Snowboarder Jeremy Jones and Teton Gravity Research teamed up last season to bring out the biggest adventure film of the year, and the Denver premiere is tonight at the Oriental Theatre. Deeper: A Snowboard Adventure Into the Unknown follows Jones and friends ( Travis Rice, Xavier De Le Rue, Josh…
Have you heard the Biblical news? Using satellites, supercomputers and what looks like graphics stolen from World of Warcraft, Boulder researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University of Colorado have digitally recreated how Moses may have parted the Red Sea. This is big news, capable of…
Sean Patrick Retz has spent the last 5 years of his life busking. He currently lives in Silverthorne, but today, he hitchhiked down to Denver just to play his guitar on 16th Street for the day. [Editor’s note: Sean Patrick Retz is part of a semi-regular series our intern Dylan…
Paul Feldman sold bagels on the honor system: Each day, he’d leave a box of bagels at an office with a sign with the price of the bagels, and then come back later and collect the money and the leftovers, all the while keeping painstakingly thorough data on the payment…
There is only one real rule in life: When things are free, you must take them. And so it is with the Denver Film Society’s free presentation of Far From Heaven tonight at the Starz FilmCenter (900 Auraria Parkway) at 6:30 p.m., which the society brings to you as a…
Last week, we told you about the Seven Best TV shows set in Colorado. And, indeed, there are some awesome movies and shows set in our glorious home state. Unfortunately, though, Hollywood is often more content just to talk about Colorado than to actually come over here; Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation…
It’s the real rite of autumn for any kid (and many a grown-up, too): You really know fall is here when you go out into the fields to pick your pumpkin. And it can’t be just any pumpkin. There’s always going to be one pumpkin that speaks your language, who…
The media of today is hard to keep up with: It comes from so many directions and in so many forms that it’s next to impossible to keep track of your favorite artists, let alone new ones. Because we’re devoted to your convenience, we’re going to pick five things each…
Advertising agencies work tirelessly day and night to come up with new ways to tell us consumers the same thing over and over again: “Hey, buy our shit. Don’t you want to be happy?” Much of this cultural detritus goes unnoticed, but there are always those few ridiculous ads that…
As if Farmville and Mafia Wars weren’t bad enough, somebody’s evidently figured out a new way to harvest your personal information and annoyingly auto-update your status, and it is called “OMG! Look What happens when FATHER catches DAUGHTER on her WEBCAM!” I’ll admit: I was intrigued enough to click on…
As Westword’s Latest Word blogger-extraordinaire Michael Roberts pointed out, the premiere episode of La La’s Full Court Wedding was boring, despite the fact that title of the show sounds a little porn-y, like some horribly horrible sex act you’d read about on UrbanDictionary.com. “Gosh, I’m kind of nervous for the…
You are waiting to die. You have no friends, you live in a shed behind your sister’s house and your most productive activity each day is when you eat a whole bucket of fried chicken before you cry yourself to sleep, whereupon the next day you wake up and resume…
Denver’s always a pretty beery town, but it got even beerier than usual this weekend with the unholy convergence of both Oktoberfest and The Great American Beer Festival. At any festival (or festivals) where the object of the game is to get as wasted as possible on one-ounce servings, there’s…
Bad-mouth peace? Who could? There is no solid argument against it. In our heart of hearts, we all want to work together, coexist quietly and get on with what’s really important in life. And even in a world as cynical as this one we live in, peace is something worth…
The heat might not indicate it, but fall is coming — and with the fall, the American tradition of, for whatever reason, celebrating things that are vaguely Germanic-seeming — things like lagers, sausages and oompah-music. And though it might be alleged the brass section lacked a certain degree of oompah…
The world premiere of The Way I See It — skiing circa 2010, as seen by Crested Butte-based film crew Matchstick Productions — blew minds at the Boulder Theater on Saturday. It’s the 20th feature length film from MSP, and it’s a doozy, with Mark Abma, Sean Pettit, Eric Hjorleifson,…
For the past three years, the members of the Handsome Little Devils have drawn on Vaudevillian slapstick and Chuck Jones-inspired gags to form the “Squirm Burpee Circus,” a stageshow that features extreme juggling feats, damsels in distress and monumental prop pieces. Their work has paid off. Starting next month, the…
Majestic landscapes filled with foliage are all well and good, but there’s only so much you can do with that. What you need is beautiful people in front of your foliage. It’s like putting dressing on your salad; it just tastes better. So to commemorate the Telluride Photo Festival, which…
Like cooking, the art of yoga is bound by that stolid type of sociological stereotype claiming that although more women on the planet earth cook — and in the modern world, practice traditional yoga — it’s the men who are always considered the greatest chefs… and yogis. But Neal Pollack,…
Any time you jump off a roof, it’s a stupid idea. In fact, probably the only way to make jumping off a roof even stupider than it inherently is would be to announce your knowledge of the stupidity of the act in advance of going ahead and doing it anyway…
In a move so stunningly repulsive it literally fills the soul with nihilistic despair, the entertainment network E! announced a show today that reaches a heretofore unfathomable low of cultural bankruptcy: Bridalplasty. In the show, women will compete to win operations from their plastic surgery “wish list” in advance of…
Dance is a hard sell. A lot of people don’t really understand it, nor do they desire to, and many of those who say they do like to stick to the basics: Tap Dogs, So You Think You Can Dance, once a year, The Nutcracker. But, really, that is just…
