When push comes to shove, February is and pretty much always will be Black History Month — that’s the only one they teach you about in school, anyway, mostly by telling you about Martin Luther King, Jr., the least threatening to white people of the civil rights leaders. Which is…
The 2011 version of the Geeks Who Drink Geek Bowl, the fifth annual granddaddy of useless trivia, went down on Saturday night at the Fillmore Auditorium. The tournament kicked off with a rowdy musical theater performance, where the performers bellowed “Fuck Philly” through motifs of hip-hop, chorus line and gospel,…
Denver Big Air organizers at the Denver Sports Commission and the LG FIS Snowboard World Cup were right to be upset that top riders like Canadian Sebastian Toutant (aka “Seb Toots”) stood them up in favor of getting in some extra practice at Buttermilk for X Games 15, a scheduling…
In a world where 14-year-old kids are throwing double-cork 1080s, the oft forgotten path of big mountain riding gets lost in the mix or, sometimes, completely overlooked. Jeremy Jones has been at the forefront of that revolution since the dawn of big mountain accessibility. He’s dropped cliffs from Alaska to…
Tracy Morgan called Sarah Palin “good masturbation material” last night on national television during a TNT broadcast of an NBA game. Maybe not what the network would have preferred that he say, but a). he was sort of baited and b). this is Tracy Morgan, who is more-or-less completely indistinguishable…
Everybody knows that, when a groundhog sees its shadow, it means there will be six more weeks of winter; lesser known is that, when a prairie dog sees its shadow, it means there will be a buy-one-get-one-free day at the Denver Zoo on Sunday — which got us wondering: What…
Deep in the midst of the digital age, International Film Series programmer Pablo Kjolseth makes no bones about his love of celluloid, the analog of film, especially, but not necessarily, in black and white. Because of that, the University of Colorado’s IFS is arguably the region’s last true vestige of…
As you may know by now, the SIA Trade show is not open to the public. But Westword was able to get in and get the scoop on some new products that are coming out this year. We got the techiest of the tech, the practical-est of the practical and…
Take a random assortment of cult classics involving teenagers — let’s say, oh, Brick, My So-Called Life and anything by Joss Whedon — roll them all together into the space of a little over two minutes and you might have something like the trailer for Kaboom — which is not…
As is befitting of a the world’s biggest bar trivia night, there’s been a flurry of questions surrounding the circumstances of Geek Bowl 2011, that hallowed tradition where prestigious geeks from all around the country will gather to do battle tomorrow evening to the end of proving their superior worthless…
This just in, from our friend and favorite Santero, Jerry Vigil: A saint for these times…
When Serena Chopra traveled to writing communities in Washington D.C., New York, and Oakland last year, she noticed something that was missing in Denver: a community literary journal. As a response, Chopra and co-founder Daniel McDonald created TitMouse Magazine. The literary art magazine seeks to promote Denver artists through the…
The SIA Snow Show rang in its second year in Denver yesterday with Governor John Hickenlooper rocking a green 686 snowboard jacket and talking about how stoked he is to go snowboarding with his family this weekend, and Mayor Bill Vidal sporting a puffy black Spyder coat and urging SIA…
It’s the last Saturday of January, which means, well, absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things, but it does mean it’s the weekend and that’s all that matters. The important thing is you’ll have plenty of activities to do on the cheap this weekend; from comedy to art, we’ve…
So, we missed last week’s episode of Jersey Shore. Our bad. Yes, we know, MTV replayed it at least thirty times since, but we just forgot, okay? From the commercials and pre-show recaps, it looks like Snooki possibly realized she had a drinking problem, but thankfully bounced back into her…
The challenge of writing a character who is a part of a marginalized group — say blacks, Hispanics or, in the case of Tomas Mournian’s Hidden, a gay teenager — is that all too often the drama of suffering overwhelms the character’s humanity; instead of developing into believable people, these…
News Corp. and Disney (who own Fox and ABC, respectively) are considering pulling their ad-based free streaming shows from Hulu — remember that they are two of the three companies who founded Hulu back in 2008. Hulu has done incredibly well in terms of viewership, but its subscription-based Hulu Plus…
Slobbing the knob. Gumming the root. Swallowing the sword. Playing the skin flute. Sucking “the dick.” These are all things you could be learning to do tonight when Shanna Katz, a professional and certified sexuality educator, presents Suck on This! Adventures in Fellatio at Fascinations in Boulder. You might also…
The Oscar Nominations are out for this year and, as in all years that have preceded it, this one offers no surprises. It’s a relatively unknown fact, but there is a very specific formula for making an Oscar nominated film — so specific, in fact, we’ve made a flow chart…
For the last year, something’s been missing from the Lida Project. Certainly, it hasn’t been creativity or an open mind; under the energetic guidance of stand-in artistic director Julie Rada, the local experimental theater group in fact thrived as well as any small group of its kind can in Denver,…
With a name like the 24rd Triannual Intronational Dance Competition, absurdity was to be expected. And the event did not disappoint in the ridiculous department. The interpretive dance-off at the Mercury Cafe featured a juggling unicyclist, a girl in a bubble-wrap gown and many people unafraid to roll around on…
At some point in our lives, we’ve had a job that requires sitting through a barrage of awful, corporate-mandated training videos. Things like walking to your car with a co-worker at night, making sure not to put bleach in the sanitzer bucket and always wearing closed-toe shoes on the sales…
