Leaving only a garage full of junk and a bizarre but increasingly distant memory, the Heene family, which made its name internationally notorious when father Richard told police and media outlets his son, Falcon, was missing and presumed to be high above the earth in a UFO-looking homemade weather balloon,…
There’s something about French people that’s just irritating. Over there up on their high horse in France or possibly Canada, putting on airs with their snooty “art” and “culture.” Even their weathermen are insufferable. Take the guy at right, for example, with his neatly trimmed George Micheal scruff, his eyes…
If you ever lived anywhere around Capitol Hill in the early-to-mid 2000s, you know the Black Leprechaun. Somewhere between four and five feet tall and generally sporting a green shirt with a shamrock on it, he’d come around while you were waiting for the bus or walking up to the…
The work week is draining. You get up in the morning and trudge to your job at the soul-disassembly factory with nothing to look forward to but your lunch break and a homeward commute that fills you with existential dread. But that’s almost over now. It’s Friday, and that means…
Over the last couple of weeks, about twenty would-be contestants took a chance and submitted video auditions for Fortune Valley Hotel and Casino’s It’s Vegas, Baby! lounge act contest, which sought parodists, comedians, singers, burlesque performers, magicians and other performers of the ilk. The winner will get a gig at…
What do you get when you combine The Blair Witch Project and American Pie? The Virginity Hit, apparently. Because the world suffers from a distressing lack of coming-of-age comedies about adolescent boys engaging in all sorts of zany hijinks in the pursuit of getting laid for the first time, the…
When Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson set out on The Great Typo Hunt (the two wrote a book about it, and they’ll be in town tonight at 7:30 p.m. for a reading), they did it to give a small gift to the world: the gift of good writing. We were…
The Denver Center Theatre Company is opening its 2010/2011 season on a light note: Patrick Barlow’s screwball adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal film noir. The 39 Steps opens for previews tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Ricketson Theatre of the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex, Denver Performing Arts Complex, featuring a…
Despite some ambitious web efforts, the Playboy empire has shown signs of crumbling in recent years. Porn is all over the Internet like a film over a big vat of chili. The magazine’s lure is still powerful though — for men and women. On Thursday, soldiers in the Hefner Empire…
Some people will try and tell you that $10 won’t get you much these days. To those people, we say “you’re wrong, sir,” because every weekend in Denver’s there is more than enough to do for 10 bucks and less. This weekend there are bike races, Italian cuisine, book signings…
Pitbull leaps from the top ropes and misses his intended target, Ricky Benjamin, who rolls from harm’s way a split second before impact — the slap of Pitbull’s belly on the mat is phenomenal. As he recoils and we try to catch a glimpse of the action through the thick…
Brent Bingham, the Agoge Warrior, has been in the business of teaching defensive martial arts for more than twenty years. Sometimes he dresses up his training in a pop-culture overcoat — for instance, he also offers a Zombie Defense Tactics track — and for kids, from ages 5 or 6…
In a back alley of the Sheraton Denver West yesterday, I was invited into a trailer decorated with pictures of famous Nintendo characters. Inside this trailer was my 12-year old self’s dream life: video games, video games, a tiny kitchen and more video games. I had a chance to play…
Denver-based Level 1 Productions takes over Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom tonight with the world premiere of Eye Trip, a “skiing counterculture” documentary that follows Ahmet Dadali, Tom Wallisch, Wiley Miller, Tanner Rainville, Phil Casabon, Duncan Adams, Adam Delorme, Josh Bibby, Parker White, Chris Logan, Mike Hornbeck, Corey Vanular, JF Houle, Henrik…
Earlier today, we brought you the results of a study that concluded that hipsters hate hipsters. In that vein, we’re bringing you “Hipster Hitler,” a relatively recent arrival on the web comic scene, which reimagines Der Fuhrer as a somewhat petulant, irony-obsessed fop existentially bored with his own quest for…
Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. As usual, we’re rounding up your options for the weekend to come and the following week, and…
The Internet was abuzz today with news of Playboy’s apparently unprompted release of nude photos of Kim Kardashian from a 2007 photo shoot, which it put up this week on its creepily named “Cyber Club” website. Though the site is accessible to members only, which makes it even creepier, reports…
Leave it to the magical art of science to prove something we already know: hipsters consistently claim they aren’t hipsters. A recent study due out in the Journal of Consumer Research titled “Demythologizing Consumption Practices: How Consumers Protect Their Field-Dependent Identity Investments from Devaluing Marketplace Myths” proves once and for…
While the Suburban Home Records 15th Anniversary Weekend actually gets underway tonight, when Mike Howard and the local label’s Virgil Dickerson spin Suburban Home tunes at Sputnik beginning at 10 p.m., the whole thing really gets rocking across the street at 3 Kings tomorrow. Along with the ongoing loud and…
The 10th annual Bicycle Film Festival is off to the races tonight in Denver with the BFF Goldsprints Kickoff Party at Shag Lounge (group ride to the party starts at 6:30 from the Track Shack, 1338 Tremont). Two-day festival passes for this weekend’s screenings at Starz FilmCenter are already sold…
The first video feature from 303 Boards’ CLFX team premiered last week at the Bluebird and is online now for the bargain price of, yes, $3.03. Denver’s a serious skateboard town, with some of the best (and most plentiful) skateparks in the world, urban spots with a worldwide reputation, and…
In recent times, a lot has been made of a newspaper market that seems to be slowly collapsing into itself — a prospect that hit home in Denver like a rock to the head when the Rocky Mountain News shut down last year (interestingly, you can still browse around the…
