Victor, a wealthy American newspaperman – that’s a contradiction in terms, of course; Victor inherited money from his newspaper-owning dad – is living the expatriate’s dream in 1961. A devotee of Papa Hemingway, he gallivants around Europe with his mistress, Louise, and owns a cafe in Paris where he employs…
What with Free Comic Book Day coming up and all, there are plenty of events and activities this week dedicated to nerd-core man-children who never gave up the comic books they loved as children — but there’s also at least one devoted to actual children. Tomorrow night brings BASH, the…
Eating lunch at Olive Garden (and I will say only that my regrettable choice to dine at the Olive Garden was both predicated heavily on free breadsticks and not worth it) after a trip to Toys ‘R’ Us to get a remote-control helicopter and some LEGOs on Saturday, I was…
In this special edition of Twitter Tuesday, we’re highlighting the perverse and artistic Twitter work of Hunx, leader of bratty throwback band Hunx and his Punx. Whether you’re a fan, a fag hag (like myself) or just a curious reader, Hunx’s daily entries about food, sex on the road (his…
For all those who give pom-pom critters for birthdays, feel an urge to stick googly eyes on everything or just occasionally get a twitch to fold some origami, we bring you “Gettin’ Crafty” where we feature a craft you can easily make with minimal supplies and limited finances. For all…
With Free Comic Book Day going down this Saturday, it’s clear that comic book retailers and publishers want to put out some of their best this week in preparation for the inevitable high traffic that will be going down across the nation today. Case in point: Three of our five…
Bobby Fischer was one of the greatest chess players of all time, and he was also one of the craziest — not that he didn’t have competition on both counts. In fact, the history of chess reveals a long legacy of crazy-ass chess masters, a legacy Thorin Klosowski took a…
The spirit of Boulder’s Adventure Film Festival founder Jonny Copp lives on: The five winners of the Copp-Dash Inspire Award grants for 2011 were announced on Friday, receiving $20,000 and climbing expeditions to Alaska, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan and Nepal. The grant program was established last year by the Jonny Copp…
Admittedly, “Obama” and “Osama” are pretty similar names, so you can understand slipping up a little — the big difference, really, is that one of them normally gets “president” in front of it, while the other is followed by “bin laden.” Also, the former would probably be unlikely to declare…
Who doesn’t love puns? Here’s a commercial that banks on the obvious answer to that question: Nobody doesn’t love puns. Everyone loves puns. If you disagree, then you simply haven’t found the right pun yet. It will come to you, don’t worry. Perhaps that perfect pun is just around the…
As far as campy horror trilogies are concerned, there is really nothing better than the Evil Dead series — but although the series has been re-imagined in game form before, it’s never quite achieved the cult-status of the films. Boulder based iOS game developer Backflip Studios is hoping to change…
Over the weekend, I visited the first Indie Wearable Craft urban market, a three-day pop-up bazaar hosted by a select group of local designers, including Jil Cappuccio, Kirsten Coplans of Pearl Clothing and Christina Patzman of Darling Ruth, among others. Their collective bag is cross-merchandising, and they’ve made an art…
It seems like just a couple of days ago we were making out the rent check for April, and next thing we know, it’s already time to pay rent again and we hardly remember anything we did in the last thirty days, mostly because we were drunk the whole time…
It was hard to spot at first, right before the Rockies game near Coors field at about 12:30 p.m. yesterday, but if you took a closer look, there it was: a horrible, horrible object in the skyward vicinity of downtown. As throngs of fans filed into the stadium near the…
Colors collided on the brick walls at the Lucid Gallery on Saturday night, with styles of art from photography to 3-dimensional figurines created by over fifty Denver artists, while yet more artists created live paintings mid-floor, using about fifteen nude volunteers as canvasses — girls wearing nothing but panties and…
Not to be outdone by its local competitors 303 Boards, who premiered Bucky O’Connell’s It’s Always Sunny in Colorado last week at the Bluebird Theater, The Denver Shop (2323 East Evans Avenue) dropped a new trailer for its forthcoming team video this weekend. This is the third trailer for the…
Ben Affleck has it all: Good looks, rugged charm, acting chops, uh… good looks. Of course, he’s starred in some truly awful movies, but that’s only because those movies weren’t taking advantage of his true talent: directing. Because Ben Affleck is also an awesome director. That’s what Tim Davids argued,…
It’s a new month, which means the usual slew of designations intended to raise awareness of things that generally continue getting ignored as per usual during that month — but for those who are paying attention, May is pretty much a glass case of contradiction and self-loathing: It’s National Blood…
Now in its eighth year, Teller Elementary School’s Tellerpalooza is an annual evening of music, dancing and all-ages fun tomorrow at the Mercury Cafe (2199 California Street). While the annual fundraiser is very much family-friendly, the event has attracted a diverse array of local artists and musicians — boasting past…
Just in case you doubted that Westword was the foremost authority on dumb shit that happens in the media, know this: We’re such an authority even other media outlets seek our expertise. And when I say “our expertise,” I mean “my expertise.” Yesterday, in advance of the Violent Torpedo of…
You may have heard Plato’s theory about the origin of love — the round creatures, male-male, female-female, androgynous, who originally populated the world and were riven in half by an angry Zeus, doomed to spend the rest of eternity searching helplessly for their mates and their own lost souls. But…
Inherit the Wind, the fictionalized account of the Scopes Monkey Trial by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee, might just be the greatest courtroom drama ever written, and its main theme — whether or not Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution should be taught in a public school — is as…
