Leaving only a garage full of junk and a bizarre but increasingly distant memory, the Heene family, which made its name internationally notorious when father Richard told police and media outlets his son, Falcon, was missing and presumed to be high above the earth in a UFO-looking homemade weather balloon,…
There’s something about French people that’s just irritating. Over there up on their high horse in France or possibly Canada, putting on airs with their snooty “art” and “culture.” Even their weathermen are insufferable. Take the guy at right, for example, with his neatly trimmed George Micheal scruff, his eyes…
If you ever lived anywhere around Capitol Hill in the early-to-mid 2000s, you know the Black Leprechaun. Somewhere between four and five feet tall and generally sporting a green shirt with a shamrock on it, he’d come around while you were waiting for the bus or walking up to the…
The work week is draining. You get up in the morning and trudge to your job at the soul-disassembly factory with nothing to look forward to but your lunch break and a homeward commute that fills you with existential dread. But that’s almost over now. It’s Friday, and that means…
What do you get when you combine The Blair Witch Project and American Pie? The Virginity Hit, apparently. Because the world suffers from a distressing lack of coming-of-age comedies about adolescent boys engaging in all sorts of zany hijinks in the pursuit of getting laid for the first time, the…
When Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson set out on The Great Typo Hunt (the two wrote a book about it, and they’ll be in town tonight at 7:30 p.m. for a reading), they did it to give a small gift to the world: the gift of good writing. We were…
Earlier today, we brought you the results of a study that concluded that hipsters hate hipsters. In that vein, we’re bringing you “Hipster Hitler,” a relatively recent arrival on the web comic scene, which reimagines Der Fuhrer as a somewhat petulant, irony-obsessed fop existentially bored with his own quest for…
The Internet was abuzz today with news of Playboy’s apparently unprompted release of nude photos of Kim Kardashian from a 2007 photo shoot, which it put up this week on its creepily named “Cyber Club” website. Though the site is accessible to members only, which makes it even creepier, reports…
In recent times, a lot has been made of a newspaper market that seems to be slowly collapsing into itself — a prospect that hit home in Denver like a rock to the head when the Rocky Mountain News shut down last year (interestingly, you can still browse around the…
With the people’s boring choice of The Help for this year’s One Book, One Denver program selected, the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, which runs the program, is moving ahead today with the promotional push — but notably not with The Tattered Cover, certainly Denver’s flagship bookstore and arguably one…
Having graduated from the realm of horror movies to good family fun, a giant marmot descends on Chatfield today…in the form of a corn maze, of course. The shape of this year’s Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield’s Corn Maze is a tie-in to Digger the Marmot, the mascot of the…
Jeff Deck wanted to change the world. “I thought, ‘What am I good at?’” he says. “And I’m good at editing — I can spot a typo at 100 yards — so I decided to make a national campaign out of it.” With his partner, Benjamin Herson, in tow, Deck…
Things probably couldn’t get any weirder for consistently embattled matron of good taste Martha Stewart. After finally getting her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, back into the black after the universe-warping paradox of her stint in prison, Stewart is back under the microscope of justice, this time by a semi-obscure…
Since time immemorial, the Dollar Tree has been a one-stop destination for anyone who has one dollar and is looking to spend it quick — and you can get some surprisingly good stuff there. This week, though, all the way through Sunday, the Denver Dumb Friends League is giving the…
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 bring you “Gee, Bill, how come your mom lets you eat two wieners?” a…
Apparently inspired by General Larry Platt’s distaste for pants being on the ground, a small town in Platt’s home state of Georgia mandated today that its good citizens keep their pants pulled up to an appropriate height. Of course, Dublin, Georgia, mayor Phil Best didn’t explicitly acknowledge Platte: “We’ve gotten…
In a weird new twist on an already really bizarre scenario, Oksana Grigorieva, the estranged wife of Mel Gibson, asked a judge to reimburse her for $84,000 she claims she spent on a PR push to counter the public perception that she sold the infamous tapes of Gibson being racist…
Among the sea of hot, exposed flesh that is any summer festival, there are always a few who go the extra mile, those not content to simply bear arms and shins, who throw caution to the wind and doff their top layer of clothing entirely, as if to say, “I’m…
In the course of his adolescence, it’s a scientific fact that the average human male will do approximately 1,212,035 stupid things to impress women, approximately 1,212,032 of which will fail to impress anyone. Now, jumping into a pool isn’t necessarily a stupid thing. It’s when the overcompensation of an attempt…
It’s an American rite: For the last big fling of summer, you round up the kids, pack the car and head west toward a couple of days of freedom, get away from it all, breathe the fresh mountain air. At least, that’s what I expected when I set out for…
We all know the story: You go out into the world, seek your fortune, get rich and famous and return home to a parade in your honor that ends in the mayor presenting you with the key to the city. At least that’s what always happens to me. I’ve got…
There’s always that threshold, the line where culture becomes so awful that it somehow turns awesome — and that’s a hard line to force. The unwritten rule of things that are so bad they’re good is that they must be unintentionally awful; most of the time, things that are deliberately…
