She may be a big fancy star now, but once upon a time, the germ of comedy was planted in Tig Notaro while she was working as a music promoter right here in town. “When I was living in Denver, I was really itching to perform,” says the comic, who…
The brick-and-mortar movie rental store is a dying breed, but that doesn’t mean you can’t rent local. Louisville’s John Griffin has started a local kiosk movie business called Treehouse Movies. Right now he’s got one kiosk in Denver, at the Sunflower Market at 2880 S. Colorado Blvd., and three in…
Let’s say you’re trying to get to the top of Mount Rainier in Washington State. You’re walking along with your buddy across a snow bridge, and all of a sudden it collapses, plunging you into an 80-foot-deep crevasse, causing an avalanche and killing your buddy, leaving you stranded at the…
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. Here’s a…
After the recent snowstorm, a mysterious someone built a snowman around the parking sign outside the Bradley Sinclair in downtown Morrison. It wasn’t quite street art, though, until one of the gas-station graveyard-shift workers by the name of Chris decided to prepare a birthday surprise for his colleague, Kerry –…
Wow. That was fascinating. You know, we’ve heard a lot of interesting things in our lives, but that thing you just said? That was by far the most interesting. Just to let you know how awesome you are, and because it’s Wednesday, the day that we bring you the best…
Ever since zombies started taking over, ninjas have been getting a bum rap on the game front. Thankfully, Adult Swim Games is around to latch onto these types of things, which is where House of Dead Ninjas comes from. It’s a simple, clever and addictive game…
Looking to get away from it all and head out under your own steam? Boulder’s Neptune Mountaineering is hosting a series of cool events this week leading up to the Backcountry Film Festival next Thursday: Start with tonight’s BYOB (bring your own beacon) practice session at 6 p.m., followed by…
Operation Babylift, which flew hundreds of babies out of Vietnam after the 1975 fall of Saigon for adoption in the United States, has faded from national memory. But for actor Joe Wandell, born Hai Tran Thai and the son of a Vietnamese woman and a GI, it remains the central…
A couple of months ago, in a rare “moot thread,” 4chan founder Christopher Poole indicated that he was open to the suggestion of creating a “social” board in order to rid its random board — or /b/, the (very NSFW) anon hub commonly known as “the asshole of the internet”…
It’s not the most Boulder-ish thing ever to come out of Boulder, but it comes pretty close: barefoot running, the newest cultural export from our neighbors to the northwest and the whitest thing since unpaid internships. If you’re not from a place that can price non-whites into trailer parks while…
We all know fantasy is better than reality, because in reality you have to do stuff you don’t want to do, and you have to face the fact that there will be some things you’ll just never be good at, either for lack of time to learn or lack of…
There are lots of ones in today’s date, and we as a culture do not miss chances to invent significance for these sorts of things. Croatian gaze-healer Braco, pictured here gazing, gets his power from oneness and can therefore heal cancer today. Or something. Video below…
Dale Chisman, who died in 2008, was one of the most significant abstract painters to have ever worked in Colorado — a roster that includes the likes of Vance Kirkland and Herbert Bayer. But Chisman wasn’t just a great artist. He was also a great arts advocate, with his efforts…
Like circus clowns, streakers are not a good kind of funny. They sometimes provoke laughter, sure, but it is not the laughter of true hilarity; rather, it’s an awkward, uncomfortable laughter, the laughter of being informed that the nurse at the clinic was just kidding when she told you you…
For a project that centers around grief, it’s coincidentally a fitting time of year for Andrea Moore to begin her work in PlatteForum’s artist residency. An artistic jack-of-all-trades, the writer, photographer and performer moved into PlatteForum yesterday to begin her six-week residency there, during which she’ll be putting together a…
Christian Lander, author of the popular website and book series Stuff White People Like, will be at the Tattered Cover, Lodo on Thursday to promote his newest book, Whiter Shades of Pale. Unlike the broad strokes of his previous endeavors, Lander’s new book takes a closer look at the stuff…
If you’d bought Copper Mountain’s Snow Day pass back when we first told you about it, you could have already had 15 powder days for the price of a single day lift ticket at some other nearby resorts. The deal — $99 for a season pass good any day Copper…
At 8:30 this morning at the City and County Building downtown, John Hickenlooper will officially resign as mayor of the City of Denver, leaving him unemployed for the few minutes it will take him to walk over to the State Capitol to be sworn in as governor. Normally, that short…
The continuing appeal of abstraction some hundred years after it was developed in France by the gods of art history — Picasso, Matisse, Braque and on and on — is both astounding and predictable. Astounding because, like hip-hop, it seems to be an inexhaustible source for newness; predictable because arrangements…
St. Patrick’s Day, 2008: Danny Bristow and Dan Werling of Fluidiam were definitely thinking green. After taking notice of the dark, distressed styles that were pervading much of the fashion world and the lack of environmental thoughtfulness in their creation, it was time to invoke change. Taking its name from…
Mini-golf courses, good ones anyway, always have personality. You expect tunnels and ceramic animal obstacles, general minor fighting back from the holes. So in some ways, Smash Putt: The Return of the Miniature Golf Apocalypse, now two weeks into its six-week run, is like other courses you’ve played. Sort of…
