Much of the best comedy comes from improvisation. The scripts are thrown out, and the sudden comedic impulse while under pressure reveals humor that few could have written if they’d sat down with the time to contemplate and dial in a scene. Now, for the second year, Bovine Metropolis Theater…
With the ubiquity of digital stimuli these days, it can be easy to forget the value of actual film projection. “There are several foundations of film that make it different from digital projection,” says local experimental filmmaker Rett Rogers. “Film is intermittent, meaning that 24 still images per second appear…
Winter is approaching. It’s shitty outside. You can’t go anywhere without bundling up into a bajillion layers, and where is there to even go in the city when it’s so cold out? The long, carefree days of summer are behind us, and now it gets dark depressingly early in the…
In an effort to shed some light and some laughter on the stupidity that constantly swirls through the airwaves, we bring you a stupid moving advertisement that will hopefully brighten your day, either with its outright foolishness or with its laughable condescension. This week, Bundaberg Rum from Australia succeeds in…
Ever read George Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984, wherein the powers that be monitor your every move via video devices called telescreens? Super creepy, right? Well now a creepily similar technology is coming to a theater near you…
It’s a sad but true fact: Neglected words are continually falling off the back of this montivagant English of ours, making room for such gems as verbs like, ‘tweet’ and ‘google,’ and such kexy nouns as, ‘staycation’ and ‘frenemy,’ as we march boldly into the unknown territory of the twenty-first…
MCA Denver is hosting a rare treat for art enthusiasts tonight. Legendary artist Christo will present a lecture on his controversial work-in-progress, Over the River — for which he hopes to drape portions of a forty-mile stretch of the Arkansas River in a translucent fabric — in conjunction with the…
Charged with the task of interviewing the common folk of Denver for Westword, my weekly quest to speak with interesting characters about the pressing issues of our time found me in an alley on Capitol Hill, where I found a part-time graffiti writer who identified himself only as Kodak. He…
Yes, there are great men out there, influencing your world every day without your knowledge, and you could be one of them someday, assuming you’re male. If you’re a woman, there’s another Askmen.com list you can be on, but it uses, ahem, slightly different metrics in determining greatness, which you…
Advertising agencies work tirelessly to come up with new ways to tell us the same thing over and over again: “Hey, buy our shit. Don’t you want to be happy?” Thankfully though, there are always a few ridiculous ads that cause us to take pause and appreciate the stupidity of…
Robots, soundscapes, bleeps, bloops, futuristic rhythms, bright blue hair, time-traveling sword fighters and you better believe a ninja turtle made an appearance too. Lost Lake’s usual Friday night Soulfax Remedy featuring the Fathers of Huey dance party took a Halloween-inspired turn for the intergalactic this Friday with their Sci-Fi dance…
Yes, it’s true. Myspace is, amazingly, still around. The advertising dumpster of a social networking site has got a fresh, new look and some new features to keep the tweens busy in between facebooking and sexting and… I don’t know, does anyone between the ages of thirteen and nineteen do…
The medieval courts of Europe knew a thing or two about partying. After all, they created the masquerade, which is all about mystery, sexual intrigue and the giddy suspense of the unknown. Amnesia Parties, the promoters behind tonight’s Amnesia Sexy Masquerade Party at Five Degrees nightclub in LoDo, know this…
Artistic diversity will be in full effect when the RedLine resident artists’ exhibition, Cross Ties Across Time, opens tonight with a reception at the gallery and continues through November 22. This year’s group show, curated by RedLiner Terry Campbell, is host to nineteen artists working in various media, five of…
In an effort to showcase the broad character of Denver’s diverse populace, Westword’s own Ben Dayton is doing random interviews with random Denver residents about random topics, randomly. Today he joined Jen McGriff on a bench while she waited for the westbound 15 bus. What follows is their quick conversation…
In the wake of accusations of religious intolerance, and the fear of a subsequent drop in admissions applications, the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs has for some time been reaching out to cadets of non-Christian sentiments, including Pagan and Wiccan faiths. But just don’t let on that you’re gay,…
Advertising agencies work tirelessly to come up with new ways to tell us the same thing over and over again: “Hey, buy our shit. Don’t you want to be happy?” Thankfully though, there are always a few ridiculous ads that cause us to take pause and appreciate the stupidity of…
Warm smiles and soft lighting, shifting pages covered in words set into rhythmic compositions. Friends drinking and listening together. This was the scene on Saturday evening at The Bad Shadow Affair, a poetry and prose reading series at Lost Lake Lounge. The series is a step in the right direction…
Leave it to the youth of France to riot over something that has little or nothing to do with them. At least not for another 45 years, and chances are by that point the issue will be moot. After France’s proposed raising of the retirement age from 60 to 62,…
Many people complain that street art detracts from a community and cite it as a main influence in rising crime rates and subsequent vandalism, but what happens when so-called vandalism actually benefits a neighborhood? Is it no longer crime? Could it actually be a good thing? The non-profit organization TED,…
Sure, you’ve heard of the United Nations, and of course you’ve heard of Eleanor Roosevelt. Perhaps you even know about her role in developing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). But the impact this unprecedented document had on human rights worldwide, and the meaning it still holds today, can…
In an effort to showcase the broad character of Denver’s diverse populace, Westword’s own Ben Dayton is doing random interviews with random Denver residents about random topics, randomly. Today he interrupted Jeremiah Michael Attridge, on a break from his work as a Labor Specialist with the Colorado Department of Labor,…
