Close to twenty years after the slang was first coined in those primitive internets forums of yore, at least one Fox News affiliate out of Los Angeles is on the case, intrepidly investigating just what it is that the kids are saying nowadays. Last week, the station dedicated fully three…
In Superior yesterday, a “suspicious package” left in a Costco parking lot triggered alarm bells, causing the store to go on lockdown, with shoppers held inside while the Boulder County Bomb Squad investigated. Why a terrorist would be targeting a Costco parking lot in Superior was unclear. In any case,…
Unless you recently awoke from troubled dreams to find yourself transformed into a hideous insect, you may have noted lot of Czech-related stuff going on around town recently. That’s because, stemming from Opera Colorado’s upcoming production of Dvořák’s Rusalka, a handful of Denver arts organizations have jumped on board with…
Being that the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building kind of looks like a gigantic DeLorean collided with the landscape of Tron, it’s saying something that Larry Green’s shoes came pretty close to upstaging it. In today’s edition of Street Fashion, wherein we talk to random people on the street whose…
It may be that the powers-that-be of Civic Center Park have Denver Big Air, which starts tomorrow, locked down tighter than a low-income high school, but that’s not going to stop the determined winter sports enthusiast from seeing it for free. It is, after all, an enormous ramp in a…
She’s not the first long-lost celebrity relative to come randomly out of the woodwork, but where most of them are deadbeat dads or biological mothers seeking a coattail-riding boost to gaudy tabloid fame, Oprah’s newly found sister seems, like everything in Oprah’s crazy, made-for-TV life story, to be legit. And…
There are a number of so-called “drinking” holidays that roll around once a year — St. Patrick’s Day, Fat Tuesday, Black History Month — but those, as you once heard a bartender say and now like to pretend like you came up with it yourself, are like “amateur night.” Those…
If you read Westword with any regularity, you will know that we’ve got a boner for compiling “best of” lists. It’s a win-win situation. It’s our job to keep up on this stuff, so they’re easy for us to put together; you have a real job and not enough time…
Keeping in line with Camel’s historically “urbane” branding strategy, the tobacco company has for the last few months been pushing a series of specially branded cigarette packs commemorating select cities known for their cool: Austin and Seattle, for example, have been highlighted. And while those cities have well known reputations…
To any successful movie trailer, there’s an element of balance: The trailer must convey enough of the content — characters, storyline, tone — of the movie to let us know what we’re getting into while simultaneously withholding enough to hook us. In that way, the trailer for The Company Men…
Though it’s often been suggested that the fundamentals of dubstep descend from a lyrical prophesy in Morris Day and the Time’s 1984 hit “The Bird,” in which Day intimates that “you don’t need no finesse or no personality/You just need two arms and an attitude,” in practice dubstep is somewhat…
As every hipster twenty-something in Denver knows, our fair city has been sadly inferior to other mid- to large-sized cities over the years in at least one key area: We lack an IKEA. The Swedish impresario corporation of ready-to-assemble furniture that is both stylish and cheap, IKEA is a destination…
Using the works of Stephen Batura as inspiration, perfumer Dawn Spencer Hurwitz will combine sight and scent for a live audience tonight at Sense BMoCA, where she will mix up new perfumes on the spot toward the end of answering one of life’s most persistent questions: What does this art…
Like so many good ideas, David Dalton’s idea for the MockSides Ultimate Filmmaker Challenge essentially sprang from thrift: Dalton had a bunch of stuff lying around and wanted to think up something to do with it. Specifically, he had scripts. Lots of scripts. Now he wants you to take one…
In the grand tradition of the kung fu flick, Bruce Lee is undisputed king. As much legend as movie star, Lee could knock a man down with a one-inch punch, almost single-handedly introduced martial arts to the American film audience and once cinematically kicked the ass of Chuck Norris, which…
Even though he legendarily fired off the screenplay in just over a week, it’s possible to make a case that Night on Earth was writer, director and general auteur Jim Jarmusch’s definitive film — or if not definitive, then perhaps the purest. His later films might have enjoyed bigger budgets,…
Of all the great female jazz singers of the mid-twentieth century, Nina Simone was perhaps the most distinctive, enigmatic, occasionally bewildering. And so it makes sense that An Evening With Nina, Shadow Theatre Company’s new musical about her life, would be similarly hard to describe. It’s a sort-of-musical about a…
Museo de las Américas, which always gets more involved with its art than just hanging it on the wall, is getting even more in-depth than usual with From the Earth. For its latest offering, the Museo brings together ten Native American artists from different disciplines for a collective exhibit accompanied…
In less than a week now, the scaffolding will be erected and the snow packed onto the 101-foot ramp that’s been going up for the last week or so in Civic Center Park, allowing a generous handful of world-class skiers and snowboarders to launch themselves to preposterous heights in the…
To a greater extent than is the case with most authors, Edgar Allan Poe’s life story lived up to his writing. Always infused with suspense, paranoia and creeping insanity, Poe’s stories and poetry belied his troubled existence, which included marrying his thirteen-year-old cousin and meeting his demise a delirious madman,…
The red herring is the best logical fallacy — are they catching on to you? Throw something unrelated out there to distract them and act like it’s germane to the topic in some way. Not only is it an effective argument tool, it can also be hilariously random — and…
It’s about time. Yesterday, the illustrious Emilio Estevez announced that he and his father, Martin Sheen, are working on a joint memoir; it’s called Along the Way, and they’re looking to release it on Father’s Day 2012. Now, we don’t necessarily care all that much about Martin Sheen, but we’ve…
