About fifteen years ago, Charles Phoenix discovered a box in a thrift store; written on the box were the words “trip across the United States 1957.” He opened the box of slides and held a couple of them up to the light. “I said, ‘This is a treasure with my…

Improv is an art form. It takes skills to garner tidbits of information from audience members and weave them into a narrative that actually makes sense — and that’s actually funny — in spontaneous sketches and games. The folks at Bovine Metropolis Theater do improv very well — so well,…

Tony and Tina must really love each other. After all, the two have been married hundreds — if not thousands — of times since Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding opened off Broadway in 1988. And although their wedding is a little different every time, it’s still the craziest, funniest affair you’re…

Chris Loffelmacher and the rest of the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life team had their work cut out for them when they decided to tie in cooking demos with the overarching theme “Scene.” “Food that you eat with your eyes first,” explains Loffelmacher. “Food that tends to be very…

If your plans for tonight involve playing shuffleboard with Grandma and watching Uncle Ned’s nose hairs grow, then you clearly need a well-deserved break from the yearly family Thanksgiving hell. It’s time to give the good Lord thanks for turntables, for beats, for electronic music, for your own two dancing…

I haven’t bought anything from Wal-Mart in more than five years. Why? Because I believe in putting my money where my mouth is, and there are many aspects of the retail giant’s practices that I don’t like. It takes a little more time and research to find the same deals…

If you’ve ridden the light rail, you’ve probably noticed the plethora of public art at the stations — unless you were wearing a paper bag over your head. And if you were just passing by one of the amazing sculptures, walls, windscreens or benches, you might have had the desire…

“For me, it’s sort of a personal mission to show the North American culture — in a very entertaining way — how sensual and vibrant and beautiful women over forty are,” explains Nancy Cranbourne, who choreographed and organized Sweet Release, the first-ever full evening of performances by Cranbourne’s 40 Women…

This year’s Cocktails & Karaoke fundraiser for the Kunsberg School for chronically ill children (located on the National Jewish Medical and Research Center campus) is going to be much like the previous five — because you can’t improve on perfection. After all, what could possibly be more entertaining than a…

Paul Krugman might not be everybody’s cup of tea — there are those who argue that his biweekly op-ed column in the New York Times is more partisan than academic — but the man’s got brains, and you can’t argue with that. A professor of economics and international affairs at…

Everyone’s complaining about the cost of health care, and the plight of people with no health insurance and medical bills to pay is very real. Take, for example, local photographer Judy Sanchez: Recently hospitalized, she ended up needing a cardiac arrhythmia procedure and was left owing a substantial amount of…

“Rocketman” Jimmy Descant and his wife moved to Salida in 2006 under less than auspicious circumstances. “I’d been a lifelong resident of New Orleans, but it was getting time for me to go out west somewhere,” Descant says. “When Katrina happened, we were at the end of a few-month trip…

Victorians were obsessed with sex. Let’s review the evidence: clothing styles that covered women from chin to wrist to ankle, lest a glimpse of skin send a male onlooker into a frenzy; the invention of bland foods such as graham crackers to help smother the sex drive; the proliferation of…

Looking for something to do this weekend that doesn’t involve ghosts, ghouls or goblins? Then steer toward Barr Lake State Park, 13401 Picadilly Road in Brighton, for tonight’s Full Moon Hike: Tales of Migration and Folklore. During a short hike, park naturalists will explain how Barr Lake’s animals adapt and…

There are a lot of misconceptions floating around out there about dogs. We’re looking at you, self-proclaimed Dog Whisperer Cesar Millan. And Colorado has its own answer to Millan: Jake Page, author of Dogs: A Natural History. “I don’t want my dogs rolling over on their backs and peeing on…

Voix de la ville means “voice of the city” in French, and promoters Pamela Dore Alford and Jenifer Kuntz took that voice very seriously when they created tonight’s Voix de la Ville: An Evening of Subculture Bliss extravaganza. “It was kind of a collaborative effort,” explains Kuntz. “We called on…

If you had the misfortune to be trapped in a tragic Greek myth, one of the worst positions you could possibly find yourself in is that of Medusa. Once a beautiful nymph with many suitors, Medusa caught the attention of Poseidon, the Lord of the Sea. When Poseidon raped Medusa…

Anaïs Nin once said, “I will not just be a tourist in the world of images.” According to Cynthia Morris, that quote “really sums up what I’m hoping to bring to people, to give them a chance to write in the moment.” That’s why Morris has organized the Writer’s Tour…