If you’ve ever watched a Looney Tunes cartoon, you’ve heard the music of Raymond Scott, though it’s not what he intended: Famous for its over-the-top, trippy, screw-loose vibe, the composer’s repertoire was never actually written with cartoons in mind. We can thank Warner Bros. music director Carl Stalling for making…
Nothing gets people tapping their feet and letting loose to the beat like good old-fashioned bluegrass. Mix in some fine local microbrews and enough food to fuel a hoedown, and you’ve got yourself the Old South Pearl Street BrewGrass Festival. “This festival is a real hit,” says organizer Nicole Jarman,…
Update: Progress is being made at the GrowHaus, as evidenced by this time-lapse of renovations in the facility’s HydroFarm. But in the urban greenhouse’s race to win a $50,000 grant, the road’s been a bit bumpier: After rising to third place and even grazing second, GrowHaus has dropped to sixth…
Our nostalgia for the Internet of old continues this week, as we have recently discovered the Geocities-izer, a way to make any website look and feel just like it used to. Simply put your URL of choice into the this world wide web throwback processor thingy and voilà — Facebook…
For the past two years, the History Colorado Center has been going up at 12th Avenue and Broadway, but the public hasn’t been allowed to see inside the state’s new history museum — until now. Tomorrow from 2 to 6:30 pm, the Urban Land Institute Colorado, a land-use research and…
In 2008 Lee Saville rode his bike 700 miles from Portland to San Francisco. Now, he’s about to embark on a much more ambitious ride: 17,000 miles. Saville, along with his friend Ian Lacey, will fly from Denver to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, this July and begin their biking trip from…
Today Denver-based snowboard company Never Summer Industries released the first trailer for Shred ‘Em All, the second feature-length film showcasing its team riders. The world premiere will be in Denver in the Fall, but we figured the trailer was news hook enough to catch up with director Micah Cook for…
Life is a crazy thing. One day everything’s fine, everything’s great,; the next day you may wake up and find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile with a beautiful wife and a career as a time-traveling super-sleuth with a late mortgage payment and no other skill sets. You…
Nothing like a little smattering of nostalgia to soften up the critics, and J.J. Abrams lays it on thick in Super 8, his pitch-perfect paean to Steven Spielberg and growing up in the late ’70s and early ’80s. But sentiment doesn’t have to be a weak critical reaction, as Tim…
There’s an old adage to making a browser game — and fiction in general — one that we’ve talked about before: “Make it new.” A Flash game isn’t exactly the most powerful platform in the world, so you’re restricted to a certain style. But for every 100 platformers, there’s always…
When John Larson conceived of the Council of Awesome back around February, he envisioned it as a sort of network for people who want to do more than network – an experiment, you might say, for people who like to experiment. Like a college chemistry lab except totally way less…
Browsing through the reviews of Super 8, it seems like a lot of fans and critics are giving the film — a pastiche of late ’70s/early ’80s Spielberg — a soft critical pass based on their nostalgic reactions to the time period in which it’s set and their love of…
We sailed for parts unknown to man, where ships come home to die No lofty peak, nor fortress bold, could match our captain’s eye Upon the seventh seasick day we made our port of call A sand so white, and sea so blue, no mortal place at all -“A Salty…
It’s often been observed that golf is a game for people who hate themselves. The object of it is to hit a tiny ball into a tiny hole an absurd distance away, and the standards are defined in such a way that even professional players hardly exceed them — even…
With no announcement and little ceremony or sentiment, the Denver Daily News closed its doors forever yesterday after ten years of Monday-through-Friday reporting. For an upstart organization with an incredibly tiny staff (four in editorial and one photographer), the Daily got a lot done, and there’s a lot we’ll miss…
Neil Hamburger is an asshole. He’s the kind of comedian that was born unlikable; even though he’s funny sometimes, most of the time he’s just alienating. Plus, he’s gross to look at, and that says a lot about a person. But for the love-haters of Hamburger, there’s his Twitter, a…
Update: Yay! DEVO Tickets went on sale at 10 a.m. this morning! Get yours at the Denver County Fair website. It’s official: As previously reported here a few weeks ago, Barry Fey joined the Denver County Fair fold to help Dana Cain and Tracy Weil wrangle a high-profile act music…
It’s already starting to get too hot to think outside, which means the summer-time media is starting to fly onto the shelves to offer up some escapism for those of us that can’t handle the heat. Generally speaking, summer releases favor the blockbuster, the antithesis of a think piece –…
While most folks go to festivals like the Capitol Hill People’s Fair mostly for the bouncy-castle and the shirtless ambience, Bree Davies is partial to the finer points of festival vending, like hats for dogs and paintings of sheep in trench coats; in her recap of the fair yesterday, she…
When the guy who directed G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra sets out adapt a novel by Dean Koontz — pretty much the M. Night Syamalan of the literary world — there’s an excellent chance it will be awful. Nevertheless, there may be at least one bright spot for local…
Lift tickets, lesssons, lodging, and gear rentals for a posse rolling more than 20 deep? Duggar family parents Jim Bob and Michelle may not have had ponying up for family ski vacations on the brain while they were getting busy and getting down to business with the practical side of…
Bobbi Walker has pushed her gallery in a positive direction over the past few years, and Walker Fine Art is now a place to see noteworthy shows — something that wasn’t necessarily true five years ago. Part of Walker’s success is that she’s pulled in some important Colorado artists who…
