While the Denver ComicFest this weekend wasn’t as full of crazy costumes as it’s counterpart, StarFest, it was full of ridiculous comics. We sifted through the bins to find these five bizarre comic book covers…
Beaver Creek, Silverton Mountain and Echo Mountain all called it quits for the season yesterday, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still perfectly good skiing and snowboarding to be had: Copper Mountain, Vail, Winter Park, Aspen Highlands and Snowmass are all throwing rites of Spring bashes this week and Easter…
In certain cultish and secretive religious sects, this entire week is devoted to the celebration of a holiday known as “Easter,” when, as the legend goes, a guy got nailed to a piece of wood and then came back to life three days later, except not all gnarly and undead…
As city-dwellers, we see an average of probably hundreds of buildings every day, most of which we will never step inside. And for the most part, that’s fine, but there are always those buildings that pique our interest, that make us think, “huh, I wonder what’s in there?” This weekend…
Anthony Michael Hall defined a subculture for an era once, back in the days of the Brat Pack, when over the course of two great years and three great movies he pretty much single-handedly made it (sort of) okay to be a nerd — at least, that’s what I argued…
If you’ve ever wondered what the future meets the past looks like, you might call to mind the antics of Marty McFly and the wonder DeLorean in the middle of the wild, wild west, or perhaps a robot tromping through the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. You’d be right on…
The seventh annual all day, all access Doors Open Denver event runs tomorrow and Sunday, giving walking tour access to dozens of public and privately owned buildings. Snoops and historians alike can visit different structures throughout the city, ranging from recent turn of the century architecture to the century before…
Whatever your stance on conservation and environmental issues (we’re hard-line in favor of what we like to call “maximum bull-dozage”), you can’t argue with this: Earth is the shit. It’s got all sorts of cool and weird-ass stuff to look at, it’s fine with people inhabiting it and it’s basically…
It’s been fifteen years since Scream came along and changed the whole horror movie paradigm with its self-awareness, satirizing the cliches of a genre then in the throes of death by indifference and employing them as plot devices, in the process pretty much single-handedly breathing life back into it. It…
Now that IKEA and H&M have both signed on the dotted line in metro area, folks who’ve waited patiently for their first chance to walk in the door of either of those trendy Scandinavian outlets will finally have their day. But after those open, and we’re all done dancing in…
Rock out with your sunblock out! The Spring Back to Vail concert lineup kicks off tonight at 6 p.m. in Vail Village with Grace Potter & the Nocturnals and The Chain Gang of 1974 at Solaris Plaza (Train and Saint Motel play tomorrow night at Ford Park and The Greyboy…
This weekend is jam-packed with lots of expensive gathering and events, but for those looking to live life on the edge of a Hamilton, we’ve got you covered. With StarFest in town this weekend, a couple theaters are following suit with science-fiction themed classic movie showings, but for the less…
Ever since he ended up as conspicuously the only member of the Breakfast Club not to get coupled up — and was pretty much okay with it — we knew Anthony Michael Hall was a guy we could identify with. Lanky, bug-eyed and just a little too weirdly enthusiastic, he…
Tonight, Erica Sodos brings her magical variety show to the Mercury Cafe (2199 California St.) once again for an evening of mystery, poetry and of course, magic. Taking on a role generally played by men, the Boulder-based magician flips the script with her own spin on classic illusions and magic…
The prostitutes in the Coen brothers’ film Fargo probably had the all-time best description of actor Steve Buscemi’s bizarre face: “kinda funny-lookin’.” Well, thanks to the Tumblr “Chicks With Steve Buscemeyes,” we now know that the actor’s funny-looking eyes look particularly creepy and hilarious when Photoshopped on the faces of…
If it weren’t for a few smirking touches of ironic self-awareness, you’d swear Black Dynamite was straight out of the blaxploitation era. Not only does it feature the baddest motha-shut-yo-mouth since Shaft and Sweet Sweetback rolled into one, plus a ridiculously convoluted plot reaching to the top level of government…
StarFest is kicking off this weekend, and packed into the three day event are five different festivals, hundreds of activities and enough dork-power to raise Firefly from the ashes. You can pick up a full schedule here, but if it’s a bit overwhelming, we’ve broken it down to ten events…
After nearly four months of intense contention, the semi-coherent debate continues to rage over Bree Davies’s assessment of the first episode of the MTV version of the popular U.K. series Skins, now drawing opinions from as far away, apparently, as Portugal. Yesterday, Portuguese reader (we’re just kind of excited about…
Colorado-based climbers “HardCor” Cory Fleagle, Jim Turner and Thom Engelbach got in over their heads last month on an expedition to the Southern Patagonian Ice Field between Argentina and Chile, throwing “caution to the winds” on Monte FitzRoy, but still managed to live to bring home the slideshow…
Though it’s largely been forgotten in the annals of crack-pottery and snake-oil salesmanship, the story of Mark Kostabi is one of the art world’s weirdest and most head-slappingly dumb. A darling of the high-rolling ’80s New York scene, Kostabi and his rise to fame and riches on the backs of…
There are so many seemingly random elements at play in the Yes! Lab’s concept for The Remake Rumble improv series, that they could almost be variables in a long-form improv game. The basic idea: take the plot elements and characters from famous movies and remake them, improv style. But –…
Curious Theatre Company got its start more than ten years ago when a group of artists came together to produce Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. The project left artistic director Chip Walton with an “almost insatiable appetite to continue producing that kind of theater — epic, political,” he remembers. “Not…
