Ever since regaining a shred of cultural relevance in the late ’90s with a cameo in which he beat the bejesus out of Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore, it seems longtime The Price is Right host Bob Barker’s been pretty uppity. So uppity, in fact, that last week, he had…
Japanese art forms are often characterized by their fluid organization and elegant simplicity — and the art of taiko is no exception. A type of choreographed percussion, the form involves the primal, simultaneous drumming of several performers, whose graceful physical flourishes convey an almost ballet-like visual element. “We’ve been doing…
It’s time to get CRUNK. For its season finale, the Shadow Theatre Company in Aurora presents Year of the Women, an original play conceived, produced and performed by the young folks of the theater’s CRUNK program, which stands for Creative Resources Uniting Neighborhood Kids. The play is a culmination of…
Boulder International Fringe Festival associate producer Kestrel Burley wants to create a “Petri dish for experimentation” this year. It’s an apt metaphor: Like a lab scientist, Burley is providing the materials, setting the parameters and then stepping back to see what will happen. In advance of the main Fringe festivities…
Jerry Vigil wants you to know that the Carreta de Muerte — or “Death Cart” — has nothing to do with Day of the Dead. “It actually has to do with Holy Week,” the artist explains. Here’s the story: A long time ago, the Catholic Spaniards who had colonized southern…
In a move that renewed our faith in humanity today (particularly after we witnessed a dancing man get hit by an ice cream truck), the U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker overturned California’s heinous ban on gay marriage. Since an estimated 80 percent of the people we cover are expected to…
We all feel happy sometimes. Sometimes, we feel so happy we just can’t contain ourselves: We have to dance! It’s just that, if we happen to be that happy anywhere near the street, we might temper our excitement for just a second to look out for any high-velocity projectile that…
Reports are widely circulating about September’s issue of Vanity Fair, which features a nude Lady Gaga on the cover — and rarely can content compete with nudity, but in this case, the actual interview might be more interesting. Revealing she rarely has sex, the Lady thus spake: “I have this…
We don’t know about you, but we like free shit — particularly when that shit is a free show with singers, poetry readings, spoken word performances (including comedy) and dancers from about five different ethnic traditions — and that’s not to mention a sneak preview of Tribe All, Lori Joyce’s…
The Parents Television Council wishes $#*! My Dad Says (oh, what clever typography you use to represent “shit,” CBS) would just go away. So do we — but it’s not because we think, as the PTC seems to, that the series is actually about turds. In a letter sent to…
There are some things so mind-warpingly ironic that the human body is physically unable to process them. Incapacitated by wild mirth, you simply blank out and, like an American wearing a Hawaiian shirt and carrying an expensive camera in Central America, wake up dazed in a bathtub full of ice,…
Avatar breakfast cereal. Dinner with Schmucks dinette sets. We live in a world of stupid tie-ins — and while, to be fair, neither of those things actually exist (you can, however, have a breakfast-cereal-themed web avatar, if you desire one), the point is, they could. The Denver Art Museum’s Tutankhamun…
After close to a year and a $3.5 million renovation, the Barnum Splash Pad at Barnum Park opened Thursday for its first weekend of the summer — but not without a few snags. On Saturday afternoon, officials shut down the pool at around 4:30 p.m. to repair a broken pipe…
Like the uptight female lead in a romantic comedy about librarians, Kanye West may have taken a while to come around to Twitter– but it seems the two were made for each other after all. Famously dismissive of the social networking site, after joining Twitter all of five days ago…
About 50 yards ahead, Annie Bonvoloir is standing stock-still as I accelerate directly toward her to a clip of about 30 mph, waiting for her to give me the signal. Denise Longwell, seated next to me in the passenger seat, warns me not to brake: “When she gives you the…
Some people just stand out. Whether their style is cutting-edge, quirky or just well executed, they make you want to know: How do they do it? Because we work for you, dear reader, we’re finding out. Each day, we hit the streets and talk to one person who catches our…
For some years now, a top-secret crack team of Westword scientists has been working to answer one of life’s most persistent questions: What is the deal with white people with dreadlocks? What is the deal with that? As part of our ongoing research, we took to the field last weekend…
He infiltrated the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan and almost single-handedly destroyed the Black Panthers. Using subversive and often illegal methods, he amassed file upon file of potentially embarrassing information on the major politicians and public figures of his day. He was also a secretive figure and a reputed…
Oh, Zac Efron. With your rippling arm muscles and your perpetual look of vaguely baffled concentration, you might, like Keanu Reeves, go on to more serious films that use your vacant expression for something interesting–but you’ll always be a teen heartthrob to us. And stupid, formulaic studio vehicles like Charlie…
It’s a rock-and-roll musical that puts a main character named Jesus in a land where people worship boobs. It’s also a classic hero-myth set to interpretive dance. It’s The Lovinator, and it’s going to be weird — but co-creator Brian Powell says it won’t be so weird as to not…
Some people just stand out. Whether their style is cutting-edge, quirky or just well executed, they make you want to know: How do they do it? Because we work for you, dear reader, we’re finding out. Each day, we hit the streets and talk to one person who catches our…
Everyone likes to let it all hang out sometimes; after all, it’s the way all of us were born, and it will surely be the way some of us, under questionable circumstances, die. Most people, though, when they let ’em hang, they do it in the privacy of their homes…
