Get Out More: Backpacker Magazine tour comes to REI Denver tonight
Need to get out more? Join the club tonight at 6:30 p.m. at REI Denver, where Sheri and Randy Propster from Backpacker Magazine will be stopping by on their 2011 Get Out More tour…
Arts & Culture
Showing 20417 - 20438 of 38224Gratuitous randomness: House with a boom box
There’s probably no better case for the ubiquity of TV’s Dr. Gregory House than the fact that, if you Google the word “house,” the series absolutely dominates the first page of results — over the U.S. House of Representatives and the common noun, no less. And when you’re so badass…
So it goes: Vonnegut gets banned in small-town Missouri, Vonnegut library sticks it to ’em
If you thought banning books on the basis that they fail to fall in line with the teachings of Jesus Christ was a thing of the past, then consider yourself unstuck in time: A couple of weeks ago, a school board in Republic, MO, voted to remove copies of Kurt…
Best in Show: Bid on these blue ribbon puppies at Mod Livin’
How do you make these dog days pass by faster? At the East Colfax retro/modern-design emporium Mod Livin’, they’re literally putting the dogs on the block by bringing back the time-honored Best in Show Puppy Auction, featuring two sizes of Eero Aarnio white plastic puppies, all done up in style…
YouTube University: How to put in hair extensions
Remember, back in the day, when you could get a degree from a school on TV? You could become a certified VCR repairman, a home daycare instructor or even learn how to clean guns. It was a wide open world of education. Those in-home lessons on useless shit have all…
James Bond’s top five elaborate death scenarios
Among the most instantly recognizable and enduringly popular scenes from the James Bond movie franchise are the elaborate death traps put into place for the protagonist by a seemingly endless array of antiheroes. The sadistic and convoluted plot devices create dramatic tension, or at least amuse audiences, and invariably result…
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We talk with the DMNS Curator of Health Sciences about Gattaca
Tomorrow evening brings the final entry in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s Sci-Fi Film Series at the Phipps Theater, with Gattaca closing the sequence out with a biological bang. As we have been doing lately, we caught up with the DMNS’ Curator and Department Chair of Health Sciences…
Reader: “You horse sell out”
With its routine reliance on rumors and anonymous sources, sports journalism is almost as bad as gossip journalism when it comes to crappy sourcing, a flaw our sports guy Steve Weishampel gleefully pointed out was like getting the news from Craigslist in his rant about it last week. On the…
Vail Resorts hiring Snow Squad bloggers for 2011/2012 season
Attention, ski and snowboard bums: Vail Resorts has a job just for you. This winter you could be riding out the recession at Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, Keystone, Heavenly and Northstar-at-Tahoe as part of the Sprint Snow Squad blogger team. For your trouble — a trifle, really — you’ll get…
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“Over the River” wins out against Rags Over the Arkansas River
As someone who has long been a champion for art in Colorado, you can imagine how delighted I was when, on July 16, the Bureau of Land Management greenlighted — with many required changes and provisos — the building of Christo’s “Over the River” along the Arkansas River between Salida…
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15 Colorado Artists. The Kirkland Museum is presenting a historical show that tracks the beginnings of post-war modernism in Denver using the artist group 15 Colorado Artists as an index. The story goes that the Denver Artists Guild was hostile to modernism at the time. This led to a split,…
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Cats. There’s not much of a plot to Cats. You meet the Jellicles, with their cheerful faces and bright black eyes, who dance “under the light of the Jellicle moon”; the Ming-vase-smashing cat burglars, Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer; fat, elegant, gentleman’s club-haunting Bustopher Jones; and contrary-minded Rum Tum Tugger. The show’s…
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30 Minutes or Less Barely Delivers
Money-back guarantees feel like such a remnant of the old economy. Does the depressed consumer class even expect companies to make good on their advertised word anymore? But perhaps the dream of free slices scammed from over-promising pizza parlors springs eternal. At least that’s the game being run on Jesse…
The Help is full of powerful villains and disenfranchised heroes
More than just the Hollywood It Girl of the moment, Emma Stone is a real actress, and in The Help, she gets an ostentatious, Oscar-baiting Big Scene in which to prove it. Stone is, to borrow a phrase from Bret Easton Ellis’s Twitter account, thoroughly post-empire — she doesn’t need…
The Shape of Things offers truthful, touching performances
Adam, an undergraduate, encounters free-spirited graduate student Evelyn (note the names, please) while working as a guard at the university art museum. Incensed by the town’s prudery, which dictated covering the genitalia of a statue of God himself with vine leaves, Evelyn is about to vandalize the piece by spray-painting…
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Catherine Breillat’s Sleeping Beauty subverts the classic fairy tale
The second film in her planned trilogy of subverted fairy tales, Catherine Breillat’s latest topples the tyranny of pink and princesses. The Sleeping Beauty, like last year’s Bluebeard, is based on a classic Charles Perrault legend. But Breillat reimagines the slumbering heroine as a gender insurrectionist, freeing her from her…
How do kids break up on Facebook? A public health commission wastes money finding out.
In time-and-money-wasting news, The New York Times recently ran a story on the Boston Public Heath Commission’s organization of a one-day conference on “healthy break-ups,” wherein area teenagers discussed dating and subsequent break-up etiquette on Facebook. Really? Of all entities, a state’s public health commission decided this kind of out-of-touch…
Out of work? Here are four cool auditions for Front Range thespians
Theater seasons are revving up all over town, and as always they cover the gamut: serious, classic, thoughtful, imaginative, pandering, comic, adventurous, silly or just plain fun. On our random list of upcoming auditions, there’s something for everyone. Get out your head shots, confidence and chops, actors. And a sense…
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Steve Wiebe gets the first kill screen at 1UP this weekend
Somewhat legendary Donkey Kong master and documentary film subject Steve Wiebe has dedicated all of his free time over the last several years to playing competitive Donkey Kong. He was the primary subject of the 2007 documentary, King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters and has flirted with having the…
Ten steps to make your wedding awesomely tra$hy
We survived another wedding season, folks. With August officially upon us, the chances of being invited to any more summer ceremonies is nearly over. Looking back on many blissful marital moments, however, we’ve learned a lot about what to do and, better yet, what not to do at weddings –…
The DAM’s pottery wheel instructor makes me feel like a kid again — but not in a good way
Marvelous Mud at the Denver Art Museum is a truly awesome set of exhibits, and it’s something that every adult — and kid — can enjoy because of both its scope and its appeal to all ages. In fact, the DAM typically does a fantastic job of catering to kids…
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Top five creepy mini-things at the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys
The only things more creepy than miniatures, dolls and toys that are supposed to be creepy are ones that are unintentionally disturbing. And the kindly volunteers who worked this weekend were blissfully unaware of the darkly bizarre nature of some of the exhibits. I asked Bill and Sarah West, who…