To the officers of the Durango Police Department: A couple of months ago, as you are no doubt aware, your department quietly changed its policy to allow a form of facial hair that has never in modern history been widely sported by members of the law enforcement community: the goatee…
Jasper Fforde (pronounced “ford”) has a quirky side. This comes as no shock to fans of this British author, but folks who aren’t familiar with him might be pleasantly surprised by his somewhat skewed take on life. For instance, the main character of his popular Thursday Next series, is… Miss…
During the Month of Photography, there are many fine shows around town focusing — excuse the pun — on the medium. But one stands out, if only in its aim to resurrect the reputation of a forgotten photo star who was once at the top of the heap in Colorado…
Emilio Lobato and Sangeeta Reddy. Mixed-media artist and painter Emilio Lobato is surely near the top of anyone’s list of abstract artists in the region. His work relates well to that of the late Dale Chisman, as both artists studied with Mary Chenoweth at Colorado College. His latest creations, many…
The Field. Bull McCabe has been farming a few acres for several years — fencing, tearing out weeds, fertilizing — until the barren soil has become a lush pasture for his herd of cows. And now the owner, a poor widow, needs to put the field up for sale. Enter…
The romanticized commitment phobia that keeps Judd Apatow in gilt-fixtured man caves is brought down to earth (or Park Slope, anyway) in this inventive indie thriller from Murderball co-director Dana Adam Shapiro. Monogamy follows thirty-something Brooklynite Theo (Chris Messina) as he simultaneously slogs through his day job as a wedding…
Paul, it should be noted up front, is not the third installment in the so-called Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, though there are indeed servings of both. Note the one key missing element: Edgar Wright, who directed and co-wrote with Pegg both the 2004…
A gleeful celebration of non-stop doping, Limitless offers up a dim Better Living Through Chemistry fantasy that refuses to rain on its own pill-popping parade. With long, disheveled locks and matching facial scruff, novelist Eddie (Bradley Cooper) struggles with writer’s block until he runs into his ex-brother-in-law, Vernon (Johnny Whitworth)…
I was enthralled the first time I saw Cirque du Soleil, forever ago when all that myth, glitter and spectacle was new to me. I still remember one specific moment clearly: I had the luck to be sitting very near the stage, and at the end of the performance, the…
Like graffiti, most adverts sloppily plastered to the screens of the technospere fall under the heading of worthless cultural detritus, but also like graffiti, some pop up out of nowhere and shock us with their inventiveness and brilliance. They cause us to take pause and reflect on our own humanness…
Amid numerous calls for brains, the third annual March of the Zombies fashion show on Saturday night featured everything from live painters to tattoo artists to a zombie author — “Anyone with an intrinsic interest in zombies,” said show organizer Summer Jackson — but the real highlight was the models,…
Someone is setting ‘hipster traps” in New York, as photographed by this Reddit user. The awesomely cartoonish bear trap surrounds a pack of American Spirits, a can of PBR and sunglasses. Please warn your jobless young friends to avoid these traps…
It’s purported to be the biggest St. Patrick’s Day Parade west of the Mississippi (others have claimed it’s the third-biggest in the country), and whether or not there’s a whole lot of statistical validity to that designation, it’s certain that it’s a good time that involves wearing green and a…
The pirates were out in full force at Friday night’s Buccaneer Ball at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science; attendees were playing the part enthusiastically, with about nineteen out of every twenty participants dressed in their best piratical finery. (Although some people seemed to confuse “Renaissance Faire” and “French…
Measured scientifically, there is exactly one shitload of explosions in the trailer for Battle: Los Angles, making the pyrotechnics seemingly the primary reason for the film’s whole existence. That’s why I spotlighted the movie on Friday in my weekly trailer analysis “This week’s most ridiculous Movie Trailer.” According to reader…
Transcript of chat with the incredulous Denver Nuggets fan sitting next to me on the plane last night on my way home from covering the Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships (where, incidentally, Summit County local Eric Willett took first place in the men’s slopestyle competition):…
In every competition-based TV series, there eventually comes a point where each contestant is more or less qualified to win. After a while, everyone left in the running is good at what they do; they all dance with the same self-effacing vigor or sing at comparable degrees of awful or,…
There tends to be a certain irony to the way we celebrate religious holidays. For example, right now, it’s Lent, which in the Catholic tradition is a forty-day period of abstaining and self-denial; in popular culture, though, the closest most come to observing Lent is Mardi Gras, the day before…
As Summer Jackson, organizer of the third annual March of the Zombies Fashion Show, observes, there’s a certain logic to zombie fashion: “You’re sort of frozen in time when the zombie attacks happen” — in effect, a stylish person makes a stylish zombie. And since both fashion and zombie attacks…
Building a Pinewood Derby car was supposed to be a father-son bonding experience; he’d show you how to use the tools, help you with the design, offer you suggestions on how to do it. Instead, he just took the whole project over and spent hours by himself in the garage,…
The popular perception may be that they are either fat slobs or oversexed vixens, but for most phone sex operators, it’s just a job — that’s according to (pseudonymed) Crystal, the phone sex operator Thorin Klosowski talked to yesterday (in a strictly professional capacity) in our semi-regular feature “How to…
This weekend, Denver will host the largest St. Patrick’s Day Parade this side of the Mississippi. 250,000 people showed up last year, and there’s no reason to believe there will be any less mayhem this year. Make sure you know where you’re going and when below. Plus, a little video…
