Every year, there are more and more zombie events in Denver. Zombie crawls, zombie balls, zombie burlesque, zombie proms, zombie car washes… it never stops. For those of us who can’t get enough zombie action, it’s like Christmas came early and often, only with more flesh-eating and less tinsel. For…
When it comes to apocalyptic fiction, zombies and vampires have both had ample opportunity to wreak world-ending havoc. Now’s the time for werewolves to have their chance. “Werewolves have terrified me since I was little,” says Travis Heermann, author of The Wild Boys. “Something about werewolves, people who can shape-change…
Brian Eno’s 1977 album Before and After Science marks the end of an era. In the four years before it came out, starting in January of 1974, Eno released no fewer than three solo pop albums, and this, his fourth, was to be his last for almost thirty years. By…
Tired of zombies and vampires hogging all the apocalyptic fiction fun? Local author Travis Heermann agrees, so he’s pushing werewolves to the center stage in his new novel The Wild Boys. The timeless shapeshifters of the book come to life thanks to a bioengineered plague that tilts the balance of…
As you’ve certainly heard by now, the world is ending tomorrow. Thanks to infallible Mayan prophecies and/or calendar design, we know the whole shebang comes to a hard stop on December 21, 2012. What our helpful future-seeing friends didn’t see fit to tell us is how the world ends. Sure,…
Tired of being tempted by a kickass trailer full of action, intrigue and general awesomeness, only to have the actual movie fall flat? The solution to such disappointment is obvious: a feature-length highlight reel that strings together the very best parts of the world’s weirdest, wildest and most obscure genre…
The work of Everything is Terrible! is hard to describe.The easy way out is to note that it’s video collage, but that doesn’t begin to convey what this crew does with video. The videos themselves are dense, context-busting pastiches of pop culture and pure insanity. But as if that weren’t…
Tired of nativity scenes and that jolly old man in the red suit? Looking for a new way to celebrate the holidays, maybe one that’s full of horrors from beyond time and space? You’re in luck: The H.P. Lovecraft Holiday Special that opens tomorrow at Wesley Chapel in Boulder should…
Door-to-door caroling isn’t really a thing anymore, so when the urge hits to express your Christmas spirit in song, head to The Watching Hour: Xmas Pops Sing-Along, hosted by the Action Pack’s Henri Mazza. “Action Pack is a branch of the Alamo Drafthouse that concentrates on sing-alongs, quote-alongs and other…
The word “Americana” comes up a lot in Of Monsters and Men’s press coverage, despite the fact the band hails from Iceland. Apparently, “Icelandicana” is not a thing. In any case, that lazily applied label is shorthand for the kind of indie-pop-meets-folk sound that’s been all the rage over the…
Noir fiction is full of seedy bars where desperate people make bad decisions to do worse things to each other. So it makes sense that if you want to offer a place for noir writers to read their work and interact with the public, you’ll skip the bookstore and go…
When Westword cartoonist Noah Van Sciver’s graphic novel The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln was released this past September, he wasn’t sure what its critical reception would be. His prior work was almost entirely comedic, and here he was tackling a complex, biographical-historical novel about one of the nation’s greatest…
This Saturday, thousands of people will don their most garish Christmas sweater, head to City Park and participate in the first Denver Ugly Sweater Run. In honor of this auspicious display of festive garb and unfettered tackiness, and to possibly inspire you to join the ugly-ass fun, we searched high…
Gio Toninelo’s Little Denver photography exhibit went up a week ago, but if you want to meet the artist and hear what he has to say about making the world look like a toy, tonight’s the night. From 7 to 8:30 p.m., Toninelo will be at Pablo’s Coffee for a…
It used to be that most people would hide their garish holiday sweaters, but nowadays they embrace the eye-searing excesses of Christmas cardigans as both iconic and ironic — and wear them proudly wherever they can. One of those places is at the Ugly Sweater Run, which, in addition to…
The holiday season will get a lot darker tonight when proto-slasher Black Christmas hits town as part of the A.V. Club’s New Cult Canon tour. The influential horror classic will be introduced by A.V. Club contributor and local author Jason Heller, a longtime fan of the film. “Like a lot…
Gio Toninelo has a miniature muse. The Denver filmmaker and photographer is best known for his work on Pond Patrol and as curator of the GI Joe Film Festival, projects that saw him turning his passion for plastic men of action into compelling narrative. His latest effort is Little Denver,…
Skulls have long been objects of fascination, serving as powerful symbols of the macabre and dangerous — not to mention being the second most important thing inside your head. Tonight, the Denver Museum of Nature & Science hosts Simon Winchester Presents Skulls, with the best-selling science writer on hand to…
If you see Santa running through Highland in a Speedo today, don’t worry: You haven’t been dosed — nor, presumably, has the guy in the Speedo. He’s just one of the many revelers participating in the Denver Santa Speedo Dash. Squeeze into your skimpiest swimwear, strap on a Santa beard…
Zombie lit has exploded in the past decade, with the undead menace making its way into everything from award-winning graphic novels (The Walking Dead) to mash-ups with the classics (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies). It’s only natural, then, that the zombie is making its way into the corporate world through…
If you’ve worn out your I Love Toy Trains DVDs and are ready to take the next step into toy-train obsession, the place to do it is the Rocky Mountain Toy Train Show. “There’s something for every level — even people who just want to come for some entertainment value…
Whatever questions you direct at Asking Alexandria, you can be sure the answers will be delivered in some kind of scream. The Alexandrians trade in the breakdown-heavy thrashing known as metalcore, which, true to its name, combines the excesses of both metal and hardcore into one headache-inducing brew. Asking Alexandria…
