for the 2011 Buffalo Bill Downhill Bloodspill, a skateboarding race pretty much guaranteed to live up to its gruesome name as 120 of Colorado’s craziest skaters careen down a 1.1-mile…
While you’re waiting for your Cinco de Mayo hangover to go away, you might want to start planning your (accidental) three-day weekend. Thankfully, there is plenty for you to do this weekend, even if you need to stay away from booze for a few days. We’ve got poetry, comics, chocolate,…
The no-wave movement of film-making, which used ultra-low budgets and a punk sensibility to produce films heavily steeped in mood but with generally incoherent story-lines, had a big impact: Besides being heavily influential for directors like Jim Jarmusch and David Lynch, it pretty much single-handedly launched the career of Steve…
Tonight from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., non-profit group Prax(us) joins forces with fair trade-supporting retailer Ten Thousand Villages (2626 E. 3rd Ave.) for three hours of shopping for fundraising. As Colorado’s only organization specializing in helping victims of domestic human trafficking, Prax(us) is a small but mighty group that…
Hal Gould has done a lot in his 91 years. And when we say “a lot,” we mean, like, a ridiculous amount. For starters, he’s an accomplished fine-art photographer in his own right; he was one of the first wave of photographers to see the medium for its artistic possibilities…
A lot of people in America don’t know much about Cinco de Mayo. One popular perception, for example, is that it’s Mexico’s Independence Day; in fact it’s not — that would be September 16 — so it’s no surprise that, when we’re celebrating Cinco de Mayo, many of us have…
Hot damn, winter is over. It’s not the grass shoots sprouting up on lawns, the smell of barbecue in the air, or even the yellow tickets we’re finding on our windshields because street sweeping has started up again and we all forgot to move our cars. It’s the fact that…
Free Comic Book Day is going down this Saturday, and for many people around town, that means venturing into a comic book store for the first time. We understand that can be a terrifying experience, but don’t worry, we’ve got you covered: If you happen to run into a trademark…
Denver Broncos Running Back Lance Ball held court (field?) at St. Elizabeth’s School yesterday for a charity event that happened to coincide with Teacher’s Appreciation Day. The children slithered all over him in that adorable, no-boundary-having way that kids do, and he absolutely loved it…
Jeremy Frankovis, owner of Broomfield’s Crisis Skateboards shop, is curating the selection of films for Hueso de Perro’s Grindhouse “Skater Films” night tonight at 7 p.m. at the Bananelope Coffee Shop, 1405 US Highway 287. The event is part of the ongoing Ones and Zeroes Pixel Show film series, a…
Back when she was working as a music promoter in Denver, few probably would have believed that Tig Notaro — who had at that point never even performed on a stage, let alone comedy — would go on to the phenomenal amount of success she’s since achieved: Besides numerous high-profile…
In the 1920s, the Denver Art Museum became one of the first art institutions in the world to collect American Indian material not be-cause of some historic or scientific interest, but because of its undeniable aesthetic qualities. Nearly ninety years later, the DAM has one of the largest and most…
These days, Judy Anderson is best known for her good work as director of PlatteForum, the nonprofit in the Central Platte Valley that pairs resident artist-mentors with at-risk kids for a start-to-finish exhibition experience. A talented artist in her own right, with a strong background in education and design, Anderson…
When Superior Donuts director Bruce Sevy, associate arts director at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, first saw the play at the Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, he wondered if it was too particular to the Windy City to translate. It is, after all, heavily steeped in one of the…
What’s the deal with hard-edge painting, anyway? As Plus Gallery’s Ivar Zeile notes, “Some people take it for granted. They look at it and say, ‘How hard can that be? Where is the relationship to life and philosophy?’” Maybe so. But if you take one good, hard-edged look at the…
If you ask Naropa-schooled Austin performance artist Teresa Harrison, she’ll say that Allen Ginsberg’s groundbreaking mid-century epic poem Howl — recently in the public eye as the inspiration for last year’s film docudrama of the same name with James Franco as Ginsberg — fits modern times as handily as it…
This year, the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theatre will celebrate forty years of existence — which makes it the perfect time for the annual DanceAfrica nationwide cultural celebration to hit Denver. “DanceAfrica originated in Brooklyn,” explains the Cleo Parker’s Mary Hart, “but this is the first time it’s been done…
The finest Western you’ll see this year is set in aristocratic sixteenth-century France, in the heat of counter-Reformation. In The Princess of Montpensier, Mélanie Thierry’s father barters her for the titular title, marrying her off to Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet’s shy, pained prince — instead of her heart’s first choice, Gaspard Ulliel’s…
Forty years ago, ten Park Hill residents looking for like-minded literature lovers put their heads together and founded the Park Hill Community Bookstore, a non-profit business that has both sustained and been sustained by that community since 1971. “Seven women and three men signed the original articles of incorporation, and…
Denver’s Cinco de Mayo celebration is one of the biggest — if not the biggest — in the country, maybe the world (but then, the holiday is not that big a deal in Mexico). That’s the claim, at least, of NEWSED, the community-development nonprofit that runs the festival in Civic…
Flying has become as important a form of travel as its grounded, four-wheeled counterpart, as well as an integral part of the global economy. That’s what Greg Lindsay and John D. Kasarda focus on in their new book, Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. “I wanted to write a book…
“Closing day is always bittersweet, particularly when we’re marking the end of a season as awesome as this one,” says Loveland spokesman John Sellers. The ski area got more than 500 inches of snow this season, including spring dumps that have left Loveland with its best closing-day conditions in a…
