It might be the oldest news around, but public schools are really broke. Denver Public Schools alone is facing $332 million in budget cuts this year — which means that already watered-down ‘nonessential’ programs will be further starved of funding or cut altogether. The arts, as usual, die first. Michael…
Okay, so it’s not really a secret, but when we saw this year’s design for the annual Corn Maze at the Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield — which opens to the public today — we got to thinking. How do they choose the design every year? Who makes the design…
We don’t presume to be more than we are. Our list of the Six Worst Movies of the Summer was just our little opinion, and nothing more — until it got featured by national film site SlashFilm. Then it became definitive. But with the national recognition of being definitive complainers…
This past Monday was, as far as I could tell, the last official day of summer. I decided to take advantage of this sad occasion by going for one final swim in my Aunt’s apartment complex pool, a pool I had been dipping in like it was my own all…
Generally speaking, we don’t bother talking about paid games here, but in the case of Adslife we’re going to make a slight exception to the rule, because you can check out the first portion for free. Which is to say, Adslife is really something out of the ordinary — and…
It doesn’t really matter what your opinion is; there will always be somebody out there to angrily disagree with it — especially when that opinion comes in list form. Maybe it’s because a list is a compound opinion, or maybe it’s because the concept of the list implicitly excludes everything…
For a couple of years running, there has been, bar none, no cooler holiday light display in town than Lonnie Hanzon’s Hudson Holiday extravaganza — and certainly none even close to capturing the mod psychedelia of Hanzon’s efforts — so when we got word that the show can’t go on…
If you’re anything like me, there comes a point during the summer where you pretty much stop giving a shit what you look like. It’s too hot to wear anything but those jean shorts you cut off around May that are now so thin that people can see your actual…
Some people. One minute, you’re on the Cherry Creek Path enjoying a leisurely commute on your bicycle, the next you’re inches away from getting mowed down by some prick in Spandex without even the common decency to announce his presence. It happens to Bree Davies almost every day, and clearly…
According to Bill Emmons’ gaming card, he was exactly the 141st person ever hired to work at a casino in Colorado. That was more than 20 years ago, and he’s been playing poker ever since — but he’s never played poker like he’s playing right now. And before he’s through,…
I hate the Cherry Creek trail. Well, I don’t hate it, I just hate other cyclists that use it. If I could, I wouldn’t ride my simple little bike on the trail at all. I prefer to ride in the street, free from the wrath of jerks on expensive bicycles…
Thanks to TLC’s Toddlers & Tiaras, the semi-conscious portion of the population has gotten a glimpse into the totally bizarre world of children’s beauty pageants since 2009. One episode of this program is more than the average person ever needs to witness, but thanks to The Today Show, we were…
Sometimes, the best games only take a few minutes to play. Or, in the case of Terry Cavanagh’s Hero’s Adventure, about two minutes will suffice. It’s probably one of the shortest RPGs you’ll ever get a chance to experience, but if you happened to grow up in the mountains, it…
Last week we looked at some of the best early-bird deals on season passes at Colorado ski areas; now that details of the 2011/2012 Colorado Gems Card from Colorado Ski Country USA have been announced, we’d be remiss in not mentioning that its $10 price tag makes it a must-buy,…
One of these things is not like the others: The Air Force Academy, Fort Carson, Focus on the Family, a sick zombie party. As Stephanie DeCamp observed in her write-up of Zombie Fest yesterday, Colorado Springs, our frothing neighbor to the south, is not exactly the most likely place punk-rock…
Colorado Creatives #94: Dylan Scholinski Dylan Scholinski has not lived an easy life. Born a girl named Daphne and sent at fifteen to a mental hospital with the diagnosis ‘inappropriate female,’ Scholinski spent the majority of his high school years training extensively in what his doctors considered proper femininity. “I…
Denver is home to some awesome roller derby teams. In fact, we’ve got one of the best roller derby teams in the world right here: The Rocky Mountain Rollergirls, 2010 national champions of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association, roller derby’s international governing body. The team is skating toward defending…
Colorado Springs has a hard reputation to wrestle with, what with the Air Force base and Focus on the Family so near. And for a bunch of punk-rock and zombie enthusiasts, it seems like a hard kind of place to throw a good party, let alone one with enough cred…
It’s like a weird rule of web-based journalism that, if a post generates more than about six or seven reader comments, the discussion must somehow inevitably delineate to illegal immigration, no matter how unrelated to illegal immigration the original post was. It’s still pretty disconcerting every time it happens, but…
Americans like to spend money on crap. We also like to think that the more money we waste on said crap, the better it will make us feel when other people see it. Amusement parks — like Elitch Gardens and Lakeside — definitely fall into this illusion of worth. It…
Perhaps with good reason, furries are a sensitive bunch, it seems — or at least the ones that are also commenters are. Whether it was our Furry Field Guide (they really didn’t like that one) or our interview with Rocky Mountain Fur Con coordinator Sorin Katt, our furry readership largely…
Ben Burbank’s And Just Like That I Was Free is a game created for Ludum Dare 21 (note: if you want to kill an entire day, follow that link and play almost 600 games created in three days) that isn’t so much a game as it is a story of…
