The hit-and-run: It’s one of the harshest moves you can pull on somebody, and it’s one of the easiest to justify — you don’t know the guy you hit, after all, and in all honestly, you’re probably going to get away with it. And so while it’s always fun to…
There are many jobs in this world. Some are so bizarre you probably don’t know they exist; some you might have had no idea people actually make a living at. In an effort to highlight some of these jobs we’ve started a new series detailing the origins of people actually…
“It’s a ring on a string. That’s it,” says bartender Samantha Pirrallo. And yet, groups of people come from all over Denver to the Bannock Street Garage just to play it. Sometimes it’s the little things in life that matter…
Forget testing your mental mettle against grade-school kids. For a real challenge, head to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science’s Science Lounge for tonight’s Are You Smarter Than a Scientist? Even if you’re not sure how many electrons a hydrogen atom has, you’ve still got a shot: There will…
One thing that draws customers back again and again to Boulder’s Common Era boutique (which also has a Best of Denver-winning sister store on Denver’s Platte Street) is owner Debra Mazur’s one-of-a-kind, repurposed whimsies — jewelry and embellished sweaters and practical purse-fitting card cases — that she sells alongside new…
Back in 1968, a group of mostly local sculptors, with administrative support from painter Beverly Rosen and financial support from her husband, Bernie Rosen, staged the first and only Denver Sculpture Symposium. For this special event, they chose a then-vacant lot in the triangle formed by the intersections of Colorado…
Dirtbag Gene Simmons opens the film, flatly stating that every man envies Hugh Hefner. Is that what I was feeling, watching photo ops with frail old Hefner’s orange young girlfriends obligingly “keeping him young”? Many young people know only that Hef, an easy-grinning senior in leisurewear, floating on a silicone…
Midway through Lottery Ticket, a teen-comedy-cum-wish-fulfillment fantasy, the movie’s hero, Kevin Carson, goes on a spending spree. The holder of a $370 million lottery ticket that he can’t cash in until after the July 4 holiday, Kevin accepts a $100,000 loan from a local gangster and proceeds to spend it…
The Switch is a loose adaptation of a Jeffrey Eugenides story called “Baster,” published in The New Yorker in 1996 and deemed fit for inclusion in the 2001 best-of anthology Wonderful Town. Last week, when asked by the New Yorker’s book blog about the film — which stars Jennifer Aniston…
Sometimes the simplest things give us the most pleasure. Tomfoolery isn’t a big, complicated show: just four charming performers with a few props and costume changes, accompanied by a pianist and singing the brilliantly savage songs of Tom Lehrer. Written in the 1950s and ’60s by the Harvard-educated mathematician, many…
Watching the king on parade, Louise Maske reached up to get a better view and accidentally dropped her drawers. As The Underpants opens, her husband, Theo, a stuffy conventional German bureaucrat, is deeply worried. He fears the incident will lose him both his job and his reputation. But what he…
Colorado Art Survey. Over the years, Kirkland Museum director Hugh Grant has relentlessly sought out and acquired new things for the institution’s permanent collection. In the current exhibit, Colorado Art Survey, he shows off some of these conquests and brings other things out of storage. There are some rarely seen…
Garage Sale Loud: This Is It. Almost every summer, the folks at Heritage Square stage what is essentially a musical review with a thin sustaining plot line and the word “loud” in the title. The conceit is that T.J. Mullin and Annie Dwyer are siblings, and they’re reliving their youth:…
At the intersection where the ridiculous meets the sublime, where crappy B-media shlock becomes so awful it turns awesome, at that intersection resides Everything Is Terrible, a website run by a consortium of secretive nerds who cull the worst of our past culture from old VHS tapes and turn it…
Registration for the Warrior Dash at Copper Mountain this weekend sold out weeks ago, so if you’re late to the party you’ll be there strictly as a spectator. But, oh, what a spectacle it will be, with bands of noble savages storming extreme and extremely muddy obstacles as they sack…
Part homage to the best of gore-soaked exploitation film, part passionate defense of the grimy grindhouse theaters that host them — and all completely over the top, All About Evil is a horror movie for people who genuinely love horror movies. The debut feature of cult-cinema curator/emcee/drag queen Peaches Christ…
Three interesting shows open today at Core: two self-titled solos dedicated to Core co-op members — a painter and a photographer — in the impressive main space, and a juried group show in the annex. The painter is Theresa Lugo, who dabbles in nature-based abstractions and explains that she’s “inspired…
Everyone knows that America’s favorite pastime is baseball, and it’s lost little of its popularity over the years. In 1994, at the height of the history-making players’ strike, PBS released Baseball, a nine-part documentary mini-series that became the most-watched program in PBS history, with 43 million people tuning in. Now…
Christopher Cokinos has a matter-of-fact way of explaining those magical flashes of light racing across our night sky — “You can tell what the meteor’s made of by the color of its tail: red for silicon, yellow for iron, orange-yellow for sodium, bluish-green for magnesium, violet for calcium,” he says…
The Striding Lion Ensemble is coming to this year’s Boulder International Fringe Festival with a singular aim: to overturn the current concept of musical theater in favor of something more up to date. Company spokeswoman Amanda Berg Wilson explains: “We are an interdisciplinary company in Chicago of choreographers, theater artists…
At 6 p.m. tonight on a swatch of dirt in the Ballpark neighborhood, a confederation of carts and trucks will band together for Denver’s first street-food summer bash. It’s an opportunity to eat to your cart’s content from Biker Jim’s, the Biscuit Bus, Steuben’s, the Cupcake Truck, Pinche Tacos, Steamin’…
It’s safe to say that no comedian has ever ridden a bike quite as far as Tom Snyders, the Bicycling Comedian. Over the last 23 years, Snyders has ridden his bike over 150,000 miles on six continents ― in 33 countries and all 50 states. And mostly to gigs. It…
