Somehow, the joke snowballed out of control. We were in a meeting, talking about Art from Ashes’ “Running of the Gays,” a hilarious transsexual charity event to benefit The Center’s Rainbow Alley, and I said I would go to report on it. “Shit,” I cracked, “I might even run in…
Never before has a coupon led to so many dick jokes. As one of the party favors at this week’s Dish, Tony’s Market, the excellent shop and bistro across the street from our office, offered 10 percent off coupons — at the top of which was this cryptic phrase: “Gift…
When we interviewed Mondo Guerra back in July, just in time for the premiere of Project Runway and before an episode had even been aired, we already knew he was going to do well: Just from the designer profiles, it was clear that Mondo was far and away the weirdest,…
If your response to the question above was not “yeah. Hell yeah!” then you are a sad soul, my friend, and your dreams have died. Because if the idea of gators in the mountains doesn’t capture your imagination, pry its toothsome jaws open and wrestle it to the ground like…
Women are catty. Every time they go out, it’s like they’re all like, “Girl, don’t even,” and then the other one’s like “WTF did you just say to me?” and then they ineffectually slap each other until they comically fall into a pool. Even when women appear to be cool…
Time flies, doesn’t it? It seems like every year, Halloween is once again upon us with more ways to dress up as a slutty animal, profession or mythical creature than ever. Slutty minotaur? Why not? Slutty zombie? Somebody’s got you covered. But as cutting-edge as slutty things can be, there…
It speaks to the popularity of the 16th Street Mall pianos that, on my way down to see 91-year-old ivory-tickler Lenore Frederick’s informal piano send-off, I passed a high school girl pounding out a Rihanna song a block away — by most accounts, the second-hand outdoor uprights have been an…
It’s no secret that the interwebs hate Justin Bieber — after all, it was basically 4chan (really NSFW, that link) that sent the phrase “Justin Bieber syphilis” to the top of Google searches a couple of months ago. The hate is understandable, perhaps, or at least predictable. However good Bieber…
When you go through all the trouble of writing a book — and perhaps you don’t have any illusions of grandeur about being the next James Joyce or anything, but even a just-okay book requires an enormous amount of creative energy and personal investment — it must be tough when…
Sometimes it’s funny to put things where they don’t belong — like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop, or George W. Bush in the White House. That absurdist dissonance is the guiding principle behind MisCast, Paragon Theatre’s annual fundraiser and sendup show. The idea originally came from Nextstage, a now-defunct Denver…
He was a visionary. He was a lightning rod for controversy. He was bigger than Jesus. He was John Lennon, and although his life has been examined in countless books and films, few of those have focused in-depth on his formative years — the subject matter of the biopic Nowhere…
Andrew Lloyd Webber may be famous for the elaborate, but Rod Lansberry, director of the Arvada Center’s regional premiere of Webber’s Sunset Boulevard, thinks he can do the play one better. “Webber productions tend to be spectacles,” he says, acknowledging that, as a regional theater, the Center doesn’t exactly have…
It was only a matter of time before The Daily Show and company got on the Glenn Beck bandwagon — really, Beck’s “Rally to Restore Honor,” pompously delivered from the same place and on the same day as Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, “I Have a Dream” speech, was too bloated…
Sizzle the cat — so named by his rescuers from the Fourmile Canyon fire possibly because his serious burns made them think of fajita meat — became notable this week for being the last pet found in the fire and not reunited with his owner. Now, he’s been claimed –…
Because it’s a slow news day, each Wednesday, we bring you the best of our weird internetz world in a collection of loosely related items about whatever topic we happen to come up with. Today, we’re thinking about robots, and the inevitable destruction they will one day visit upon human…
Paul Feldman sold bagels on the honor system: Each day, he’d leave a box of bagels at an office with a sign with the price of the bagels, and then come back later and collect the money and the leftovers, all the while keeping painstakingly thorough data on the payment…
There is only one real rule in life: When things are free, you must take them. And so it is with the Denver Film Society’s free presentation of Far From Heaven tonight at the Starz FilmCenter (900 Auraria Parkway) at 6:30 p.m., which the society brings to you as a…
Last week, we told you about the Seven Best TV shows set in Colorado. And, indeed, there are some awesome movies and shows set in our glorious home state. Unfortunately, though, Hollywood is often more content just to talk about Colorado than to actually come over here; Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation…
As if Farmville and Mafia Wars weren’t bad enough, somebody’s evidently figured out a new way to harvest your personal information and annoyingly auto-update your status, and it is called “OMG! Look What happens when FATHER catches DAUGHTER on her WEBCAM!” I’ll admit: I was intrigued enough to click on…
You are waiting to die. You have no friends, you live in a shed behind your sister’s house and your most productive activity each day is when you eat a whole bucket of fried chicken before you cry yourself to sleep, whereupon the next day you wake up and resume…
Denver’s always a pretty beery town, but it got even beerier than usual this weekend with the unholy convergence of both Oktoberfest and The Great American Beer Festival. At any festival (or festivals) where the object of the game is to get as wasted as possible on one-ounce servings, there’s…
The heat might not indicate it, but fall is coming — and with the fall, the American tradition of, for whatever reason, celebrating things that are vaguely Germanic-seeming — things like lagers, sausages and oompah-music. And though it might be alleged the brass section lacked a certain degree of oompah…
