Far across the sea in Pamplona, Spain, over the weekend, thousands of people gathered for some reason to run along narrow streets toward the sole ambition of not getting gored by a pissed-off bull. In Denver, the stakes were lower and the injuries far less grievous, but the good times…
It’s one of life’s most bitter ironies that, as a general rule, the people most likely to be nudists are the people you least want to see nude — and so it was with a collective sigh of relief from the pants-wearing world that Nude Recreation Week wrapped up yesterday…
Ever since he started his career as a fat loser UPS driver in King of Queens, Kevin James has had a knack for fictionally scoring some unbelievably hot babes — remember his wife in that show? She was smoking. Since then, in his various leading-man roles in film, James has…
Millions of people will head out to theaters next Friday to take in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, the final installment of the decade-long empire. And while the teeming masses will come, among them will be a select few (you’ll be able to tell them by their…
In these postmodern times, people need something more than elephants standing on barrels and shit to make a circus entertaining; along with the aerialists, snake-charmers and burlesque dancers, we’re going to need something, like, deep. Alright, then: “There’s nothing more beautiful than that human experience,” says Salt Fire Circus director…
The year was 1928. It was a time of great prosperity, of that weird dance where people put their hands on their knees and cross them together and of crazy machines that did all sorts of wacky things, like, you know, slice bread. A machine for slicing bread, in fact,…
The idea of teenagers with too much time on their hands is scary enough, but it’s particularly alarming on the Pine Ridge Lakota Reservation of South Dakota, where teen suicide rates are reaching epidemic levels. “Pine Ridge is the poorest community in the U.S.,” notes Walt Pourier, whose thirteen-year-old niece…
In the likely case that you’re having a tough time coming up with the skrill for a trip to the famed Running of the Bulls in Pamplona — which takes place today — consider the next-best local alternative: getting pummeled by Rocky Mountain Rollergirls with Wiffle ball bats. The Highland…
While the titular cheesecake of Masque the Musical: A Cheesecake Love Story never gets made love to in a literal sense (in fact, it’s not even a central concern), it does represent, in a way, the musical’s spirit: It’s a small moment in which main characters Brent and Alicia bond…
The term “brotherly love” may be an Aristotelian cliché, but in practice, brotherly love is a little more complicated. At least it is in On an Average Day, in which estranged brothers Jack and Robert try to reconcile their weird history in their decrepit childhood home while trying to solve…
It’s hard to think of anything sadder than the Casey Anthony case, the long, sordid saga of a mother who waited for a month of partying and getting tattooed before reporting the disappearance of her 2-year-old daughter, whose decomposing body was found months later. Due to a lack of physical…
Besides a certain brand of exceptionally patriotic lager, hipsters mainly love two things: nostalgia for ’80s childhoods and irony. So when the ’80s nostalgia of The Little Mermaid gets appropriated to ironically make fun of hipsters and their love of irony and nostalgia, it’s like the high tide of irony…
As Bree Davies observed in her report on SlutWalk Denver over the weekend, more people seemed inclined to throw in their two cents about the event than to actually attend it. Indeed: SlutWalk has come and gone, but in the comment thread on post about that comment war, the controversy…
Sadly, the long weekend is over, the hot dogs grilled, the American-flag T-shirts put away and the illegal fireworks spent — but if there is one bright spot as we trudge back to our various jobs at the universal soul-dissembly factory, it’s that we have our memories. In photo form…
It’s not an easy task to self-publish a book; it’s a laborious process that involves a billion details that seem to crop up at the least opportune times, it’s costly, and the reward for all your toil could very well be…pretty much nothing. But that’s exactly what local author Ryan…
The Cold War was America’s perfect war. Hear me out on this one: No matter what their purpose, whether just (World War II) or crass (the Vietnam War), wars are ultimately pretty depressing. They involve a lot of dying in horrifying and gruesome ways that leave their participants forever scarred,…
A sequel, almost by definition, must accomplish two fundamentally conflicting tasks: It must be like the original, but it must simultaneously differentiate itself from the original. Generally, that second task is accomplished through the prodigious addition of extra. Extra explosions. Extra deception. Extra hilarious poop jokes. Whatever the original had,…
Mo money mo problems, the Notorious B.I.G. posthumously noted back in the late ’90s — and for him, it was certainly true: By the time he said it, he was, after all, dead. Another way of putting that is that money can’t buy happiness — in fact, it probably does…
If he were around today, it’s pretty certain that Neal Cassady, immortalized as Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, would appreciate what the street artist Theo has been up to lately. Cassady was a born rabble-rouser, after all, and in more ways than one Theo and a small…
Though I’ve never been in Nebraska for more than about six hours at a time, most of which has generally involved driving and possibly having lunch, I have some pretty distinct impressions of that state: the plains, the sky, the wind. Nebraska, it seems to me, is a place of…
Yesterday, we brought you the long and strange story of Michael Fairchild, whose labyrinthine research we stumbled across when we were looking into the seemingly random slew of asteroid movies of the late ’90s. Fairchild’s theories — which involve Jimi Hendrix, extrasensory perception, Microsoft and a hyper-secret cabal of world…
Jack Kerouac was here. He came here and wrote about it in On the Road, his most enduring work, and fell in love with Denver to the extent that, at one point, he actually bought a house in Lakewood. Yes, Kerouac was indeed here, but one thing that will not…
