Denver Life

Friday the 13th has been associated with a lot of creepy shit over the years. From various natural disasters to Tupac’s death, the date has been deemed unlucky by superstitious people everywhere. But rather than succumb to friggatriskaidekaphobia tomorrow and keep looking over your shoulder for Jason Voorhees, you can…

The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was one of the most controversial horror movies ever made — so controversial, in fact, that it was banned for many years in several countries. That statement wasn’t really the point of my rant the other day about the upcoming remake of Texas in 3D,…

Oh, Etsy.com. You’re like the website version of that overly supportive hippie school where everything everyone creates is great, because art is you and you are art, or whatever.  Luckily for us realists, there’s Regretsy.com, a site that culls only the shittiest handmade stuff from Etsy (and various other crafting…

Last weekend was Ludum Dare 20, a competition that tasks game designers with making a game over the course of the weekend. There were over 300 entries and plenty of those were worth mentioning, but one of our favorites was p.i.g., a curious little game that takes the idea of…

Here’s a little blast from the past: On the very first day we launched Show and Tell, we used some pics photographer Aaron Thackeray had snapped of a String Cheese show at Red Rocks and turned them into a post called White People with Dreads: A Field Guide. It didn’t…

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. For all…

Last week, America tracked down and killed Osama bin laden, thus proving to everyone that America is the greatest country in the world — and then we inexplicably tossed his body into the ocean, thus assuring that nobody will ever really believe that we really tracked down and killed Osama…

Blue skies reigned at Saturday’s Horseshoe Craft and Flea Market in Berkeley Park, where more than 100 craft and flea market vendors set up their tents in a parking lot at 46th Avenue and Tennyson Street. That noted, it couldn’t have been a more beautiful day for mother-daughter bonding, people…

Back in the days when Show and Tell was still an outdoor adventure blog called On the Edge, writer Ted Alvarez brought us an interesting post about how mountain lions in Colorado are increasingly moving through urban areas. And as proof that nothing on the interenets ever dies, more than…

This summer, don’t forget that it is important to hold onto at least one thing you’ve got, because it does matter if it makes it or not: The 88-Drive-In Theatre needs you to stay alive. So says Joel Warner, who, in his post about the 88 Drive-In yesterday, makes an…

Tonight from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., non-profit group Prax(us) joins forces with fair trade-supporting retailer Ten Thousand Villages (2626 E. 3rd Ave.) for three hours of shopping for fundraising. As Colorado’s only organization specializing in helping victims of domestic human trafficking, Prax(us) is a small but mighty group that…

Transylvania is what we’d probably call a cute, little distraction game. It’s not difficult, and it’s odd enough to keep your interest for a few minutes. That’s probably not the greatest sales pitch in the world, but this is a game worth checking out. Plus, you can play through 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. For all…

As far as campy horror trilogies are concerned, there is really nothing better than the Evil Dead series — but although the series has been re-imagined in game form before, it’s never quite achieved the cult-status of the films. Boulder based iOS game developer Backflip Studios is hoping to change…

Over the weekend, I visited the first Indie Wearable Craft urban market, a three-day pop-up bazaar hosted by a select group of local designers, including Jil Cappuccio, Kirsten Coplans of Pearl Clothing and Christina Patzman of Darling Ruth, among others. Their collective bag is cross-merchandising, and they’ve made an art…

Ben Affleck has it all: Good looks, rugged charm, acting chops, uh… good looks. Of course, he’s starred in some truly awful movies, but that’s only because those movies weren’t taking advantage of his true talent: directing. Because Ben Affleck is also an awesome director. That’s what Tim Davids argued,…

Now in its eighth year, Teller Elementary School’s Tellerpalooza is an annual evening of music, dancing and all-ages fun tomorrow at the Mercury Cafe (2199 California Street). While the annual fundraiser is very much family-friendly, the event has attracted a diverse array of local artists and musicians — boasting past…

The art of stealing art is a long lasting one — since the dawn of the civilized era, people have been copping other people’s ideas and running with them. On some levels, there’s no real shame in it, but when stealing is turned into a profitable business, things start to…

There’s no denying that canv.as is pretty cool. Still in closed, invitation-only beta testing, the site is the latest project of 4chan founder, Christopher Poole, and it basically takes the meme-generating concept of /b/, 4chan’s random board, and adds social networking and a whole lot of neat-o features — but…

UpBot Goes Up is a grid-based puzzle game from Dom Camus, Craig Forrester and Luke Davies that will make you feel brilliant one second and like an idiot the next. Technically, that’s the definition of a good puzzle game, and UpBot Goes Up delivers it in spades, including plenty of…

Hipsters love IKEA. Actually, a lot of people that aren’t hipsters love IKEA, too, such as suburban moms and young professionals, but IKEA has a special place in the heart of every hipster girl with a Volvo station wagon to buzz out to the burbs in and pack with ergonomic…