Sigmund Freud

A Dangerous Method is both an intriguing narrative and a splendid love story

Starz Denver Film Festival closing night: The Artist shows what movie love is all about

Big pics below.​The Ellie Caulkins Opera House was south of capacity for the Starz Denver Film Festival's closing night feature on Saturday, and that made some degree of sense. After all, the flick being showcased was The Artist, which is both black-and-white and silent. Yet the film, by Frenc ... More >>

Goodbye Westword, hello Humor Code: I'm off on a global search for what makes things funny

​After five years at Westword, I'm bidding you all adieu (at least for now). I'm taking a leave to work on the Humor Code, a book project in which I travel around the world with a humor professor in search of what makes things funny. Crazy? Yes. Foolhardy? Possibly. A damn good time? Definitel ... More >>

Indoor dog park offers dogs warmth, personality disorders

With any luck, the dog will repress this memory​The reason human beings are so messed up, theorized the seminal psychologist Sigmund Freud, is that our consciousness is essentially split into two parts continually at war with one another: the ego, which drives us to conform to the orderly and ... More >>

What makes us laugh? Professor Peter McGraw thinks he's found the answer to one of humanity's greatest questions

With any luck, the dog will repress this memory​The reason human beings are so messed up, theorized the seminal psychologist Sigmund Freud, is that our consciousness is essentially split into two parts continually at war with one another: the ego, which drives us to conform to the orderly and ... More >>

Channel 31 stars go from anchors to skank-ers

Libby Weaver and Natalie Tysdal prepare to get their freak on. Click to enlarge the photo, as well as a certain part of your anatomy, dudes.​The folks at Denver Magazine call their September edition "The Men's Issue," and no wonder. The two women on the cover are literally busting out of their ... More >>

Tasteless head games at A Taste of Colorado

​Colleen Don Dero got a taste of Colorado recently, but she didn't like it much. Several decades ago, the Colorado native moved to Phoenix, where she runs a hat and T-shirt company called It's All About the Head. The apparel features the company's name as a slogan alongside a mug of beer over ... More >>

Dualistics reach Nirvana

On Friday night, I caught an entertaining, thought-provoking and extraordinarily heady bit of theater out at Miners Alley Playhouse in Golden. The play, directed by award-winning Denver actor and skilled chef John Arp, is called The Visitor. Written in 1993 by French playwright Eric Emmanuel-Schmitt ... More >>

The Psychology of Pain

On Friday night, I caught an entertaining, thought-provoking and extraordinarily heady bit of theater out at Miners Alley Playhouse in Golden. The play, directed by award-winning Denver actor and skilled chef John Arp, is called The Visitor. Written in 1993 by French playwright Eric Emmanuel-Schmitt ... More >>

Practical Magic

Eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna.

Aw, Nuts

The lunatics have taken over the Asylum, and they're very horny.

The Eagle Soars

Chapungu unveils an African culture in stone

Various Artists: The American Song-Poem Anthology

Do You Know the Difference Between Big Wood and Brush (Bar/None Records)

The Flag-Bearer

Tom Tancredo is on a crusade to save America -- and he's looking for recruits.

More Is Less

Alma Mahler may have been a harpy, but the witless adventuress portrayed in Bride of the Wind? Not likely.

The Name Game

The "Denver" is gone from the Rocky Mountain News. What's next?

Yuck!

The Rockies hit the dog-meat days of summer.

Head Case

A lawsuit is driving DU's Graduate School of Professional Psychology crazy -- or was it already?

Lone Rangers

A lawsuit is driving DU's Graduate School of Professional Psychology crazy -- or was it already?

In the Air

A lawsuit is driving DU's Graduate School of Professional Psychology crazy -- or was it already?