Daily Calendar: Flicks in the City

Food, music and a movie, right here in central Denver: What’s not to like? It’s all interrelated at the SoCo Nightlife District’s Moonlight Movie Mondays outdoors in the City Hall amphitheater, 1144 Broadway. Doors open at 6 p.m. for music (tonight, that would be the eclectic Yuzo Nieto), food by…

Preview: Meet the Miss Modernism contestants!

If the success of the Denver Modernism Show is any indication, Denver loves mid-century Modernism and its ruling principles of clean lines and futuristic thinking. All across the front range, we’re suddenly frozen in the headlights of Mad Men and all that rad retro style that comes with it, and…

Five worst uses of sexuality in ads involving children

Everyone is driven by sex. I am, you are, your parents are (or were, at least). Advertising firms know this all too well, and they use sex to sell everything from toothpaste to doggy-poop scoopers. As a society, we’ve come to accept this as a necessary evil in exchange for…

Neighborhoods: Tennyson Street/Berkeley

It was damn hot on Saturday, but it felt like a good day to wander, so my friend Cathy and I moseyed over to Tennyson Street to see what we could see. More than just about any other neighborhood shopping district in Denver, Tennyson seems to retain that sleepy, retro…

10 celebrity iPhone apps you don’t need

The entertainment industry is well attuned to reaping the benefits of new technology whenever possible. It’s also well known for its ability to exploit the same technology. Case in point: if you own an iPhone you’ve undoubtedly come across some celebrity-centric apps, ranging from RSS feeds to dedicated Twitter clients…

100 ways to love a cat stars in your 35 minutes of schadenfreude

It’s Monday, and, like Garfield, you hate Mondays. And because the only thing that can cheer you up is either lasagna or a good chuckle at the misfortune of others, we’re bringing you yet another cat-related moment of lulz. In this one, we’re not so much laughing at any actual…

If you can’t go to the warrior dash, here’s what you’re missing

Like some kind of bizarre cross between Braveheart, the original Woodstock and the most flamboyant boot camp of all time, The Warrior Dash in Copper Mountain brings together 350 hyperactive children in adult bodies to don their best Agamemnon-wear, run a formidable obstacle course and get really, really muddy. It…

This week’s most ridiculous trailer: Pirhana 3D

Like horror movies in general, the trailer of Pirhana 3D, yet another B-flick devoted to America’s favorite scary flesh-eating fish, starts out strong: with ominous music and the old sudden-and-startling-loud-noise trick, it creates a suspenseful mood that builds until about minute one — and then, as all horror movies eventually…

A $1,000 shopping spree and four ways to spend it

Starting today, Antique Row — Denver’s musty-chic stretch of commerce along South Broadway — is celebrating the end of road construction with its Better Broadway Bash, a weekend of free appraisals, sidewalk sales and random entertainment (stilt walkers? Yes, please.). Today and tomorrow, you can pick up free raffle tickets…

Three Insanely Unapproved Uses for the RIP-COREFX

The RIP-COREFX — an asymmetrically loaded resistance-training tool being marketed to the masses at tomorrow’s Rip in the Park Event at 9 a.m. in Washington Park — is, according to chief operating officer Jeff Huling, developing into, “a cultural phenomenon, like a cult almost.” Scary. Just in time for that…

Tender moments: A little girl catches her parents having sex

Besides having the unlikely ability to simultaneously engage in tennis and espionage, dispensing sage life advice to Theo and Rudy and and being a formidable expert in Jell-O, Bill Cosby knew a thing or two about kids saying the darndest things — but even old Cliff Huxtable might be surprised…

Street guitarist Dillon: getting paid to do what he loves

The sign may read “College Fund”, but right now street guitarist Dillon is just trying to pay his rent. He’s only been on the streets of Denver for six months, but plans on spending the rest of his life following his dream of becoming a musician. Editor’s note: Dillion’s story…

Get your LEGO on at Denver Pavilions

Colorado has a long, strange connection to LEGO blocks. In 1965, Denver company Samsonite built the first U.S. LEGO manufacturing plant in Loveland, and now the Louisville-based NetDevil is putting the finishing touches on the massive online game LEGO Universe. Our LEGO lovin’ continues with a special event starting tomorrow…

The deliciousness is gone: A meme is born

They are the weird little in-jokes of the Internet, phrases that for whatever reason get latched on to and paired with random images that make them hilarious. We’ve all seen them. Even for the casual, non-troll Internet surfer, memes pop up in the cultural consciousness and, if only for a…

Daily Calendar: Artists + film at Illiterate

Get a double-dip of culture tonight when Illiterate’s ongoing Ill Film Series gives up the screen to five emerging artists participating in the gallery’s current show, Down with the Sickness Too, which was put together by Rhinoceropolis founder Travis Egedy. Mario Zoots, Zach Reini, Alicia Ordal, Milton Melvin Croissant III…