For most folks, Halloween is a time to get dressed up as some sort of slutty occupation, gorge on candy and begin the period of “winter obesity” traditional in these United States. But for others — specifically our nation’s often marginalized undead population — Halloween is a time for their…

It’s the major holidays that get all the love — Christmas, Halloween, the Fourth of July — but if you’re anything like us, and you need a good reason to shut up everyone who keeps telling you to “stop drinking in the morning,” you need more stuff to celebrate. To…

Maybe it’s all those tuxedos they have to buy everybody, but the symphony is expensive. Which is a shame, because it just reinforces classical music’s reputation as something reserved for rich people who wear top-hats and monocles, an exclusive party regular folks aren’t invited to. That’s not the case for…

Everyone gets angry sometimes. Some people pout. Other people yell. Still others employ the old “walk-into-an-art-museum-and-destroy-the-offending-art-with-a-crowbar” strategy. The ways people deal with their anger are myriad, and they range from the constructive to the bizarre. Falling into the latter category is the star of today’s moment of schadenfreude, who, after…

All you’re life, you’ve been waiting for someone to recognize you for your freakish ability to cram an insane amount of tennis balls in your mouth. This weekend, my friend, that ship comes in. Tomorrow through Sunday, America’s Got Talent, the Simon Cowell-produced series that takes all the weird and…

After pulling out a hat trick on the last few episodes with three consecutive wins, Mondo landed in the top three on this week’s episode of Project Runway — but if he didn’t come out on top this week, it’s perhaps understandable. From the beginning, the odds came out stacked…

Halloween is almost here, and you know what that means: that Christmas is also almost here — or at least close enough for the most ambitious retailers to start monkey-flinging porducts at us like so much feces. It’s just that, with most retailers, the products they’re chucking at us don’t…

It’s always nice to see filmmakers getting ambitious. In simultaneous homage to and dissection of the conventions and mores that make a genre what it is, these bold artists challenge our assumptions as viewers — and our expectations. Take Anton Corbijn’s excellent The American, a thriller in which almost nothing…

In the perpetual war of religious zealots against art they’ve formed outraged opinions about without any actual information, there are always three main arguments: 1. It’s not art, it’s smut. 2. Our tax dollars shouldn’t be funding this. 3. What if our kids saw it? In terms of stoking the…

For as long as she can remember, Paula Poundstone has had a really short attention span. It was when she figured out she could use that to her advantage that she really took off. “When I first started doing open-mike nights in ’79, I’d spend days memorizing my jokes,” she…

Rick Gold is having a party on a train, and he challenges you to be so cool: “It usually takes about two to three years for stuff on the coast to seep into the interior, so to speak,” he says. “But Denver’s becoming pretty hip and cool. I wonder if…

Skulls and dead people might seem pretty spooky, and the two days of celebration might come fairly close together, but Halloween and Day of the Dead aren’t the same thing. Both tie in, to some extent, to the Catholic All Saints’ Day on November 1, but whereas Halloween is a…

It takes a certain amount of finesse to make a career out of cavorting around in a blue Lycra bunny suit. If there’s evidence that it can be done, though, it’s Scotty the Blue Bunny, whose flaming, hyperactive act is eclectic, always eccentric, and very hard to pigeonhole. Here’s how…

Tucker Max is an asshole. He’ll tell you himself. “I do stuff that’s messed up,” he says. “Sometimes I even know it’s messed up while I’m doing it. The last thing I would ever say is that all my actions are defensible. They’re not.” A former honors student and graduate…

In celebration of 100 years of being an auditorium, the Macky Auditorium at CU-Boulder will unveil on Friday at 4 p.m. a time capsule that was buried at the time of construction exactly 100 years to the day before. In an interesting twist, CU officials were able to surmise from…

There are a lot of great jazz musicians in Denver, but perhaps none so acclaimed as trumpeter Ron Miles. Internationally noted for inventive compositions that stay well enough within the bounds of convention not to alienate, Miles also boasts considerable chops as an arranger (his credits include an adaptation of…