Astrophagus rises again as Port Au Prince

Astrophagus unceremoniously ended its run this past September at Lost Lake. Bolstering the adage that you can’t keep good men down, we’ve learned that the Cain brothers, Jason and Josh, are about to resurface as Port Au Prince, with a little help from their friends Hunter Dragon on drums, Brian…

10 Things to do for $10 this weekend, November 19-22

Thanksgiving is just around the corner, which means many people are in store for one hell of a four day weekend. Before that happens we have to deal with one of these pesky two day weekends, or “the bane of Western society” as we like to call them. Two days…

How to get my job: Mixed Martial Arts Instructor

Bashing someone’s face in, locking their arms down, kicking them in the stomach — it’s all in a day’s work for a mixed martial artist. Of course, every fighter has to have a teacher to learn technique from, which is where Billy Hendricks, a former MMA fighter, comes in. As…

Martyred Unknown

Between 1955 and 1968, there were approximately 130 murder cases connected to the civil rights movement. These murders fascinate Jake Adam York, and in his newest collection of poems, Persons Unknown, he looks closely at the unknown and oftentimes forgotten voices of the movement. “It contributes to this ongoing series…

Stand and Deliver

Improvisational comedy is a risky business — both for the performers, who must create art on the spot, and the audiences, who some-times must suffer through skits that fall flat. But that won’t be a concern when the Upright Citizen’s Brigade brings its zany antics to town tonight. The UCB’s…

Excellent, Mr. Holmes

More than a hundred years after his first appearance, fans and writers are still compelled to study and perform the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and his resolute sidekick, Dr. Watson. It’s this very hunger for mystery that brought about Sherlock Holmes and the Spinsters of Blackmead, an original new play…

Browser game of the week: Corporation Inc

It turns out running a business is hard. Like, a real pain in the ass. All the annoying employees wanting food and water and janitors and whatnot. If you’ve been contemplating opening up your own business, or if you already own one but for some reason want to pretend like…

Steve Katz on mythology, memory and mining

Recently, there have been a slew of ill-advised memoirs from people far too young and inexperienced to share their stories with the world. Steve Katz doesn’t have that problem. The 75-year-old Denver author started writing his memoir five years ago, and it has since become a collection of over 100…

Warlock Pinchers DVD due out next month

We first got a glimpse of the upcoming Warlock Pinchers film a few months ago. At the time, we weren’t entirely certain when it would arrive. Now we know: Just in time for the Warlock Pinchers New Year’s Eve show at the Gothic Theatre, Eyeosaur Productions is slated to release…

Time Bandit

“As I came out of the womb, my father handed me a pencil, and I’ve been writing ever since,” says local author Steve Katz, whose new book, Time’s Wallet celebrates its release today. The book is the first part of a memoir that will end up spanning two or three…

A rundown of Kanye West’s wonkiest moments

Kanye has gotten a lot of flack for doing some absolutely wonky things. Most recently, a photo of his junk mysteriously appeared on the Internet, followed by word that he copped the microphone on a Delta flight last week to perform for the cabin, and last night, he evidently had…