As a member of Rabbit is a Sphere and Everything Absent or Distorted, Robert Rutherford helped bring some of Denver’s finest indie rock and pop to life. Those bands have since ceased to be, but Rutherford is still writing in the same idiom, even if the final form is a…
As you read this, there are thirteen (or fewer!) shopping days until Christmas. For many of us, that means it’s time to panic. (You smug bastards who already finished your shopping can just keep it to yourselves. No one wants to hear how organized and on top of things you…
Don’t expect a traditional poetry reading at Robert Rutherford’s release party for Dragging Out the Old Cheer, his first poetry collection. The former member of Rabbit is a Sphere and Everything Absent or Distorted is approaching his poetry much the same way he approached his music. “There’s going to be…
Christmas — or whatever you celebrate this time of year — is not a geek holiday. Sure, the togetherness and gift-giving and eggnog drunks are great no matter if you’re a geek or not, but it still seems like the holiday should throw us some kind of bone. It doesn’t,…
You know Akira back and forth. You can quote the key lines from Ghost in the Shell in your sleep. Anime standards like Sailor Moon, Bubblegum Crisis and Dragon Ball Z are all old hat to you. Don’t worry, otaku, there’s still undiscovered territory out there for you. “If you…
The holidays can be overwhelming. Shopping for presents. Wrapping presents. Listening to your kids complain about the presents you bought them. It’s enough to make anyone say bah humbug. Which is why the organizers of Cabaret Otaku’s Holiday Lights plan to play around with and poke fun at tradition, rather…
With Cars, Cards and Carbines, author Travis Heermann is aiming to bring some fun back into the world of speculative fiction. The forthcoming anthology — aiming for a December 2014 release and currently seeking funding via Kickstarter — is primed to do just that with a series of action-packed stories…
Sleeping away from home is scary. Hotels hotels, motels and other temporary sleeping arrangements can be full of bed bugs, meth residue and sketchy-ass neighbors — and when you step out of real life and into the world of horror movies, you can add murderous ghosts, zombies and psychotic clerks…
Baby, it’s cold outside, which is all the more reason to stay inside and concentrate on cool, geeky activities all month. Once Christmas gets here, you’ll probably be too busy playing with your shiny new Xbox One or Playstation 4 to get out of the house much, but until then,…
“I had a dream, as a young person, that there was somebody burying humans, upright, in their garden,” recalls Cruel Autumn horror-movie series host Theresa Mercado. “Their heads were above the ground, but they couldn’t talk, for some reason.” It wasn’t until years later, while working in a video store,…
Happy Thanksgiving, fellow geeks. Yes, it’s a day early, but you’d rather read this while you wait for work to end today than tomorrow while you could be eating, watching football or MST3K, or whatever it is you do on Thanksgiving. Still, day early or not, I’m going to do…
If you need something to be thankful for, how about a free screening of the biggest anime of all? The Alamo Drafthouse is bringing Akira to its screen for a special 25th anniversary showing on Monday, November 25, offering anime fans new and old a chance to see the feted…
It’s hard to imagine there’s room, much less a genuine need, for another cop show on television. You’ve got whole families of your CSIs, your NCISs, hell, there’s even a Law and Order or two still chugging along, isn’t there? Throw in the single-show franchises — Castle, Hawaii Five-O, Blue…
Delicious soup. Denver landmarks. Dancing girls. That might seem like a strange, even random, collection of things, but local burlesque performer Frenchie Renard plans to bring them all together in a one-of-a-kind cookbook — if she can raise the money to get it published. “I consider myself a professional home…
It’s been eight long years since the Xbox 360 launched, but the next generation of gaming has finally arrived. The PlayStation 4 debuted last week, and tonight, Microsoft lets loose its volley in the console wars at the Xbox One Midnight Release Party. Hundreds of gaming fanatics will gather to…
The Xbox One hits stores this week: Playstation fans got their new hardware last week; you can go to the Xbox One launch party Thursday night at the Park Meadows Microsoft store. And that means the trusty Xbox 360 is in its twilight — although it ain’t over quite yet…
Tonight at big-box electronics stores and GameStops all over the country, as the clock ticks over to midnight, the next generation of gaming will officially begin with the launch of the PS4 (sorry, the WiiU doesn’t count). Next week, the other shoe will drop in the form of the Xbox…
Most films are meant to be shown from beginning to end, delivering a set narrative that is the same every time. But when the audience sits down at First Person Cinema: Nicolas Rey for his film anders, Molussien, they’ll see just one of the 362,880 possible versions of the film…
Denver may never host a Super Bowl, but we’ve got the next best thing: the Donkey Kong world championships! Fully sanctioned by Twin Galaxies, video gaming’s high-score keeper of record, the Kong Off 3 will host 22 of the world’s best Donkey Kongers, including The King of Kong’s Billy Mitchell…
Haunted houses, common in October, are unusual for mid-November, but that’s just one of the ways HorrorHouse Fest veers from your typical haunted-house setup. For one thing, it’s more of a haunted bar – or at least it takes place in a bar. For another, the “haunt” here is actually…
Just a scant few years ago, “horror musical” wasn’t a big thing. Sure, you had your Rocky Horror Picture Show and your Little Shop of Horrors, but beyond those campy classics, there wasn’t much love for fans of both murder and singing who wanted to see those two things brought…
Do you like movies? Of course you do. What geek doesn’t? The good news is that for the next ten days the Starz Denver Film Fest, one of Denver’s premiere cultural events, is going to be bringing a lot of movies to town for you to watch. The less good…
