Last week, I ripped on camping. Because camping sucks. So what does someone do with her summer who doesn’t choose misery as a vacation destination? Well, I cruise. Not cruise like the Cheesman Park kind of cruising (though, if you’re interested in that, I will be happy to draw you…
Call Sarah Palin what you will — hell, call her “undefeated” if you want — but there’s no denying she inspires some strong feelings on either side of the political divide. Since Jenn Wohletz posted her recap of the Palin-stroking documentary The Undefeated Monday, the commentary has been rolling in…
Frankly, I’m a little embarrassed to be so excited about a furniture store. Still, at today’s press preview and tour of the brand-spanking-new IKEA Centennial, which opens July 27, it was clear that the store does not fail to live up to the hype, at least for what it’s hyped…
Do you like torturing children by putting them to work for long hours in horrible conditions? Of course you don’t (right?), but chances are if you dig into Littleloud’s newest game, Sweatshop, your gaming impulse will kick in and you’ll want to win, win and win again, all while your…
The loosely affiliated consortium of hackers and interwebz rabble-rousers Anonymous is still legion, but these days it’s a kinder, gentler one — or so the Anons behind the activist-minded social network Anon+ would suggest. Even though its first efforts to get that network going were shut down by server attacks…
Normally, the Westword name would be enough to score press tickets to any movie screening you please — not with the Sarah Palin camp, apparently. It was perhaps on account of our reputation that our requests for tickets to the premier of The Undefeated went ignored, but on the positive…
The sun finally came out this weekend after a long run of wild summer weather — remember the hail and flooding last week? And yes, the wait was worth it. So what better way to spend a hot Saturday than at the pool? By going one bigger: Water World. Apparently…
God only knows what we did here to deserve the honor, but The Undefeated, the much-hyped 90-minute info-mercial for Sarah Palin, made its debut right here in little old Denver on Friday — well, actually Highlands Ranch, but, you know. At any rate, given the maniacal fervor Palin inspires in…
Artists are a peculiar bunch. They have, shall we say, proclivities. As much as they make art, which they thankfully do, they also like to collect all manner of attic-leavings and dumpster-junk and weird objects and other things. Sometimes they have to sell them, perhaps to make room for more,…
From 1988 to 1992, I attended Girl Scout camp at Tomahawk Ranch in Bailey. It was awesome. We made tie-dye T-shirts, ate burnt s’mores and hunted for Snipes (a fictionalized skunk-rat that was rumored to live in the woods and could only be captured in pillow cases by Girl Scouts)…
That bitch Gretchen may have officially taken home the prize for last season of Project Runway, but everyone knows our boy Mondo Guerra got robbed: He had the most style (none of the other designers could touch him in terms of sheer inventiveness) and the best drama (coming out as…
AXE Body Spray has had a surprising amount of marketing success with making a variety of fictional women lust after its musky scent — but apparently, those women are not the only demographic within whom the body spray inspires strong feelings. It’s been almost six months since Ben Dayton made…
Wizards are the best and easiest way to our heart — there’s just something special about a man in a hat with stars on it. Toss in the idea that this wizard is overweight and we’re pretty much drooling in our admiration for this thing. It doesn’t matter what it…
It’s a telling fact that, in a movie that features talking animals (including a monkey that sounds like Gilbert Gottfried doing a Joan Rivers impression), the least believable conceit is how Kevin James has a really good-looking girlfriend — but that’s just one of the many fatal flaws apparent in…
Colorado Creatives #95: Dr. David Grinspoon Science? Art? Bona fide space-nerd superstar Dr. David Grinspoon likes it both ways. By day an author and the mild-mannered curator of astrobiology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Grinspoon is also a musician and confirmed Dead Head, travels the country lecturing…
We’ve peed our pants many a time, but by far our fondest memory of it was when we peed our pants during John Carpenter’s Halloween (other memories: not so fond). JK, we’ve never peed our pants in our entire lives, but seriously, John Carpenter is one of the best horror…
In the over half a decade LoDo’s Rockmount Ranch Wear has been in business, the company has had the time to brush elbows with quite a few celebrities. Stars like Elvis, Bob Dylan, and David Bowie have all been seen sporting Rockmount’s unique brand of western wear, which will be…
Gimme a Breck! The Babes in the Backcountry babes are leading by-women/for-women mountain bike skills clinics today at 10 a.m. as part of the Breck Bike Week festivities (meet at the Expo village at Blue River Plaza, $35 suggested donation). Afterwards, the International Mountain Bicycling Association will be hosting a…
There’s nothing like a sweet pair of sunglasses on a sunny summer day. Whether we wear sunglasses for style, protection, expression or color, its evident they are both an accessory and a necessity for looking hot in the heat — so if you think sunglasses are, well, just sunglasses, think…
Update, Monday, 8:45 a.m.: We’ve picked our winners! Thanks for playing everyone! Check your email to see if you’re a winner. In the free stuff file of Show and Tell today, we have a quick contest for fans of horror movies. We have five movie posters for The Ward, directed…
My sister tried to ruin my life. Being born was her only crime, but it was a dire situation for me, seeing as it was 1994 and I was almost fourteen — and she decided to come into this world on my first day of high school. This meant that…
As Bree Davies observed in her report on SlutWalk Denver over the weekend, more people seemed inclined to throw in their two cents about the event than to actually attend it. Indeed: SlutWalk has come and gone, but in the comment thread on post about that comment war, the controversy…
