Susanna Speier

Playboy bunnies from the golden era reminisce over Hugh Hefner, working in the clubs and other memories.

Today three million copies of Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical weekly, hit the stands. And although this edition, the first to come out since terrorists killed twelve members of the magazine's staff, was snapped up fast in France this morning, the Tattered Cover hopes to make the issue available here...

Former Playboy Bunnies got together in Baltimore to remember the heyday of Hefner’s nightclubs, reconnect with friends and swap war stories.

Kyle MunKittrick "is not a zombie expert," according to Nerd Nite Denver co-boss Sara D. Wilson. The NYU-trained bioethicist "took the lens and looked at the undead and the idea of the undead," she explains. "He was able to take that particular understanding of the topic and shed new light."...

After the Boulder Tattoo Project commissioned world-renowned poet and 2013 Guggenheim fellow Anne Waldman to write a love letter to Boulder, "Boulder Zodiac" was parsed into 218 segments and tattooed onto the bodies of 218 volunteers last fall. Some of them got complete phrases, some just commas -- and then...

To preserve everyone's privacy, no one is permitted to provide or to request last names or phone numbers. Following the event, however, the speed-daters can turn in the first name and assigned three-digit number of anyone they would like to see again. They are instructed to specify whether their interest in that person is either a) work, b) friendship or c) romantic; if two speed-daters' multiple-choice interests match up, 8MinuteDating software provides both individuals with contact information

It's February 8, 1937. An African American Pullman porter is checking the ticket of a white passenger, who's eating oysters and sipping champagne. The porter then steps into the adjacent car and checks the tickets of the African-American passengers who are eating bread and cheese. The Chicago-bound train in this...

Celebrate the Year of the Horse for two hours today, at the 2014 Colorado Chinese New Year Celebration, which has had “hundreds of volunteers working year-round,” according to Huiliang Liu, president of the Chinese American Foundation of Colorado and the Denver Chinese School. But they had a lot to accomplish:...

The 4th annual Art of Winter, which kicks off Friday, January 24, and runs through Saturday, February 8, will coincide with the SnowSports Industries America (SIA) Snow Show. Although there is no official correlation between the urban showcase of Colorado Artists and Innovators and the snow sports industry's biggest trade...

Super Dogs, in performance today and tomorrow at the National Western Stock Show, is a twenty-dog ensemble that elevates jumping and retrieving — not to mention tunnel relays and maze mastery — to completely new levels. “They have Frisbee dogs and choreograph things with music,” explains National Western spokeswoman Karen...

As the snow settled on Sunday evening, Colorado's Downton Abbey fans were transported to England in February 1922, only six months after the tragic and untimely death of Mathew Crawley, killed in a car wreck at the end of last season. The Masterpiece-produced show started with Mathew's widow, Mary, and...

With nineteenth century Audubon prints now fetching record rates at auction, an art exhibit entitled Plants, Birds and Pollinators: Art Serving Science is more likely to evoke historic than contemporary associations. However, the watercolor, ink, and…

If all the pressure to maximize your gastro capacity isn't bad enough this week, try explaining why you'll need to wait 77,798 years -- until after Voyager 1 passes Alpha Centauri -- to again use the menurkey. In the meantime, you have to navigate the explosion of mediocre Thanksgivvukah mashups...

In October I was booked for a one-night performance gig showcasing a Weeping Angel costume for multimedia artist Jenny Shumaker at a Denver RAW Artists event, dedicated to supporting emerging local artists. Based on an award-winning 2007 Doctor Who

Is Lumber Baron Inn: Denver's Mystery Mansion, Denver historian Phil Goodstein's latest book, really about just one building? "Yes, it is," replies Goodstein. "Compared to a lot of my books" -- like the recently released Denver History Index, about where to find out more about the city's past and present...

On the morning of October 26, Andrew Strugnell, a Thailand-based online TV broadcaster from New Zealand, noticed that an old high-school buddy, Tim Hodge, had replaced his Facebook profile photo with a picture of a giraffe. He had also posted a…

"Whatever a community goes through affects its artists as well. What poets bring to the healing process is a kind of articulateness, a way of expressing what many of us feel and need to find the words for," says David Mason, Colorado's poet laureate, who will be sharing poetic reactions...

Anne Waldman's love letter to Boulder is drenched in water references. They seem fitting, since the city just suffered through the worst flood in its century-and-a-half existence. But the poem, which was commissioned by the Boulder Tattoo Project, is copyrighted Memorial Day 2013, and the first public reading of "Boulder...

Phil McLean moved to Boulder from Cincinnati 35 years ago and says he "never felt at home" until he arrived there. Since the 64-year-old title abstractor signed up as a sponsor of the Boulder Tattoo Project, he got to select his excerpt from Anne Waldman's "Boulder Zodiac" before...