Songwriters, like many creative types, often need to embark on challenges they create for themselves. Singer Jenna Herbst, for instance, has challenged herself to write, record and distribute a song a week for the next two months. The songs, which will be sent out via an email list will be…
Finally, November is here, and if the rent and bills are paid up, you may have a little extra cash to spend on miscellaneous nonsense. Thankfully, we have plenty of it, with the especially exciting The Geek Dad Book for Aspiring Mad Scientists providing a whole slew of fun experiments…
We’re slowly getting to the point where music apps are bridging the gap between useful and cool. While plenty allow you to share music from device to device, others, such as the Central Park app, gives you a soundtrack to stroll around Central Park to, should you need one. Overall,…
This weekend is all about one thing: Halloween. While there are a couple things you can do without stretching your costume muscles, nearly all of the events happening are related to Halloween in some way. If you don’t like the holiday, you best hit up the video store and stock…
The popular (and Denver loving) music website, Daytrotter has announced a switch from its previously free-to-download model to a paid, subscription based service. It’s not the first time the site has toyed with paid services; last year, it introduced high-quality paid downloads, but now it’s moving toward a purely paid…
Being a haunted house actor is a real niche job and one with a fairly short season. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy, says Mythica von Griffyn. In fact, acting in a haunted house takes a lot of work, with make-up, costuming and the constant need to frighten people for…
The Protect IP Bill (S. 968), which was introduced back in May, was delayed after Sen. Ron Wyden argued it might infringe on free speech. While it appears that bill has been halted for the moment, it has been replaced with a similar one, The Stop Online Piracy Act (aka…
George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead was the catalyst for the zombie explosion, and to honor its pedigree, the Bug Theatre and Paper Cat Films have re-created it for the last four years as a hybrid stage-and-film performance. Since the film is public domain, they’ve tweaked a few…
The tiger has been acting a little strange lately, but so has the bear. In fact, neither of these characters, or any other cereal-promoting mascot, can be ruled out in the murder of the much-loved Tasty Flakes Rabbit, and it’s going to be up to you and a team of…
Building dioramas is a time-honored tradition for kids of all ages, but as the dioramas get more complex, some of those kids lose sight of how to make them. Today and tomorrow at the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys, children will have a chance to learn how to…
Sometimes it’s the simplest things that tug on our play-strings. Kenta Cho’s SIN CAR does just that by providing an incredibly simple but impossible-to-resist premise that makes it incredibly difficult to walk away from the mouse for even just a few minutes. The basics are easy to grasp: you control…
Audioloom, the recording studio that Brian Gerhard, Christopher Shumake and Greg Nichols have been building at 3430 Lawrence Street is nearly finished. A non-profit venture, the studio was established with the goal of giving Denver artists a place to record for nothing more than a donation. Although the project is…
With too many solid book releases to count this week, picking just a few was difficult. But with a biography on the recently deceased Steve Jobs, a new novel from Haruki Murakami, and a special re-release of a children’s classic, there should be something for everyone. We also have a…
If you’ve ever thought yourself a worthy successor to the Magic Cyclops throne, this Halloween might be your chance to give it shot for a day. For $15, you can order the official Magic Cyclops costume kit, which comes complete with sunglasses, a custom screened headband, fake British accent and…
One thing promoters often struggle with is trying to figure out how many T-shirts they’ll need for their event. Whether it’s a fun run, a marathon or a block party, tallying up the numbers can be a difficult process. Troy’s Custom Tees’ Troy De Baca hopes to solve that problem…
The Grawlix comedy show has been selling out the Avenue Theater since it launched (it runs the last Friday of every month), so we figured it was time to catch up with one of the founding members, Andrew Orvedahl to talk about the history the show and its future, including…
Tamed Animals’ Dan Barnett has been incredibly busy kicking out an album every month since July. His latest, Return to the Sun, is as haunting as it is beautiful and offers the perfect mix of harsh noise, chaos and soft beats, making it the perfect Halloween accompaniment…
In 2009, a class action lawsuit was filed against Ticketmaster by ticket buyers who were automatically redirected by Ticketmaster to TicketsNow.com, a reseller charging prices above face value. Between 2008 and 2009, ticket buyers across the country purchasing tickets for shows by acts like Bruce Springsteen, Miley Cyrus and Radiohead,…
This weekend is all about spooky running and walking, apparently — with both Scream Scram and the Zombie Crawl lighting up the 16th Street Mall with masked, athletic nuts. If that’s not really your thing, don’t worry, because we’ve also got some good old fashioned comedy, shopping, art shows and…
It takes a certain type of person to step into an alligator pen or to play with a giant snake, but Jay Young of Colorado Gators Reptile Park in Mosca does just that, every single day. We caught up with him to see if our fantasies of living in reptile…
Audio Visual Violence Club have just released its interpretation of Snake Rattle Rattle Snake’s “Like A Moth,” from its debut full-length, Sineater. In traditional AVVC style, the video takes footage from older films — in this case, George Kuchar’s Hold Me While I’m Naked and Storm de Hirsch’s Peyote Queen…
There’s no better event in Colorado to pick up bicycle parts of all shapes and sizes than the annual VeloSwap. The bicycle sale consistently brings in visitors looking for a deal, and with more than forty vendors on hand, it makes finding the best bargains an Indiana Jones-inspired archeological dig…
