If the NFL lockout bored you, never fear. The perfect antidote is here: a free agency fury as teams sign, cut and trade players madly to adjust their rosters in time for the season. What would usually take months will be condensed into about a week, so players have time…
I have a horrible sense of fashion. Do people have even have senses of fashion anymore? Maybe I’m old for using that phrase, considering I mostly wear whatever I see other people on the Internet wearing. Anyway, I dress like a sixteen-year-old girl. A really trashy one. A trashy teenager…
It’s the most grueling professional bike race ever held on American soil. Beginning in Colorado Springs, winding up along treacherous passes through Gunnison, Avon, Aspen, Vail and eventually to the State Capitol in Denver, the USA Pro Cycling Challenge is like the Tour de France of America (literally: it’ll have…
The Race Across America is one of this country’s most notoriously grueling bicycle races. Starting on the West Coast and ending on the East, it takes riders 3,000 miles over the course of eight to twelve days. What’s more interesting is there are no major cash prizes — it’s all…
In 1996, adventurer Göran Kropp famously set out by bike from his home in Sweden, loaded with gear, and rode all the way to Nepal to climb Mount Everest. He made the summit on May 23 of that year, without bottled oxygen and without Sherpa support, then climbed down, got…
Bobcat Goldthwait says that when he couldn’t make people feel awkward with his stand-up comedy, he tried to do that with the movies he wrote and directed — films like Shakes the Clown (where Goldthwait stars as a depressed and alcoholic clown who gets framed for murder) Sleeping Dogs Lie…
Every time I go to the doctor’s office, it’s the same old story: I show up on time for the appointment I’ve made in advance and then wait for two hours, during which they make sure I’m going to pay them and provide six-month-old gossip magazines for me to read…
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Tonight marks the start of DeMented. DeRanged. DeCeptive. De Palma-+, the Denver Film Society’s month-long series celebrating the work of iconoclastic director Brian De Palma. Every Tuesday night in August, the DFS will screen a different picture by the auteur, who made a name for…
Everyone’s had their ass kicked at some point, whether in a Final Four pool or in a fantasy league, by the girl who couldn’t care less about whatever sport the betting relates to and instead picks winners based on team colors, mascots or how her hair would look in the…
Culture collector Andrew Novick has been throwing his annual summer “BreakfastBQ” — an outdoor barbeque-style pancake party — for his friends in Denver for over a decade now. But this year, he’s going big. Coined the “Andrew Novick’s X-treme Pancake Breakfast!” by Denver County Fair organizer Dana Cain, the breakfast…
When you were young, they told you that you could do anything. And while that turned out to be true for you only as long as your dreams were limited to peeing your name into the snow in an especially decorative fashion, for God it’s literally true. So today, because…
Waldo came and disappeared from the Arhaus Furniture store in Boulder back in April, but he wasn’t done yet; since then, a stencil of the famously elusive children’s cartoon character has been popping up in several hard-to-spot locations all over Boulder, steadily attracting the attention of Boulder blogger Blempgorf and,…
Oh, IKEA, you truly are a marvel, with your large blue and yellow exterior, huge ass sign overlooking I-25 that could do battle against Godzilla — and win! — and your Swedish land of golden furniture opportunities inside. It’s no wonder there were so many people camped out in front…
There have been countless games starring cats in the history of Flash games and plenty others shining the spotlight on birds and frogs, but rarely do we get a good old-fashioned dog game. Enter Arthur Lee’s Escape From Puppy Death Factory, a Metroid-esque puzzle platformer that puts the puppies in…
Denver-based BMX star Jay Eggleston was rendered unconscious during competition at the Dew Tour’s Pantech Open in Ocean City on Saturday, and was sent to a nearby trauma center. The Eggleston family has set up a page at CarePages.com to send updates, and announced last night that he was briefly…
Alright, so we didn’t like Soul Surfer that much. But they can’t all be gems, and when it comes to elevating fellow Denverites into the echelons of dumb awards, we’re always willing to help a brother out — so take, if you will, a moment from your busy day and…
Unless you are homeless or have a healthy masochistic streak, chances are you’re not much inclined to wait in line overnight for the grand opening of IKEA Centennial at 9 o’clock tomorrow morning, as more than a hundred people have been doing since yesterday. Luckily, we are both of those…
While Katherine Rutter, Aron Dubois and Zach Reini all create very different art, Illiterate Gallery director Adam Gildar says that “they connect in their exploration of inhumanity and humanity, and they all have very different takes on that.” Tomorrow night’s closing reception at Illiterate Gallery will be the last time…
What can you expect in the Denver County’s Fair’s landmark Arts Pavilion? Not even pavilion manager (and official fair poster artist) Mark Penner-Howell knows for certain at this juncture, at least as far as the big juried show is concerned, but there are at least 400 entries to pick through…
It’s a bit of a slow week again, but the media coming out today is so top-notch that it’s hard to complain. Provided you’re interested in things like playing god, a relationship puzzle game about love or watching a movie that’s sort of about time travel, you’ll have a lot…
DRUNK HULK is possibly a one-of-a-kind Twitter profile — the fictional character (created and existing solely for Twitter) uses the 140-character format to take big topics on in a simplistic way, expelling fairly complex thoughts using clunky sentences. He (or creator, writer Christian A. Dumais, rather) also does so in…
Captain America is awesome — he’s like a ‘roided up Uncle Sam with a badass shield sworn to send Hitler to the gates of hell, and what’s not awesome about that? — but let’s be honest: Captain America is some propaganda. It’s not the only thing that makes the trailer…
