By now, the facepalm-inducing silliness of Kim Kardashian’s tearful protest on Sunday’s episode of Kourtney and Kim Take New York at being shown in the nude in the October issue of W magazine has been extensively remarked upon. For one thing, she posed nude for the magazine, so it’s hard…
There’s a storm in the midwest that’s causing everyone to roll out their stupid snow puns again (Snowpocalypse Now!) and here in Denver we’re getting into the negative double digits — a big day for Netflix Instant, the movie rental option that doesn’t require pants, much less a jacket and…
Well, now I guess I’ve seen everything. I’ve been through wars, natural disasters, the inexplicable career of Jimmy Fallon and two or three great depressions, but I never thought I’d see the day when everybody stopped the presses on account of a little cold weather. Why, today’s kids are so…
The beginning of February is the perfect time of year to release media of all shapes and sizes for a number of reasons. Namely, it’s because half of the country is bound to be snowed in and with nothing to do at some point during the month. There is nothing…
Sometimes failure is more successful than success. Consider the case of a then-unknown Evel Knievel’s attempted 1967 motorcycle jump over the fountain at Cesar’s Palace: He botched it, breaking an absurd amount of bones and ending up in a 29-day coma as a result — but in what was arguably…
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. You may…
Snow day! Denver Public Schools and others around the region are closed today “due to severe weather conditions and below-freezing temperatures,” and Loveland Ski area has just the thing to keep all those rugrats from going stir crazy: They’re slashing adult ticket prices from $59 to $30, and kids’ tickets…
It’ll be a substantially less gay old time than previously anticipated at the Curious Theatre tomorrow: OUT @ Curious, the theater company’s tribute to the more festive segment of its audience that we told you about in the Night+Day section of this week’s print edition (still on the racks), has…
When a product comes along that is so unique, so one-of-a-kind, so different than the rest of the products out there, it needs to be researched. Beardski is one of those products. Competing with the viral “BeardHead” brand of crocheted face masks, Beardski brings a new option to the table…
It’s hard to understand the magnitude of Geek Bowl unless you go. The numbers are readily available: 129 teams, 64 questions, $7,000 in prize money. But none of that gets you to what this thing is like. There’s a temptation to imagine a boozier Knowledge Bowl, an almost standardized-testing type…
Improv is based on inclusiveness; competition implies exclusivity. It’s pretty safe to assume, then, that the two can’t mix, isn’t it? It is not. Bovine Metropolis successfully combines the uncombinable in Denver’s Next Improv Star, a competition that aims to find the city’s funniest improviser via the tried-and-true performance-then-expulsion technique…
I have to admit I wasn’t quite in sync with Friday night’s Untitled theme at the Denver Art Museum: Pledge. Pledge? It had something to do, they told me, with artists making creative pledges to accomplish certain things and how to keep museum installations well dusted; people, they said, could…
We sifted through a mess of 893 snow sports brands representing at the SIA Snow Show to find the Colorado companies we love most, then asked them to show off their best boards for the 2011/2012 season. Click through for a fast-forward look at the boards locavores will be craving…
More than once during the Buntport Theater’s Kafka on Ice, the character of Franz Kafka (played by Josh Hartwell) comments on how stupid it is to stage an ice-capade revolving around his life and work. “It’s inappropriate!” he protests. As justification, toward the end of the play, another character offers…
When push comes to shove, February is and pretty much always will be Black History Month — that’s the only one they teach you about in school, anyway, mostly by telling you about Martin Luther King, Jr., the least threatening to white people of the civil rights leaders. Which is…
The 2011 version of the Geeks Who Drink Geek Bowl, the fifth annual granddaddy of useless trivia, went down on Saturday night at the Fillmore Auditorium. The tournament kicked off with a rowdy musical theater performance, where the performers bellowed “Fuck Philly” through motifs of hip-hop, chorus line and gospel,…
Denver Big Air organizers at the Denver Sports Commission and the LG FIS Snowboard World Cup were right to be upset that top riders like Canadian Sebastian Toutant (aka “Seb Toots”) stood them up in favor of getting in some extra practice at Buttermilk for X Games 15, a scheduling…
In a world where 14-year-old kids are throwing double-cork 1080s, the oft forgotten path of big mountain riding gets lost in the mix or, sometimes, completely overlooked. Jeremy Jones has been at the forefront of that revolution since the dawn of big mountain accessibility. He’s dropped cliffs from Alaska to…
Tracy Morgan called Sarah Palin “good masturbation material” last night on national television during a TNT broadcast of an NBA game. Maybe not what the network would have preferred that he say, but a). he was sort of baited and b). this is Tracy Morgan, who is more-or-less completely indistinguishable…
Everybody knows that, when a groundhog sees its shadow, it means there will be six more weeks of winter; lesser known is that, when a prairie dog sees its shadow, it means there will be a buy-one-get-one-free day at the Denver Zoo on Sunday — which got us wondering: What…
Deep in the midst of the digital age, International Film Series programmer Pablo Kjolseth makes no bones about his love of celluloid, the analog of film, especially, but not necessarily, in black and white. Because of that, the University of Colorado’s IFS is arguably the region’s last true vestige of…
As you may know by now, the SIA Trade show is not open to the public. But Westword was able to get in and get the scoop on some new products that are coming out this year. We got the techiest of the tech, the practical-est of the practical and…
