With summer beginning to wind down and the very real possibility for an apocalypse of zombie, alien, man-made, religious, nature, cat or other proportions around every corner, we decided it was a good time to have a chat with a real-life survival instructor. While we’ve got most of our survival…
Thomas W. Benton’s posters have been commonplace in the city of Aspen over the years Benton lived there, but when the artist passed away in 2007, some worried the work would never reach the broad audience it deserved. Much of his art has never left the city and most of…
In a completely unsurprising move, Walmart has announced plans to shutter the doors of its MP3 store. The most stunning part about this news is learning that Walmart actually had an MP3 store to begin with. Word of its demise comes via a leaked memo over at Digital Music News,…
Tomorrow evening brings the final entry in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s Sci-Fi Film Series at the Phipps Theater, with Gattaca closing the sequence out with a biological bang. As we have been doing lately, we caught up with the DMNS’ Curator and Department Chair of Health Sciences…
We’ve grown to expect offbeat videos from Pictureplane over the years, but the just-released video for “Negative Slave” officially takes the cake as one of the most subtle yet oddly unsettling videos in his repertoire. While it’s full of insidious and easy-to-miss oddness, if you pay close attention, you’ll possibly…
Somewhat legendary Donkey Kong master and documentary film subject Steve Wiebe has dedicated all of his free time over the last several years to playing competitive Donkey Kong. He was the primary subject of the 2007 documentary, King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and has flirted with having the…
As smartphones have opened the door to amazing mobile applications, the sheer amount of them being released makes it difficult to keep up with the best of them. So to help filter though all of it, we take a look at the best and tally them up here. This round,…
For some bizarre reason, Jay-Z and Kanye West have decided to make their upcoming Watch the Throne collaboration available to two of the biggest retailers in the country, Best Buy and iTunes, for a pair of exclusive promotions. Starting August 8, the album will be available in iTunes, followed by…
It’s the beginning of August, which also means it’s the start of the end of summer. In just a few short months we’ll all be hunkering inside complaining about how cold it is, completely forgetting that just a few months prior we were doing the same thing, complaining about how…
This Friday, August 5, Charly “The City Mouse” Fasano will be celebrating the release of his new book, Next Analog Broadcast at Fast Geek Boutique (321 West 11th Ave.). The book, released by Sunny Outside, is a small, 56 page collection of Fasano’s storytelling poems, which he’s been performing live…
While the U.S. has been floundering a bit with its copyright law, the British government has just announced its plans to reform and update its own. Its certainly not the most important issue facing the U.S. government right now, but it was a platform during President Obama’s campaign and remains…
It’s no secret the majority of games are about killing things. Soul Tax, a game created by Jarod Long, Lauren Careccia, Devin Presbury and Brad Snyder for the Something Awful Game Dev VI competition is no different, but instead of tasking you with grabbing a gun and unloading into an…
It seems to be nothing but good news for Turntable.fm. Hot on the heels of snagging licensing deals with BMI and ASCAP, the music-sharing service is closing a $7.5 million deal with Union Square Ventures, bringing Turntable’s value up to somewhere around $37.5 million. That’s not all, Business Insider is…
The Internet age just got a little weirder. One of Denver’s most prolific musicians, Tommy Metz (AKA Iuengliss), decided his 2010 album, Blossom Frontier, wasn’t up to snuff, so he pulled it, remixed it, re-mastered it and redid the artwork. He even renamed it Frontier, which we’re pretty sure is…
In honor of MTV’s 30th Anniversary this week, we’re reflecting on the network’s best moments from the past three decades. Today: Our favorite music videos riffed on by Beavis and Butt-head. The duo tackled something around 250 different videos throughout the show’s eight seasons, and although it’s coming back, the…
We have reached the absolute lull of the summer as far as new releases are concerned. But while nothing coming out on DVD this week appealed to us, we did manage to track down a few books, games and comics that should provide some nice indoor entertainment while everyone else…
Apparently it’s the summer of Sole, because the dude is just not letting up. With Hello Cruel Worldjust released earlier this month, we missed the Nuclear Winter Volume 2 mix tape, which is available as a free download from Circle Into Square. All you need is an email address and…
The Sci-Fi Film Series is getting down to its final two weeks, and this Wednesday, they’ll be showing one of our favorites, Moon, at 7 p.m. at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. The purpose of the series is pretty simple: show off some great science fiction movies and provide an intellectual introduction…
For a limited time, Joshua Trinidad’s debut EP, Weighing in for Pole Vaulting is a free download over on Bandcamp. Trinidad’s trumpet has made appearances with the likes of Paul Riola, Ron Miles, Astrophagus and plenty others. And while his pedigree has been diverse, Trinadad takes a turn for the…
As this time of year generally tends to be, July was a heck of a month for concerts with Tech N9NE, The Avett Brothers, Soundgarden, Umphrey’s McGee, Katy Perry and plenty more gracing the stages. We’ve got so many photos, it might be hard to sift through them all, but…
This week, Facebook claimed the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind, which features a baby and his hanging do-dad, violated its terms of use when it was displayed on the official Nirvana fan page. The social networking site later reversed its decision, but it can only be assumed it was initially due…
Rent is due on Monday, which means unless you’re some type of money-saving wizard, you’re probably a little short on cash this week. Don’t worry, though: There is a ton of stuff to do this weekend for under ten bucks, including the Denver County Fair, which all on its own…
