The season of Catholic holidays re-appropriated as excuses to paint your face and get hammered is upon us! Tomorrow is Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday for you non-French speakers. But we say leave the Gras to the French — what do we need that for when we’ve got Middle Name…
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. We hate…
It’s a sad fact of living in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains that most urban teens will never experience them. Big City Mountaineers is a Denver-based youth development organization that pairs urban teens (13-18) with adult mentors and sends them packing in groups of five adults and five teens…
Ah, animals humping stuff. Other than people falling down, this might be our favorite genre of YouTube clip at the moment. Today, under its “cute as balls” video section. Videogum shared with the world this masterpiece of time-wasting — the simple pairing of Cali Swag District’s “Teach Me How To…
In Colorado’s Iceman & The Story of the Frozen Dead Guy, Bo Shaffer, the guy who delivers the ice to keep Grandpa Bredo in cryogenic bliss, tells the story of how a Norwegian dead guy came to inhabit a shed in Nederland and how Frozen Dead Guy Days — one…
The city’s Month of Photography has gone from a blip to a major event over the last few years; credit photographer Mark Sink for choreographing this year’s liftoff into the stratosphere. MOP has emerged as a force to be reckoned with, but how do you navigate through all the shows…
The BYU men’s basketball team was one of the best four in the country until last week, when forward Brandon Davies had consensual sex with his girlfriend. He’s been dismissed from the team, and they are likely no longer a title contendor. At most colleges, the repercussions for premarital sex…
In a way, there’s nothing sadder than obsolescence, a thing no longer useful left to fall into misuse and disrepair — and there’s maybe no better example of that than the pay phone. That’s why, for the past couple of weeks, we’ve been highlighting one Sad Payphone of the Week,…
When you walk into the Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which opens today, the first thing you do is watch a short movie, one of those PBS-style hist-umentaries with the vaguely English-sounding narrator, the scrolling/zooming over photos and…
Given the rigid tropes that govern pretty much all high-budget movies about high school, it’s sometimes hard to believe that the people who write and direct them ever actually went to high school. You’ve got the group activities fictional students inexplicably give a shit about, the 25-year-old actors who look…
Lights! Camera! Action! Start your weekend in stoke off properly tonight at the Paramount Theater, where they’re screening films from the 35th annual Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, including Life Cycles, Still Motion, Miracle In The Storm, Into Darkness, Wildwater and The Fall Line: A Warrior’s Return, a profile…
Apparently, March didn’t get the memo that it’s supposed to come in like a lion, because the last week has been relatively beautiful and closer to the lamb-like status we’re supposed to having at the end of the month. Whatever: The mountain’s loss is our gain, as we’ll be able…
Sammi, the psychotic drama bomb is back–and within the first thirty seconds of this episode, Ronnie has already returned to his usual sniffling shit-show behavior. Between his slamming of sliding doors, turning pale, mumbling and pouting, Ronnie is a tantrum-throwing mess. The Situation makes everything worse by imitating the chokehold…
It’s not like the story of Grandpa Bredo, the dead guy who unwittingly inspired Colorado’s favorite oddball festival Frozen Dead Guy Days (in Nederland this weekend), is any secret: When he died, his family cryogenically preserved him in a shed out back to await the technology that might one day…
Hulu’s latest thematic bundling of its online TV content takes the form of a bracket trying to determine the best show on TV. It’s a great idea, generally, but it depends on fan voting. So, get excited for the finals showdown between Glee and Modern Family. As with all brackets,…
Last night, something happened that might have long-suffering Boulder art-film lovers rocking in their plush seats with joy: The bright, shiny Boedecker Theater at the Dairy center for the Arts opened to the public for its first state-of-the-art digital screening, featuring the 50th-anniversary restored version of Jean-Luc Godard’s classic Breathless,…
When Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Wydah at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and Machines Like Us at the Theatre Company of Lafayette come to town simultaneously tomorrow, it will set the stage for one of the most epic battles ever conceived by nerds, who are…
Author Benjamin Percy has his feet in pretty much every pair of shoes on the writing track: he’s a novelist, a short story writer and an essayist, he’s worked on graphic novels and short films and he teaches on top of all that. Since he’s in town tonight at St…
People are into questions right now (they always have been — just ask that Plato dude). It’s the new black. Watson’s recent run on Jeopardy brought them (what is) record ratings, and in case you haven’t heard, he won. Watson, of course, is the IBM super-computer built solely to answer…
Ready to have your ass handed to you by a dude in a wheelchair? Winter Park and the National Sports Center for the Disabled are hosting their 36th annual Wells Fargo Cup tomorrow through Sunday, benefiting the Denver-based NSCD and its programs in Denver, Winter Park and Kansas City. Qualifying…
Sometimes in our lives, we probably all feel as if we are merely characters in someone else’s novel, hunched over his desk, grappling with the material of our stories — a writer who is himself a character in another novel, a reflection of a reflection of a reflection extending on…
When Denver fashionista Brandi Shigley took over Sputnik’s bingo night from Ben Kronberg, she added her own twist to things. “We call it Blingo. Every week, we have a different designer sponsoring the night, so not only do you get to win the money, you also get some cool fashion,”…
