Normally, the Westword name would be enough to score press tickets to any movie screening you please — not with the Sarah Palin camp, apparently. It was perhaps on account of our reputation that our requests for tickets to the premier of The Undefeated went ignored, but on the positive…
The sun finally came out this weekend after a long run of wild summer weather — remember the hail and flooding last week? And yes, the wait was worth it. So what better way to spend a hot Saturday than at the pool? By going one bigger: Water World. Apparently…
God only knows what we did here to deserve the honor, but The Undefeated, the much-hyped 90-minute info-mercial for Sarah Palin, made its debut right here in little old Denver on Friday — well, actually Highlands Ranch, but, you know. At any rate, given the maniacal fervor Palin inspires in…
Artists are a peculiar bunch. They have, shall we say, proclivities. As much as they make art, which they thankfully do, they also like to collect all manner of attic-leavings and dumpster-junk and weird objects and other things. Sometimes they have to sell them, perhaps to make room for more,…
From 1988 to 1992, I attended Girl Scout camp at Tomahawk Ranch in Bailey. It was awesome. We made tie-dye T-shirts, ate burnt s’mores and hunted for Snipes (a fictionalized skunk-rat that was rumored to live in the woods and could only be captured in pillow cases by Girl Scouts)…
That bitch Gretchen may have officially taken home the prize for last season of Project Runway, but everyone knows our boy Mondo Guerra got robbed: He had the most style (none of the other designers could touch him in terms of sheer inventiveness) and the best drama (coming out as…
AXE Body Spray has had a surprising amount of marketing success with making a variety of fictional women lust after its musky scent — but apparently, those women are not the only demographic within whom the body spray inspires strong feelings. It’s been almost six months since Ben Dayton made…
Wizards are the best and easiest way to our heart — there’s just something special about a man in a hat with stars on it. Toss in the idea that this wizard is overweight and we’re pretty much drooling in our admiration for this thing. It doesn’t matter what it…
It’s a telling fact that, in a movie that features talking animals (including a monkey that sounds like Gilbert Gottfried doing a Joan Rivers impression), the least believable conceit is how Kevin James has a really good-looking girlfriend — but that’s just one of the many fatal flaws apparent in…
Colorado Creatives #95: Dr. David Grinspoon Science? Art? Bona fide space-nerd superstar Dr. David Grinspoon likes it both ways. By day an author and the mild-mannered curator of astrobiology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Grinspoon is also a musician and confirmed Dead Head, travels the country lecturing…
We’ve peed our pants many a time, but by far our fondest memory of it was when we peed our pants during John Carpenter’s Halloween (other memories: not so fond). JK, we’ve never peed our pants in our entire lives, but seriously, John Carpenter is one of the best horror…
In the over half a decade LoDo’s Rockmount Ranch Wear has been in business, the company has had the time to brush elbows with quite a few celebrities. Stars like Elvis, Bob Dylan, and David Bowie have all been seen sporting Rockmount’s unique brand of western wear, which will be…
Gimme a Breck! The Babes in the Backcountry babes are leading by-women/for-women mountain bike skills clinics today at 10 a.m. as part of the Breck Bike Week festivities (meet at the Expo village at Blue River Plaza, $35 suggested donation). Afterwards, the International Mountain Bicycling Association will be hosting a…
There’s nothing like a sweet pair of sunglasses on a sunny summer day. Whether we wear sunglasses for style, protection, expression or color, its evident they are both an accessory and a necessity for looking hot in the heat — so if you think sunglasses are, well, just sunglasses, think…
Update, Monday, 8:45 a.m.: We’ve picked our winners! Thanks for playing everyone! Check your email to see if you’re a winner. In the free stuff file of Show and Tell today, we have a quick contest for fans of horror movies. We have five movie posters for The Ward, directed…
My sister tried to ruin my life. Being born was her only crime, but it was a dire situation for me, seeing as it was 1994 and I was almost fourteen — and she decided to come into this world on my first day of high school. This meant that…
As Bree Davies observed in her report on SlutWalk Denver over the weekend, more people seemed inclined to throw in their two cents about the event than to actually attend it. Indeed: SlutWalk has come and gone, but in the comment thread on post about that comment war, the controversy…
CU-Denver MBA candidate Andrea Burns first conceived of the idea for LoyalTee — a fledgling business that creates T-shirts celebrating favorite (and sometimes esoteric) local haunts — as a class project. “I was aware of a few different companies that were basically doing the same thing in different parts of…
It’s not an easy task to self-publish a book; it’s a laborious process that involves a billion details that seem to crop up at the least opportune times, it’s costly, and the reward for all your toil could very well be…pretty much nothing. But that’s exactly what local author Ryan…
While cruising last winter’s Fancy Tiger Holiday Handmade show, we chanced upon the most delightful booth: Featuring paper dolls, prints and cross-stitched buttons by crafty Canadian partners Sara Guindon and Samantha Purdy, who together comprise the Pin Pals, their table offered up something truly original and more than a little…
Maybe you found the perfect unicorn painting for your living room. Maybe you passed out from heat exhaustion on what always seems to be one of the hottest weekends of year. Perhaps you were inspired to begin your own art career or driven to scream at the people who park…
As it stands, my social networking career came to fruition and subsequently peaked with Myspace. For this reason, I use as much room in this weekly column talking about the rotting News Corp carcass as I can, constantly reliving my heyday as a late-blooming web queen. Of course I have…
