When Westword staff writer Melanie Asmar called out the announcer and rodeo clown at the National Western Stock Show Rodeo yesterday for using Brokeback Mountain references to make gay jokes (personally, I’m more offended they haven’t updated their material since 2005), causing the NWSS to promise never to do it…
On these vast internets, there’s perhaps no concept more prevalent than the fail, and for good reason: The well known “pwnge” formula states that fail + evidence of fail = lulz. And lulz are desirable. Sounds simple, but that very formula has also given rise to a bizarre and ironic…
Last month, we told you about how Adam Cayton-Holland, former Westworder and current emcee of Geeks Who Drink’s Geek Bowl 2011, was heating up the animosity between the six cities going head-to-head in the trivia competition by making a series of shit-talking videos. Now, like the slow kid who awkwardly…
Wherever you go, chances are that not too far away from you is a hidden gem tucked away in some off-the-path corner of the landscape, a weird little spot that somehow got bounced off the flatbed of time and just kind of stayed there — to find it, you just…
Martin Luther King was pretty cool and all, but let’s face it: All he ever did for you was make you wait one more day for that carton of Russian cigarettes you ordered like six weeks ago that still hasn’t come in the mail yet, and it sure as hell…
When I was about seventeen years old, a friend of my dad’s who was into New Agey kind of stuff took the liberty of compiling an astrological chart for me. It was several pages long and went into great detail about what the day, hour and month of my birth…
Hey, have you ever wondered what it would be like if that guy who made Pineapple Express made a comic book movie? If you smoke weed, it’s likely that you have — so congratulations: You have now officially become a viable market demographic. Sure, it’s true that Judd Apatow was…
Keeping Enemies Closer, the first novel from Littleton writer L.D. Stevens, is billed as a thriller, but it’s arguable that it’s closer to a fantasy. Not because the elements of a thriller (intrigue, plot twists, fear) aren’t there, and not because the elements of what the literary term “fantasy” implies…
By some scientific estimates, over half the internet consists of pornography. That statistic is actually made up, but there’s no doubt that there is a mind-boggling amount of porn out there — so much of it, in fact, that there is a universal rule for it: “Rule 34: If it…
The Flying O.H.N.O. Twins do a lot of things, but it’s also kind of hard to explain exactly what they do. Since the end of September, Donald Fodness and Alvin Gregorio’s (they’re the twins, you know) installation Shut Your Face Off has been intriguing and mildly confusing people at the…
She may be a big fancy star now, but once upon a time, the germ of comedy was planted in Tig Notaro while she was working as a music promoter right here in town. “When I was living in Denver, I was really itching to perform,” says the comic, who…
Quick: What do you know about diabetes? Chances are, not much — and that can be a problem for the millions of people diagnosed each year with what the Centers for Disease Control are now calling a full-fledged epidemic; the number of people worldwide with diabetes is expected to double…
In the hallowed halls of things that are very, very serious, there are some questions upon whose resolution our society’s very survival depends. Serious questions. Very serious questions. Definitively answering those questions has long been the venerable mission of Buntport Theater — which has previously resolved such weighty issues as…
James R. Zingelman, better known by his stage name Rusty Z, is, in fact, a clinical hypnotherapist, but it’s unlikely that he’ll be helping anybody quit smoking at his show tonight. He may, however, convince you that you can speak Martian. “I’ve always been interested in it, since I was…
Let’s say you’re trying to get to the top of Mount Rainier in Washington State. You’re walking along with your buddy across a snow bridge, and all of a sudden it collapses, plunging you into an 80-foot-deep crevasse, causing an avalanche and killing your buddy, leaving you stranded at the…
Wow. That was fascinating. You know, we’ve heard a lot of interesting things in our lives, but that thing you just said? That was by far the most interesting. Just to let you know how awesome you are, and because it’s Wednesday, the day that we bring you the best…
A couple of months ago, in a rare “moot thread,” 4chan founder Christopher Poole indicated that he was open to the suggestion of creating a “social” board in order to rid its random board — or /b/, the (very NSFW) anon hub commonly known as “the asshole of the internet”…
It’s not the most Boulder-ish thing ever to come out of Boulder, but it comes pretty close: barefoot running, the newest cultural export from our neighbors to the northwest and the whitest thing since unpaid internships. If you’re not from a place that can price non-whites into trailer parks while…
Like circus clowns, streakers are not a good kind of funny. They sometimes provoke laughter, sure, but it is not the laughter of true hilarity; rather, it’s an awkward, uncomfortable laughter, the laughter of being informed that the nurse at the clinic was just kidding when she told you you…
For a project that centers around grief, it’s coincidentally a fitting time of year for Andrea Moore to begin her work in PlatteForum’s artist residency. An artistic jack-of-all-trades, the writer, photographer and performer moved into PlatteForum yesterday to begin her six-week residency there, during which she’ll be putting together a…
At 8:30 this morning at the City and County Building downtown, John Hickenlooper will officially resign as mayor of the City of Denver, leaving him unemployed for the few minutes it will take him to walk over to the State Capitol to be sworn in as governor. Normally, that short…
There are so many seemingly random elements at play in the Yes! Lab’s concept for The Remake Rumble, a seven-week series that starts tonight, they could almost be variables in a long-form improv game. The basic idea: take the plot elements and characters from famous movies and remake them, improv…
