It’s like a weird rule of web-based journalism that, if a post generates more than about six or seven reader comments, the discussion must somehow inevitably delineate to illegal immigration, no matter how unrelated to illegal immigration the original post was. It’s still pretty disconcerting every time it happens, but…
Americans like to spend money on crap. We also like to think that the more money we waste on said crap, the better it will make us feel when other people see it. Amusement parks — like Elitch Gardens and Lakeside — definitely fall into this illusion of worth. It…
Perhaps with good reason, furries are a sensitive bunch, it seems — or at least the ones that are also commenters are. Whether it was our Furry Field Guide (they really didn’t like that one) or our interview with Rocky Mountain Fur Con coordinator Sorin Katt, our furry readership largely…
Ben Burbank’s And Just Like That I Was Free is a game created for Ludum Dare 21 (note: if you want to kill an entire day, follow that link and play almost 600 games created in three days) that isn’t so much a game as it is a story of…
Lee Mulcahy’s protracted and very public battle with Aspen’s Skico (which operates Snowmass) over ski instructor pay may have ended in some sense with his firing, but he’s not giving up yet; when he got a commission to do a bike sculpture for the USA Pro Cycling Challenge’s leg through…
Gotta love Colorado, where Labor Day has come to be synonymous with winter gear sales like Sniagrab and Ski Rex, and the dog days of summer serve as a tidy reminder that the best deals on season ski passes are on right now. We spent a day huddled by the…
There were a lot of things wrong with Erin Roberts-in-a-chicken-suit’s victory over me in Wednesday’s epic Man vs. Pigeon race — like, she was on a moped and I was on a bicycle, for starters, meaning she is a cheating cheater who cheats. But Roberts didn’t just win the race;…
In a perfect world, firefighters would not wear those heavy, shapeless jackets they wear when fighting fires — they would be doing it shirtless, that all might see their turgid pectoral muscles and washboard abs as they glisten and twitch with the exertion of heroes’ work. But this is not…
So, I’m moving out. After a commenter on my post last week about yoga declared that I should really get out of my mother’s basement if I ever wanted to write about anything other than stretching and poop, I’m more than on it. Not to give this stalker, I mean…
There’s no way to offend a sub-culture, it seems, like writing silly captions beneath pics of one of their gatherings. So it goes with furries, many of whom have been upset by my Furry Field Guide, which parodied a National Geographic-style wildlife manual using photos from the 2011 Rocky Mountain…
Marcus Richert’s Lee-Lee’s Quest isn’t a game you play because it’s going to move you or impress you with its visuals or even offer a challenge — you’ll play it because it’s weird, humorous, self-referential and just plain bizarre. It shouldn’t come as a surprise seeing as how it’s coming…
Every month Knitflix meets at the Denver Public Library’s Fresh City Lounge to hang out, craft, and watch movies. In anticipation of the showing of depression-era flick Dinner at Eight tonight for crafters, we turned to the internet to find weird crafting patterns to take with you. Between bodily organs…
Probably in large part due to the popular misconception that it basically consists of sports mascots having sex, there are few subcultures more mysterious than furry fandom. Certainly, we tried to be sensitive when we interviewed Sorin Katt, coordinator of the Rocky Mountain Fur Con 2011, about what writer Cory…
We were warned about the Bonnie Knees Contest: there was sure to be bribery, kilted men and somewhat bawdy behaviour, Colorado Scottish Festival director John Thornton told us. Without fail, the contest was indeed all of those things. “It’s not really about who’s got the best knees,” explained contest judge…
What makes Google+ games, since people apparently now demand a gaming platform on every social network imaginable, different than Facebook games is pretty simple: the games don’t show up in your feed, meaning you won’t be bombarded with news every time a friend tops your score or plants a new…
The town of Bessemer, which immediately surrounded Pueblo’s storied reason-to-be, the mighty Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, was incorporated in 1886, 125 years ago. It was home to hard-working immigrants from around the world — Italians, Eastern Europeans, Germans, Asians and others — who moved to the area to work…
After intermittent bouts with alcoholism and diet pills, Bree Davies has channeled her addictive personality into a somewhat less unhealthy obsession: yoga. That’s the subject of her latest edition of Breeality Bites, wherein she acknowledges that it comes with the side effect of trying to compete with grandmothers but denies…
The first time doing anything is always a learning experience, and certainly Dana Cain and Tracy Weil’s first go at a Denver County Fair was no exception to that rule. Cain will change a few things next year, she told us yesterday — a bigger animal pavilion, more live competitions…
I’ve always said that if I could have any super power in the world, it would be moderation. Being born with an addictive personality has been an interesting journey — from alcoholic to diet pill-popper to relentless gym worshipper, I have seen every ugly side of not being able to…
With its routine reliance on rumors and anonymous sources, sports journalism is almost as bad as gossip journalism when it comes to crappy sourcing, a flaw our sports guy Steve Weishampel gleefully pointed out was like getting the news from Craigslist in his rant about it last week. On the…
Somewhat legendary Donkey Kong master and documentary film subject Steve Wiebe has dedicated all of his free time over the last several years to playing competitive Donkey Kong. He was the primary subject of the 2007 documentary, King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and has flirted with having the…
The only things more creepy than miniatures, dolls and toys that are supposed to be creepy are ones that are unintentionally disturbing. And the kindly volunteers who worked this weekend were blissfully unaware of the darkly bizarre nature of some of the exhibits. I asked Bill and Sarah West, who…
