For as long as I can remember, the Sunday comics have been about 80 percent crap. The culprit, mostly, is the glut of syndicate staples drawn by now-octogenarians or passed down to sons that, week after week, churn out the same hackneyed shitheap of lame character gags and dumb life…
Here’s why the Denver Modernism Show is so appealing: The mid-twentieth-century culture it so joyfully upholds was clearly the culture of the future, all shiny and new and space-age, the product of new technologies and post-war optimism. Here in the future, where things seem much bleaker, the elan of mid-century…
Like a psychedelic gathering of Jules Verne honorable mentions, this weekend’s 2011 Kinetic Sculpture Race at Union Reservoir in Longmont pitted crazy Rube Goldberg contraption against even crazier Rube Goldberg contraption in a contest that wasn’t so much about speed as it was about sheer silliness: Competitors vied for supremacy…
Daniel Crosier seems like a perfectly sweet guy, yet there must be something bubbling beneath his jovial facade. Okay, he drinks a little too much coffee, too, but his work as a comic artist, filmmaker and theatrical prop maker expresses a whole other tarnished side of the coin: The man…
Credit where credit’s due: The City of Boulder is impressively good at finding Waldo. Since the city became aware of the Waldo stencils popping up in random, hard-to-spot locations around town in tribute to that famously elusive children’s book character last month, the stout-hearted workers of Boulder Public Works have…
Back in January, we showed you video of local glass blower Ben “Spice” Crowley doing his thing at the Heady Glass Gallery and Studios in Englewood. Spice has since moved on, and gallery owner Chris Keller has since brought two nationally known artists to Colorado: Dawnk and Train Wreck…
Consider this scenario: The guy who created Girls Gone Wild, the collection of Mardi Gras tit-flashing videos popular with frat-boys and lonely unskilled laborers everywhere, offers to give three girls a ride to their car — but then instead of taking them to their car, despite their protests, takes them…
Though the host was unfortunately neither arrayed in a cape nor other kingly attire, and there was no hilarious Japanese overdubbing, this weekend’s Iron Artist live art contest at The Other Side Arts employed the Iron Chef formula to undeniable success, calling on artists to put together original works with…
The Clyfford Still Museum, which is being built at the corner of West 13th Avenue and Bannock Street, has begun to take shape, but there is still a staggering amount of work left to do before the construction company turns the building over to the museum in September (it’s scheduled…
It was back in 1942 that a mysterious, silver-masked Luchador known only as El Santo appeared on the scene in Mexico City as an unknown contestant in an eight-man battle royale. He won that fight, but what was more important was that he would change wrestling forever — an influence…
These days, down the hill in the city, Aspen has the reputation of being a resort Mecca for mostly celebrities and the über rich — and anymore that’s mostly true, but it would seem there’s at least a few vestiges of the counterculture that for years sustained pseudo-pranks like Hunter…
Since time immemorial, man has dreamed of flight. We now know that was a stupid dream, because yesterday I proved once and for all — on behalf of myself and all mankind, except for Erin Roberts, who was wearing a chicken suit like some kind of fucking Benedict Arnold –…
With the half-exception of Pauly D, the entire case of The Jersey Shore is pretty repulsive — but none more repulsive than Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, whose very pores pretty much ooze the stink of date-rape. Like many insufferable douchebags, The Situation is an obvious fan of Abercrombie & Fitch,…
Update 2! The bicycle vs. pigeon vs. moped race results are in. “Victory is partially mine! How I defeated a pigeon but not a chicken on a moped (video).” Update! In the last hour, I’ve been informed to two grievous attempts to put me at a disadvantage: 1). MCA Denver…
Our bad. We haven’t checked our fave celeb website toofab.com in like, forever (that’s the more chill, fashion-oriented baby of TMZ.com, the best website for non-information since Perez got skinny and boring). Late last week, this photo surfaced of Ryan Gosling holding a baby. No explanation as to who the…
Pigeons, it seems, have at least one other use besides shitting on statues: racing. For its upcoming exhibit Thinking About Flying, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver partnered up with the Foothills Pigeon Racing Club to train a group of racing pigeons to fly from the homes of MCA visitors,…
The decorative arts — furniture, ceramics, glass and so on — are the stepchildren of the fine arts. In fact, they used to be known as the minor arts, distinguishing them from the major ones: drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture and architecture. This distinction fell by the wayside during the last…
It’s a well known fact that animals are people, too, which is why Morrissey doesn’t eat them. Less well known is that some animals are actually people, a rare and fascinating sub-genus of sapiens sapiens known as Furries, which work, play, hunt and mate unseen among the less heteroclite members…
For some of us in this errant world, it’s hard to choose between a best friend and a best guitar, and if you fall in that hardscrabble category, you’ll want to be up at Copper Mountain this weekend for the annual Guitar Town festival, which features big names doing axe…
With summer beginning to wind down and the very real possibility for an apocalypse of zombie, alien, man-made, religious, nature, cat or other proportions around every corner, we decided it was a good time to have a chat with a real-life survival instructor. While we’ve got most of our survival…
In one of the more ridiculous recent examples of asinine government nitpickery, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday upheld a ruling of a lower court in a case alleging that the U.S. Forest Service was charging people $10 to drive up the Mount Evans Scenic Byway in violation…
How do you make these dog days pass by faster? At the East Colfax retro/modern-design emporium Mod Livin’, they’re literally putting the dogs on the block by bringing back the time-honored Best in Show Puppy Auction, featuring two sizes of Eero Aarnio white plastic puppies, all done up in style…
