A mustache is like the modern-day equivalent of Samson’s hair: a source of almost superhuman potency for all who wear it. (Also, both are made of hair.) That said, the fact that only men and certain particularly virile women are capable of mustache wearage puts pretty much everything else at…
Walking into the Denver Art Museum’s current Blink! exhibit is kind of like walking into Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory (except far less dangerous to children with slack morals): There’s just a whole lot going on, and you really have no idea what most of it is or what you’re supposed…
Jumping over hurdles has always been a good metaphor for dealing with the the superfluous red tape and etiquette of bureaucracy — putting the flip-mode on that metaphor, then, we might say that an actual hurdle race is kind of like communism. And we all know that’s not the American…
It was a momentous day for the Centennial State on Saturday, when Deepak Sharma Bajagain shattered the Guinness world records for Most Envelopes Torn in Half in Thirty Seconds and Most Grapes Eaten in Three Minutes with a Small Plastic Spoon (stay tuned — we’ll bring you video of Bajagain…
As a precursor to AnomalyCon, Denver’s first big steampunk convention, we brought you on Thursday some easy tips for steampunking everything, including your toilet paper dispenser and your cat. From the looks of it, folks took that advice to heart at AnomalyCon’s Grand Ball on Saturday evening at the Tivoli…
Hawaii is probably the weirdest U.S. State, as Sarah Vowell observed when she interviewed with our Amber Taufen on Friday: The U.S. basically annexed it over the course of a summer, and even today, native Hawaiians recognize a strong loyalty to the former monarchy — something Vowell says, as an…
This week gets off to a strong start with Something on a Stick Day, a holiday dedicated to that great American pursuit of putting food on sticks before eating it — well, actually, the Middle East probably got the jump on this one with their kebabs and whatnot, but did…
It was pretty damn lame on Tuesday when the Denver Art Museum cut down Talia Kauk’s unauthorized installation of 1,000 paper cranes in front of the Hamilton Building and threw it in the trash — and I said as much in the post I wrote on it, where bitched about…
If you can take anything from the eyeball-overload trailer of Sucker Punch, it’s that the movie seems to hinge on some kind of dissociative-identity fantasy world: In order to overcome her real-life oppressors, a girl must first defeat the enemies in her own mind and learn some important lessons about…..
Deepak Sharma Bajagain already holds four Guinness records, and tomorrow, he’ll attempt to add two more to that illustrious legacy: Most Envelopes Torn in Half in 30 Seconds and Most Grapes Eaten in Three Minutes by a Small Plastic Teaspoon. Yes, these are actual entries in the Guinness Book of…
It’s really a shame that more 4-year-old boys don’t have creative control over dance video projects, because the world needs more of the kind of delightfully incoherent things that happen when the Gumz family puts on frog suits and gets out in the snow to pirouette with the dog. As…
Timothy Flood is into deconstruction. And right now, he’s into musical instruments — specifically, pulling them apart and rebuilding them into things that basically perform the same tasks, but in radically different ways and for totally different purposes. How different? Try this on for size: One part of the installation…
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the longtime brains behind South Park, Colorado’s most famous semi-fictional mountain town, took it all the way to Broadway on Tuesday when The Book of Mormon opened to glowing reviews. The musical, a sendup of Mormon culture starring two “elders” on a mission trip to…
Watching a documentary can often be like eating your peas: It’s not exactly thrilling, but it is nourishing, and when it’s over, you kind of feel like you accomplished something. In that vein, the Denver Botanic Gardens’ monthly Indigenous Film Series kicks off tonight with two documentaries from Native American…
John Henry might have caused his own death in his victory over the steam hammer, but in so doing, he taught America a very important lesson: The new stuff might be glitzy and more efficient, but sometimes the old stuff is just better. That’s at least part of the explanation…
When The Boys in the Band opened off Broadway in 1968, it polarized the gay community: On the one hand, the play portrayed gay men in terms of noxious stereotypes — basically as fey, bitchy queens who needed only to down a couple of drinks in order to start stabbing…
Within just a few hours of the time local artist Talia Kauk installed 1,000 paper cranes outside the Hamilton Building of the Denver Art Museum yesterday, without permission, security came out, snipped them down and tossed them in the trash, and they were gone. Conceived as a commentary on the…
Language is imperfect. Especially when it comes to dating and even just casual relationships between men and women, sometimes the things we say can be disastrously misinterpreted, like the time you meant to tell your co-worker you like the spreadsheet she put together, but you accidentally said you really liked…
Although, coming as it does from the hearsay of neighborhood kids, we sort of doubt the veracity of the claim that “Kids at the end of the cul-de-sac actually saw some prairie dogs on fire, running and screaming,” as a recent Daily Camera story reported of a new device being…
The excruciating wait for trendy, affordable goods from major Swedish retailers will come to an end this year when both H&M and IKEA finally come to Denver pretty much simultaneously — meaning you will soon be feasibly able to clothe, surround and even feed yourself with all things trendy and…
Though I was soundly defeated — twice — at Denver Nationals Championship Arm-Wrestling at the Bannock Street Garage on Saturday, it was not without a measure of hope: In yesterday’s recap of my humiliating failure, I resolved that, next time, I would use the power of numbers to crush my…
Type “The Book of Mormon” into Google right now, and the first thing to come is the eponymous play by Matt Stone and Trey Parker, two Colorado boys who went on to become, we think it’s fair to say at this point, the greatest satirists of a generation. From South…
