When Denver fashionista Brandi Shigley took over Sputnik’s bingo night from Ben Kronberg, she added her own twist to things. “We call it Blingo. Every week, we have a different designer sponsoring the night, so not only do you get to win the money, you also get some cool fashion,”…
In these hipster times, it’s only a matter of time before the traditional game of old people gets appropriated for ironic reasons. Thus, “we’re introducing bingo to a whole new generation,” says Luke Schmaltz, co-owner of Bender’s Tavern. “Some people get pretty gnarly about it,” he says of his bar’s…
A few years ago, the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Visual Arts Photographic Legacy Program set forth to bestow thousands of photographic works from Warhol’s deep well on university-based galleries. The University of Denver, one of 180 beneficiaries across the country, received more than 150 pieces (galleries at the University of Colorado…
Impoverished and desperate, a man murders a pawnbroker and her half-sister with an ax, and guilt eventually becomes his undoing. Though the novel has a reputation for being dense and hard to absorb, that sentence basically sums up the plot of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment — a book that…
When it comes to choreographing a ballet, there’s a lot of wiggle room: The ballet’s choreographer interprets a composer’s score, making the dance you see one step removed from the original. In the case of the Colorado Ballet’s production of Romeo and Juliet, it’s yet another step removed — from…
If you love Mardi Gras but are heading for the high country rather than the low country this year, check out CarniVail, which kicks off at noon today with a Louisiana-style crawfish boil in the Eagle’s Nest at the top of Vail’s Eagle Bahn gondola. “It’s the world’s highest low-country…
Ladies, imagine for a moment a world without men. How would we cope? Or maybe — and this might be the real question — how wouldn’t we cope? That’s the lode that Boulder movement and performance artist Michelle Ellsworth mines in her reworked one-woman show Preparation Y, resulting in a…
The world probably has room for only one festival dedicated to a cryogenically frozen dead Norwegian, and it’s not in Norway. Started in 2002 to honor Grandpa Bredo, put on dry ice in a shed by relatives after he passed away back in 1989 (he’s still there, even if the…
The Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life programming has been going off without a Hitch — until now. The current film series focuses on the rarely seen movies of Alfred Hitchcock; tonight’s screening of Marnie is the last in a lineup that’s included The Wrong Man, Foreign Correspondent and Life…
When the best of the best amateur boxers face off tonight in the Championship Finals of the Colorado Golden Gloves State Tournament, they will have already battled their way through three nights of fierce competition — all for the chance to eventually secure an Olympic berth. “Last year, we had…
Folksinger and quintessential left-leaning activist Phil Ochs floated around the edges of Greenwich Village royalty in the ’60s, maintaining an on-again, off-again friendship/rivalry with Bob Dylan and writing such songs as “I Ain’t Marchin’ Anymore” and “There But for Fortune,” which injected the influences of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger…
The Dikeou Collection is known for its innovative, ingenious literary and art programs, and here’s another one to add to the list: Five Denver Writers, hosted by Oren Silverman and featuring a quintet of local wordsmiths who have books coming out almost simultaneously. “A lot of it is poetry, but…
For nineteen years, the Denver Record Collectors Spring Expo, put on by Big K Productions, has been one of the best places to cross off the obscure end of your music wish list. As more and more physical media becomes collectors’ items rather than the only way to listen to…
In his debut novel, The Wilding, Benjamin Percy displays a flair for the horror/thriller genres as he delves into the American archetypes of nature. The plot follows a small band of people journeying through the Oregon wilderness, battling both obvious and hidden prey as they face the challenges of dealing…
Andy Warhol was more than just another modern master; some believe he can actually be credited with starting the current era in contemporary art. He did this in myriad ways, not only by turning soup cans into icons of veneration, but by delving into film, installation and performance art. An…
It’s hard to think of a more legit way to rep your city than by getting it permanently tattooed on you. And if you’re going to get it permanently tattooed on you, it’s hard to think of a better place to do it than Th’ink Tank, one of Denver’s most…
Today is the 107th anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s birth. It is marked with National Read Across America Day, which happens each year to promote literacy and remember one of the greatest children’s authors of all time. And he was a great children’s author, no matter how you look at it:…
If you’re a fan at all of Madonna, you know about her 1985 Playboy spread and the classic down and out story that led to it: In 1979, a then-broke and unknown Madonna posed nude for a photography class for a fee of $30. Years later, when her first single…
For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. In honor…
In 99.99 percent of all of video games, you control a character who walks around and explores or kills stuff. That’s all well and good, but what’s it like for those getting killed? That’s the question Second Person Shooter hopes to answer by putting you into the eyes of the…
The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour wraps its two-night stint at the Boulder Theater tonight before heading to Denver’s Paramount Theater on Thursday and Friday. Tonight’s seven featured films (peep the trailers after the jump) include The Fall Line, from Carbondale-based photographer and filmmaker Tyler Stableford, and The Swiss…
In every romantic comedy, it all starts with a lie: a little lie that leads to zany antics, which in turn lead to more elaborate lies, which in turn lead to madcap misunderstandings, which in turn lead to love. And isn’t that what it’s all about? So today, because we…
