Look, What’s So Funny had a pretty busy weekend, okay? First there was our birthday party, which was a total mess. Melo showed up and we had to be like, “You know the rules, Melo. If you wanted to come, you should have invited us to your party. We thought…
Has there been pressure put on Barbara Inman Beall, Ph.D., to take down her website, www.jamesdeanadventures.com? Of course. When you dedicate an entire site to the wacky photo-adventures of Hollywood’s most famous rebel without a cause using your enormous doll collection to advance the plots, you’re inevitably going to ruffle…
Things are coming together nicely. You’ve managed to purchase your $6 foot-long bratwurst, $3.75 lemonade and $3 bag of peanuts while simultaneously avoiding the caterwauling of some unfortunately clad woman belting out the national anthem with near-freakish zeal. This pleases you, because you’ve never really been too fond of the…
FRI, 6/3 Cognoscenti in the early ’90s openly referred to my air-hockey talent as “burgeoning,” but a thug from Chicago abruptly snuffed out this promising career. Before that fateful moment, my friends and I would head to the Cherry Creek mall and idle away the time. There were many diversions:…
Summer is the time for swing sets. While growing up, most of us engaged in the bulk of our swinging during school hours, sprinting out of the cafeteria at recess in a mad dash to one of several highly coveted spots. But things really got serious when schools officially locked…
For the most part, What’s So Funny is content to leave the reporting to the reporters. While seasoned journalists here like to go out on “assignment,” track down “leads” and “avoid plagiarism,” What’s So Funny is content to just hang around the office, popping painkillers and teasing the kids at…
FRI, 5/27 According to local lore, the Mountainfilm Festival in Telluride was born 27 years ago as an alternative to the more froufrou Telluride Film Festival. After watching the “other” festival cater to Hollywood clientele and art-house cinema, a group of outdoorsmen decided to organize a fest of their own…
FRI, 5/27 Connoisseurs and dilettantes alike will be treated as gallery critics this weekend at the seventh annual Colorado Arts Festival at the Denver Pavilions. Today through Memorial Day, more than 180 of Colorado’s finest painters, sculptors, photographers and visionaries will dazzle your eyes and stimulate your creative talent with…
Look, Melo, you don’t know me, and I don’t know you. That’s obvious. You made that painfully clear at the last Nuggets game I attended when, despite the fact that I shrieked “Melo, Melo, Melo!” for the better part of three quarters, you didn’t so much as acknowledge my presence…
SUN, 5/22 Last summer’s hi-dive-sponsored video scavenger hunt may have had a more lasting effect than organizers initially intended. The event brought together local filmmaking aficionados in a one-day quest to document a laundry list of strange things around town — including, but not limited to, filming themselves stealing something…
SAT, 5/21 While some sports tend to go overboard in the area of self-promotion, tennis, as a whole, has typically shown restraint. But backers are stepping out of the shadows with the fourth annual USA Tennis Rock & Rally, which bounces today from 9 to 11:30 a.m. on the south…
When Twentieth Century Fox opened the Mayan Theatre at 110 Broadway in 1930, promoters christened the occasion with an elaborate celebration. They screened a print of Ernst Lubitsch’s Monte Carlo, a film touted to be “As exciting as a caress! As intimate as clinging silk!” Adult patrons were charged 35…
If faceless label hawks had penned its script, Weezer would have recorded Make Believe as a followup to its 1994 self-titled debut (aka the “Blue Album”). That way, Pinkerton wouldn’t have seemed like such a vast departure, and the suits would have had their highly sought-after summer-radio hits. But Weezer…
It’s getting so a whore can’t even apply ointment to her festering lesions on Colfax these days without bumping into some yuppie on his way for a margarita. Used to be a time when the only businesses you could find on the ‘Fax were pawnshops and methadone clinics, markets that…
THURS, 5/12 Meet Murray, a teacup Chihuahua with a tiny, quivering nose, bat ears and deep, mooning eyes that could launch a thousand Keene portraits in a single wink. He greets you with his sliver of a tail tucked daintily between matchstick legs and tender pussywillow paws, looking jaunty, if…
As an ever-evolving lexicon, the Oxford English Dictionary regularly adds words and phrases that have found their way into heavy rotation in the current vernacular. Recent additions to the OED include “supersize,” “e-learning” and “spyware.” When the next round of updates rolls around, I would not be surprised to find…
God, it seemed like 2:30 p.m. would never come Monday at the State Capitol. While Senate president Joan Fitz-Gerald blah, blah, blahed and Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff droned on and on about only, like, the most boring stuff ever in the history of the whole entire universe, senators…
THURS, 5/5 That warm feeling in your heart on Cinco de Mayo doesn’t have to stem purely from Cuervo. Join mountain-lovers tonight at the Fiesta for the Peaks, an annual fundraiser for the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative, and go home feeling good about protecting the mountains. A partnership of nonprofits, public…
SAT, 5/7 Move over, brainiacs, new bookworms are taking over the library: metro-intellectuals. Offering experimental-film and creative workshops designed for “urbane urban dwellers,” The Creative Life is the latest installment of Fresh City Life at the Denver Public Library — and this series is straight-up phat. “A paradigm shift in…
After Michael Conti got laid off from his job at Intel in 2002, he found himself with plenty of time on his hands. Inspired by a friend who habitually wrote a haiku every month, Conti decided to return to his roots and dedicate his time to making one short movie…
Sunday was a good day to be a fat man with a mustache in Colorado Springs. Not that every day isn’t a good day to be a fat man with a mustache in the Springs, but May 1 held particular promise for mustachioed practitioners of the cellulitic arts. Because the…
THURS, 4/28 The off-Broadway satire Newsical is coming, and it’s going to be a bona fide celebrity shish kebab. The rowdy roast skewers household headliners such as Anna Nicole and Jacko while also sinking its fangs into any fresh tabloid fodder that slinks across the front page. “We poke fun…
