Now that summer is nearly here, it means we need to prep ourselves for hot days, big blockbusters and vacations. That means the best picks for this week come in the form of comic book origin stories to prep you for all the big movies, and two — yes, two…
You’ve got to hand it to Mexicans: Those folks know how to get down. Besides Cinco de Mayo last weekend — probably the greatest party of the year — they also invented the piñata, which, with its injury-prone combination of dizziness, blindfolds, probable drunkenness and a wildly swinging blunt object,…
Last week, America tracked down and killed Osama bin laden, thus proving to everyone that America is the greatest country in the world — and then we inexplicably tossed his body into the ocean, thus assuring that nobody will ever really believe that we really tracked down and killed Osama…
Now in its roughly one-millionth year, Who Wants to be a Millionaire is still going strong, although it’s a little different now than it was before you probably stopped paying attention. For one thing, original host Regis Philbin is long gone, replaced by Meredith Vieira, who, disconcertingly, kind of resembles…
Promoters for the 2011 Buffalo Bill Downhill Bloodspill skateboard race on Lookout Mountain may want to rethink that event name after a helicopter filming the race crashed on Sunday near — ahem — Dead Man’s Curve. Eyewitness Chris Harris has photos online at NeverSummer.com and reports that, miraculously, there were…
What do violin music, blacksmiths, preserving a family name and claims of undying love all have in common? They’re all things of the past; all things culture has decided we can happily live without. But the Dodge Charger is a thing outside of time; a constant beacon of badass in…
Blue skies reigned at Saturday’s Horseshoe Craft and Flea Market in Berkeley Park, where more than 100 craft and flea market vendors set up their tents in a parking lot at 46th Avenue and Tennyson Street. That noted, it couldn’t have been a more beautiful day for mother-daughter bonding, people…
Solve one set of problems, get another. That’s the central theme of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s The Pride, now playing at the Paragon Theatre, which takes a look at the relationships of three characters transposed onto different eras: In 1958, Oliver, Philip and Sylvia struggle as the two men, one closeted…
Though the decision is not set in stone, there was a community meeting last week regarding the possibility of a SuperTarget being put into the Tamarac Square mall on Hampden in Southeast Denver. After The Gap, one of the remaining draws for the shopping center, closed over a half-decade ago…
When most people envision the future, they probably think about the awesome products we’ll have to make our lives easier, but author Greg Lindsay is more concerned about how those products get to us. It’s no secret most manufacturing has moved overseas, and with that move, a global economy has…
The annual weekend-long celebration of ancient May Day traditions left attendees refreshed and rejuvenated — and exhausted from a weekend of running around in the sun and dancing around a fire at night. Maybe that’s a paradox, but if you attended the “20 Laws of Magic” workshop, you’d know this:…
One hundred years from now, if anthropologists were to use these photos from Saturday’s White Trash Derby Bash to try to determine the cultural meaning of the term “White Trash,” they would probably conclude that it involves the drinking of lagers and a lot of sleeveless shirts. Conceived for the…
Back in the days when Show and Tell was still an outdoor adventure blog called On the Edge, writer Ted Alvarez brought us an interesting post about how mountain lions in Colorado are increasingly moving through urban areas. And as proof that nothing on the interenets ever dies, more than…
Regular old marathons, triathlons and century rides not grueling enough for you? The Adventure Xstream Series comes to Colorado on May 14 for AXS Buena Vista, and registration ($135-$235 depending on the race option) is still open through May 11. The event will send competitors whitewater kayaking, mountain biking, trail…
It’s a scene as iconic as any ever recorded of the Great American West, the meeting of two railroad lines from the east and west at Promontory Summit, Utah, punctuated by a last golden spike that completed the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869. These days, nobody travels by railroad…
Poetry is one of the few written media that actually sounds better when it comes from the voice of the author. Unlike say, fiction, which tends to come out like a unnecessary, often drunken mess, poetry is actually enhanced by being able to see or hear the poem — case…
With blue skies predicted for the next few days, there ain’t no way First Friday won’t be sprouting artwalkers like dandelions. Spring is here, the art is good and the art districts are alive with the breath of things to come. Here are a few of our First Friday picks…
They just don’t make ’em like they used to. Well, actually, they just don’t make as many of them as they used to, but when it comes to vigilante/exploitation B-flicks, apparently, it turns out they make ’em exactly like they used to. Case in point: Hobo with a Shotgun, the…
When it comes to Astronauts, Bruce McCandless II is a straight O.G. Selected by NASA in 1966, a mere eight years after the agency was founded, he got right down to business as the CAPCOM — the astronaut NASA designates as a mission-control liaison to the astronauts in space –…
Hopefully you’re familiar with the concept of no pants; between the New York subway rides (or Denver Light Rail rides), the drunken college parties and the official observation of No Pants Day on the first Friday of each May, you’d have to be seriously remiss in your pants-related news responsibilities…
You’ve counted down the days. May 1, May 2, May 3… Now it’s here. Cinco de Mayo — the biggest one-day holiday that spans dos días of food, drinks and fun in downtown Denver. On the big day on Saturday, the Cinco de Mayo Parade returns for its 19th annual…
This summer, don’t forget that it is important to hold onto at least one thing you’ve got, because it does matter if it makes it or not: The 88-Drive-In Theatre needs you to stay alive. So says Joel Warner, who, in his post about the 88 Drive-In yesterday, makes an…
