Whatever your opinions about him — and don’t lie; you have some opinions about him — there’s no doubt that Barry Bonds is one of the most polarizing figures in modern sports, almost universally either revered or reviled. The thing that polarizes people about him is his use of steroids,…
It can be hard to know what to make of art, especially when the art in question is that of Vance Kirkland, Colorado’s foremost abstract expressionist. Sometimes, you need a little help with the interpretation — and as far as that goes, what better to interpret art than poetry, another…
Somewhere in the second half of Rebecca Black’s “Friday,” the thirteen-year-old singer offers a breakdown of the order of days in the week: “Yesterday was Thursday,” she helpfully informs us. “Today is Friday. Tomorrow is Saturday, and Sunday comes afterwards.” In that way and several others, watching the video is…
Ah, those halcyon days of summer: relaxing on lounge chairs, guzzling cold beers, loping on down to the swimming hole and taking a swing on the rope that ends in mild bodily harm and humiliating failure — the good times. Since heavy day-drinking in an integral part of any summer…
There are a lot of short films playing at the Aspen ShortsFest tonight and over the course of the next five days — like, a shitload of them. And since many of them are foreign and all of them, pretty much by definition because they are short films, are somewhat…
Call me a sad shell of a human being with a withered capacity for imagination, and you would probably be right, but I don’t believe in no ghosts. It just doesn’t make any sense. But before I crap all over your good time with my “logic,” suffice it to say…
When 4-year-old Aiden Gumz of Evergreen put his parents in frog suits and set out to film a dance video, he had a vision: to make something awesome He succeeded. The result of his efforts, FrogP, was avant-garde and experimental like Stan Brakhage, but also unexpectedly poignant and sweet like…
While it’s of course true that marijuana is a medical drug, and the implements of smoking it are as such medical devices and should only be used as such (cough, cough, in multiple senses of that joke), it’s unlikely that you’re going to see a blood-pressure pump or a forceps…
When our esteemed art director (who we will decline to explicitly name for reasons that will become clear… now) designed the photo that accompanied Embattled Painting of the Virgin Mary fellating Christ appears to weep blood (at right), our fake April Fool’s day joke article, he mentioned he was pretty…
It was partially by coincidence and partly by design that the opening credits of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining had just started rolling when we flipped on the TV Saturday night in our room at the Stanley Hotel; the movie, of course, is based on Stephen King’s novel by the same…
Well, it’s National Hug a Newsman Day today, and we’ve got to tell you, we’re a little uncomfortable with this. We’ve seen the way you look at us, with your lustful eyes, always licking your lips, which for some reason always leaves some kind of gelatinous white residue around your…
The controversy surrounding the artist Rob Cancer’s depiction of what many conservative Christians have protested as the Virgin Mary fellating Christ took a bizarre turn this week, when CONSTRUCT GalleryArtSpaceBlackBox, where the painting has been on display, noticed a substance that appeared to be blood forming around the area of…
To Hop’s credit, the blend of live action and CGI rodents is considerably less creepy than it was in 2007’s incredibly unsettling Alvin and the Chipmunks, one of the worst, most cynical computer-generated turds ever crapped out by Hollywood. In fact, the little rabbit guy in Hop is actually kind…
It’s April, and Easter will be here before you know it — which means it’s time for the Prophet Elijah to weigh in. One of our perennial tip-line favorites, the prophet calls us with impressive regularity to tell us his thoughts on a variety of subjects, including world powers, nuclear…
For proof that a lifelong obsession with trivia will win you literally tens of dollars and a modest measure of short-lived semi-fame, look no further than Jeopardy! tomorrow night, when Geeks Who Drink editor Christopher Short will throw down in representation of Denver’s community of nerds with an impressive ability…
In years past, putting together a Best of Denver issue was like Sophie’s Choice: In order to choose the favorite baby, all the rest of the babies had to die and then Meryl Streep killed herself. Now we have the vast internets and enough space to choose whatever we desire…
Because we at Westword pull hella clout in this town, we managed to snag 35 free tickets to the Denver Auto Show, which started yesterday and continues through Sunday — and because we’re pretty much benevolent gods over here, we decided to give them away to you. Tuesday, we asked…
It is way too soon to joke about the three-disasters-rolled-into-one happening in Japan right now. Luckily, though, for those of us with an almost unbearable urge for shocking tactlessness, Japan is making the jokes for us with a public service video for children explaining via one of the most convoluted…
It’s no secret that celebrities tend to bring their bad behavior to Aspen — you’d need several hands to count the scandals that have gone down there over the years — but the sheriff’s department isn’t the only contact Hollywood has with Colorado’s glitziest resort town. There’s also Aspen Film,…
Not that it comes as much of a surprise when it comes to the woman so possessed with Christ-loving zeal that she walked into a Loveland art museum and smashed a work of art with a crowbar, but Kathleen Folden is crazy — and in the way typical of evangelical…
You may not have wondered what the “Best Short Film Shot in Denver Involving a Bleeding Clown” was this year — yet — but chances are, you’re wondering now. So rejoice, pilgrim, because the time has now come to find out the answers to these and other worthless questions, in…
Old fairy tales have the potential for great movie fodder: They’re cute and quaint at first blush, but beneath the surface — especially in the originals, tend to nurse dark and disturbing undercurrents. That said, it’s a shame major movie studios have such a knack for screwing them up. In…
