It was hard to spot at first, right before the Rockies game near Coors field at about 12:30 p.m. yesterday, but if you took a closer look, there it was: a horrible, horrible object in the skyward vicinity of downtown. As throngs of fans filed into the stadium near the…
Ben Affleck has it all: Good looks, rugged charm, acting chops, uh… good looks. Of course, he’s starred in some truly awful movies, but that’s only because those movies weren’t taking advantage of his true talent: directing. Because Ben Affleck is also an awesome director. That’s what Tim Davids argued,…
It’s a new month, which means the usual slew of designations intended to raise awareness of things that generally continue getting ignored as per usual during that month — but for those who are paying attention, May is pretty much a glass case of contradiction and self-loathing: It’s National Blood…
Just in case you doubted that Westword was the foremost authority on dumb shit that happens in the media, know this: We’re such an authority even other media outlets seek our expertise. And when I say “our expertise,” I mean “my expertise.” Yesterday, in advance of the Violent Torpedo of…
In the closing moments of the trailer for Fast Five, while the central cast is dramatically slow-mo walking toward the camera and away from the sunset as if to say, damn, lookit how badass we are, there is a curious incongruity: In that shot, there are eight people, not five…
According to certain scientific estimates, there are currently four katrillion applications and websites devoted to voting on pictures out there in the world, but if an app developer can think a a new riff on that concept, there’s always room for a couple more — particularly if they involve winning…
The middle east may have its camels, which are admittedly pretty awesome, but here in the Americas we have llamas. And also alpacas, which are kind of like mini-llamas. Unlike llamas, though, alpacas are not for carrying things; specifically, they are bred for their hair, which is a lot like…
For over a decade, BINDERY | space has been home to some of Denver’s best and weirdest experimental theater under the direction of the LIDA Project, which has been its driving force for most of that time, in addition to providing a place for a number of other like-minded companies…
There’s no denying that canv.as is pretty cool. Still in closed, invitation-only beta testing, the site is the latest project of 4chan founder, Christopher Poole, and it basically takes the meme-generating concept of /b/, 4chan’s random board, and adds social networking and a whole lot of neat-o features — but…
Precocious children are nothing new; they’ve been around for as long as there have been embittered adults to be annoyed by them because of their infuriating innocence, and because they haven’t yet squandered the limitless potential of their youth on cocaine and get-rich-quick schemes like we did. On the other…
When James Brown sang “It’s a man’s world,” he might as well have been talking about the world of music, where women are about as plentiful as a knife when you’ve got 10,000 forks — or whatever that Alanis Morissette lyric was. But as the Godfather of Soul also said,…
Ietef Vita always has a lot on his plate, and most of it involves his biggest interests: hip-hop, organic gardening and education. In fact, Vita’s alter-ego, DJ Cavem, is nationally regarded, and his day job is as an educator for Blue and Yellow Logic, an organization that brings together organic…
Bev Newcomb-Madden can relate to the housewife-protagonist of While We Were Bowling. The play (which she’s directing) follows the travails of a traditional family unit in Buffalo, New York, as the cheerfully kitschy ’50s melt into the psychedelic ’60s. “I was a young housewife, too, when this was all going…
When the computer mouse in its modern form was introduced to the general exactly thirty years ago as part of the Xerox Star workstation, nobody could have predicted the extent to which it would revolutionize our existence, ushering us one step further away from the esoteric world of DOS systems…
Hipsters love IKEA. Actually, a lot of people that aren’t hipsters love IKEA, too, such as suburban moms and young professionals, but IKEA has a special place in the heart of every hipster girl with a Volvo station wagon to buzz out to the burbs in and pack with ergonomic…
Less is more, observed Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the architect widely regarded as the father of the modern steel-and-glass skyscraper, and it’s likely Frank Chimero agrees; working with simple shapes and a pristine minimalist aesthetic, the illustrator and graphic designer creates compelling visuals that are easy to immediately interpret…
When the Colorado Ballet left me a care package yesterday inviting me to a press conference announcing its 2011-2012 season, along with a very pretty box containing one milk-chocolate swan and one white-chocolate swan, it didn’t exactly leave a whole lot of intrigue as to what would be on the…
For an intolerably long time, there has been a gaping void in the soul of Denver, and that void is the shape of a giant blue box somewhere in the suburbs where price-tag-conscious hipsters can get their simultaneous fix of trendy, affordable, ready-to-assemble furniture and Swedish culinary delights at the…
In the stressful urban commuting environment, bicyclists and drivers are often a lot like the Sharks and the Jets: They just do not get along. Bicycle Colorado is one of the many fine organizations working to change that, educating cyclists and drivers alike on how to share the road in…
It’s hard to pinpoint exactly what it is about it, but there’s no denying that the creepiest possible accent is the accent of a soft-spoken British child. It must be, because there’s really no other explanation as to why this by-all-rights innocuous video of a British kid insistently asking sheep…
Opposites, as Paula Abdul once noted, attract. In Abdul’s case, the opposite was Skat Cat, a rapping, cigarette-smoking cartoon feline whose straight-up making out with the live-action Paula lent the whole video a vaguely disturbing sexual undertone. In the case of M.I.A., the opposite is apparently Chris Brown — and…
As long as you’re stuck wandering around in the desert for forty years, you might as well do some partying. Actually,the New York-based Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad has only been on its Passover Tour for a couple of months, but that provided no less reason to party when the…
