If you think about it, there is really only one attraction for TV taped live: that deep in our most schadenfreude-drive hearts, we’re secretly hoping something gets fucked up — the local TV news really has little else going for it. And in that respect, this Fox affiliate out of…
Ah, Fat Tuesday, the day when cheap plastic beads are somehow transformed into a currency for getting drunk girls to show you their tits. It’s like the frat-bro version of Cinderella, except the fairy godmother is the dollar store, and at midnight you just piss your pants and fall asleep…
While Ben Roethlisberger apparently gets a get-out-of-jail-free card for his numerous rapes on the well-known “Bro, I was wasted” defense, over in Utah, they do things a little differently: BYU forward Brandon Davies was dismissed from the Mormon University’s basketball team last week for having sex — consensual sex –…
Physiologically speaking, a fever in itself cannot kill you; it’s only a side effect of the immune system fighting an infection — what may kill you is whatever’s causing the fever. Friends, we have a fever. It’s called Bieber Fever — also known in more scientific circles as “The Fieber”…
In Colorado’s Iceman & The Story of the Frozen Dead Guy, Bo Shaffer, the guy who delivers the ice to keep Grandpa Bredo in cryogenic bliss, tells the story of how a Norwegian dead guy came to inhabit a shed in Nederland and how Frozen Dead Guy Days — one…
When you walk into the Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which opens today, the first thing you do is watch a short movie, one of those PBS-style hist-umentaries with the vaguely English-sounding narrator, the scrolling/zooming over photos and…
Given the rigid tropes that govern pretty much all high-budget movies about high school, it’s sometimes hard to believe that the people who write and direct them ever actually went to high school. You’ve got the group activities fictional students inexplicably give a shit about, the 25-year-old actors who look…
It’s not like the story of Grandpa Bredo, the dead guy who unwittingly inspired Colorado’s favorite oddball festival Frozen Dead Guy Days (in Nederland this weekend), is any secret: When he died, his family cryogenically preserved him in a shed out back to await the technology that might one day…
When Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Wydah at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and Machines Like Us at the Theatre Company of Lafayette come to town simultaneously tomorrow, it will set the stage for one of the most epic battles ever conceived by nerds, who are…
Sometimes in our lives, we probably all feel as if we are merely characters in someone else’s novel, hunched over his desk, grappling with the material of our stories — a writer who is himself a character in another novel, a reflection of a reflection of a reflection extending on…
The world probably has room for only one festival dedicated to a cryogenically frozen dead Norwegian, and it’s not in Norway. Started in 2002 to honor Grandpa Bredo, put on dry ice in a shed by relatives after he passed away back in 1989 (he’s still there, even if the…
When it comes to choreographing a ballet, there’s a lot of wiggle room: The ballet’s choreographer interprets a composer’s score, making the dance you see one step removed from the original. In the case of the Colorado Ballet’s production of Romeo and Juliet, it’s yet another step removed — from…
Impoverished and desperate, a man murders a pawnbroker and her half-sister with an ax, and guilt eventually becomes his undoing. Though the novel has a reputation for being dense and hard to absorb, that sentence basically sums up the plot of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment — a book that…
In these hipster times, it’s only a matter of time before the traditional game of old people gets appropriated for ironic reasons. Thus, “we’re introducing bingo to a whole new generation,” says Luke Schmaltz, co-owner of Bender’s Tavern. “Some people get pretty gnarly about it,” he says of his bar’s…
It’s hard to think of a more legit way to rep your city than by getting it permanently tattooed on you. And if you’re going to get it permanently tattooed on you, it’s hard to think of a better place to do it than Th’ink Tank, one of Denver’s most…
If you’re a fan at all of Madonna, you know about her 1985 Playboy spread and the classic down and out story that led to it: In 1979, a then-broke and unknown Madonna posed nude for a photography class for a fee of $30. Years later, when her first single…
In every romantic comedy, it all starts with a lie: a little lie that leads to zany antics, which in turn lead to more elaborate lies, which in turn lead to madcap misunderstandings, which in turn lead to love. And isn’t that what it’s all about? So today, because we…
It’s been almost a week since Charlie Sheen went off the fucking chain on the Alex Jones Show, where the insane rant he went on — in which he (among so many, many other things) called Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre “a contaminated little maggot” who “can’t…
Human beings are pack animals. Like lions and wolves, we separate ourselves into groups and vie for status within them, status we achieve with feats of excellence; it’s natural then, to want to show off. By doing so successfully, we show are prowess and thus are elevated within our packs…
Being a reality TV standby best known for getting kicked off his first gig on MTV’s Road Rules: South Pacific for attacking a black co-star with widely speculated racist motivations is not exactly the most admirable thing to be known for, but this weekend, Abram Boise managed to shit all…
Every society has its share of fucks. Across the board, there are, in all cultures, a handful of words deemed taboo or offensive; in some cultures, these words tend to relate to religion — like goddamn or hell — in others (like ours) they tend to denote sex or bodily…
If we learned anything from Akeelah and the Bee, it’s that spelling bees can be pretty exciting, even if the subject matter is boring — who nedes speling anyway? That shit is for lossers. It’s the do-or-die elimination format that give the bee its drama, and tonight, Poetry Out Loud…
