The end of the world is coming. It’s hard to say when, unless you’re evangelist Harold Camping, in which case you can feel pretty confident in saying that it’s coming… oh, around Saturday. For a few months now, Camping’s been touting his theory that the end times will arrive May…
Just in case Arbor Day like two weeks ago wasn’t enough to tide you over in the commemorating trees department, this week starts off with Love a Tree Day, which, admittedly, sounds more like a sexual perversion than yet another attempt by godless hippies to shove their environmentalist propaganda down…
OMG like how hot are vampires right now? So hot, is how hot they are right now, but as everyone knows, Dracula is pretty much played out and the whole vampires-as-sexy-brooding-potential-lovers thing is already taken — what we need is a new angle on vampires. So let’s see… how about…
By every conceivable definition, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s The Book of Mormon has been am unqualified success; in fact, considering the sold-out houses, the glowing reviews and the preposterous amount of Tony Award nominations the musical has garnered, it might even be the most successful thing the duo has…
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was one of the most controversial horror movies ever made — so controversial, in fact, that it was banned for many years in several countries. That statement wasn’t really the point of my rant the other day about the upcoming remake of Texas in 3D,…
The Denver County Fair this summer is already going to be a historical occasion — it is, after all, the first county fair ever for Denver — but it just got even more historic: Today, event impresario Dana Cain announced that the fair had acquired the services of Barry Fey,…
A person would have to be damn pretty self-assured to bill herself as a “goddess” of anything, but when it comes to advice, Amy Alkon is as qualified for the title as anyone. Since starting her career dispensing advice to random strangers on a New York street corner with two…
When Chelsea Handler makes her occasional appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the tension is almost palpable. In terms of comedy, Handler is like the anti-Leno, the yin to his yang; if he was pro-life, then she’d be an abortion pro. “I don’t like people who have babies…
There’s nothing like a 100-mile bike ride to start cutting into that pasty layer of flab that’s been accumulating around your waistline like delicious, delicious pudding all winter, but there’s also nothing like the risk of grievous bodily or bike failure to keep you from actually doing it. That’s where…
Here’s how producer Britta Laree likes to describe Breach, a new musical from Evolution Theatre Company: “It’s like Pygmalion on acid.” Pygmalion, of course, is the play that inspired the musical My Fair Lady, and Breach offers a similar plotline: An ambitious New York record executive finds a Long Island…
At this point on a Wednesday afternoon, we know all too well how it goes: You’re pretty much just blankly staring at your computer, waiting out the time clock — and as long as you’re blankly staring, you might as well have a staring contest. So even though you will…
It doesn’t take much evidence beyond his most famous paintings to suspect that Salvador Dalí was a weird dude: The persistence of crazy, distended forms, melting clocks, blood, rot and genitals is probably enough to draw that conclusion. But Dalí’s weirdness went far beyond its expression in his paintings; From…
Here’s a little blast from the past: On the very first day we launched Show and Tell, we used some pics photographer Aaron Thackeray had snapped of a String Cheese show at Red Rocks and turned them into a post called White People with Dreads: A Field Guide. It didn’t…
The streamlined forms, the emphasis on planes and lines, the form-follows-function mentality: all tenets of architectural modernism. At the same time, though, it’s not so easy to define what is modernism and what isn’t — a lot of schools of architecture could fall under the broad umbrella of modernism, and…
The culture wars: Conservative versus liberal, pro-life versus pro-choice, anti-gay versus pro-gay, Glenn Beck versus, uh, My Chemical Romance, apparently. As further evidence that not even the most banal pop-cultural crap escapes the bitter divide of partisan politics, the aforementioned pundit and pop-punkers are currently involved in one of the…
When it came out in 1974, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was one of the most violent movies ever made — so violent it was actually banned in several countries — but that’s not what makes it so great. In fact, by today’s CG-enhanced standards, it pretty tame. A long shot…
You’ve got to hand it to Mexicans: Those folks know how to get down. Besides Cinco de Mayo last weekend — probably the greatest party of the year — they also invented the piñata, which, with its injury-prone combination of dizziness, blindfolds, probable drunkenness and a wildly swinging blunt object,…
Last week, America tracked down and killed Osama bin laden, thus proving to everyone that America is the greatest country in the world — and then we inexplicably tossed his body into the ocean, thus assuring that nobody will ever really believe that we really tracked down and killed Osama…
Now in its roughly one-millionth year, Who Wants to be a Millionaire is still going strong, although it’s a little different now than it was before you probably stopped paying attention. For one thing, original host Regis Philbin is long gone, replaced by Meredith Vieira, who, disconcertingly, kind of resembles…
Solve one set of problems, get another. That’s the central theme of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride, now playing at the Paragon Theatre, which takes a look at the relationships of three characters transposed onto different eras: In 1958, Oliver, Philip and Sylvia struggle as the two men, one closeted…
One hundred years from now, if anthropologists were to use these photos from Saturday’s White Trash Derby Bash to try to determine the cultural meaning of the term “White Trash,” they would probably conclude that it involves the drinking of lagers and a lot of sleeveless shirts. Conceived for the…
Back in the days when Show and Tell was still an outdoor adventure blog called On the Edge, writer Ted Alvarez brought us an interesting post about how mountain lions in Colorado are increasingly moving through urban areas. And as proof that nothing on the interenets ever dies, more than…
