Deepak Sharma Bajagain already holds four Guinness records, and tomorrow, he’ll attempt to add two more to that illustrious legacy: Most Envelopes Torn in Half in 30 Seconds and Most Grapes Eaten in Three Minutes by a Small Plastic Teaspoon. Yes, these are actual entries in the Guinness Book of…
Really? We mean, really? The Situation is still hooked on the Sammi and Ronnie fight drug? As if this guy needed to play himself out any more like the bored, oversexed, tan and drama-addicted freak show that he is, this finale episode opens to just that. He’s on the duck…
If the Interwebs are to be believed, Josh Allen may just be the funniest wordsmith Denver has to offer. His 40,000-follower Twitter feed @fireland has been named among the best by the likes of the New York Times, the Washington Post, Gawker and Boing Boing, thanks to his 140-word gems…
It’s really a shame that more 4-year-old boys don’t have creative control over dance video projects, because the world needs more of the kind of delightfully incoherent things that happen when the Gumz family puts on frog suits and gets out in the snow to pirouette with the dog. As…
Timothy Flood is into deconstruction. And right now, he’s into musical instruments — specifically, pulling them apart and rebuilding them into things that basically perform the same tasks, but in radically different ways and for totally different purposes. How different? Try this on for size: One part of the installation…
Cristy Road is a queer punk-rocker radical feminist Cubana artist and writer; her career as a ‘zinester dates back to the 7th grade and a time when she struggled with personal gender and identity issues, masking over her true feelings with a combination of deep-felt loneliness and an obsession with…
With Anomaly Con, Denver’s first big steampunk convention, people are probably wondering what the best way to prepare for the big day might be. Others might simply be asking, “what the hell is steampunk and why should I care?” Don’t worry, we have answers for all that and more, including…
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the longtime brains behind South Park, Colorado’s most famous semi-fictional mountain town, took it all the way to Broadway on Tuesday when The Book of Mormon opened to glowing reviews. The musical, a sendup of Mormon culture starring two “elders” on a mission trip to…
If you need some inspiration for your next epic trek (or just prefer to live vicariously through the tales of others), stop by Neptune Mountaineering in Boulder, 633 South Broadway Suite A, tonight at 8 p.m., where Boulder-based adventurer Andrew Skurka will share a multimedia presentation documenting his recent Alaska-Yukon…
Watching a documentary can often be like eating your peas: It’s not exactly thrilling, but it is nourishing, and when it’s over, you kind of feel like you accomplished something. In that vein, the Denver Botanic Gardens’ monthly Indigenous Film Series kicks off tonight with two documentaries from Native American…
Did you die a little inside when Facebook’s Scrabulous game was removed from the site due to a copyright-infringement lawsuit? Did you rejoice when it returned as Lexulous? Does your entire family refuse to play Boggle with you due to your commodious and pervasive vocabulary? (And the annoying victory dance…
Can’t do much better than the show’s own tagline to describe the Drunken Bachelor Talk Show: “It’s loaded with comedy and music, but mostly it’s just loaded.” Producer Kevin Hart is an old friend of Lannie Garrett’s, and he put together the first edition of the show back in October…
Colorado painter Emilio Lobato invariably refers in his work — if only obliquely — to his family’s deep roots in the San Luis Valley in Southern Colorado. He does it principally through his severely limited palette, which is dominated by the somber tones of the Southwestern scenery, and by the…
So, a group of Pakistani terrorists walks into a bar. No, wait: a group of Pakistani terrorists is living in Buffalo, New York. They’re washed up, out of work and utterly incapable of successfully martyring themselves until their boss suggests they blow up Niagara Falls. That’s where The B-Team, a…
The premise of K2, a play about two men trapped on a ledge at 27,000 feet on the side of the world’s second highest mountain with little chance of them both living through it together, is one that few humans thankfully will ever experience in true life. But a universal…
Two promising solo shows are opening today at SYNC Gallery, a two-year-old cooperative in the Santa Fe arts district: Tim McKay: Obligations of Being Human and Jim Olson: Pleasantly Unfocused. McKay pours acrylic paints onto canvases in order to establish the grounds for his neo-abstract-expressionist paintings; on top he affixes…
Loveland Ski Area’s twice-annual amateur slopestyle skiing and snowboarding competition is a celebration of that most ridiculous staple of new-school spring ski fashion: the extra tall T-shirt. “Last year we only ordered large and extra-large shirts, but even the littlest kids wanted the XLs,” says Loveland spokesman John Sellers. “I…
Journalist Tamara Banks has made four trips to South Sudan; she returned from the latest just twelve days ago. And at 8 p.m. tonight on “Sudan: The World’s Newest Country,” a special episode of Studio 12, Banks will lead a panel discussion on recent events in Sudan, as well as…
Swedish detective fiction has an icy edge: The cold, the darkness and the brooding populace biding time in the snow add something singular to the genre, something that could only come from the kind of mystery writer who’s spent too much time in the sauna. In fact, that hot, vaporous…
Sarah Vowell’s latest tome, Unfamiliar Fishes, takes its title from a letter by native Hawaiian David Malo, who was converted to Christianity by nineteenth-century missionaries but was still concerned about the impact of Caucasians on the islands. “If a big wave comes in,” he wrote, “large and unfamiliar fishes will…
For the tenth year, Denver will commemorate the life of civil rights leader César Chávez with a march. But this year’s celebration will focus on involving a broader spectrum of the community. “César Chávez was able to accomplish what he did because he had all these wonderful qualities as a…
Drag queen Joel Valenzuela, aka Angelina Essex, came out of retirement two years ago at the request of friend (and RuPaul’s Drag Race participant) Nina Flowers to perform in Flowers’s new monthly show, Drama Drag, at Tracks Nightclub, 3500 Walnut Street. Now Valenzuela is once again stepping out of the…
