The tenth annual Denver Public Library Booklovers’ Ball revolves around the theme “Elements,” so it’s no surprise that the DPL is attempting to make the event as green as possible. The menu comprises either locally grown or organic food, the ball’s organizers will compost and recycle absolutely everything they can,…

Each October, the Mercury Motley Players put together an original dramedy to entertain the masses. This year’s Allied Witches: Hot Colombian Nights is no exception — though the Players may have outdone themselves in terms of scope and meaning. “It’s about the drug war in Colombia, it’s kind of about…

Who doesn’t love a scary story this time of year — especially one that was written by the king of creepy, Edgar Allan Poe? That’s why the Hunger Artists Ensemble Theatre’s presentation of An Evening With Edgar Allan Poe is so brilliant. Director Maggie Stillman moved the Halloween favorite to…

Lovers of low-brow art, hot rods, custom motorcycles and beer, pay attention: Aaron Hoffmeyer has heard your pleas for a party that caters to all your needs. After the success of Mile High Shakedown this past spring, Hoffmeyer has put together Mile High Shakedown Part BOO, and it’s bound to…

For one year, A.J. Jacobs — who “grew up Jewish the same way Olive Garden is Italian” — decided to strictly obey the Bible for his book, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible. “My goal was to follow every…

Want to see the hottest women’s winter sports apparel while raising money for Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC), an organization educating young women about the importance of early detection? And what if the clothing were modeled by strapping young men instead of women? Outdoor DIVAS knew you couldn’t say no…

The Mile High Chapter of the American Red Cross wanted to find a fun way to educate Denverites on how to prepare for emergencies. And what could possibly be better than a treasure hunt? Today’s Paint the Town Red Treasure Hunt leads participants through downtown, going from clue to clue…

What do World War II and the Cold War have to do with Boulder? Quite a bit, if you listen to Keith Gleason, manager of the Sommers-Bausch Observatory at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Gleason will explain it all tonight and tomorrow night in “Sputnik & the Space Age…

Julie Pech, author of The Chocolate Therapist, has a thousand and one reasons why you should eat dark chocolate every day: It releases endorphins, it can lower your blood pressure, it’s rich with antioxidants. And, obviously, it tastes fantastic. The Denver resident has been extolling the virtues of chocolate for…

Traditional Kathak dancer master Pandit Chitresh Das and Emmy-winning tap-dancer Jason Samuels Smith met backstage at the 2004 American Dance Festival, and it was a match made in heaven: The former child prodigies shared a similar approach to dance, a passion for exploring the possibilities of rhythmic improvisation, and a…

“All the work we do is geared toward helping native peoples gain more control over their resources,” explains Jeanne Rubin, organizer of the Indigenous Film & Arts Festival. “And stories are a resource. These people should be in control of their stories and how their histories are told, because when…

When I lived with my artist roommate, we were always doing weird stuff — like printing “Sasquatch for President” banners during the 2004 election and making plaster casts of our faces. The latter activity wasn’t as fun as it might sound: We sat around waiting for the plaster to set,…

Just before The Matrix Revolutions was released, I had an in-depth conversation with several graduate philosophy students about the Matrix series up to that point. It was just as lofty and cerebral as you might imagine, with the obligatory references to René Descartes’s Discourse on the Method and a long…

I resigned myself long ago to the fact that I will never be a model. With a 5’4″ frame and no desire to starve my curves away, it’s just not something that’s in my future. But I still love fashion, and I love going out when there’s no cover charge…

Many, many years ago, after the waters of the great flood covered the whole land and then receded, there lived a man named Ridjimiraril in the place we now call the Northern Territory in Australia. He lived there with his three wives — one wise, one jealous and one beautiful…

Since the beginning of time, human beings have been predicting the end of the world. It’s easy to ignore the crazy man on the corner shouting about Armageddon, but the ancient Mayan civilization — with its freaky-accurate calendar and sophisticated mathematical and astronomical systems — is a bit more difficult…

“Amy Goodman is a goddess,” enthuses KGNU’s Joanne Cole, “and she is a real journalist in a day when there are very few, and she is a tireless journalist on top of that, and we are so thrilled to have her here.” And you should be, too: The host of…

“I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun to do a show with works taking whimsical ideas from The Wizard of Oz, or abstracting ideas from The Wizard of Oz — just using it as a starting point for inspiration?” says Kim Harrell of East End Applied Arts. Fun, indeed: Harrell’s idea…