So you just got Microsoft’s new controllerless system Kinect for your kids for Christmas and you’ve spent the holidays jumping around your house, dancing and having an all around good time. Good news right? Finally your kid is getting off the couch and moving. Well, according to Fox News in…
There aren’t enough opportunities for local playwrights to please Frank Oteri. It’s a shortage that drove Oteri to create A Very Dark Holiday Playwright Festivus at the Vintage Theatre, a showcase that spotlights work from six local writers. The show includes an original comedy from Oteri titled “Intimate Information,” a…
It’s now post-holiday time, which means one thing in retail: gift cards. If your family decided to not bother getting to know you and instead gave you a card filled with imaginary cash to spend at your favorite store, that means you might be looking for some ideas on how…
Where a less puckish person might have dismissed these two leaning mailboxes near Cheesman Park as an example of poor engineering, at least one smartass saw an opportunity for love. Due to groundswell and personality issues, though, the mailboxes are expected to be acrimoniously separated by this time next year,…
Ever wonder what a bunch of dudes from the other side of the world make of our mountains when they come here to ride? Freeride.CZ, a “riders driven” online action sports magazine based in the Czech Republic, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this week with the online release of director…
For nearly as many years as the old jump-slide-across-the-hood trick has been a part of the lore of buddy-cop movies and The Dukes of Hazzard alike, the old try-to-jump-over-something-and-fall trick has been a time-honored gag in failure caught on video. But that doesn’t make it any less funny when it…
As a social phenomenon, probably the most interesting thing about celebrity death hoaxes is that they are a social phenomenon at all. There’s no point to them. They’re not particularly funny (aside from the resulting lulz if the celebrity in question gets all offended about it), and they have the…
Wimmin power retrofitted as holiday heart-stirrer, Made in Dagenham recounts the real-life 1968 strike for equal pay by the 187 distaff machinists at the Ford plant twelve miles outside London. These unwitting soixante-huitards in Mary Quant hot pants and five-story bouffants are led by Rita O’Grady (Sally Hawkins), forced to…
Sold — and bought — as the year’s most “intelligent” blockbuster while actually baldly insulting its audience’s intelligence, Inception both conquered the 2010 zeitgeist and helped define it. It was merely the biggest rendition of the year’s most prevalent movie theme: How do you know that what you think is…
Sorry to let you down, ladies, but it seems Hugh Hefner — commonly known as “The Sexiest 84-year-old since Bea Arthur died” — went ahead and put a ring on it. The lucky lady? The 24-year-old Crystal Harris, who made her name on the reality series The Girls Next Door,…
So present-unwrapping is over and you’re freshly stocked up on new socks, kitchen utensils and copies of the soundtrack to Glee, but is there a tiny, immature part of you that’s still hungering for something that’s just pure fun? If so, Graphic.ly is your answer. The Boulder-based start-up is all…
How do you get kickstarted when you’re a young artist, right out of art school with nothing lining your pockets but a smudge of paint and a fierce desire to put your talent on the map? For some lucky emerging artists in Denver, it all starts with a good studio…
In September I reported from The Meeting, Aspen’s 6th annual ski and snowboarding film festival showcasing most of the year’s big-budget snow-porn flicks. Not hardcore enough for you? The Beating is Silverton’s answer to The Meeting, an amateur film-shorts competition as different from Aspen’s festival as Silverton Mountain is from…
And now the end is here, as Frank Sinatra might have said before his end actually was there and he died. As we coast toward the close of the debauched year that was 2010, we’ve got less than a week left to get our party on before facing the unpleasant…
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. So Santa…
It’s probably significant that Sabrina Neu originally wanted to look into substance abuse issues among students. “But that’s something that’s been done quite a bit,” says Neu, who ended up looking into the effects of massive multiplayer online video gaming for her doctoral thesis at University of the Rockies in…
Christmas can be intense: Rife with familial undercurrents and financial strain, the yuletide can bring a time of crushing disappointment, dissolving relationships, mounting tension and exploding tempers — but if we open our hearts and we wish hard enough, it just might also be a time of redemption. As it…
John Madden is a big-time office developer, and one of his best-known buildings is the Palazzo Verdi, a glam-Italianate tower near the Denver Tech Center that was designed by Curt Fentress. But Madden and his wife, Marjorie, are serious art collectors, too. And among the many amenities of the glitzy…
Boulder artist Rebecca DiDomenico calls herself a maker. “I was just born like that; I can’t help it,” she says. “I’m a maker: I like to make things with my hands. I once tried to meditate, and I was a miserable failure at it. My meditation teacher said to me,…
Just as it is in science, technology and Internet dating, in the art world, newer is better. This is partly the spirit behind Robischon Gallery’s EYTJ (Even Younger Than Jesus), a provocatively titled show that brings together new artists who are younger than Jesus was when he died — in…
Dixie Longate is Tupperware’s top saleswoman. But it didn’t start out that way. She first got into Tupperware in 2001. “As part of the conditions for my parole, I had to get a job to get my kids back,” she says. “Which is so stupid, ’cuz I didn’t even want…
Screaming children, department stores, seasonal jobs, green velvet costumes. These are just a few staples of the holiday spirit, and it’s this madness that writer David Sedaris covered in SantaLand Diaries, an essay about his day-to-day life as an elf at Macy’s that first appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition in…
