The Snuggie is the new toga. Easy enough to look like a dumbass in without ornament but versatile enough to decorate in all sorts of ridiculous ways, the popular blanket with arm-holes in it (as differentiated from its less popular competitor, the Slanket) has proved an ideal garment for frat…
Okay, so more like a shitload of people in Hollywood do cocaine — at least that’s what Dennis Quaid shares in a recent Newsweek piece (that we, of course, got wind of via TMZ.com, where all good, abbreviated versions of real news stories come from). Anyway, TMZ was quick to…
Create Denver Week, which kicks off on May 12, will celebrate the local creative scene with a series of stylish events, including a pop-up art installation at the Spire, outdoor LED light and video projection showcases at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, food trucks, fashion, music and crafts. But its…
It seems like it was almost overnight that the label “organic” went from something only Boulder cared about to something even Colorado Springs cared about somewhat. Suddenly organic food and farming is big business, and when big money is at stake, it pays to ask, well, what does this mean?…
“In the end,” Charlie Chaplin said once, “everything is a gag.” Denver’s Next Improv Star’s culminating performance proved him right — predictably, perhaps, considering it was a comedy series, but with a vigor so overwhelming and an artillery of jokes so unbearably funny that, by comparison, the rest of the…
Cats are weird. As a rule, they pretty much just do what they want all the time, and what they want to do is usually spastic and inscrutable and occasionally evil — which is why, when we heard about the Springtime in the Rockies Cat Show this weekend, we knew…
While you were outside enjoying the beautiful springtime weather in Denver this last weekend, people from around the country were showing off their pussies. That’s right. Hundreds of cat owners and breeders gathered for the Springtime in the Rockies all-breed cat show in Denver. The two-day show, at the National…
Last week the International Olympic Committee officially announced that Ski Halfpipe will debut as an Olympic medal sport at the 2014 Games in Sochi. That’s big news for one local ski resort: For U.S. athletes the road to Sochi will begin at Copper Mountain, host of the first Olympic qualifier…
Here’s what you do: Figure out some way to get into a submarine, then crank up some badass barbershop quartet jams on the eight-track, because today is National Submarine Day, Eight-Track Tape Day and Barbershop Quartet Day all rolled into one. Just like that. But in the unlikely case that…
For some folk, even the smallest kindness makes a huge difference. Since the club’s inception five years ago, that’s been the idea behind the Denver URBAN (the acronym stands for United Revolutionary Bicycle Action Network) Guerrillas, a group that member Joel Menkveld describes as “a bunch of freewheelin’ freaks that…
Cartoonists are wackier than the average bear, and that’s the closest we’ll ever come to explaining why, once a year, cartoonists across the nation gather en masse in coffee shops and comic book stores and other dens of iniquity too dark to properly describe to individually plot and sketch and…
RiNo’s relatively new Second Saturday phenomenon continues to gather steam tomorrow, with gallery open houses and openings at Wazee Union/Walnut Workshop, Plinth Gallery, DesignHaus Denver, Crema Coffee House, Ice Cube Gallery, Pattern Shop Studio and the Laura Moretz Studio at Taxi. Depending on where you land, there will be food…
Amy Harrold, aka Pretty But Ruthless, thinks it’s high time Denver had its own roller derby boutique. Denver is, after all, the home of the Rocky Mountain Rollergirls’ 5280 Fight Club A-team, the top roller derby team in the nation. And Colorado is literally loaded down with leagues – there…
Daniel McDonald and Serena Chopra know that Titmouse is a funny name for a publication. But that’s the point. The minds behind this seasonal collection of art, poetry and music may have picked the name for no reason other than it may induce a giggle, but the work found inside…
At last night’s “Toys & Tupperware,” the opening program of the Feminism & Co. series, the purposeful juxtaposition of topics worked — to a certain extent. Placing an emphasis on women and work, the evening focused on women working in the billion-dollar multi-level marketing and in-home “party” industries (in this…
Sometimes, the most interesting thing about a movie is its cast. And not so much the acting of the cast, but the concept of this cast in this movie — how did these people get here? Soul Surfer, for example, is a movie where even Helen Hunt and Dennis Quaid…
Damn ams! The USASA Nationals competition moves from snowboarding to freeskiing this weekend at Copper Mountain, with opening ceremonies on Saturday and competition running Sunday through Wednesday, pitting amateur skiers against each other in Superpipe, Slopestyle and Skiercross events. And more Spring stoke after the jump…..
April is here, which means we’ve got weird weather that causes us to question what on earth we should be wearing at any given point. We blame April specifically for the jeans/flip-flops phenomenon that ruins our mental state on a yearly basis. Thankfully, there are plenty of indoor activities to…
Here’s a fun fact: Bald cats can get sunburned. Like, really sunburned. I know this because I used to live with a bald cat; my ex-wife randomly decided she wanted one for reasons I never really figured out. His name was Frances. He was a bizarre creature, all wrinkled and…
We’re all used to personality tests like the Myers-Briggs that determine the inner workings of our psyches based on sane, practical issues like whether we prefer to read a book rather than go to a party, or if we find it difficult to talk about our feelings. But the Pierley/Redford…
Think of the Muse’s Market as Al Gore with music and art, and you might begin to get the idea of what it’s all about: Billed as “a modern-day Chautauqua” or a “farmers’ market for music and ideas,” the Denver-based tour comprises an earnest crew of musicians, artists, a photojournalist,…
Ah, prom, that special time when you rent an ill-fitting tuxedo in a bizarre color and awkwardly dance until you get your date drunk enough on a smuggled 750ml of blue-flavored fortified wine to let you grope her in the back of your parents’ Cadillac. If you’re anything like me…
