In a study this week destined to blow the mind of exactly nobody, researchers came today to a thoroughly non-startling conclusion: As reported by ShockMD (just take a second to savor the irony there), researchers compared people’s real-life traits to their behavior on Facebook and found that those with the…

In all honesty, I’m a sucker for portmanteaus. Having based my decision to go almost entirely on that I just think it’s funny to combine words with other words, I really had no idea what to expect going into Operapocalypse at the Boulder International Fringe Festival — and wasn’t quite…

In a bygone era, men with fedoras and skinny ties roamed the streets of Vegas, looking for action and engaging their classy vices. That era is mostly gone, but today, if only for a day, the Rocky Mountain Cigar Festival is bringing it back. “What can be expected is a…

Forget sculpture that moves – here’s sculpture that races. Back from a dark, sad two-year period when it lost its sponsorship and, consequently, its longtime home at the Boulder Reservoir, the Kinetic Sculpture Race returns to form today in its new home, at Union Reservoir in Longmont. “There was an…

If the closest thing you know to a foreign language is “Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto” and the last ethnic food you had was at Taco Bell, maybe it’s time for a refresher course. Get both in one place tonight at University College’s A Taste of Languages, annual modern languages gala…

It may be called improvisation, but there’s a method to the madness of this art form. As a matter of fact, there are a ton of possible methods, and exactly fourteen of them will be on display tonight at the Boulder Improv Collaborative’s Improv Sampler. “This show is actually very…

Because Wednesday is 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 bringing you one that isn’t exactly new, per se, and also isn’t entirely…

It wasn’t the first time I’ve needed a joke explained to me — it happens pretty much every time I accidentally read Marmaduke and end up feeling baffled and vaguely upset. But while I’m at this point accustomed to not getting the jokes of that zany Dane, I generally expect…

One needs only to examine the etymology to know the concept has been around a while –whether it actually exists or not, it’s guaranteed nobody will be watching Heidi Montag’s now-infamous but as yet unverified “sex tape” on VHS. Even so, since its inception in the camcorder age of the…

There’s no telling whether Al Stults Jr. was being straight or making a double entendre when he pointed at the chicken breasts and told a Safeway clerk he liked “the large ones,” but one thing is sure: When he got 86’d out of said Safeway, the situation became ridiculous. And…

The Bag Monster is a shameless ham. Speaking with an affected Cookie Monster rasp and standing in the midst of an installation of about 45,000 disposable plastic bags–the amount of bags one person will typically use in a lifetime–in Skyline Park, he’s not shy about confronting passers-by with his cause…

It’s Monday, and, like Garfield, you hate Mondays. And because the only thing that can cheer you up is either lasagna or a good chuckle at the misfortune of others, we’re bringing you yet another cat-related moment of lulz. In this one, we’re not so much laughing at any actual…

Like some kind of bizarre cross between Braveheart, the original Woodstock and the most flamboyant boot camp of all time, The Warrior Dash in Copper Mountain brings together 350 hyperactive children in adult bodies to don their best Agamemnon-wear, run a formidable obstacle course and get really, really muddy. It…

When I first moved to Denver 12 years ago, one of the best things about being a transplant to a new city was the process of discovery: Getting away from the big tourist destinations and digging into the nooks, crannies and far-flung neighborhoods, finding out the kinds of things you…

Besides having the unlikely ability to simultaneously engage in tennis and espionage, dispensing sage life advice to Theo and Rudy and and being a formidable expert in Jell-O, Bill Cosby knew a thing or two about kids saying the darndest things — but even old Cliff Huxtable might be surprised…

They are the weird little in-jokes of the Internet, phrases that for whatever reason get latched on to and paired with random images that make them hilarious. We’ve all seen them. Even for the casual, non-troll Internet surfer, memes pop up in the cultural consciousness and, if only for a…

The hit-and-run: It’s one of the harshest moves you can pull on somebody, and it’s one of the easiest to justify — you don’t know the guy you hit, after all, and in all honestly, you’re probably going to get away with it. And so while it’s always fun to…

This party could change your life. Bicycling magazine’s Biketown program has been giving away bikes to those who make a convincing case that a bike might alter their existence positively and then following up on the winners’ stories. Now, with help from Salvagetti bike shop, at 1611 Platte Street, and…

At the intersection where the ridiculous meets the sublime, where crappy B-media shlock becomes so awful it turns awesome, at that intersection resides Everything Is Terrible, a website run by a consortium of secretive nerds who cull the worst of our past culture from old VHS tapes and turn it…

When the media furor around Brandon Smith’s allegedly ripping off a dude’s finger while stealing an iPad died down, we assumed the lulz were over, and we were a little sad. Smith, however, has proved to be uncommonly obliging in that respect. In a letter sent from jail and easily…