The Colorado Rockies kick off their second-half home opener against the Diamondbacks tonight at Coors Field on a high note, after yesterday’s 6-1 win in San Diego, which gave starting pitcher Jason Marquis his league-leading twelfth win. But Jim Tracy and the boys (and you and me) all know that…
It’s been three years since Fancy Tiger came to town, changing the face of SoBo in its wake: A perfect fit with existing businesses near the corner of Ellsworth Avenue and Broadway, the groundbreaking DIY craft shop/hipster clothing emporium that later split into two stores on the same block has…
Colorado’s SolVista Bike Park at Granby Ranch got the best endorsement imaginable when it was chosen to host this summer’s USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships, featuring both the elite of international mountain biking, hundreds of them, and an equally rampant onslaught of amateurs in cross country, downhill, single speed,…
Colorado’s SolVista Bike Park at Granby Ranch got the best endorsement imaginable when it was chosen to host this summer’s USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships, featuring both the elite of international mountain biking, hundreds of them, and an equally rampant onslaught of amateurs in cross country, downhill, single speed,…
There’s no community like bike community. It’s a cooperative society that rolls softly and carries a big wrench, so it’s no wonder Chris Loffelmacher at the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life saw in it a big DIY-inspired opportunity just waiting to be mined. “People (heart) their bikes,” he says,…
Any metro-area denizen who’s ever been surprised by a fox crossing the alley or a blue jay squawking in a backyard tree won’t be surprised to learn that the city is teeming with wildlife, if you just know where to look. But with that knowledge comes a certain responsibility, and…
In the right hands, the Charles Busch formula – camp up a film niche, turn it into a simultaneous homage and parody, then throw in a guy in drag – is fail-safe funny for anyone already enamored with pop culture. Such is the case with a new production of Die…
It’s back to basics this year at the annual Taste of the Nation benefit for Share Our Strength: thirty presenting restaurants, a compendium of sips from Colorado breweries and wineries from across the nation, a silent auction and some live entertainment. There’ll be no stuffy sit-down dinner, either; instead, you’ll…
The folks at CultureHaus, the Denver Art Museum’s social and educational group for a younger adult demographic, are always looking for a new way to raise money or have a good time, and the resulting parties never fail to raise the bar on hip entertainment. So expect their latest tony…
For anyone who was around to witness the Apollo 11 lunar landing forty years ago on this date, the moment was unforgettable – a physical and visual embodiment of the nation’s collective desire to, well, fly to the moon. And the whole Neil Armstrong “giant step for mankind” sensibility was,…
Our favorite lingerie ads? Each year, the ritzy SOL… Store of Lingerie in Cherry Creek North surely wins that title, bare-handed, for plastering billboards and the store’s windows (and the Post’s business section) with sexy images of the latest SOL girl, all decked out in little more than something frilly…
Local artist Kyle Banister is all about baseball. Yep, he lives it, breathes it, reveres it and draws it. “There isn’t an emotion that you will feel in life that you won’t feel on a baseball field if you spend enough time there,” Banister writes online — and that’s why,…
Let’s face it. Going to the movies, at least the first-run variety, isn’t really the same great, cheap entertainment it used to be. You know how it works: You dish out at the box office, and you dish out at the concession stand, and then you enter the theater laden…
While Buntport Theater’s tRUNks team — the very funny Matt Zambrano, Mitch Slevc and Jessica Robblee — takes a summer break from the usual serial creative kids’ comedy based on book titles, the droll trio has cooked up something delicious for adults. Love and Potatoes, a well-packaged threesome of short…
The Mizel Museum’s programming always seems to encompass a fine web of relationships. For instance, this summer’s Israeli Film Series, a relaxed outdoor roster of screenings on the lawn, manages to interconnect the museum’s summer self-portrait show and the 100th anniversary of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. Subtitled Tel…
Local artist Kyle Banister is all about baseball. Yep, he lives it, breathes it, reveres it and draws it. “There isn’t an emotion that you will feel in life that you won’t feel on a baseball field if you spend enough time there,” Banister writes online, and that’s why, in…
While Buntport Theater’s tRUNks team – the very funny Matt Zambrano, Mitch Slevc and Jessica Robblee – takes a summer break from the usual serial creative kids’ comedy based on book titles, the droll trio has cooked up something delicious for adults: Love and Potatoes, a well-packaged threesome of short…
According to her good friend (and Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art adult-education coordinator) Sarah Kinn, Lyons painter Sally King isn’t so much a feminist as she is “spiritual and into the feminine.” So King’s Breast Prayers for Peace project – for which women are invited to leave imprints of their…
Indie comic Moshe Kasher has it all going for him: youth, brains, wit, a twisted edge and an inside track on what’s really funny in the 21st century. Once you’ve seen him, you won’t forget him. Comedy Works maven Wende Curtis certainly didn’t after she caught his “Best of the…
What could be more perfect on a summer evening than a big, sprawling musical featuring larger-than-life characters and a message to match? Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which opened July 14 on the Arvada Center Main Stage, promises to sweep away audiences of all ages for a few…
Everyone knows this particular time of day: I call it “Blue Time,” but a more classical designation for the full-on blush and ebb of dusk, when everything glows and then sinks into the shadows, is the “Violet Hour.” That playwright Richard Greenberg, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his plays Three…
Downtown Littleton, like other urban retail pockets, has suffered in these economic times. While a few businesses have fallen by the wayside, it’s a good sign that they’ve been replaced by new ones – but the independents who form the backbone of the neighborhood, such as Peggy Cooper, of the…
