Officially, June is bike month. Unofficially, however, it’s bike-anguish month as Denver’s daring, and occasionally dastardly, cyclists mount up and move out — into traffic. But the relationship between cyclists and motorists can be amicable. No, really, it can — if both groups of travelers would just stop being dickheads…
In case the Oprah Book Club and Barnes & Noble’s reading recommendations weren’t enough to get you to read generic best-sellers, the One Book, One Denver program is here to help: Once again, Arts and Venues Denver’s nominations for the contest that determines what all Denver shall read ignores local…
Nothing like a little smattering of nostalgia to soften up the critics, and J.J. Abrams lays it on thick in Super 8, his pitch-perfect paean to Steven Spielberg and growing up in the late ’70s and early ’80s. But sentiment doesn’t have to be a weak critical reaction, as Tim…
There’s an old adage to making a browser game — and fiction in general — one that we’ve talked about before: “Make it new.” A Flash game isn’t exactly the most powerful platform in the world, so you’re restricted to a certain style. But for every 100 platformers, there’s always…
While most folks go to festivals like the Capitol Hill People’s Fair mostly for the bouncy-castle and the shirtless ambience, Bree Davies is partial to the finer points of festival vending, like hats for dogs and paintings of sheep in trench coats; in her recap of the fair yesterday, she…
It hasn’t been medically confirmed yet, but I’m pretty sure my pregnant girlfriend left the Boyz II Men show with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra last night approximately 250 percent more pregnant. Just as sexy and possibly even sexier than they were in the ’90s despite being down a Boy/Man (bass…
Nobody’s going to argue that the sweet digital SLR you just picked up with the 20 katrillion megapixels and the extra-wide viewfinder is pretty sick, but let’s be honest: You don’t know what the hell about 80 percent of those knobs and switches do, and ever since you accidentally pressed…
The Virgin of Guadalupe is such an icon of Mexican culture that it can be easy to forget that she’s also an icon of Mexican Catholicism — and religion and art seldom mix comfortably. That’s somewhat the case with the Chicano Humanities and Arts Council’s Frida Kahlo and other Superheroes…
In the modern age of the iPod, any shoe store, cowboy bar, hair salon or (in this particular case) pho restaurant can do business to any soundtrack it chooses. When I worked at KB Toys in the 90s, we were sent a monthly cassette to play in the store –…
Adventure games have had a bit of resurgence lately — still not breaking into the mainstream, but certainly garnering enough popularity to allow for people to come in and create new games that have an audience. Case in point, 1899 Steam & Spirit, an old-school adventure game that takes place…
Pretty much any way you slice it, “Emily Griffith Technical College” is a more boring name than was the “Opportunity School” that used to be in the title — but the change is bigger than just how it rolls of the tongue. It also represents a slowly dying hope for…
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. For those…
In the beginning, there was the Ballpark Market, a singular urban flea with a European ambiance. And not long after that, sisters Kim Dahlquist and Stacey Johnson begat A Paris Flea Market in downtown Littleton, bringing a similar concept to the the southwest ‘burbs. And then, and then, and then…
Be careful what tattoo you get, lest you end up like Bree Davies, who ended up accidentally affiliating herself with a gang when she got the initials R.H. tattooed on her (it stands for “Ratchet Ho”) — meaning you might want to reconsider that flaming skull with the “Bandido 4…
The Girl Bike Love crew has been known to quote Susan B. Anthony — “Let me tell you what I think of bicycling: I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world” — and other feminist icons when talking about its mission to “empower,…
Whether you spend the morning of Memorial Day nursing a three-cumulative-day hangover or getting up early and running a perverse distance in the Bolder Boulder, chances are, by Monday afternoon, you are going to need something low-key — and preferably free, since you spent all your money on booze/paying to…
If you’ve ever wanted to be a comic artist, you should probably reconsider because there’s no money in it. But if you’re anything like a comic book artist, you’re stubborn and you will not listen, so you might as well get off on the right foot — and Illiterate’s Talk…
What exactly is a Maker, anyway? Obviously, it’s someone who, well, makes stuff. But a Maker is more specifically an inventor of sorts, who works in cross-disciplinary realms where technology and the arts collide. There’s a fierce DIY spirit among Makers, who tend to surf and hack their way across…
Tattoos are dumb. Ask my mom. Don’t ask her, actually, because it isn’t all tattoos that are dumb in her eyes, just my little girly clip art pieces and that giant weird dead cat thing my neighbor got tattooed on his calf. My brother has a whole arm full of…
There really is no comparison between Martin Lawrence and Candy Darling, né James Slattery, an actress and fixture of the Warhol Factory/late ’60s downtown New York scene who happened to be technically male. One was beautiful as a woman, talented and funny; the other is hideous as a woman, and…
Can your five-year-old make a kick-ass game? You know, write the story, create the assets, record the voice-over and record some of the music? We didn’t think so, but Ryan Creighton’s daughter Cassie can, and it’s called Sissy’s Magic Ponycorn Adventure. It’s a magical adventure about a ponycorn (they’re the…
Given that the only sports more American than baseball are truck-pulls and war, come spring, it’s once again time to turn our attention to that most grueling contest of standing around with occasional bursts of activity. These days, actually, there are a lot of sports more in-line with the American…
