We have reached the absolute lull of the summer as far as new releases are concerned. But while nothing coming out on DVD this week appealed to us, we did manage to track down a few books, games and comics that should provide some nice indoor entertainment while everyone else…
It’s mildly nerdy to use the phrase “It’s on like Donkey Kong,” a challenge so overused we made an infographic about it. But what’s really nerdy, apparently, is Donkey Kong fans, among whom our infographic set off a controversy about the relative merits of the Donkey Kong franchise in the…
When I visited the Forney Museum of Transportation yesterday, the opening day for the Phenomenal Ford Falcon exhibition, I took an eight-year-old boy with me because no one is tougher to keep entertained. Upon leaving he turned to me and said, “That place was so awesome. First, from the outside,…
Oh hello, new accessory from American Apparel labeled under “swimwear.” You are called a “conical Asian hat.” You are not aesthetically pleasing in a traditional sense, though I’m sure girls on Lookbook.nu will flock to you and your “edginess.”…
As the summer blockbuster season winds down to its weakest dregs, two terrible movies — one about James Bond as a cowboy battling aliens with a wristwatch that shoots lasers, the other about a group of zany blue anthropomorphic creatures who substitute their name for various other words — vie…
For the two highly respected teams Denver sends to the National Poetry Slam each year, the moment of truth has finally arrived: After a year-long process of elimination, the teams have selected their top five poets of the year and are gearing up today to travel all the way to…
After 150 years of conspicuous absence, the Denver County Fair reared up in the blazing heat of this weekend and shot its oversized, overstimulated load all over the National Western Complex, leaving us spent until next year. It was an epic time and one we won’t soon forget, but just…
The Sci-Fi Film Series is getting down to its final two weeks, and this Wednesday, they’ll be showing one of our favorites, Moon, at 7 p.m. at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax. The purpose of the series is pretty simple: show off some great science fiction movies and provide an intellectual introduction…
Chances are good that you may have missed the most intense part of the Denver County Fair over the weekend. If it wasn’t the animals (and the hipster animals), the floating hamster balls, the Sears representatives casting for a new commercial or eating fried Lucky Charms mixed with Cap’n Crunch,…
Look out, Leadville 100 competitors: Lance Armstrong is coming for you again after winning yesterday’s Crested Butte Alpine Odyssey mountain bike race with a time of 4:32:21, three seconds ahead of second-place finisher Greg Krause and third-place finisher Travis Scheefer. The 63-mile Crested Butte Alpine Odyssey is the third and…
The main argument for quitting smoking is that it’s bad for you; indeed, the evidence is well documented. That’s perhaps why a lot of people who don’t smoke have a hard time understanding why smokers continue to smoke despite the risks — and certainly plenty of those people used the…
The Denver County Fair went down this weekend, and despite the fact that the schedule was kind of hard to read and the ten pavilions were daunting to navigate at times, we found some pretty cool stuff to look at anyway. Beyond the sights and sounds of a traditional county…
Erica and Mateo Hogan, a couple from Crested Butte, wanted to create a tropical paradise. “It was very muddy four or five months out of the year in Crested Butte, so we were thinking of buying some property somewhere warm to wait out the muddy season,” Erica says. And after…
The premise wasn’t the chicken dance — though that came later — but humans imitating chickens. The crowd at the 3 p.m. Saturday “Human Chicken Contest” the Denver County Fair’s Animal Stage was packed. “I signed up for this when nobody was here,” one contestant remarked, showing some regret…
Ten years ago, the crew from the State put together a little film called Wet Hot American Summer. You remember the State. A sketch comedy show on MTV that didn’t last long on the channel but will last a lifetime in our hearts? Amid that televised greatness, actor/director/writer David Wain…
Make it rain! Crankworx Colorado continues today at Winter Park with the Rainmaker Air Downhill Slopestyle qualifiers starting at 12:15 p.m. (finals start on Saturday at 1 p.m.). The weekend is also full of spectator-friendly XC and downhill mountain bike races. Better still: Most of the Trestle Bike Park trails…
The headlines across the country this morning proclaim “Denver bets on a county fair, aiming at hipsters,” which would have been fine, except for the fact that the best thing about the County Fair, like all County Fairs, is the animals. Goats and chickens and roosters and adorable rabbits all…
In this morning’s “yes, people really are that fucked up” news, a mask version of the recently acquitted Casey Anthony sold on eBay for close to one million dollars. The anonymous buyer won out over more than one hundred bids on the scary piece of latex. While mask itself is…
If anyone needed further evidence that the tide of public opinion has turned firmly against smoking cigarettes, look no further than the mass freak-out that ensued when cancer-survivor Michael Douglas was recently spotted possibly smoking a cigarette. As an incorrigible smoker myself, I understand Michael Douglas’s dilemma, and yesterday, I…
Cowboys and Aliens, out today, tells the charming and classic story of what happens when cowboys meet aliens: They all shoot each other. It stars Daniel Craig, who’s British, which makes sense because while Wyatt Earp was shooting dudes in Tombstone, the Brits were drinking crumpets or whatever and signing…
It’s a mildly fun fact that the original gimmick of the Smurfs — created by Belgian cartoonist Peyo way back in the ’50s — was the “Smurf language”, in which the small blue characters substitute that word for whatever verb, noun or adjective, depending on context. But it didn’t really…
Rent is due on Monday, which means unless you’re some type of money-saving wizard, you’re probably a little short on cash this week. Don’t worry, though: There is a ton of stuff to do this weekend for under ten bucks, including the Denver County Fair, which all on its own…
