Maybe it’s the the perpetual heat stroke-induced daze, but there’s something about summer that causes people to do things that are even dumber than the stuff they normally do. Case in point, this video, wherein a young man who probably needs more to do with his time ends up smacking…

It’s the second-longest day of the year today, and not just because, like Garfield, you hate Mondays — it’s because it’s the Summer Solstice tomorrow, so literally. And while solstices (solsti?) are generally holidays for pagan hippies who celebrate them by dancing around flaming pentagrams and guzzling hard cider and…

The spectacle of cats doing tricks is pretty impressive, but the really astounding feat is that anyone could coerce a cat — nature’s most indignant house pet — into doing tricks at all. Nevertheless, that is the trick accomplished by the (we’re assuming) incredibly persistent Samantha Martin, who brings her…

The combination of Josh Blue and PHAMALY is pretty much the Voltron of disabled people — or maybe more like Captain Planet, except the kid in the wheelchair gets all the powers instead of just the lame-ass power of “heart.” At any rate, that’s what you’ll get from the 2011…

The late-1970s dawn of the VCR was a strange time: All of a sudden, people had a ton of freedom to put whatever they wanted on video and watch it at any time, and the market was flooded with weird experiments to determine just what type of shit people would…

If herding cats is notoriously difficult, then training cats to do acrobatic tricks must be nearly impossible. Nearly, but not entirely, as proven by The Amazing Acro-Cats, a group of house cats who can perform such mind-bending feats as walking tightropes, jumping through hoops and playing in a five-piece band…

In the decade or so since the first Shrek destroyed the innocence of every thing to follow, it seems like it’s some sort of requirement that every kids’ movie fill at least 45 of its 90 minutes desperately winking and nodding at the parents with over-the-head pop-culture references and self-aware…

For all those who thought fanny packs were the second-best thing since the dancing baby on Ally McBeal comes a revolutionary way to walk your dog, and all it will cost you is every shred of your dignity. It’s the Waist Waggy Walker, from Denver-based inventor Jill Burkardt, and it…

Used to be, the only adults who rode bikes were either weird fitness freaks or those with multiple DUIs. Times have changed, however, and more bicyclists than ever are taking to the pedals and jockeying for road space against drivers in an atmosphere of barely contained and increasing animosity. And…

Given that it sounds like something out of a nightmarish fever-hallucination (in the best possible sense), Delirium: A Circus of the Senses has a pretty apt name: “It’s pretty much a four-hour non-stop thrill ride,” says organizer Jimmy Stewart (yes, that’s his real name). “Everywhere you look, there will be…

The hardest part of going out to dinner is settling on just one entree — and since a steady diet of sampler platters can get expensive, there’s Feast on the FAX, an evening of dining out that offers a collection of some of the most disparate fare you’re likely to…

Pretty much every kind of car that was ever worth looking at will be on display at the Wild West Auto Roundup in Golden this afternoon, from a 1913 Stutz Bearcat to some recently modded-out VWs. But even if the gleaming highlights of automotive ingenuity aren’t your thing, chances are…

Once upon a time, the two one-act plays that make up Buntport Theater’s An Evening (or Afternoon) of One-Acts were paired with other one-act plays. The first, “…And This Is My Significant Bother,” a collection of vignettes based on a collection of James Thurber short stories, was originally tied to…

Little Shop of Horrors, the cult classic about a doo-wop-singing plant that eats people, is a musical based on a movie that is also most famous for its treatment as another movie — which is in part hilarious today because of our ’80s nostalgia, but was also hilarious in its…

Life is a crazy thing. One day everything’s fine, everything’s great,; the next day you may wake up and find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile with a beautiful wife and a career as a time-traveling super-sleuth with a late mortgage payment and no other skill sets. You…

When John Larson conceived of the Council of Awesome back around February, he envisioned it as a sort of network for people who want to do more than network – an experiment, you might say, for people who like to experiment. Like a college chemistry lab except totally way less…

It’s often been observed that golf is a game for people who hate themselves. The object of it is to hit a tiny ball into a tiny hole an absurd distance away, and the standards are defined in such a way that even professional players hardly exceed them — even…