With the inflated set of societal expectations that accompanies them, holidays in general can be a setup for disappointment, and Valentine’s Day is probably the worst. On no other day can a bouquet of roses smell so suspiciously of desperation; even if you have a special someone, you spend the…
Far more often than is at all warranted, a bill proposing to “crack down” on graffiti — like the one shot down in committee by the state legislator yesterday — comes up in some form of government, promising to eradicate the scourge of people scribbling on shit once and for…
Ever since Nic Cage as Everyone stopped entertaining us roughly 46 seconds ago, we’ve been on a vigilant lookout for the next memomenon (that’s “meme”=”phenomenon”) involving celebrities and Photoshop; now, a seeming eternity later, we’ve found it: Tom Hanks is a Lot of Animals, a photo/chop concept updated daily by…
It’s Groundhog Day today, a holiday nobody would give a single shit about if it weren’t for the 1993 Bill Murray film by the same name, because that movie is awesome. In some ways, it was Murray’s career-defining role — not because the movie was an outstanding piece of film…
By now, the facepalm-inducing silliness of Kim Kardashian’s tearful protest on Sunday’s episode of Kourtney and Kim Take New York at being shown in the nude in the October issue of W magazine has been extensively remarked upon. For one thing, she posed nude for the magazine, so it’s hard…
Well, now I guess I’ve seen everything. I’ve been through wars, natural disasters, the inexplicable career of Jimmy Fallon and two or three great depressions, but I never thought I’d see the day when everybody stopped the presses on account of a little cold weather. Why, today’s kids are so…
Sometimes failure is more successful than success. Consider the case of a then-unknown Evel Knievel’s attempted 1967 motorcycle jump over the fountain at Cesar’s Palace: He botched it, breaking an absurd amount of bones and ending up in a 29-day coma as a result — but in what was arguably…
It’ll be a substantially less gay old time than previously anticipated at the Curious Theatre tomorrow: OUT @ Curious, the theater company’s tribute to the more festive segment of its audience that we told you about in the Night+Day section of this week’s print edition (still on the racks), has…
More than once during the Buntport Theater’s Kafka on Ice, the character of Franz Kafka (played by Josh Hartwell) comments on how stupid it is to stage an ice-capade revolving around his life and work. “It’s inappropriate!” he protests. As justification, toward the end of the play, another character offers…
When push comes to shove, February is and pretty much always will be Black History Month — that’s the only one they teach you about in school, anyway, mostly by telling you about Martin Luther King, Jr., the least threatening to white people of the civil rights leaders. Which is…
Everybody knows that, when a groundhog sees its shadow, it means there will be six more weeks of winter; lesser known is that, when a prairie dog sees its shadow, it means there will be a buy-one-get-one-free day at the Denver Zoo on Sunday — which got us wondering: What…
Take a random assortment of cult classics involving teenagers — let’s say, oh, Brick, My So-Called Life and anything by Joss Whedon — roll them all together into the space of a little over two minutes and you might have something like the trailer for Kaboom — which is not…
As is befitting of a the world’s biggest bar trivia night, there’s been a flurry of questions surrounding the circumstances of Geek Bowl 2011, that hallowed tradition where prestigious geeks from all around the country will gather to do battle tomorrow evening to the end of proving their superior worthless…
The challenge of writing a character who is a part of a marginalized group — say blacks, Hispanics or, in the case of Tomas Mournian’s Hidden, a gay teenager — is that all too often the drama of suffering overwhelms the character’s humanity; instead of developing into believable people, these…
Slobbing the knob. Gumming the root. Swallowing the sword. Playing the skin flute. Sucking “the dick.” These are all things you could be learning to do tonight when Shanna Katz, a professional and certified sexuality educator, presents Suck on This! Adventures in Fellatio at Fascinations in Boulder. You might also…
Once upon a time, cartoons were silly. Consider the original Batman series of the 1960s, a show so jokey it had villains named both The Laugher and The Giggler and starred a not-exactly-ripped-but-still-wearing-spandex Adam West playing the world’s most block-headed straight man — even Tim Burton’s late-’80s reboot of the…
Curious Theatre Company’s current production, Circle Mirror Transformation, may not have much to do with homosexuality, per se, but as Sarah Benvenuti, Curious’s managing director, delicately points out, “I think the arts and the LGBT community have gone hand in hand for a long time.” Yep, the arts are kind…
When it comes to the silver screen, it seems there’s little opportunity to see much of anything that doesn’t involve gratuitous explosions or testicle injury. And of the many theater-shunned forms, the most neglected could be the short: Unless you’re at a film festival, you’re just not going to find…
If you’re looking for a window into another culture, a good place to start is with its folk tales and children’s stories — after all, the yarns that we weave for our children carry the essential cultural data that we want to pass on. To that end, it’s hard to…
Lord knows how many times I’ve walked past this garage (attached to a semi-dilapidated abandoned house near the Westword office) and not given it a second glance, but for whatever reason, it happened to catch my eye the other day — probably because I happened to be carrying a camera;…
There are many differences between humans and house cats, but the main one is probably that, when humans are morbidly obese, it’s sad, but when cats are morbidly obese, it’s hilarious. So because pictures of obese cats just kind of cheer us up on the mid-week slump, and because it’s…
Proving definitively that nobody rocks a party like the gays rock a party, a teeming multitude of bears, twinks, butches, drag queens and the generally effete descended on Colorado’s most celebrity-friendly resort town this week for the 34th Annual Aspen Gay Ski Week, and they didn’t stop until at least…
