Aaron Blaze, without a doubt, was simply born fast on his feet with a quick mind. But it took a horrible yet life-changing experience for him to become a genius — the same Tortured Genius, in fact, for which he named his new and evolving startup clothing design line. A…
If you’ve ever wanted to physically throw something at a blackface depiction of Barack so racist it’s almost vaudevillian, and you live in Seaside Heights, NJ, where The Jersey Shore is filmed, then good news! You can. A boardwalk game called “Walkin Charlie” offers up Obama, along with such luminaries…
The toughest thing about fringing — attending a fringe festival, that is — is choosing what to see. It all happens so fast — wham bam, six performances in six days — and there’s no real chance for a buzz to really form about a particular performance until it’s already…
It’s your lucky last chance to see another closing Biennial-related show: Artists’ Footprints, a group exhibit curated by Denver artist Viviane Le Courtois that explores sustainability specifically and directly through the artworks included, comes down tonight, but not until after a closing reception featuring artist talks with three participants. It…
We know the deal: You’re looking for ways to waste time at work, and we’re here to help you waste it. Hence, Browser game of the week, our new feature, where we’ll comb the depths of the Flash game vortex and pick different games for you to waste away your…
If summer is the definitive time for oddball Americana like hot dog-eating contests and the world’s biggest cheese ball, then in doesn’t get much summerier than a rodeo that features alligators. At the Colorado Gators Reptile Park, just north of Alamosa, that is exactly what you’ll get over the weekend…
The PR tag said it all: “If Pirates are bad and Vampires are worse, then pray you never meet the Vampirates.” I was already swooning over the needless capitalization of common nouns, but the portmanteau brilliantly combining “vampire” and “pirates” — which I could hardly believe nobody had thought of…
Nobody makes the distinction better than Encyclopedia Dramatica: The Internet is where normal people go to find things out — to get business info or the news. The information superhighway, if you will. The internetz is like the landfill beneath that — a nerd-dominated repository of all things filthy, wonderously…
Dawn Schiller is a survivor. That much is apparent in the title of her heartbreaking (and, at times, horrifying) new memoir, The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes. Schiller became entangled with the then-32-year-old Holmes at the tender age of fifteen; she spent five years in an unhealthy relationship with…
Craft meets genius in the work of master artisan William Morris, a one-time student of glass god Dale Chihuly who is also well-versed in native cultures and archeology. Both weave their ways into his technically advanced vessels and forms, which evoke the spirit of ancient artifacts and civilizations. That noted,…
The waiter spills coffee on your white shirt. Your boyfriend, startled by your sudden entry into the room behind him, whips around and accidentally pegs you in the eye. You put your car in the wrong gear and back into the car behind you. These embarrassing gaffes happen to everybody…
Because I’m married to a guitarist, I can truly appreciate the mysterious attraction a mountain festival like Copper’s Guitar Town exercises upon a certain ilk: I understand how dedicated strummers everywhere all begin to salivate whenever they hear about a weekend where they can not only drink up free concerts…
Like so many, it started out such a promising career. Coming up from humble beginnings as a Hispanic stand-up comic and radio host, George Lopez seemingly appeared from nowhere in the early 2000s in a number of very credible roles: the star of his own Hispanic-centric sitcom, supporting roles in…
In truth, you don’t have to be womanish to do either of these things, since there actually are men who knit and go to the theater. No problem, brothers, join right in. For one thing, Fresh City Life’s monthly KnitFlix movies, dreamt up by FCL’s fearless and imaginative leader Chris…
The media of today is hard to keep up with — it comes from so many directions and in so many forms 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 each…
Working retail downtown is not always pretty. From the throngs of clueless tourists to the weirdos and freaks that hang around to the generally thankless tasks, it can be a grind. To honor those brave men and women who day in and day out sling our coffee and clean up…
Some people just stand out. Whether their style is cutting-edge, quirky or just well-executed, they make you want to know: How do they do it? Because we work for you, we’re finding out. Each day, we’ll hit the streets and talk to one person who catches our eye and makes…
We could all use a second chance sometimes. From everyday schmoes to high-powered television producers, everyone’s looking for a way to capitalize just one more time on one flimsy yet extremely profitable premise or other. Or maybe that’s just the television producers. Either way, the execs over at ABC are…
It’s Monday, and, like Garfield, you hate Mondays. Also like Garfield, the only thing that can cheer you up on a Monday is either lasagna or a good laugh at the misfortune of others. We can’t give you any lasagna, but we can give you the second thing, in the…
This past March, Antiques Roadshow aired three episodes taped in Denver in July, 2009 — and those episodes were the most-watched of the Antiques Roadshow season. Way to go, Denver couch potatoes! But the experience isn’t over yet: Tonight at 8 p.m., Rocky Mountain PBS will air Antiques Roadshow: Behind…
And we thought Bob Saget goofing on molesting Kimmy Gibler from Full House was troubling. That’s nothing, apparently. In a bizarre email addressed to “Tracy Morgan ticket buyers,” Comedy Works went so far as to warn show-goers that the performance is “the most extreme in nature that we can possibly…
A Monday-night movie under the stars is a little like taking a mini day off (assuming, that is, that the weather holds), making the John Hughes classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off a perfect title for Infinity Park’s summer Monday Night Movie Madness series. You can see it for free tonight…
