When we called Sorin Katt for the interview, we asked to speak with Kevin, his legal first name. He told us we had the wrong number. When we asked to speak with Sorin, however, he responded immediately. Besides talking to us about how he got involved in the furry lifestyle…
Summer is already starting to close in on us, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still a bit of time to get out in the sun and have some fun. If you need to do it on the cheap this weekend, don’t fret: We’ve got plenty of activities and a…
There are a lot of things that LEGOs are known for: building elaborate worlds and models with small blocks, providing meticulous, mildly OCD adults with a pastime, getting caught in the throats of small children. But it’s that second subset that’s creating a legacy for the building toy that lesser…
NFL fans know Chad Ochocinco as a loudmouth. Even back when he had a real last name, 85 constantly chattered with officials, made signs asking not to be fined, tweeted constantly and sought out the spotlight in 1,001 ways. Call him a clever entertainer or an attention-starved kid; Ochocinco knows…
For some of us in this errant world, it’s hard to choose between a best friend and a best guitar, and if you fall in that hardscrabble category, you’ll want to be up at Copper Mountain this weekend for the annual Guitar Town festival, which features big names doing axe…
With summer beginning to wind down and the very real possibility for an apocalypse of zombie, alien, man-made, religious, nature, cat or other proportions around every corner, we decided it was a good time to have a chat with a real-life survival instructor. While we’ve got most of our survival…
In 2006 Sheri and Randy Propster sold their home and most of their belongings, gave their car away, got married and set out to enjoy a 253-day honeymoon, backpacking the coast-to-coast American Discovery Trail together. Their blogs from the adventure became an educational “virtual fieldtrip” in partnership with several high…
The first time doing anything is always a learning experience, and certainly Dana Cain and Tracy Weil’s first go at a Denver County Fair was no exception to that rule. Cain will change a few things next year, she told us yesterday — a bigger animal pavilion, more live competitions…
I’ve always said that if I could have any super power in the world, it would be moderation. Being born with an addictive personality has been an interesting journey — from alcoholic to diet pill-popper to relentless gym worshipper, I have seen every ugly side of not being able to…
After all the strife and human sacrifice during the civil rights movement, it was pretty awesome in the end when every black person was triumphant in some way and every villain got her hilariously cathartic comeuppance by eating a pie full of feces — but let’s not forget that it…
Like any good story of adventure on the high seas, Sam Bellamy’s began with unrequited love: Smitten with a girl beyond his station and rebuffed by her parents, the young sailor set sail to make his fortune. “He did it the quickest way,” says Mark Lach, senior vice president of…
In one of the more ridiculous recent examples of asinine government nitpickery, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a ruling of a lower court in a case alleging that the U.S. Forest Service was charging people $10 to drive up the Mount Evans Scenic Byway in violation…
Airbnb is a site that lets regular folks rent out a room or an entire house to other regular folks. Seems like a great way to earn some money while you’re away on vacation anyway, right? But because everyone is a special snowflake, sometimes regular folks are meth addicts who…
Throwing a county fair for the first time ever is a lot like losing your virginity, it turns out: The stakes are high and the results may be a little messy and awkward, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t thrilling, and it certainly doesn’t mean you’re going to stop doing…
Thomas W. Benton’s posters have been commonplace in the city of Aspen over the years Benton lived there, but when the artist passed away in 2007, some worried the work would never reach the broad audience it deserved. Much of his art has never left the city and most of…
Danielle Coughlin is a graphic designer and artist who creates online identities for other businesses at her design hub, www.dcmedia-design.com. “This is my passion,” says Coughlin. “But I’m not even a year old — I turn one next month, so I’m hoping to build this up.” Because we are so…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
