Reader: Being a scary man is very creative and noble

It’s not all that easy scaring people, insists Mythica von Griffyn, who’s very busy these days acting at a haunted house. In fact, as he told Thorin Klosowski in yesterday’s “How to Get My Job,” the gig is a lot of hard work, what with make-up, costuming and the constant…

Dress up your head at Kitty Mae Millinery. It just might stick.

Photos by Norman Dillon. Elegant is back again, ladies. That’s the look-at-me aesthetic Denver milliner Susan Dillon cultivates at her new Kitty Mae Millinery & Accessories boutique in RiNo/Curtis Park. And she’s eagerly waiting for you to stop by, so that she can dress you up. “I want people to…

SIN CAR is our browser game of the week

Sometimes it’s the simplest things that tug on our play-strings. Kenta Cho’s SIN CAR does just that by providing an incredibly simple but impossible-to-resist premise that makes it incredibly difficult to walk away from the mouse for even just a few minutes. The basics are easy to grasp: you control…

John Bonath on A Strange Beauty at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

Photographer John Bonath’s spectacular three-level show, A Strange Beauty, which opened at the end of September at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, encourages visitors to explore a massive, hidden-away portion of the museum collection in an unusual and contemporary way. The hand-chosen objects that Bonath re-examined through an…

Reader: The zombie craze is far from dead

Are zombies done? Yes, we know it’s not that easy to get rid of the undead…but the commercialization of the undead? That’s something else entirely. Yesterday, thinking longingly of the days when slutty nurse costumes ruled, Jef Otte declared enough with the zombies already — and offered up “The ten…

Let zombicaturist Stan Yan bring out the bogeyman in you

At tomorrow’s pre-Zombie Crawl Afraid of the Dark reception for the Bogeyman Art Show at MacSpa, you can commission comic artist Stan Yan to create an on-the-spot zombie makeover for you on paper, which you can then hang on your wall and remember that important day forever, dead or undead…

10 things to do for $10 this weekend, October 21-23, 2011

This weekend is all about spooky running and walking, apparently — with both Scream Scram and the Zombie Crawl lighting up the 16th Street Mall with masked, athletic nuts. If that’s not really your thing, don’t worry, because we’ve also got some good old fashioned comedy, shopping, art shows and…

Ke$ha rules, journalism drools

There are two distinct periods in the average American’s life: high school and not-high school. For me, the farther I get from those formative ninth-through-twelfth-grade years — 1994 to 1998 — the cooler they seem to have been. Today, when I look back at say, 1995, my eyes glaze over…

Reader: Princess Diana showing up in Egypt is no pyramid scheme.

What if Princess Diana wasn’t killed by that car wreck in Paris? What if she survived, and re-invented herself as a commoner in Egypt, where she attempted to solve the mystery of what happened to Ankhesenamun, King Tutankhamun’s wife? What if? That’s the unlikely premise behind The Lost Queen of…

Roly Poly Eliminator 2 is our browser game of the week

Every once in a while it’s satisfying to play a game where the only real objective is to watch things die in horrible and bloody ways. And thats’ what you’ll be doing in Roly Poly Eliminator 2, a new game from Adult Swim that takes the adorable play style of…

Topo Designs creates bags for the realistic, nostalgic outdoorsman

It starts with photographs. They’re set in a storybook West — mostly in the back country of Colorado and Wyoming, but Mount Rushmore pops up as well. They’re populated by little girls in pigtails whose noses are scrunched either because of the sun hitting their eyes, or their little brothers…

Reader: Matt Scobey is so cool…or so lame?

One of the goals of art is to get people talking, and Not for Sale: Denver” target=”_blank”>Matt Scobey’s Not for Sale: Denver project has certainly accomplished that goal. Scobey has been putting art in unexpected places around town, offering clues to the locations on the web. Those who find the…