Arts & Culture

If Heidi Montag’s recently “enhanced” body parts aren’t a family-friendly enough reason to explore her homeland (she’s a Crested Butte native), maybe a dose of good old-fashioned arts and crafts will do the trick. This weekend, the little mountain resort town once again puts on the Crested Butte People’s Fair,…

There may be plenty to taste at the Downtown Denver Partnership’s 26th annual Taste of Colorado, but DDP spokeswoman Sarah Neumann promises there will be plenty to see, as well. ÅgItÅfs a spectacle,Åh she says. ÅgItÅfll be great people-watching.Åh Because the festival (which ends today) is expected to draw half…

In response to a Denver Post story that suggested Dan Maes had fabricated a story about his past as a police officer, Maes spokesperson Nate Strauch told Westword’s Michael Roberts that “[Maes] never claimed he was a master spy.” That may be true, but over here at Show and Tell,…

To some extent, tabloid culture has pretty much always been about schadenfreude — or at least it has been since around 1974, when the National Enquirer revolutionized the industry by switching from a format of entirely making shit up to a formula of outrageous allegations at least partially based on…

​​Because it’s a slow news day, each Wednesday, we bring you the best of our weird internetz world in a collection of loosely related items about whatever topic we happen to come up with. Today, we bring you Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who will destroy you with a phaser and then…

The artist-outfitted pianos that the Downtown Denver Partnership placed on the 16th Street Mall last November were such a hit that ten of them returned this summer for a command performance. And while they were initially supposed to stay there just through June, the gig kept getting extended, and extended…

Times are hard these days and, like any worker, panhandlers are fighting in a fierce market for scant spare change. Yesterday’s “Anything will help. God bless you.” scrawled in marker on a limp piece of cardboard just isn’t cutting it anymore. Today’s enterprising hobos are fighting hard for throwaways from…

With a slogan like this — “We are anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us” — one wouldn’t really expect the group behind it to be the doer of good deeds. Then again, Anon isn’t really like any other group, in that it…

As a culture, we are accustomed to — and expect — the ad industry to push the envelope and bring us compelling new material to help us answer the really important questions in life, such as “which industrial-style cleaner made for domestic use will make me feel the most empowered?”…

Although it has real-life applications, in PR circles, it’s a buzz-phrase: word of mouth. Because a corporation, like, say, NBC, can bombard you with all the advertising it wants — but what if it can actually make friends with you? Isn’t that more effective? And then, what if it can…

The media of today is hard to keep up with — it comes from so many directions and in so many forms that it’s next to impossible to keep track of your favorite artists, let alone new ones. Because we’re devoted to your convenience, we’re going to pick five things…