In one of the more ridiculous recent examples of asinine government nitpickery, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a ruling of a lower court in a case alleging that the U.S. Forest Service was charging people $10 to drive up the Mount Evans Scenic Byway in violation…
Throwing a county fair for the first time ever is a lot like losing your virginity, it turns out: The stakes are high and the results may be a little messy and awkward, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t thrilling, and it certainly doesn’t mean you’re going to stop doing…
There’s probably no better case for the ubiquity of TV’s Dr. Gregory House than the fact that, if you Google the word “house,” the series absolutely dominates the first page of results — over the U.S. House of Representatives and the common noun, no less. And when you’re so badass…
If you thought banning books on the basis that they fail to fall in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ was a thing of the past, then consider yourself unstuck in time: A couple of weeks ago, a school board in Republic, MO, voted to remove copies of Kurt…
With its routine reliance on rumors and anonymous sources, sports journalism is almost as bad as gossip journalism when it comes to crappy sourcing, a flaw our sports guy Steve Weishampel gleefully pointed out was like getting the news from Craigslist in his rant about it last week. On the…
Everyone needs a hobby. I, for example, sometimes enjoy figure drawing, which I am not-terrible enough at to produce people with bodies that are only a little contorted, faces that are recognizable but off-putting, and alarmingly freakish hands and feet that come out looking like withered claws. But what separates…
Before email, before the interwebs, before hackers, there were phone phreaks. And before there were even phone phreaks, back in the ’60s, there was Joybubbles, a little blind kid with a 172-I.Q., perfect pitch and an obsession with the phone. Then named Joe Engressia, he was seven years old when…
When two people somehow switch bodies with a little help from a magical fountain, high-jinks must ensue, and those high-jinks must be followed by life lessons about love and friendship. It’s a formula as old as time — which is not to say it can’t work, and if there are…
Geeks, as we all know from Anthony Michael Hall’s romance outcome in The Breakfast Club, have a hard time getting the girl. Nevertheless, they’ll get some help tonight at Single Bytes, a dinner and singles night designed by chronic personals section editor Audrey Klammer to bring geeks together and let…
The ’80s were not a kind time to James Bond. Always an actor-driven franchise, it rolled into the decade in the waning years of Roger Moore, who would from The Spy Who Loved Me on through Octopussy and A View to Kill, his last entry, see declining profitability in the…
There’s no denying that what Crested Butte couple Erica and Mateo Hogan is doing in Costa Rica is pretty cool: Spurred by their love of the rain forest, they bought up some 300 acres of it and created a fully sustainable Swiss Family Robinson-style tree-house community complete with zip-lines and…
We all know enough to expect the standard-issue turgid pectoral muscles and flowing locks from romance novels — but what if the romance also involves vampires, war and action of the not-necessarily-hot-and-sweaty variety? It will tomorrow at Fresh City Life’s Mucho Mojo, where urban fantasy writers Nicole D. Peeler, Kimberly…
When you’re walking around feeling down and out/pondering the mystery of a dame with a chip on her shoulder and a case that just might not be what it seems, there’s nothing like a backdrop of neon signs to get you in the right mood. And since we do that…
Fairplay, Colorado, is a tiny mountain town with about one street, situated some 40 miles south of Frisco between the San Isabel and Pike national forests. In other words, it’s in the middle of nowhere. In other other words, it’s a really difficult place to shoot a feature film. “Yeah,…
Thanks to John Travolta’s stunning performance in 1996’s groundbreaking Michael, we’ve had plenty of chances to imagine what humans would look like with bird-like wings. We’ve had far fewer chances, however, to imagine the opposite. Today, because the absence of it has left a void in our souls we hadn’t…
Recall, if you will, Coyote McCloud’s 1984 novelty hit “Where’s the Beef?,” based on the Wendy’s commercial that employed the same catchphrase. Now multiply that song by several full-length albums. Go ahead, I’ll wait… Congratulations! You have mathematically solved T-Pain’s entire career. It was just a couple of weeks ago…
Though Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre remains mum on the subject, it’s basically Internet fact at this point that Charlie Harper, Charlie Sheen’s character on the popular series he helped create, will be killed off in the show’s premier on September 19 — he’ll be replaced by…
It’s mildly nerdy to use the phrase “It’s on like Donkey Kong,” a challenge so overused we made an infographic about it. But what’s really nerdy, apparently, is Donkey Kong fans, among whom our infographic set off a controversy about the relative merits of the Donkey Kong franchise in the…
As the summer blockbuster season winds down to its weakest dregs, two terrible movies — one about James Bond as a cowboy battling aliens with a wristwatch that shoots lasers, the other about a group of zany blue anthropomorphic creatures who substitute their name for various other words — vie…
For the two highly respected teams Denver sends to the National Poetry Slam each year, the moment of truth has finally arrived: After a year-long process of elimination, the teams have selected their top five poets of the year and are gearing up today to travel all the way to…
After 150 years of conspicuous absence, the Denver County Fair reared up in the blazing heat of this weekend and shot its oversized, overstimulated load all over the National Western Complex, leaving us spent until next year. It was an epic time and one we won’t soon forget, but just…
The main argument for quitting smoking is that it’s bad for you; indeed, the evidence is well documented. That’s perhaps why a lot of people who don’t smoke have a hard time understanding why smokers continue to smoke despite the risks — and certainly plenty of those people used the…
