Jim McTurnan does not seem like someone who would put out an album called Joie de Vivre. McTurnan is just not the type you usually find espousing the joy of living. Cat-A-Tac, his previous band, was a consciously dour affair, and McTurnan spent some formative years living in England, where…
There is no Mardi Gras parade in Denver, but you don’t have to trek all the way to our nation’s Francophone capitals (namely St. Louis and New Orleans) for some marching madness tomorrow. CarniVail, which started yesterday and goes through the end of the week, hits the streets of Vail…
John Kasaona has helped pioneer a dramatic revival of wild lands in his native Nambia through a program called Integrated Rural Development and Nature Conservation (IRDNC), where members of rural communities, including former poachers, have been handed the mantle of protecting the wildlife on their lands by the government. Kasaona…
Like every other athletic team in America, the Nuggets have plenty of fan tribute remixes of Wiz Khalifa’s unlikely jock jam “Black and Yellow.” Sports, in general, attracts some truly horrific rap remixes, and this song has seen some real abuse in the ill-advised hands of fans. There are, however,…
Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah is now open at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and if you are like us, it has awakened a deep desire to live our lives as pirates, right here in Denver. This can be a challenge, given that we are…
The season of Catholic holidays re-appropriated as excuses to paint your face and get hammered is upon us! Tomorrow is Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday for you non-French speakers. But we say leave the Gras to the French — what do we need that for when we’ve got Middle Name…
The BYU men’s basketball team was one of the best four in the country until last week, when forward Brandon Davies had consensual sex with his girlfriend. He’s been dismissed from the team, and they are likely no longer a title contendor. At most colleges, the repercussions for premarital sex…
Lil Wayne’s delayed “6 Foot 7 Foot” video leaked and subsequently premiered yesterday. If you haven’t seen it yet, let’s just say director Hype Williams has outdone himself. He uses Inception as a jumping-off point, and in doing so, “6 Foot 7 Foot” joins a long list of music videos…
Hulu’s latest thematic bundling of its online TV content takes the form of a bracket trying to determine the best show on TV. It’s a great idea, generally, but it depends on fan voting. So, get excited for the finals showdown between Glee and Modern Family. As with all brackets,…
Adele, the soulful British pop diva who’s had this coming for a long time, has the first blockbuster album of 2011 with 21. She’s atop the Billboard charts this week, having sold 350,000-odd copies. This is a welcome development no matter how you look at it: Take a tour through…
For nineteen years, the Denver Record Collectors Spring Expo, put on by Big K Productions, has been one of the best places to cross off the obscure end of your music wish list. As more and more physical media becomes collectors’ items rather than the only way to listen to…
The Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Life programming has been going off without a Hitch — until now. The current film series focuses on the rarely seen movies of Alfred Hitchcock; tonight’s screening of Marnie is the last in a lineup that’s included The Wrong Man, Foreign Correspondent and Life…
It’s Only Blood, the debut release from six familiar faces led by Stuart Confer, is about apathy. All four songs address not feeling when you should, and let’s just say the perspective isn’t exactly hindsight. The title track starts the seven-inch out quietly, building to a pop about halfway through…
Today is the 107th anniversary of Dr. Seuss’s birth. It is marked with National Read Across America Day, which happens each year to promote literacy and remember one of the greatest children’s authors of all time. And he was a great children’s author, no matter how you look at it:…
Music streaming services look more and more like they’ll eventually do to MP3s what MP3s did to CDs, and what CDs did to tapes, and so on. We’re still a long way from a paradigm shift, but as the popular European streaming service Spotify makes headway in its mission to…
The most rock and roll cellist in Denver has released a new song titled “The Race.” Ian Cooke, in conjunction with producer/manager/guitarist Ian O’Dougherty, also released all twelve parts of the song as separate tracks, and they’re inviting you to “Play, Record, Manipulate, Mix, Remix” at your leisure. “We’ve been…
In contrast to the deafening blog-shouting that accompanied the Cold War Kids’ 2006 debut, this year’s release of their third LP, Mine Is Yours, prompted little more than a squeak. Now largely dismissed as simpering riders of a long-since-crashed wave of toothless indie pop, the Kids are getting older and…
Last night, Hollywood engaged in its yearly back-pat, bestowing little gold statues on those who brought the greatest dignity to the big screen last year. Amidst all that pomp and circumstance, it can be easy to forget that, as amazing as Natalie Portman was in Black Swan, she was also…
JLo couldn’t handle the dream crushing on last week’s American Idol. Apparently, she was under the impression that this show consisted of judges telling people how inspiring their life stories are. She shed some tears and questioned her future on the show, but despite the manufactured drama, something told us…
Charlie Sheen went on the radio and said some absurd things yesterday. Maybe you’ve heard. He really sailed off into crazy land this time, calling Thomas Jefferson a pussy and making some incoherent analogies involving him in his underwear strafing all his haters early in the morning. And frankly, the…
It’s been a big week in the inexcusable career resurgence of Chris Brown. Rihanna allowed her restraining order against him to be eased. Apparently someone sitting on some unreleased photos of the damage Brown inflicted on his former girlfriend thought this would be a good opportunity to share them; they…
Apple introduced its Facetalk app in the computer App Store today, charging $0.99 for it’s video chat platform. Google, meanwhile, is in the midst of a contest where users create video demos of the company’s apps and users vote on the winners. Both companies continue to stride into overlapping territory…
