Sean Andersen-Vie, the public relations specialist for the Denver Zoo, swears that no one has ever gotten so blasted at the Brew at the Zoo that they’ve tumbled into the lion’s den or dived into elephant dung, but there’s a first time for everything. And considering the 3,000 people expected…
That old reefer madness has us in its spell: The time is ripe in Denver for a revival of Reefer Madness (aka Tell Your Children), the 1938 anti-pot propaganda film directed by Louis Gasnier. The subject of various revivals over the years, now as a work of comedy, Reefer Madness…
Denver may be the Mile High City, but there’s nothing here that doesn’t go better with a cold one, and beginning today, nothing will. For the second year in a row, the city is pulling out all the stops — and popping all the tops — for the Denver Beer…
Having graduated from the realm of horror movies to good family fun, a giant marmot descends on Chatfield today…in the form of a corn maze, of course. The shape of this year’s Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield’s Corn Maze is a tie-in to Digger the Marmot, the mascot of the…
Things probably couldn’t get any weirder for consistently embattled matron of good taste Martha Stewart. After finally getting her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, back into the black after the universe-warping paradox of her stint in prison, Stewart is back under the microscope of justice, this time by a semi-obscure…
Not sure how to celebrate the 44th anniversary of Star Trek’s network debut (what, you didn’t know that was tonight?) and hankering for a “trek” to Boulder? Have we got the event for you! Tonight is Restaurant 4580’s second annual Star Trek Night. Trivia, Trek-themed cocktails and food items and…
The Denver Cruisers: You gotta love ’em. Their whole schtick is totally noncompetitive, law-abiding and aboveboard. And their weekly themed community bike rides, which are free and fun and ridden in costume, are organized solely in the name of having a good time. Nothing more, nothing less. Tonight, they’ll be…
Snowboard Colorado is a rad new freebie magazine in local shops this month. The mag is the latest project from Adam Schmidt, founder of the Boulder Snowboarding Group (Westword’s Best of Denver 2010 pick for Best Shred Heads) and it’s the real deal: A 100-page glossy celebrating every aspect of…
Since time immemorial, the Dollar Tree has been a one-stop destination for anyone who has one dollar and is looking to spend it quick — and you can get some surprisingly good stuff there. This week, though, all the way through Sunday, the Denver Dumb Friends League is giving the…
I’ve known Joy Barrett for a while: Coincidentally, she took over a job I once held, tending beads at the defunct Skyloom Fibers. But I didn’t really meet her until she opened her own jewelry boutique, Studio Bead, in the Highland Square shopping district. It seemed like there was nothing…
We know the deal: You’re looking for ways to waste time at work, and we’re here to help you waste it. Hence, Browser game of the week, where we’ll comb the depths of the Flash game vortex and pick different games for you to waste away your Wednesday with. We’ll…
It’s only $500, but it’s $500 more than any of these folks had before, an amount that could be crucial to a small business owner mounting a grassroots startup on the local level. And if nothing else, YesPleaseMore’s first Starter Grant program public vote probably proves the true power of…
Because it’s a slow news day, each Wednesday, we bring you the best of our weird internetz world in a collection of loosely related items about whatever topic we happen to come up with. Today, we bring you “Gee, Bill, how come your mom lets you eat two wieners?” a…
Apparently inspired by General Larry Platt’s distaste for pants being on the ground, a small town in Platt’s home state of Georgia mandated today that its good citizens keep their pants pulled up to an appropriate height. Of course, Dublin, Georgia, mayor Phil Best didn’t explicitly acknowledge Platte: “We’ve gotten…
In a weird new twist on an already really bizarre scenario, Oksana Grigorieva, the estranged wife of Mel Gibson, asked a judge to reimburse her for $84,000 she claims she spent on a PR push to counter the public perception that she sold the infamous tapes of Gibson being racist…
Either you like Stanley Kubrick or you don’t, but if you fall in former category, you probably can’t get enough, even when it hurts to watch. I, for one, can’t count the number of times I’ve seen Dr. Strangelove, which has to be one of the most stunningly, insidiously funny…
Among the sea of hot, exposed flesh that is any summer festival, there are always a few who go the extra mile, those not content to simply bear arms and shins, who throw caution to the wind and doff their top layer of clothing entirely, as if to say, “I’m…
Last February, an MTV production team took over the hallways at the Denver School of the Arts to film an episode of If You Really Knew Me, a new kind of reality show (described ad infinitum as a true-life version of The Breakfast Club), where kids from different backgrounds and…
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…
Now that Labor Day is behind us, we’ll be counting down the days until ski and snowboard season. In the meantime, watch for a busy schedule of video premieres around town, starting with a free all-ages premiere of Volcom’s 9191: A Mathematical Equation of Sideways Style tonight at 8 p.m…
In the course of his adolescence, it’s a scientific fact that the average human male will do approximately 1,212,035 stupid things to impress women, approximately 1,212,032 of which will fail to impress anyone. Now, jumping into a pool isn’t necessarily a stupid thing. It’s when the overcompensation of an attempt…
It’s an American rite: For the last big fling of summer, you round up the kids, pack the car and head west toward a couple of days of freedom, get away from it all, breathe the fresh mountain air. At least, that’s what I expected when I set out for…
