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…
Whether you’re looking to buy a new car or just gawk at one, Westword has you covered. We’ve got 35 tickets to give away for the Denver Auto Show, which starts tomorrow. Expect to see the newest 2011 models, as well as sneak peaks of 2012 intros. All you autophiles…
Hawaii is probably the weirdest U.S. State, as Sarah Vowell observed when she interviewed with our Amber Taufen on Friday: The U.S. basically annexed it over the course of a summer, and even today, native Hawaiians recognize a strong loyalty to the former monarchy — something Vowell says, as an…
Nice Myspace photo, Charn.For the second time in a month, a multi-million dollar sexual harassment and assault lawsuit against American Apparel founder and CEO Dov Charney has surfaced, this time by four former employees. This is hardly a surprise, but there is something to be said for the fact that…
Feathers. Coral. Corsets. All made of paper, all on display last night at the Paper Fashion Show competition at City Hall in downtown Denver. With over 60 jaw-dropping entries, the Paper Fashion Show was a spectacle unlike any other. Pieces went from chic to quirky to star-struck to hot mess,…
It was pretty damn lame on Tuesday when the Denver Art Museum cut down Talia Kauk’s unauthorized installation of 1,000 paper cranes in front of the Hamilton Building and threw it in the trash — and I said as much in the post I wrote on it, where bitched about…
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the longtime brains behind South Park, Colorado’s most famous semi-fictional mountain town, took it all the way to Broadway on Tuesday when The Book of Mormon opened to glowing reviews. The musical, a sendup of Mormon culture starring two “elders” on a mission trip to…
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. So not…
Although, coming as it does from the hearsay of neighborhood kids, we sort of doubt the veracity of the claim that “Kids at the end of the cul-de-sac actually saw some prairie dogs on fire, running and screaming,” as a recent Daily Camera story reported of a new device being…
Cardboard Box Assembler isn’t exactly a new concept, but it’s certainly one of the better executed versions of a 3D puzzle platformer you’ll play. The gimmick is pretty clever: Each level is a square cube; you have to get from point A to point B by going through the cube…
There are all types of postings on Craiglist that, in a matter of speaking, may require one to take off their clothes in front of strangers — but Austin native and new Denver resident Mary Cates, 29, is looking for dancers who can put some old-school hip-wiggling into their disrobing…
Though I was soundly defeated — twice — at Denver Nationals Championship Arm-Wrestling at the Bannock Street Garage on Saturday, it was not without a measure of hope: In yesterday’s recap of my humiliating failure, I resolved that, next time, I would use the power of numbers to crush my…
Colorado Creatives #96: Patrick Mueller Patrick Mueller grew up in Lakewood and then left town for schooling at Pomona, where he started out a visual artist and through a new-found interest in theater, came away a movement and performance artist. A period of wandering followed, during which he lived a…
Besides maybe monster-truck driver, Barry Clifford has about the most badass job that exists: He’s a real-life, bona-fide treasure hunter. His 1983 discovery of the Whydah, a pirate ship wrecked off the coast of Cape Cod, provides the backbone of the Real Pirates exhibit currently at the Denver Museum of…
For all you ladies out there who have been eagerly awaiting a time when wearing resin-composite shower-shoes in public would not require you to look like a club-footed asshole, then your ship may have just sort of rolled in, at least as far as the club-footedness is concerned. “Just in…
David Sirota may have an ironic side — his new book Back to Our Future, an examination of how ’80s pop culture influenced the politics of today, has plenty of smirking affection for the cultural detritus of the past — but he’s still at heart a pundit, and as such,…
The Burlycute burlesque troupe put their own spin on St. Patrick’s Day at Bender’s Tavern, 314 East 13th Avenue, with St. Pastie’s Day, complete with a Guinness act (including a giant pint glass of the brew), the Lucky Charms leprechaun and other pop culture symbols of Irish culture literally stripped…
When it comes to UFOs, we tend to be a little more skeptical, perhaps, than many. At least Kiernan Maletsky was clearly more than a tad skeptical of what he called the “grainy specks in motion” in the videos of magnetflipper, a Denver-based Fox Mulder who’s been posting UFO videos…
North and South Korea have reunited, the U.S. economy breaks down and erupts in civil war and, suddenly, America is occupied by Korean forces from across Asia. Sounds far-fetched, sure, but that’s the premise of Homefront, a new game from Kaos Studies that seeks to imagine the world of occupied…
Replying to Colin Bane’s post from a couple of days ago on John Denver’s likely entry into the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Museum Hall of Fame, reader Angela Roberts opined that John Denver is and ever shall be the popular face of Colorado to the rest of the world. I…
Jet-packs! Giant evil heads! Lasers! All this and more in Omega Box, an avoidance game that tasks you to, er, avoid evil things shooting at you for as long as possible. It might seem simple on the surface, but it’s surprisingly addictive and oddly enjoyable once you settle into it…
