Somewhere around the second or third time you watch “More Cowbell” — possibly the greatest role of Christopher Walken’s career — you will notice it: Jimmy Fallon, filling out a non-role as the drummer in the background, flubbing his one line and spending the whole time trying not to crack…
Matt Stone and Trey Parker clearly aren’t keen on letting people produce Cannibal! The Musical, the first project they worked on together back when they were at the University of Colorado in 1993 — but apparently if the offer’s right, they’re not totally opposed to it, either. “It’s interesting,” says…
It’s nearly Thanksgiving, and since gratitude is for the weak, I’m thankful this year for one thing and one thing only: imminent victory. As we move into the fourth week of Movember, that great month during which brave men attempt to eradicate cancer by growing mustaches (thus raising awareness, which…
Ah, Thanksgiving, when we gather together to give thanks for that handful of well-meaning but unbelievably misguided Native Americans who fed our ancestors through the harsh winter so that our ancestors could later slaughter them and destroy their culture by engaging in the traditional gluttonous excess for which they paved…
Welp, they finally did it: The three previous installments of the glittering, love-declaring, torn-between-two-monster-lovers Twilight series have basically been one massive buildup to the moment when Edward gives Bella the vamp-boner, and today it finally happened. Luckily, that carnal union is sanctified by the Lord. Which is a little weird,…
After last week’s slow start, I’m pleased to report that, as we enter the second half of Movember, my mustache is downright glorious — by the Westword team of crack scientists’ last estimate, it now effects the death of tens of thousands of cancerous cells hourly. But while the mustache-fueled…
Their birthplace was discovered in 1978, when a ten-year-old boy name Xavier Roberts followed a BunnyBee behind a waterfall into a magical valley. There he found them being born and promptly rescued them from the clutches of an evil hag with a jackrabbit henchman who wished to enslave them in…
Ever since he attained cinematic immortality with a moving performance as Ranger Jones in last year’s live-action adaptation of Yogi Bear, T.J. Miller has been pretty much the greatest thing to come out of Denver ever. But the best part is, he loves us back: Six months ago, the East…
If you happen to find yourself in Barnum and you don’t live there, chances are you’re lost. And not just because it’s not a neighborhood that lends itself to being found — find one of two streets that make their way down through the gulch, around the curve, back up…
October 4, 1957: a dark day for America, the day the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite ever to orbit Earth. It was the first milestone of the USA vs. USSR space race, and we totally blew it. But we didn’t let it get us down. On the…
In the slew of also-ran movies released during the cinematic abyss of February this year, you might have missed Drive Angry, a nu-metal and semen-drenched muscle-car flick starring Nic Cage as a leather-jacket-clad badass named John Milton who (wait for it) escapes from Hell to save his granddaughter from some…
When Carlos Fresquez teaches young children about Día de los Muertos, the day of the dead, he has a strategy for making the skeletal imagery not so scary: “I would just say, hey, knock on your head. There’s a bone in there. You yourself are a skeleton. And when you…
For every parent out there worried about pedophilia, Doug Stanhope offers a reassurance: In all likelihood, nobody wants to fuck your kid. That bit is up there on the list of incredibly offensive Stanhope material, but it’s by no means all there is; over the course of his twenty-year career,…
Grant Israel and Cole Rudy have been playing together for a long time — over eight years, in fact — and the intricate guitar interplay they’ve developed together over the years was a focal point of this week’s feature on Kitezh, their most recent project together, which releases its first…
The Mexican Día de los Muertos tradition dates back a thousand years, to the time of the Aztecs. But what really popularized the Day of the Dead, says Carlos Fresquez, Metro State art professor and juror of tonight’s Day of the Dead Art Show, was artist José Guadalupe Posada. “He…
There’s almost always a heckler at Doug Stanhope’s show. Even for fans who are paying customers, Stanhope’s casually incendiary material — like his endorsement of the Internet as a playground for pedophiles (better that than an actual playground) or his acknowledgment that he’d really rather that certain soldiers didn’t come…
On the home stretch of the drive from Denver to Pittsburgh, you cut at one point through the West Virginia panhandle, a roughly ten-mile stretch of winding Appalachian interstate. It’s one of the prettiest sections of the whole trip, and it also provides the setting for one-half of my exactly…
In February 2006, Cole Rudy was pulling an epic guitar-god move at the Climax Lounge during an opening set for To Be Eaten, with his leg up on the monitor — head tossed back and everything — when the thing came loose and crumpled him like a cheap suit. “I…
Everyone knows that, aside from being the greatest of facial accoutrements, the mustache serves several versatile and important societal functions — it’s great for saving small amounts of food, for example, and it’s incredibly sexy — but did you know that the mustache can also cure cancer? That’s the idea…
PAUL SIMON at 1STBANK CENTER | 10/26/2011It was not late in the evening when Paul Simon began to play. It was exactly 8:22 p.m., in fact — and it’s interesting to note that, when he penned the story of his journey as a musician in that song more than thirty…
Take a second to imagine Edgar Allan Poe’s chamber, at whose door the Raven so famously tapped, and chances are what you’re picturing looks a lot like the Byers-Evans House. “The setting couldn’t be more perfect,” says Maggie Stillman, executive producer of the Byers-Evans House Theatre Company, which tonight hosts…
It was a pretty sweet score for film students at the University of Colorado at Boulder when the program landed Alex Cox, acclaimed director of such indie-punk staples as Sid & Nancy and Three Businessmen, to teach screenwriting and film production. Luckily for everyone else, CU’s International Film Series is…
