In our self-involved culture, there are a lot of really sad things, but perhaps none sadder than the continued corruption of yoga as a spiritual discipline. First, there was pilates, in which we conveniently removed the gobblety-gook “religious” component and made it a workout for businesspeople on the go, like…
It’s probably the oldest form of printmaking, he notes, but multimedia artist Jacob Custer is using it in some unusual ways. Fresh off an MFA from Indiana University’s Herron School of Art, Custer is back in town with Introspected, a complex installation of what looks something like hallucinogen-induced trees with…
If you give the people a choice, apparently, the people will choose the most boring option — also, the people are evidently big fans of the deep south. In a completely precedented move, the city announced its pick for this years One Book, One Denver, and yet again, it’s a…
You’re Pacman. You live in a maze, and your only activity is to eat things: small white dots, the occasional larger white dot and, under the right circumstances, some vaguely squid-looking guys that want to kill you, but even after you eat them they keep coming back to life like…
There may be plenty to taste at the Downtown Denver Partnership’s 26th annual Taste of Colorado, but DDP spokeswoman Sarah Neumann promises there will be plenty to see, as well. ÅgItÅfs a spectacle,Åh she says. ÅgItÅfll be great people-watching.Åh Because the festival (which ends today) is expected to draw half…
If Heidi Montag’s recently “enhanced” body parts aren’t a family-friendly enough reason to explore her homeland (she’s a Crested Butte native), maybe a dose of good old-fashioned arts and crafts will do the trick. This weekend, the little mountain resort town once again puts on the Crested Butte People’s Fair,…
The Dollar Tree has nothing on the Denver Dumb Friends League, where cat lovers can take home an adorable kitty — complete with vaccinations, sterilizations, a microchip ID implant and fifteen days of free checkups — for a buck. In celebration of 100 years of finding homes for pets, the…
In response to a Denver Post story that suggested Dan Maes had fabricated a story about his past as a police officer, Maes spokesperson Nate Strauch told Westword’s Michael Roberts that “[Maes] never claimed he was a master spy.” That may be true, but over here at Show and Tell,…
To some extent, tabloid culture has pretty much always been about schadenfreude — or at least it has been since around 1974, when the National Enquirer revolutionized the industry by switching from a format of entirely making shit up to a formula of outrageous allegations at least partially based on…
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 Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who will destroy you with a phaser and then…
Probably the worst thing about The Family Circus (and there are a lot of really awful things about The Family Circus) is that it’s so damn easy to read. There you are, innocently going along reading the comics, and even though you’re trying your best to conscientiously avoid reading it,…
With a slogan like this — “We are anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us” — one wouldn’t really expect the group behind it to be the doer of good deeds. Then again, Anon isn’t really like any other group, in that it…
Although it has real-life applications, in PR circles, it’s a buzz-phrase: word of mouth. Because a corporation, like, say, NBC, can bombard you with all the advertising it wants — but what if it can actually make friends with you? Isn’t that more effective? And then, what if it can…
Speaking of Slip ‘n Slides, even the lame foam pillow that litigation forced on that awesome toy — because, oh, somebody got paralyzed — couldn’t save this kid from face-planting right into the grass, like the time my roommate tried to beer Slip ‘n Slide on the kitchen linoleum, except…
You’ve heard the expression, but chances are, you don’t know the story behind it. The words were those of George Gipp, perhaps the most legendary football player of all time, who played in the 1920s for Notre Dame under equally legendary coach Knute Rockne. Then again, maybe the words were…
We all know the more obvious reasons for their hawtness: They’re handsome, they’re ripped and, of course, they’re heroes. But aside from the valor and the glistening pectoral muscles, there are more subtle cues that attract us to firefighters — that much is scientific fact. And because we here at…
Michael “Lil Elvis” Segura’s first brush with fame came in the form of a bizarre crime. “I was on the London news,” he said, getting animated and pushing himself off the pink Cadillac he’d been leaning on. “They beat the hell out of me, but I survived.” It’s clear he’s…
For real: How awesome are grapes? Not only are they both round and delicious, they also figure prominently into the names of some semi-obscure cultural touchstones like Grape Ape and Moby Grape. Unlike, say, Reece’s Pieces, however, grapes are not generally good if you happen to find one — like…
Ironic cowboy shirts notwitstanding, I’m pretty much an irredeemable city boy — so much so that I’d never even been to a state fair before this weekend. Suffice it to say, then, that when I went to the Colorado State Fair on Saturday, I wanted the experience — besides strolling…
From the quiet menace of Dracula to the over-the-top animal gorefest of From Dusk till Dawn, the range of interpretations of the vampire theme is pretty endless. There is, however, one thing they must all share in common — and it’s the thing that makes them both scary and intriguing:…
It’s a good thing the explanation comes early: “We’re takers, gents; that’s what we do for a living,” some English guy says. And then, just in case we didn’t quite grasp it, Idris Elba helpfully elucidates: “We take.” With that out of the way, we can get down to the…
It started out according to plan. The joke was, you go to omegle.com, a chat site that pairs you in an instant message room with a “random stranger,” then you go to that site and basically prank-call said stranger by asking him or her where Waldo is. Hilarity ensues –…
