“In an ideal world, you’d wax your skis or snowboard every time you went out on the hill,” says Kim Walker, owner of Outdoor Divas. “Most people get lazy about it, but it’s the single easiest thing you can do to have more fun out there and lengthen the life…
When Gene Siskel walks out of your movie a half-hour into it, you just might have a cult classic on your hands. The iconic television personality and film critic reportedly drew the line on 1980’s Maniac during the film’s notorious “Disco Boy” scene, in which effects guy Tom Sevini, here…
Eve Ensler first performed her off-Broadway sensation The Vagina Monologues in 1996; since then, the series of monologues about vaginas and the women who possess them has turned into an international phenomenon. Perhaps it’s because this little play that could speaks to so many aspects of women’s experiences, or maybe…
Winter storms have been hammering the mountains, and early-season sliding is already afoot: Ski and snowboard season is upon us. Our annual winter activity guide is here to help. We tracked down more than two dozen intrepid explorers with expertise on each local mountain to give you the inside edge…
You know the drill: House gets messed up, tool-lugging good guys come in and save the day. That’s the constantly replaying plot on the DIY Network’s Disaster House, where the destruction is creative, but the denouement workman-like. Still, trying to figure out how Denver techno-guerrilla marching band Itchy-O got in…
Boeing’s 787 “Dreamliner” has been a public relations disaster. Rolled out in 2007, the plane was billed as the future of air-travel: a sleek, efficient long-distance jetliner made with composite materials that consumes 20 percent less fuel than carriers of a similar size. Three years later, due to myriad materials…
In this era of online ordering, getting stuff in the mail is much more common than it was a decade ago. No longer are consumers forced to wait in long lines, dealing with other people’s smells and peanut gallery comments. Yes, we’re in the midst of an unboxing trend that…
How many cities can boast an annual city-wide contest honoring the most kick-ass building designs? Denver can, thanks to its six-year-old Mayor’s Design Awards, which recognizes achievement in new architecture and urban reclamation alike. And judging from this year’s 11 winners, who’ll be feted tonight at 6 p.m. in the…
Aside from drinking a hot toddy and wearing a smoking jacket while counterfeiting a nickel and being painted by Norman Rockwell, it doesn’t get too much more Americana than the Rockettes — and as everyone knows, the Holidays are, at their best, a time of misty-eyed sentimentality. To that end,…
Today’s a powder day at Loveland (6″ in the last 24 hours), A-Basin (4″), Wolf Creek (6″), Copper (7″), and Keystone (5″) — the first five out of the gates this season. Breckenridge opens on Friday, followed by Winter Park (November 17) and Vail (November 19). If you haven’t whipped…
It was just a week ago that Denver voters overwhelmingly rejected Initiative 300, which would have required the city to create a government-sponsored commission to study extraterrestrials — many officials and voters feared such a commission would make Denver “a laughingstock.” To those people, we say, where is your God…
It has been almost two years since Sun Studios released Armed With Wings 2, and although we had no idea a third one was coming, it was a welcome sight to see. Armed With Wings 3 is simple to describe on first glance: It’s a puzzle-platformer game that tasks you…
Of all the U.S. presidents — George W. notwithstanding — Richard Nixon might have been the most unintentionally hilarious. A dour, glowering grinch with a cat’s disposition and a simian’s posture, Nixon nevertheless had a surprisingly expressive face, in a silly-putty sort of way, that makes his goofy faces that…
Winter is approaching. It’s shitty outside. You can’t go anywhere without bundling up into a bajillion layers, and where is there to even go in the city when it’s so cold out? The long, carefree days of summer are behind us, and now it gets dark depressingly early in the…
More than two decades ago, freelance writer Gregory Daurer thought it would be cool to track down William S. Burroughs at Naropa and hook him up to a brain machine. Audio excerpts of Daurer’s interview with Burroughs surface in a new documentary on the outlaw novelist playing tonight at 7…
Hundreds of years ago, America was not much to look at — just a backwoods berg with a bunch of British prudes who wore clothes with too many buckles and couldn’t make it through the winter without help from the local natives, to whom they returned the favor with smallpox…
Before October, I don’t think I’d touched a lump of clay for at least thirty years. When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to take ceramics from the great local wood-fired pottery guru Mark Zamantakis, and that romp in the clay was delicious; though I couldn’t throw…
For film-geeks in Denver, the Starz Denver Film Festival is always the high point of the year — and from the Denver Film Society’s sudden new digs to the eerily timed death of George Hickenlooper, this year’s fest has been a particularly wild ride. But while the highest profile action…
Apparently this week is “awesome book week” because three of our picks come from trees, while another is based on a book. Okay, it’s possible we’re just attempting to show off the fact that we have the ability to read, but even so, a book from our last president, a…
Since sometime circa the late ’90s, Conan O’Brien has been the best of the late-night talk-show hosts. While Jay Leno did jokes so tame they would’ve felt just as at-home coming from a purple cartoon dog in the middle of the afternoon, Conan’s formula continued to feel fresh and relevant…
There have been rumors on the Internet the last few days saying that Call of Duty: Black Ops might be the biggest launch in video-game history — which is actually saying quite a bit, considering people were saying the exact same thing last year about another game in the series,…
Rule one: If you are not a mutant, anthropomorphic turtle named after a figure of renaissance art, you should probably just not play with nunchucks. Rule two: If you are still bent on playing with nunchucks, make sure there is not a skateboard lying around while you do it. And…
