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Beyond Playlist presents Xmas-rated, part two: Reissues and Retreads

This year, we've wrapped our roundup of holiday albums a bit differently. Instead of delivering it to you in one big lump (like coal), we're parceling out the reviews online, with a blog each weekday through December 24 devoted to recordings in a different category. Part two features "Reissues and ... More >>

Flier of the week: The Red Light Dance Party at 3 Kings Tavern

Alright, this may just be the coolest flier we've seen all year. This one's all about the old school. All day, every day, Playboy. Know what I'm saying? We're talking Sharpies, an Xacto knife, some old magazines and a glue stick. Fuck Photoshop. This is how is used to be done. And as a bonus, it's p ... More >>

Letters to the Editor

From the week of January 8, 2004

The ten worst fast-food ad campaigns

Quiznos' rats aren't nearly as creepy as the old guy from the Today Show as Ronald McDonald. Some fast-food ad campaigns work because they're funny -- like the Taco Bell Chihuahua ads from the early '90s, or the more current examples from Jack-in-the-Box, which invite us to send our respects to the ... More >>

Blast Works makes blowing stuff up DIY-friendly

Quiznos' rats aren't nearly as creepy as the old guy from the Today Show as Ronald McDonald. Some fast-food ad campaigns work because they're funny -- like the Taco Bell Chihuahua ads from the early '90s, or the more current examples from Jack-in-the-Box, which invite us to send our respects to the ... More >>

Political artwork at Edge tilts to the left

Quiznos' rats aren't nearly as creepy as the old guy from the Today Show as Ronald McDonald. Some fast-food ad campaigns work because they're funny -- like the Taco Bell Chihuahua ads from the early '90s, or the more current examples from Jack-in-the-Box, which invite us to send our respects to the ... More >>

The beauty and ugliness of Damien Hirst

Quiznos' rats aren't nearly as creepy as the old guy from the Today Show as Ronald McDonald. Some fast-food ad campaigns work because they're funny -- like the Taco Bell Chihuahua ads from the early '90s, or the more current examples from Jack-in-the-Box, which invite us to send our respects to the ... More >>

CORE Matters

Mark Penner-Howell and Anne Thulson return to their roots.

Mashed Romano

Th'ink Tank presents a Photoshopped art show.

Channel Surfing

There's more than one way to play with your Wii.

Prof Positive

Fame has its price for Video Professor John Scherer -- and he's eager to pay.

An Army of Anyone

You need a high school diploma to enlist -- or a recruiter willing to bend the rules.

Change of Scenery

Warren Kelly, Jules Olitski and Christo make contemporary art about the landscape.

The Message

Art of the Matter

Calculated Risks

Clark Richert's paintings stay on the cutting edge at Rule.

Kids Say the Darnedest Things

The members of Bis know what's wrong with most of their peers: They're too old.

Ghost World

A spirit photography class teaches you how to uncover fakes.

Mile High Music Festival Q&A: Incubus

Incubus was three-fifths of the way formed back in high school in California twenty years ago. Safe to say the band had no idea how popular its music would be - the group has three platinum albums in the US, and two of those went platinum twice. Born in the alternative boom of the early '90s, Inc ... More >>

The return of skanky anchors? Oops!

Libby Weaver gets another chance to show off her god-given talents on the Colorado View cover.​Remember the September cover of Denver Magazine? The one that showed Deuce/Channel 31 personalities Libby Weaver and Natalie Tysdal going from anchors to skank-ers by way of a photo that showed them ... More >>

Pure Magic

Libby Weaver gets another chance to show off her god-given talents on the Colorado View cover.​Remember the September cover of Denver Magazine? The one that showed Deuce/Channel 31 personalities Libby Weaver and Natalie Tysdal going from anchors to skank-ers by way of a photo that showed them ... More >>

And now, presenting thirty craptastic minutes with thirty different iPhone band apps

​ Sometimes we have to wonder if folks that program for Apple's App Store are hell-bent on wasting people's time. We spent an evening with as many artist-specific iPhone apps we could get our hands on and found a few amazing things, a few interesting things and a plethora of pure and total cr ... More >>

Nine best April Fools' Day food pranks culled from around the World Wide Web

starbucks.comHappy now?​In case you're surfing the Internet today and are flummoxed by reports of Guy Fieri winning a Peabody award or a controversy surrounding a dessert app replacing real sweets (not to mention Google officially changing its name to "Topeka")...don't forget to check the date ... More >>

"Brandon Marshall, you're a pain: Go play someplace else," says ESPN's Mike Salk

Brandon Marshall as a Photoshop Dolphin.​Brandon Marshall undoubtedly hoped the drama that preceded his exit from Denver would be forgotten once he landed in Miami. But no such luck. Overnight on ESPN Radio, host Mike Salk was looking for an example to demonstrate that the NFL is tougher on ... More >>

Songs that should be comics

​Well, this is awesome. The site Comics Alliance came up witht the brilliant idea to compile a list of songs that should be comics, then use a little Photoshop magic to create covers for each of their fictional creations. Or, in the case of the awesome "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" (an exc ... More >>

Old-school collage makes a triumphant return trumpeting Hideous Men benefit

Click to enlarge​Computers are chock full of fancy tools to make the task of designing a flier easy. That earns you extra style points when you take the time to sit down with the scissors, a pile of old magazines and some Elmer's glue to bang up the old-school collage flier (or use Photoshop t ... More >>

Ten albums that give Weezer's ridiculous new album-cover art for Hurley a run for its money

​Over the past decade, Weezer has become more and more ridiculous, from its songwriting to its performances (Kenny G, seriously?). And now you can add its album cover art to the running tally of ridiculousness: See the snapshot Jorge Garcia here, the actor who played Hurley on Lost? This is ... More >>

Lens crafters: Two new exhibits bring photos into focus

​Over the past decade, Weezer has become more and more ridiculous, from its songwriting to its performances (Kenny G, seriously?). And now you can add its album cover art to the running tally of ridiculousness: See the snapshot Jorge Garcia here, the actor who played Hurley on Lost? This is ... More >>

Two young stars of the art world are on display this month in Denver

​Over the past decade, Weezer has become more and more ridiculous, from its songwriting to its performances (Kenny G, seriously?). And now you can add its album cover art to the running tally of ridiculousness: See the snapshot Jorge Garcia here, the actor who played Hurley on Lost? This is ... More >>

Now Showing

​Over the past decade, Weezer has become more and more ridiculous, from its songwriting to its performances (Kenny G, seriously?). And now you can add its album cover art to the running tally of ridiculousness: See the snapshot Jorge Garcia here, the actor who played Hurley on Lost? This is ... More >>

Now Showing

​Over the past decade, Weezer has become more and more ridiculous, from its songwriting to its performances (Kenny G, seriously?). And now you can add its album cover art to the running tally of ridiculousness: See the snapshot Jorge Garcia here, the actor who played Hurley on Lost? This is ... More >>

Gratuitous randomness: Tom Hanks is a lot of animals

​Ever since Nic Cage as Everyone stopped entertaining us roughly 46 seconds ago, we've been on a vigilant lookout for the next memomenon (that's "meme"="phenomenon") involving celebrities and Photoshop; now, a seeming eternity later, we've found it: Tom Hanks is a Lot of Animals, a photo/chop ... More >>

Outside the box of chocolates: A few Valentine's Day gifts we're pretty sure won't be creepy

Dressing up like this is not a half bad idea.​If you've been in your relationship for a while, chances are your Valentine's Day can be a pretty laid-back affair -- a rose will suffice, or a nice card, just something to show her that you're thinking about her and you care. If your relationship ... More >>

Steve Buscemi's zombie-eyed army

Katy Perry with Steve Buscemeyes.​The prostitutes in the Coen brothers' film Fargo probably had the all-time best description of actor Steve Buscemi's bizarre face: "kinda funny-lookin'." Well, thanks to the Tumblr "Chicks With Steve Buscemeyes," we now know that the actor's funny-looking eyes ... More >>

Does canv.as live up to the hype? Yes, but it'll never replace /b/

Pretty much sums it up.​It takes some wading through sludge of child pornography, gore, rampant racism and herp-a-derp-check-out-my-dubs threads, but the best thing (and possibly the only truly good thing) about /b/ has always been the memes, little image-based internet in-jokes that people re ... More >>

A first look at brand new videos from Havok, Gangcharger and Lost Point

​You know how we like our metal bands? That's right: Shirtless, bearded, with ten feet of hair that they whip in a helicopter-like fashion, looking something fierce overall, playing flying V's in fields of fire with random explosions happening all around them. That's how we like our metal band ... More >>

Behold, the emotional spectrum of President Barack Obama

Obama​The right wing likes to portray President Barack Obama as either of two things: the good-times party animal you can spot in a Tag Team video, or the stereotypical Angry Black Man. Neither image brings to mind a good leader (and both are, you know, quietly racist). But as we saw on Tuesda ... More >>

Atsuo Mizuno of Boris on the band's numerous collaborations over the years and New Album

Miki MatsushimaBorisBoris (due Saturday, October 15th, at the Marquis Theater) has had one prolific career thus far with seventeen albums released since its start in 1992 and multiple collaboration projects with artists like SunnO)))), Keiji Haino and Michio Kurihara of psychedelic band Ghost. Thoug ... More >>

Country station won't pay for Jason Aldean shots photographer says it stole

Big photos below.​Protecting copyrights in today's wild Internet era is getting tougher and tougher. But for photographer Scott D. Smith, it's a matter of survival -- which is why he's fought for months to get country radio station 92.5 The Wolf to pay for allegedly stealing more than twenty p ... More >>