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. Though spring…
There are a million movies exactly like it: Promising athlete encounters diversity, gets discouraged, gets encouraged, overcomes diversity, wins something and everybody learns important lessons about life, family and love. That was my main point on Friday when I made fun of the trailer for Soul Surfer, a movie so…
What’s the world coming to? Yesterday Aspen/Snowmass slashed its single day adult lift ticket price to $49; take another $10 off if you have a season pass from another mountain. “Because Easter is two weeks later this year, we’re treating these two weeks as a special bonus,” says Aspen/Snowmass spokewsoman…
Adult Swim has always been Cartoon Network’s flawless answer to the demand of nostalgic man-children everywhere to be served bizarre, absurdist deconstructions of the entertainments they liked when they were actual children (look at the website and tell me that’s not what they do), but in the past, those entertainments…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Stepping into its fourth year, the Feminism & Co. lecture series at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver has touched on topics ranging from female bodybuilding to polyamorous relationships, all in an effort to engage conversation about feminism and gender roles within non-traditional topic pairings. In advance of tonight’s…
Glenn Beck may be crazier than Charlie Sheen, as I theorized yesterday in my post comparing the the two media darlings — both have a rich history of saying wacky shit and both lost their jobs as a result — but love him or hate him (and pretty much nobody’s…
This week’s browser game isn’t really much of a game in a traditional sense, it’s more of an experience. Okay, that sounds really stupid and you can punch us for saying it, but there isn’t a better way to describe Osada. Maybe you could call it an interactive music video,…
Whatever your opinions about him — and don’t lie; you have some opinions about him — there’s no doubt that Barry Bonds is one of the most polarizing figures in modern sports, almost universally either revered or reviled. The thing that polarizes people about him is his use of steroids,…
Call me a sad shell of a human being with a withered capacity for imagination, and you would probably be right, but I don’t believe in no ghosts. It just doesn’t make any sense. But before I crap all over your good time with my “logic,” suffice it to say…
When our esteemed art director (who we will decline to explicitly name for reasons that will become clear… now) designed the photo that accompanied Embattled Painting of the Virgin Mary fellating Christ appears to weep blood (at right), our fake April Fool’s day joke article, he mentioned he was pretty…
Remember those awesome commercials in the ’80s for Barbizon, the school where you could train to be a model, or just look like one? Well, Bettina May brings her version to Beauty Bar at 3 p.m. this afternoon, with a program that goes way beyond the model “look.” In fact,…
This week’s I-70 closures come just as some local ski resorts are getting into full Spring swing and as new snow continues to pile up: The Interstate will be closed from Empire (exit 232) to Silverthorne (exit 205) on Tuesday, April 5 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for rock…
When this weekend’s Denver Style Expo debuts tonight at the Denver Merchandise Mart, there will contests of every kind, from the prestigious Denver Style Awards, which acknowledge the city’s top local designers, to a special people’s choice award for the best-dressed audience members. But for at least one big expo…
I am a rabid feminist. (The adjective my mother likes to use is ‘foaming-mouth.’) This does not mean I devote my time to hating men and busting balls or consider women victims of society, but that I believe, to my core, that quality of life should not be determined by…
Because we at Westword pull hella clout in this town, we managed to snag 35 free tickets to the Denver Auto Show, which started yesterday and continues through Sunday — and because we’re pretty much benevolent gods over here, we decided to give them away to you. Tuesday, we asked…
Lewis Black will be in Denver this Friday. Wanna go? Prove it. Westword has two tickets to send you and a friend to Lewis Black’s In God We Rust tour at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. All you have to do to get them is whisper in our little ear…
Sometimes playing games is all about punishment. If you played QWOP, you know exactly what we’re talking about there, because that game was awkward, hard to control and awful in more ways than one could count — but it was also addictive as all hell. This is relevant because GIRP…
Old fairy tales have the potential for great movie fodder: They’re cute and quaint at first blush, but beneath the surface — especially in the originals, tend to nurse dark and disturbing undercurrents. That said, it’s a shame major movie studios have such a knack for screwing them up. In…
