Colorado Barbies: An e-mail forward full of class stereotypes

In contemporary Internet society, e-mail forwards should be all but obsolete. Facebook has eliminated the need to spam your friends, coworkers and nieces with chain letters, LOLCats and tacky “This is what a best friend is for” unfunny Internet poetry. But somehow, a few crappy e-mail chains full of drivel…

Reader: AXE Body Spray, a true work of art

AXE Body Spray has had a surprising amount of marketing success with making a variety of fictional women lust after its musky scent — but apparently, those women are not the only demographic within whom the body spray inspires strong feelings. It’s been almost six months since Ben Dayton made…

Fat Wizard is browser game of the week

Wizards are the best and easiest way to our heart — there’s just something special about a man in a hat with stars on it. Toss in the idea that this wizard is overweight and we’re pretty much drooling in our admiration for this thing. It doesn’t matter what it…

13th and Pearl: A sitcom based in Denver? Why the hell not?

Film producer Chris Graves, who also runs Bardo Coffee House on South Broadway, first thought up the idea for his new Denver-based sitcom pilot, 13th and Pearl, fifteen years ago. “I used to hang out around 13th and Pearl back in the day, in the mid-90s, and I thought it…

Photo-chop fun with a picture of a large hole

If there’s anything we can learn from Return of the Jedi, it’s that you never want to get tossed into a large hole, probably because it’s actually a Sarlacc. Indeed, in the Star Wars universe and therefore also in our own a hole is never just a hole, and that’s…

The top five best Futurama episodes ever

Futurama has given us so much. Since 1999 it has offered us sex, drugs, violence, hooker bots, sewer mutants, Hedonism Bot, a fossilized dog, death by snoo-snoo, a big ball of garbage, hooker bots, Slurm, whalers on the moon, Morbo, toasters that feel love, Popplers, positron shooters, a were-car, worm-infested…

Kelly Oxford makes us want to be a cool mom

Yeah, yeah. We’re a little late on the Kelly Oxford Twitter train — so sue us. The Canadian stay-at-home mom and tweeting goddess has been working with CBS over the last year to produce a show about her life — which, by all accounts, is funny. Even if you don’t…

Reader: You saved me $10 and 90 minutes

It’s a telling fact that, in a movie that features talking animals (including a monkey that sounds like Gilbert Gottfried doing a Joan Rivers impression), the least believable conceit is how Kevin James has a really good-looking girlfriend — but that’s just one of the many fatal flaws apparent in…

Films announced for Snowboard on the Rocks, September 16

Tickets go on sale on Saturday at 10 a.m. for the second annual Snowboard on the Rocks at Red Rocks. The September 16 event will feature the world premieres of three films: TB20 is the twentieth-anniversary installment of the Totally Board series from Standard Films, Familia 2 is the second…

At Edge, there’s more to representational art than meets the eye

Broadly speaking, realist work with a conceptual component has been around a long time, but it wasn’t until the 1980s and ’90s that it really took hold, arguably becoming the stylistic choice for contemporary artists during that time. Now the idea is well established, and there’s no shortage of it…

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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…

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 is a magnificent finale

After ten years, seven movies, six Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers, four directors, two dead parents, one grating house elf and incalculable amounts of CG wizardry, pubescent growing pains, budding romances and apocalyptic fire and brimstone, we’ve finally arrived: Bespectacled Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) squares off against amphibian-faced Lord…

Chasing Manet is worth seeing for excellent acting and a great cause

Every year, director Terry Dodd finds a play perfectly suited to the historic lobby of the Barth Hotel, with its long central desk and gleaming wooden furnishings, and stages it as a benefit for Senior Housing Options, an organization that provides humanistic, caring homes for indigent seniors in several facilities…

Wait, dogs can get sunburns?

There are two things I’m allergic to, and no, these aren’t regular allergies like nuts or dairy. I’m allergic to onions — red onions and white onions, but somehow not chives. And sunscreen. Yes, you read that correctly. I’ll say it again: I’m allergic to sunscreen. Now before you go…

Pirate religion denied official status in Sweden

For many of us, media consumption is basically a religion. We don’t leave the house without a book, a game or a video — we have all of these things on our phones and our laptops and we attempt to make sure we don’t go a single second of the…