Now that Easter is over and you’re back on all the vices you gave up during Lent, it’s time to unwind a little bit. Jk, you didn’t give up anything during Lent — quitting things is for the weak willed and poor of spirit — but it’s still time to…

It’s a pretty sad statement about race in America that every black man in Hollywood except Will Smith and Chris Rock is still somehow required to have a fat, sassy, female alter-ego to periodically provide the machine with a few cheap yuks about — looka here, kids! — how black…

It takes some wading through sludge of child pornography, gore, rampant racism and herp-a-derp-check-out-my-dubs threads, but the best thing (and possibly the only truly good thing) about /b/ has always been the memes, little image-based internet in-jokes that people revise and riff on in endless variations to often hilarious results…

There’s nothing funny about household pets perishing from smoke inhalation, but a cat in an oxygen mask, apparently, is hilarious — even the cops in the background think it’s funny, and cops never think anything is funny. The cat, however, is not amused…

Once upon a time, John Lennon had a plan to do a concert with Karlheinz Stockhausen, a hugely influential modernist composer and pioneer of electronic music. That concert never happened — but an experimental multimedia ensemble can imagine, can’t it? From the idea for that potentially mind-blowing concert comes 1969,…

Chances are you’re already somewhat familiar with the people featured in Denver Stories, an ongoing series in which Curious Theatre Company selects four Denver celebrities and writes and produces a ten-minute play about each. The beauty of it, though, is that you’re likely to learn something you didn’t expect —…

There’s a hoary old joke about the weather in Colorado that also applies to the twelfth annual CU-OnStage Fringe Festival: If you don’t like it, wait a few minutes. With visual art, cinema, costume and set design and plenty of theater represented, the festival will cram artsiness into all of…

When Lalo Delgado immigrated to America with his parents at the age of twelve, he spoke no English and couldn’t read or write. It was a pretty hardscrabble beginning for a boy who went on to become a poet, a professor and a towering figure in the Chicano community. During…

T.S. Eliot once famously wrote that “April is the cruelest month,” but if that old ragged set of claws scuttling across the floor of silent seas were alive today, he might not be so damn depressing about it. These days, besides mixing memory and desire, April is also National Poetry…

With various Tea Party-led anti-union efforts afoot in Wisconsin, Ohio, New Hampshire and all over the country growing increasingly more vehement, it seems a particularly appropriate time to consider the oppressive work conditions from whence the union movement sprang — and the violent opposition it encountered. Of that violence, there’s…

There are many ways to lose yourself to the sweet oblivion — weed is one, and it happens to be the only one with an entire holiday dedicated to its consumption (booze and St. Patrick’s Day notwithstanding). But there are other, less conventional ways to get lifted — ways that…

It’s pretty tough when you get slapped like a bitch on your own lawn, but that’s exactly what happened to Seattle on Saturday — twice. In a double-header, Seattle’s Rat City Rollergirls suffered double defeat when their all-star team got crushed by San Francisco’s Bay City Derby Girls and their…

If you were a kid before somewhere in the mid-’90s, you remember the merry-go-round, that spinning metal disk of danger that, if you were lucky, you could get your dad to spin you around on at incredibly hazardous speeds until the g-forces peeled your fingers off the metal rails and…