Besides maybe monster-truck driver, Barry Clifford has about the most badass job that exists: He’s a real-life, bona-fide treasure hunter. His 1983 discovery of the Whydah, a pirate ship wrecked off the coast of Cape Cod, provides the backbone of the Real Pirates exhibit currently at the Denver Museum of…
When Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” exploded into ubiquity in 1991, the traditional American model of the recording industry was having a heyday. Major record companies dominated the way people consumed music, and to stay on top, they stayed on the lookout for the Next Big Thing. And they were…
For all you ladies out there who have been eagerly awaiting a time when wearing resin-composite shower-shoes in public would not require you to look like a club-footed asshole, then your ship may have just sort of rolled in, at least as far as the club-footedness is concerned. “Just in…
David Sirota may have an ironic side — his new book Back to Our Future, an examination of how ’80s pop culture influenced the politics of today, has plenty of smirking affection for the cultural detritus of the past — but he’s still at heart a pundit, and as such,…
In the grand tradition of pugilists like Rocky Balboa and, to a lesser extent, Rudy Ruettiger, I have a demanding workout routine: Every morning, I get up, eat four steaks, drink a dozen raw eggs directly from the blender, oil myself up and stare at my imposing delts in the…
It’s now officially spring, and with it today comes Earth Day, the day when we thank nature for not being so goddamned cold for the next few months by planting a tree and then getting into our cars, guzzling cash-crop coffee out of Styrofoam containers, throwing them out the window…
It’s already well established that I am a winner. Recall, if you will, my awe-inspiring victory in September, when I definitively established my dominance as the strongest, fastest and most virile man in a skirt at the Running of The Gays. Now imagine what I could do with my fire-breathing…
When it comes to UFOs, we tend to be a little more skeptical, perhaps, than many. At least Kiernan Maletsky was clearly more than a tad skeptical of what he called the “grainy specks in motion” in the videos of magnetflipper, a Denver-based Fox Mulder who’s been posting UFO videos…
There are some actors so closely and irrevocably associated with certain roles that you can never watch them in any other movie without thinking about that role. For Matthew McConaughey, no matter how many times he plays an incorrigible scamp in a lukewarm romantic comedy or — in this case…
Replying to Colin Bane’s post from a couple of days ago on John Denver’s likely entry into the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum Hall of Fame, reader Angela Roberts opined that John Denver is and ever shall be the popular face of Colorado to the rest of the world. I…
It’s St. Patrick’s Day today, and we all know what that means: If you haven’t started drinking by now, you’re doing it wrong. We also know that there’s nothing like unbridled day drinking to provide the lubrication for actions you will later regret — and as far as making bad…
When vigorous men with robust mustaches and the yen to perform amazing feats of strength realized that regular wrestling was kind of wimpy, they did the sporting equivalent of turning a hug into a handshake. Today, arm wrestling remains the best way to prove one’s stoutheartedness in a bar. So…
There’s probably not a single nine-year-old boy in America who hasn’t dreamed of finding pirate treasure, but so far, Barry Clifford is the only one who’s managed to make that dream come true. “It was sort of one of those old Cape Cod folk stories, and my uncle used to…
For those who fear robots, we live in terrifying times. The machines are gradually encroaching upon our lives, lulling us with a sense of convenience while they increase our dependence on them until the inevitable day when they rule us; even Google founder Larry Page is a proponent of the…
Besides that you should maybe think twice about asking your dad to take you to Disneyland, Vengeance Dad taught us a very important lesson about making memes: small full body shot + larger superimposed face at right + disturbing caption = hilarity. To demonstrate the results of this very important…
Well, if cartoonist Noah Van Sciver’s report from last week on what Australian’s think of Denver wasn’t proof enough that this fair city will ever be associated foremost with a mediocre light rocker who got high on the Rockies, then reader Angela Roberts is here to reinforce that. Commenting on…
For much of his career, David Sirota has been a hard-hitting leftist political operative, running campaigns with what former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta once called his “instinct for the jugular” and later moving into the world of Journalism and commentary; these days, he’s a Denver-based syndicated…
In recent history, perhaps no phenomenon has been so conducive to spectacular failure than Parkour — also known as “freestyle walking” — a sport that causes people to attempt flips and other assorted gymnastics off all manner of objects toward the end of either injuring themselves hilariously or succeeding unremarkably…
According to Kent Welborn, the mind behind the samurai host of the new “Laughing Dragon Cake Samurai Fun Show” at the Bovine Metropolis Theater tonight, the intention is not to make fun of Japanese culture. “We’re trying to celebrate it,” he amends, “and we’re trying to get laughs by making…
Mildly dumb controversy continues to rage over Bree Davies’ comparison of the (relatively) new MTV series Skins to the U.K. version of the show. Even though the critique tackled only the first episode and was posted nearly two months ago now, it seems to have inspired a flame of passion…
To the officers of the Durango Police Department: A couple of months ago, as you are no doubt aware, your department quietly changed its policy to allow a form of facial hair that has never in modern history been widely sported by members of the law enforcement community: the goatee…
They seem pretty different on the surface, but NFL football and the music industry actually have a lot in common: Both take place in arenas, both have draconian management structures that rake in grotesquely bloated profits by bilking the talent, both inspire insipid adulation and zombie-like loyalty. And both, for…
