In a collaborative effort that came together at the last moment, INTI and Peace Officer mingled their talents with Sugarpill, Stephan Jacobs and ChrisB. to create the second installment of Zenlightenment fundraisers for Michelle “Smallfry” Lessans’ artistic vision for the 2011 Burning Man gathering. With three rooms of music and…
Still can’t believe ski season ended yesterday at Vail and Breckenridge, the last of the Vail resorts still standing, even though it’s still snowing up in them thar hills? As we reflect on the epic season now mostly behind us, the hardcore among us can visit EpicMix.com to relive all…
Now that Easter is over and you’re back on all the vices you gave up during Lent, it’s time to unwind a little bit. Jk, you didn’t give up anything during Lent — quitting things is for the weak willed and poor of spirit — but it’s still time to…
Memorial Day weekend is just around the corner, which kicks off the summer festival season. From sweaty outdoor concerts to snooty art crawls, here are the good, bad and ugly of the Metro-area’s most popular festivals…
I often look through old albums of my grandfather’s family photos from the 1920s, marveling at how he must have labored to produce them in his hobbyist’s darkroom, even creating clever photocollages for my mother’s birthday invitations. In the present, everyone’s a photographer, and our cameras have become a ubiquitous…
Celebrating the celebrity in everybody, Paparazzi For The People is back at Beauty Bar once again, for a Saturday night throwdown of bright lights and plenty of opportunities to smile for the camera. DJs Amen and El Supremo will be tag-teaming the decks, running four turntables together for the entire…
Ballet Nouveau Colorado’s innovative season draws to a close this weekend with a program of four brand-spankin’-new pieces, one by BNC artistic director Garrett Ammon, one by company artist Jason Franklin, and one each by guest choreographers Maurya Kerr and Alex Ketley. We caught up with Ammon and Ketley to…
While most people ostensibly make their resolutions, to keep or forget, on New Year’s Day. But I think it makes more sense to save them for Earth Day and resolve to take doable ecological steps with an infinitely more likely capacity for follow-through. I also think it’s something to celebrate…
As a small child whipping my crayons around the perfect spiral assistance of the Spirograph, I never never anticipated that I could maximize that activity by adding the sweet elixir of booze, or that I’d be doing both with the aid of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science –…
It’s been over a decade since the Columbine High School shootings, but the wounds are still pretty raw for a lot of folks out there; certainly they are for the people of 13 Families, a documentary that looks at the coping process of the families who lost kids to the…
It’s a pretty sad statement about race in America that every black man in Hollywood except Will Smith and Chris Rock is still somehow required to have a fat, sassy, female alter-ego to periodically provide the machine with a few cheap yuks about — looka here, kids! — how black…
Thank you, Easter bunny! Copper Mountain’s Spring Sunsation festival and 2010/2011 ski season winds up this weekend with a world record attempt on Saturday at 10 a.m. “Time to break out those swimsuits and sunglasses, because we’re going to be trying to break the world record for most people to…
We’ve finally started getting some of those April showers the old tales speak of, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be venturing out in to the great big world this weekend. While the ground might be a little damp, you’ll still have plenty of indoor and outdoor activities to choose…
It takes some wading through sludge of child pornography, gore, rampant racism and herp-a-derp-check-out-my-dubs threads, but the best thing (and possibly the only truly good thing) about /b/ has always been the memes, little image-based internet in-jokes that people revise and riff on in endless variations to often hilarious results…
In advance of the Arvada Center’s production of The Lady With All the Answers, which starts its previews tomorrow night, we started researching the woman the play was based on: Eppie Lederer. Known to the public for 47 years as advice columnist Ann Landers, Lederer was a fascinating lady. And…
Colorado’s got its green on good, and the success of Denver B-cycle offers major proof that metro area pedal-pushers welcome the opportunity to get out of their cars and onto the city streets. The city’s member-supported bike sharing program, now in its second year, will appropriately celebrate a solid year…
It’s long been our position that the Evil Blue Horse that guards DIA is pretty much the baddest-ass public art maybe anywhere in the world — what other city would put something that fucking METAL right outside its airport? — and so when we put together a list of best…
While we’re pretty much terrified of shrubbery now after Thorin Klosowski’s earlier post on murderous fictional plants, it’s important to remember that even if in movies plants bring certain death, in the real world, they bring life. And tonight on Rocky Mountain PBS, the locally produced documentary Green Up Colorado…
Tonight at the Denver Botanical Gardens, writer Amy Stewart will be presenting a history of killer plants of the very real variety. While that’s all well and good, we prefer to keep our deadly botanical assassins in the realm of the fiction so we can still sleep through the night…
Tonight’s after-hours Science Lounge at the Museum of Nature And Science invites Dr. Bridget Coughlin, museum curator of Human Health, to speak on tattoos and the biology behind the marriage of ink and skin (and all its squirmy, bacteria-laden possibilities.) But the topic of art will go beyond permanent body…
It’s Always Sunny In Colorado, filmmaker Bucky O’Connell’s long-awaited ode to the local skateboarding scene, premiers next Thursday at the Bluebird Theater with 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. screenings for $8. The video, presented by 303 Boards and Toebock Media Group, features Derek Milton, Matt Kehoe, Shad Spencer and at…
There’s nothing funny about household pets perishing from smoke inhalation, but a cat in an oxygen mask, apparently, is hilarious — even the cops in the background think it’s funny, and cops never think anything is funny. The cat, however, is not amused…
