If you know what a /b/tard is, then you know moot. /B/tard, of course, refers to the special kind of antisocial nerd who frequents 4chan’s /b/ (extremely NSFW, that link) — a random, anonymous, no-rules repository of obscure coding jokes, a disturbing amount of child pornography and pretty much every…
In television history, perhaps no single show has ever been quite as revolutionary as The Jerry Springer Show — not that many people would see that as a good thing. All the same, over the course of its twenty-year history, Jerry Springer, along with a cast of strippers, transvestites, trailer-dwellers…
It’s a story that would chill the bones of anyone who’s ever seen Poltergeist: In the 1890s, the city of Denver decided to convert a disused cemetery into what is now Cheesman park, hiring the unscrupulous contractor E.W. McGovern to perform the work of moving the bodies — except instead…
First they managed to get it pulled from the trailer of The Dilemma. And that’s fine; a trailer is not a creative effort, it’s an advertising vehicle designed to get people to see a creative effort. Now, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, along with CNN anchor Anderson Cooper,…
Of all the days of the week, Tuesday is perhaps the one most conducive to despair, the one that really drives home the boredom of the working week and the one where there’s the least to do outside of the workaday drudgery. Which makes it all the more important to…
In a way, cats make terrible pets. For one thing, they obviously hate being pets — they’re predatory, spiteful and aloof, and no matter how much you love them, they will never, ever give a single shit about you. On the other hand, the very fact that cats hate being…
At Denver International Airport yesterday, Southwest went the extra mile of flair by festively decorating concourse C with Halloween-themed stuff — stuff like the three gravestones above, which sported humorous epitaphs. Most of them were pretty goofy, but a closer inspection revealed that at least one was a clever dig…
In a way, Las Vegas is like America turned up to 11: Loud, weird and relentlessly excessive, Vegas is kind of like the splatter pattern that resulted when God balled up everything hilarious and awful about these great United States and hurled it at the most barren part of the…
Halloween is over. The zombie crawls have been crawled, the monster-mash dance parties mashed, the slutty nurse costume put away so you can go back to your boring day-job as a “slutty accounts receivable processor,” leaving you with only the sweet memories and a large pile of candy stolen from…
When it comes to campy-from-the-second-they-hit-theaters genre flicks like Monsters, a movie about aliens that come to earth in the form of glowing mushroom-like things but then are really large also, you basically know right off if you’re going or not. If you’re into the genre, you may. If you’re not,…
It’s not too often that you come across a play that is also a thriller, but the Curious Theatre’s world premier of Astronomical Sunset, by Robert Lewis Vaughan, is just that: According to Curious’ playwright-in-residence Meridith Friedman, it’ll make you “jump in your seat — and that’s really hard to…
In the realm of annoying social networking games that clog up your news-feed with nonsense, it would seem that Mafia Wars, the game that encourages you earn points by stockpiling firearms and putting hits out on your virtual friends, would be the more dangerous. Ironically though, it was the cutesy…
In any marital dispute, sometimes you need a little outside input; you think you’re right, they think they’re right — you need someone objective to come in and make the call. Problem is, every time you call in somebody objective, you somehow end up pantsless, in handcuffs and covered in…
Perhaps more than any president in recent memory, and like so many truly terrible people, George W. Bush was fond of playing up his godliness — apparently, if you fold your hands and screw up your face like you’re solving a Rubik’s Cube for long enough, that’ll get you the…
If you like the idea of combining Vampires with sex in literature but think Twilight is ass-clown hackery for prudes, then Vampire Nite is where you want to be tonight. And if you don’t, why the fuck not? Vampires are awesome. Sex is awesome. What’s there not to like? Anyway,…
For the last few years, it’s been one of biology’s most perplexing and worrisome questions: What is happening to bee populations? Since 2006, they’ve been declining at rates of up to 50 percent — and more in certain areas — and since we depend on bees to pollinate about a…
If you’ve ever done the screeching violin sound effects from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho while stabbing toothpicks into an effigy made of doughnuts (does anyone else remember Wayne’s World?), then you’ve sung this soundtrack. Arguably the most iconic film music of all time, Bernard Herrmann’s score was credited by Hitchcock himself…
Food drives and country music aren’t among the first things to come to mind on Halloween, but then again, why not? Though organizer Laura “Spunky” McGaughey admits that the way it came together may have been fairly arbitrary, that’s not to say Halloween Honky Tonk doesn’t have a point: “I…
Given that it’s a “rally for people who’ve been too busy to go to rallies,” as Daily Show host and figurehead Jon Stewart put it, it’s understandable that a lot of the target audience would also be too busy to make it out to Washington, D.C., for the real thing…
While the theme is Hiroshima, the seeds of Rahna Reiko Rizzuto’s gripping memoir, Hiroshima in the Morning, were planted while she was researching her first book, a novel called Why She Left Us, which takes place in Colorado at Camp Amache, one of ten locations where the U.S. government forced…
Artist Jerry Vigil makes a compelling point about hosting a Día de los Muertos celebration in a funeral home: “When you think about it, what better venue is there?” And this party is far from a typical funeral home gathering: Following the Mexican tradition, Day of the Dead is not…
More than anything, Halloween is a time to try on a new identity, to be one thing and become something else. But homo sapiens sapiens is not the only species to engage in a game of dress-up of sorts — animals do it all the time, like cats that look…
