Denver Life

I got a third-party booty call last week. It started with a text from a friend, asking what I was up to. On a Thursday at 11:30 p.m.? I wanted to say, “I’m at Bardo’s, staring down an attractive barista man who was probably born in the ’90s, instead of…

Please be seated! The Manitou Chair Project lined the streets of that mountain town with 700 chairs last Sunday, and treating early risers (literally) to a wonderful sight. Here’s Joy’s review: Chairs of beauty. Peeps coming together, energy for art — YEA! Follow us on Twitter! Like us on Facebook!…

Political games are hard to pull off: they’re often heavy-handed and they nearly always miss the point. That said, Aaron Reed’sMaybe Make Some Change is an experience that’s entirely different from any war game you’ve played in the last twenty years. It’s a text adventure, it’s a political statement and…

Yesterday, Show and Tell asked readers to weigh in on the nine questions on the table for three creative artists/entrepreneurs — Lonnie Hanzon, Jimmy Sellars, and Marie Gibbons — on the panel for last night’s EatART panel at Fresh City Life. I was the moderator, and the conversation turned out…

It was a dog day when Jef Otte wrote his assessment of Pugs in the Park, a wrinkly, drooly display that he termed “disgusting” — but all in good fun, like the event itself…

The Conceited Bastards Cooperative Boutique opened over the weekend at 738 Santa Fe Drive, and although the new shop displays its humble beginnings, it has big ambitions. At its core, the boutique is an outlet for hand-made clothing from a variety of designers. “We want to offer a storefront-style opportunity…

Before the Colorado Symphony Orchestra announced that it was cutting back its fall schedule in an attempt to balance a budget shortfall of $1.2 million, Show and Tell checked in with Barry Fey, the savior of the symphony back in 1989. Fey thinks that the current incarnation of the symphony…

While Hazel and Dewey is named after owner Jenna Miles’s great aunt, there’s nothing geriatric about the store. Located on South Broadway, the shop (which opened in June) is William and Sonoma’s spunky, Etsy-ified little sister where juicers have gnome heads, aprons are printed with apple motifs and cake stands…

As Halloween approaches, we’re serving up suggestions for sad Halloween costumes, including the one above that disguises you as Brady Quinn, a second-string quarterback overshadowed by third-string quarterback. Which inspired this from sickoftewbow: I would gladly wear a Brady Quinn jersey. He’s a class act who has gotten jerked around…

All the talk about the troubles at the Colorado Symphony (and watch for an update on the CSO’s revised fall schedule today) had us thinking about the big troubles of 1989, when the Denver Symphony Orchestra was failing and concert promoter Barry Fey rode to the rescue, rallying the community…

Back in the ’80s and ’90s, you could almost always snag a value pack of games for cheap. But they usually didn’t work well and always included only the worst games you could possibly imagine. Nitrome’s Mega Mash takes that idea and runs with it…

After we announced the Fast Forward Press one-sentence-story contest, we received a number of interesting submissions. And now, the editors at Fast Forward have chosen the winners. First prize will be published in the Press’s next flash-fiction anthology, and second will win a copy of The Incredible Shrinking Story. Are…

We don’t know if Bree Davis was finally able to finish that Tom Robbins book after she told television that it was over, that they’d broken up, and she gave her TV to her mother. But we do know that Lara doesn’t think Robbins is a fitting substitute: I only…

Americans are accustomed to paying for our entertainment by purchasing something, and then enjoying that product later. There are exceptions, of course, like broadcast television, which is free but supported by ads. We don’t usually associate this model with games, but Backflip Studios in Boulder is changing that with its…

We know what side our bread is buttered on. Gimme Gimme Pillow toast is returning to Mod Livin’ this month, and its fans are pretty sure the organizers — including Andrew Novick, shown above — know how to cure what ails them…

You know the town’s about to get weirder when Denver’s Japanese-street-fashion-obsessed couple Andrew Novick and Janene Hurst bring back their Gimme Gimme Pillow Toast pop-up shop, which is filled to the rafters of Mod Livin’s upstair gallery with Asian pop goods you won’t find anywhere else in these parts. And…

Dan Baum’s new book, Guns Gone Wild, won’t be published until 2013, but critics are already taking aim at the author, after he published a related essay as a Kindle Single. The irony? Baum lives in ultra-liberal Boulder, but is also a card-carrying gun owner…

A spider’s tiny leg hairs (“thrichobotria”), and a boy quietly, confidently holding the jaws of a taxidermied crocodile with a solitary bubble floating above his head. These images and other appropriately titled “strangely beautiful” photos by John Bonath will be on display during the creepiest of month — October –…

Neal Stephenson will be at the Tattered Cover LoDo tonight to talk about video games, farming gold and his new book, Reamde. But first, he talked with Thorin Klosowski for an extensive Q&A, which prompted this response from Rick: I concur in re: Cheating… Oddly, I spent years only letting…

There are two types of people in this world — those who can laugh at themselves, and those who can’t. It is a pretty simple distinction in personalities, though the ability to self-deprecate effectively doesn’t often set in until you make it to age where you just don’t care about…

When the leaky “Mountain Mirage” water feature was removed from the middle of the terminal floor at Denver International Airport, it left a big gap — a gap that was filled by a new piece by Juane Quick-to-See Smith and Ken Iwamasa, who had a commission to design the original…