If there’s one thing you can say for Dancing with the Stars, besides that it’s easily the campiest show in prime-time, it’s that the show has an excellent track record of showcasing Republicans being voluntarily ridiculous. Why, it was just last year that Tom DeLay was onstage looking like a…
They juggle chainsaws, bowling balls and eggs — or at least they did until recently. A long-time fixture in the scene of local vaudeville-inspired oddball damsel-in-distress shows (if indeed there is such a scene), The Handsome Little Devils are in the business of capturing the heart of anyone who appreciates…
In most moments of schadenfreude, there’s one pretty clear loser: the guy who launches himself bodily at a wall, for example, or the dumbass trying to do tricks on a Segway. These people fail, and everyone — including the other people in the video — has a good laugh at…
Everybody likes Mr. Bones. And really, how could you not love a guy who walks around operating a giant and seemingly anatomically correct dinosaur suit, never missing an opportunity to pretend he’s eating a kid’s head? Though Mr. Bones was perhaps the most flamboyant, there were no shortage of characters…
In a perfect world, every day would be a party — and not just some lame stand-around-and-sip-cocktails-politely kind of party; it would be an all-out awesome party with all the traditional trappings, which, as everyone knows, are balloons, cake and strippers. Sadly, some people hate fun. That’s why — if…
In was weird enough when a 40-foot statue of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god of death, moved into the Denver International Airport as a tie-in to the Denver Art Museum’s King Tut exhibit, provoking a renewed flurry of hand-wringing from people who believe DIA is secretly houses an alien…
At a certain point in any truly famous actor’s career, there comes a moment where that star’s persona becomes so familiar that it reaches an event-horizon of self-parody. Of that phenomenon, there’s probably no better example than John Malkovich, whose eccentric, volatile everyman was so distinctive that riffing on it…
He’s the Canuck king of duct tape, the far-north fixture of fix-it, and he may not be handsome, but he is handy. He’s Steve Smith, of course, otherwise known as Red Green, the suspender-wearing star of The Red Green Show, the maple leaf’s much funnier answer to Home Improvement. Tomorrow,…
Maybe it just means Finland is humorless, but it’s a pretty sad day for the world when a news anchor gets fired for making an on-air joke — and a pretty funny one, at that. Finnish English-language news anchor Kimmo Wilska was in the middle of a segment on bars…
When the brave gentlemen of Denver Men with Heart get up on the podium tonight to have their “services” auctioned off to the highest bidder for the benefit of the Denver Center for Crime Victims, they’ll already know what services they’re going to provide. These men are florists, computer repairmen,…
Lots of people think they can sing. As everyone knows, though, few of those people can actually sing — and honestly, you’re probably one of those people. Don’t believe it? Try making a recording of yourself and call us after your dreams are shattered. Luckily, singing is a skill just…
As everyone knows, Wednesday is the day that we bring you the best of our weird internetz world in the form of a compendium of whatever loosely related images we happen to come up with. “But wait,” you may say, “Wednesday was yesterday.” About that, my friend, you would be…
Genre fiction tends to get a bad rap, at least in the “serious” literary world, and perhaps it’s somewhat deserved: Genre novels often serve as rote exercises in telling the same story over and over again with a couple of different twists. But, as is the case with any type…
If a screening of oddball arthouse flicks hosted by a Mexican wrestler whose name means “Dog Bone” isn’t in your plans for this eve-ning, then drop what you’re doing, because what possible better plans could you have? The personality behind Hueso de Perro’s Grindhouse is intriguing enough: Tom Cross is…
People have short attention spans, notes Julie Rada, artistic director of the LIDA Project, and they’re getting shorter. So with its upcoming presentation of the original play Hot+Wax, LIDA is both banking on and betting against just that. “You could come and play nostalgic video games the whole time —…
Because we at Show and Tell are secretly sadists, when it came time to feature some Denver haunted houses for Halloween, we sent out the reporter most terrified of them to do it. This week found Maggie Moody loitering around the parking lot of The Asylum — and chickening out…
It was not a good day to get high. On a Wednesday afternoon, in a flurry of half-assed planning and with a pile of work accumulating on my desk back at the office like snow in a blizzard, I was on my way up to Central City for our All…
Of all the neighborhoods in Denver, Civic Center is probably the one, from a design standpoint, with the most character. From the classical Greco-Roman columns and domes of Civic Center Park to the jutting angles of the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building, there’s no neighborhood in Denver with quite Civic…
Tucker Max is living the dream. Since his early twenties, the author of Assholes Finish First has been getting blackout drunk, chasing women and generally indulging every hedonistic whim toward the end of compiling the stories of his wild and often shockingly hilarious exploits (one ends in him covered in…
Being an artist isn’t easy — particularly in these United States, it’s indicative of how we view our artists that the starving one is a far more common portrayal than the successful one. That’s something Deanna Miller, who runs the City of Aurora’s public art program, knows about as well…
Since time immemorial, it’s been a tradition of mega-stardom: Actors become musicians and musicians become actors. Less common, though, is the musician/actor-turned-writer — and probably for a good reason: Writing is hard and not very glamorous, and also, they only let you out of your cage once every three weeks…
Gay people are good at lots of things: getting a party on, for instance, or being stylish. But besides having a reputation for enthusiasm and panache, those good folks who favor their own gender are accomplished in a number of less well known areas as well, such as writing some…
