Take a random assortment of cult classics involving teenagers — let’s say, oh, Brick, My So-Called Life and anything by Joss Whedon — roll them all together into the space of a little over two minutes and you might have something like the trailer for Kaboom — which is not…
As is befitting of a the world’s biggest bar trivia night, there’s been a flurry of questions surrounding the circumstances of Geek Bowl 2011, that hallowed tradition where prestigious geeks from all around the country will gather to do battle tomorrow evening to the end of proving their superior worthless…
This just in, from our friend and favorite Santero, Jerry Vigil: A saint for these times…
When Serena Chopra traveled to writing communities in Washington D.C., New York, and Oakland last year, she noticed something that was missing in Denver: a community literary journal. As a response, Chopra and co-founder Daniel McDonald created TitMouse Magazine. The literary art magazine seeks to promote Denver artists through the…
The SIA Snow Show rang in its second year in Denver yesterday with Governor John Hickenlooper rocking a green 686 snowboard jacket and talking about how stoked he is to go snowboarding with his family this weekend, and Mayor Bill Vidal sporting a puffy black Spyder coat and urging SIA…
It’s the last Saturday of January, which means, well, absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things, but it does mean it’s the weekend and that’s all that matters. The important thing is you’ll have plenty of activities to do on the cheap this weekend; from comedy to art, we’ve…
So, we missed last week’s episode of Jersey Shore. Our bad. Yes, we know, MTV replayed it at least thirty times since, but we just forgot, okay? From the commercials and pre-show recaps, it looks like Snooki possibly realized she had a drinking problem, but thankfully bounced back into her…
The challenge of writing a character who is a part of a marginalized group — say blacks, Hispanics or, in the case of Tomas Mournian’s Hidden, a gay teenager — is that all too often the drama of suffering overwhelms the character’s humanity; instead of developing into believable people, these…
News Corp. and Disney (who own Fox and ABC, respectively) are considering pulling their ad-based free streaming shows from Hulu — remember that they are two of the three companies who founded Hulu back in 2008. Hulu has done incredibly well in terms of viewership, but its subscription-based Hulu Plus…
Slobbing the knob. Gumming the root. Swallowing the sword. Playing the skin flute. Sucking “the dick.” These are all things you could be learning to do tonight when Shanna Katz, a professional and certified sexuality educator, presents Suck on This! Adventures in Fellatio at Fascinations in Boulder. You might also…
The Oscar Nominations are out for this year and, as in all years that have preceded it, this one offers no surprises. It’s a relatively unknown fact, but there is a very specific formula for making an Oscar nominated film — so specific, in fact, we’ve made a flow chart…
For the last year, something’s been missing from the Lida Project. Certainly, it hasn’t been creativity or an open mind; under the energetic guidance of stand-in artistic director Julie Rada, the local experimental theater group in fact thrived as well as any small group of its kind can in Denver,…
With a name like the 24rd Triannual Intronational Dance Competition, absurdity was to be expected. And the event did not disappoint in the ridiculous department. The interpretive dance-off at the Mercury Cafe featured a juggling unicyclist, a girl in a bubble-wrap gown and many people unafraid to roll around on…
At some point in our lives, we’ve had a job that requires sitting through a barrage of awful, corporate-mandated training videos. Things like walking to your car with a co-worker at night, making sure not to put bleach in the sanitzer bucket and always wearing closed-toe shoes on the sales…
More than 14,000 snowboarding fans turned out for the LG FIS Snowboard World Cup Big Air competition on the Denver Big Air ramp in Civic Center Park, according to the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Association’s estimate, about 4,000 more than for the previous night’s ski competition. Take that, skiing! Alas,…
Once upon a time, cartoons were silly. Consider the original Batman series of the 1960s, a show so jokey it had villains named both The Laugher and The Giggler and starred a not-exactly-ripped-but-still-wearing-spandex Adam West playing the world’s most block-headed straight man — even Tim Burton’s late-’80s reboot of the…
You’ve seen them bounding up walls and hurtling across rooftops in the latest action film, maybe even streaking across town. The ordinary rules of physics don’t seem to apply to them, as if their hands have suction cups and their feet are shod in Go-Go Gadget sneakers — but, in…
Most people will pass by a dead tree or plant without so much as a glance, but S.D. Prochyra’s art finds its roots in these overlooked and intricate systems. It’s this pedigree of death and beauty that’s on display tonight in Requiem, a solo exhibition of his work. The art…
Paul Sills, improvisational theater pioneer and the founder director of Chicago’s famous Second City, was once quoted as saying, “Theater is dead. You guys just don’t know it yet.” Whether or not the Evergreen Players know it yet is up for debate, but they’re taking Sills’s experimental techniques to heart…
If you’re looking for a window into another culture, a good place to start is with its folk tales and children’s stories — after all, the yarns that we weave for our children carry the essential cultural data that we want to pass on. To that end, it’s hard to…
When it comes to the silver screen, it seems there’s little opportunity to see much of anything that doesn’t involve gratuitous explosions or testicle injury. And of the many theater-shunned forms, the most neglected could be the short: Unless you’re at a film festival, you’re just not going to find…
Tokyo street fashion comes to Colfax tonight, when Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast celebrates the end of its two-month residency upstairs at Mod Livin’, 5327 East Colfax Avenue, by throwing a Tokyo Extreme Fashion Show dedicated to the frilly-dress-wearing, fake-tan-and-eyelash-donning living dolls of Denver. Participants in the show will include members…
