Google introduced a new way of filtering search results last week: By reading level. You type something in and it tells you how many results fall into one of levels. Fair enough: if you’re writing a research paper on sexual health or something, and thoughtful information would normally be impossibly…
As a public service to compulsive drinkers, on Mondays, we usually give you a breakdown of all the obscure holidays you could be celebrating that week. This week, however, there’s no need for that, because this week heralds the coming of the granddaddy of all holidays: Boxing Day, the Canadian…
This time of year, some things are meant to go together: mint and chocolate, Rudolph and Santa, Swallow Hill and spangles. Catch the belles of bump ‘n grind Orchid Mei, Violetta Volare, Tatianna TaTa, Fannie Spankings, and more at one of Denver’s least expected burlesque venues…
Aside for obvious problems with suspension of disbelief — how are we going to pretend Chris “The Birdman” Andersen is Santa when we already know he’s The Birdman? — hiring a celebrity to play Kris Kringle can create a slew of dissonance and mildly disturbing associations, particularly if that celebrity…
Oh, we’re only kids now, but someday we’re gonna be the guys that make ya laugh and cry and think that there’s a little stardust left on life’s dirty old pan. – Mickey Moran in Babes in Arms. Among young and emerging artists these days, the loudest complaint is against…
Any day now winter will settle and the city will be awash in snowmen (and women.) Mostly naked but for innuendo-laden lumps of coal, carrots, and maybe some boots, are these snowfolk baring too much? Unless we act, my friends, we’re complicit in this appalling state. Prepare for the coming…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning December 1, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve…
It’s kind of a ridiculous idea to remake/sequelize Tron, a movie that was, no joke, inspired at least in part by the early video game Pong. Ridiculous, that is, but canny. The original is beloved by nerds everywhere — and not without reason; the plot and special effects are hilariously…
Clued in by an elf at St. Nick’s — you know, that behemoth holiday nightmare superstore off of Santa Fe Drive where you can buy Broncos Christmas ornaments — my mission took me to PetsMart for a photo with Santa. First, I had to go home to round up my…
Looking to get your blood pumping this weekend? Any of these should do the trick: 1. Winter Dew Tour at Breckenridge. Breckenridge is hosting the Nike 6.0 Open this week to kick off the 3-stop Winter Dew Tour. There are prelims events all day today (see AlliSports.com for full schedule),…
It’s no accident that Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult is prominently referenced in To Die is Hard; though the title is clearly a reference to the Die Hard series, To Die is, like Naked Gun, a send-up of that genre, combining the deadpan puns and the silly fight…
As estranged family members start trickling into town this weekend for the holidays, chances are you’re looking for something to do to show off this great city. You’re probably also trying to do it on the cheap so you can save up for some awesome last minute gifts (or pay…
Artist Teddy O’Connor goes both ways: He works in three dimensions, creating mixed media assemblage works, but for the last couple of years, he’s also been hard at work making comic books infused with a funny, personal Teddy vision, about the lives of pyramids and other rarefied nonsense. “As an…
We’re all hearing a lot of talk this holiday season about shopping local and what it means to a community. But Talulah Jones shop owner Robin Lohre is doing more than that: Beginning December 1, Lohre will host a reception showcasing a different local artisan every night through Christmas Eve…
Yesterday, Portfolio.com informed us that we live in the 7th best city for retirement among cold weather climates. Today, we learned that DIA is the best North American airport, according to Business Traveler. This, obviously, is cause for excitement. Because these are comprehensive studies that produce objective results, people. As…
Denver fashion maven Brandi Shigley is all bounce and determination; even when she cries (yes, even the most cheerful people lose it once in awhile amid the trials of entrepreneurship: After vandals broke a window at Shigley’s Fashion Denver boutique and headquarters last week, Brandi admits that there were tears),…
Cora Vette (aka Reyna Von Vett) never knows what’ll come out of Santa’s mouth. “It’s usually dirty,” she says. “And then I yell at him, and then he goes to the bar and drinks. “Lecherous Mr. Claus,” she concludes. Burlycute veterans might remember an incarnation of Naughty Noel last year,…
To teach kids how to write, Metro Denver Promotions of Letters is letting adults show off how well they can spell — or letting them drunkenly embarrass themselves trying to slur through “renaissance.” Whatever the case, the MDPL’s monthly Adult Spelling Bee is a pretty genius concept, allowing grownup nerds…
Ravi Zupa is an unschooled artist. Yet he’s bright and searching and far from uneducated, and he surely channels an old soul; Ravi credits his mother, an art teacher, with providing him with artist tools and the freedom to do with them as he pleased while he was growing up…
Here’s a fun fact about Yogi Bear: Like many Hanna-Barbera characters, Yogi wore a collar — a corner-cutting trick that allowed animators to only draw the head in repeated frames, reducing the amount of drawings needed for an episode by more than 80 percent. That fact is sort of a…
Breckenridge is hosting the first stop of the Winter Dew Tour this week for the third year in a row, and the event’s Peak 8 festival village opens today. All of the main-event finals action will happen on Saturday and Sunday, but head up today anyway: The format for the…
When I was four years old, my family lived in Brazil, and we once took a trip into the rainforest for a family vacation. There were no paths or roads, and we moved from place to place via motorboat. Our guide told us about the massive snakes that lived in…
