The great thing about Thailand’s 2006 martial arts thriller, Kon fai bin — or Dynamite Warrior — is that it takes as much from American cinema as it does from Hong Kong. Besides being vaguely modeled after a high-noon Western flick, it also follows the American tradition of filling in…
Tom Morello, the virtuoso guitarist from Rage Against the Machine, has taken to calling himself the Nightwatchman and has been stealthily slipping in and out of coffee-shop open-mike nights. But don’t get your hopes up. With his new project, Morello leaves all of his prescience and talent behind in favor…
View a slide show of the entire adventure While in elementary school in Aurora, kids looked for any little thing to single out a kid and rip them apart over. Kids that got their shoes at Payless, for instance, were ripe for destruction. Only poor kids got shoes at Payless…
I will always remember having to sit through the annual orchestra concert for my middle school in Aurora, suffering the absolute worst renditions of old standards from Tchaikovsky and Mozart. For years afterward, that’s what I thought all symphony music sounded like. It took me a long time to get…
It’s been five years since Tran and Josh Wills took a look around and discovered that there was no outlet for sartorially creative souls — despite the overwhelming amount of talent and style in Denver. Enter the Fabric Lab, the Wills’s brainchild of a boutique that puts only local designers…
Upon finding out that The Private Life of Henry VIII was made in 1933, my roommate’s first reaction was “Dude, this is gonna suck.” I had higher hopes, thinking it would be kitschy, maybe, or at least slightly amusing because of the historical context. But good, probably not. How could…
Theta Naught’s website claims that the band’s musical mastery, the precise way it builds its subsonic rhythms and melodic interludes, actually stems from its “brilliant use of mathematical equations and sound declensions.” The bio goes on to paint a scintillatingly hyperbolic picture of the bandmate geniuses working on everything from…
Remember the days when your mom would come home from the store with a big pail of sidewalk chalk and you’d spend the afternoon on the driveway drawing pictures of circle-headed cats and playing hopscotch? Some people never really let go of that bucket of chalk. Find them in Larimer…
Admit it: You know you watch those crazies on TV juggling flaming chainsaws. The burning tools of death float and twist in the air, tossed up and down in a mesmerizing blaze. Deep down, you wish you were that marvelous stuntman, one slip away from losing your hand, one twitch…
mu-zjik n : 1. a Russian peasant. 2. The highest-scoring stand-alone word possible in SCRABBLE, earning the lexical leviathans who drop it 29 points, plus another fifty if they’re clearing their rack at the end of the game — and that’s without any of that sissy triple-word-count baloney. If you…
Are you feeling creatively suppressed? Confused about what the future holds for you? Do you have a sweet tooth you’re just dying to indulge? Sounds like you’re looking for Heaven on Earth — and lucky for you, local art-party queen Dana Cain is conjuring a perfectly divine event, tonight from…
